Did I make the right decision stepping down as owner of my server?
Hey everyone. Recently I have had my first successful server with a community of around 50 active players after trying to run three servers previously and never finding any players who might have been interested.
The server was a geopolitics server, where each player created a nation and their population and military was all NPCs, people enjoyed the idea since it was unique and what many people had been looking for. Everything started to spiral downhill after the community got to a point where there was major beef between a lot of players. The discord was a dumpster-fire of people arguing over literally nothing, and the staff team and I couldn’t be on 24/7 to try to mute people arguing.
It got to such a point where I didn’t want to manage such an awful community as why would I want to manage these arguments. People would tell I needed to manage the arguments better, then would tell me that I was being an average discord mod when muting people. Then I stepped down as owner as I couldn’t take it anymore. This was more trouble than it was worth.
Some of you might say this is what a community is like, but it wasn’t even that large. There is no reason it should have been this bad. When I did step down as owner everyone just said I had nobody to blame but myself. I simply told them sorry I don’t want to babysit. The terrible thing is I enjoyed working on and playing the server, that’s something I like to do, but the community sucked, and now I am left wondering if I made the right decision or just banned the people causing trouble. I don’t have a lot of experience with community management (clearly), but this server couldn’t even last two weeks. I’m just inconclusive. Any opinions from you guys would help me feel better. Thanks.
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@eightballz Geopol servers are nearly universally known here as being toxic so it's the genre itself imo
If you want something less toxic you could look into something more PVE focused and less competitive/linked to IRL things