Just wanted to say that I had a completely different read of Mason's response - without any other context, it seemed like he was joking around. "We won't ban you, y'know, unless you're into that kind of thing" style. Am I totally off base?
I think a lighter interpretation like "We won't ban you unless you want us to" has a different context that usually doesn't follow a question about your service in particular banned, nor does it imply someone might have a specific "quest" to be banned - especially as a random person who also has had grievances with low communication to the point of making a competing API discord.
That's not how I read it, I think almost everyone would read it as Rapptz did.
Tone is difficult to gauge over the Internet. Maybe Mason just messed up how it would be interpreted. I suspect we've all done that. I know I have.
But the term "martyr" is a really loaded one. This didn't feel like a playful tone misjudged to me.
Both of the Discord employees in that were screenshotted come out of this looking really bad. Unprofessional and hostile. The question is just whether they were actually also hostile, or just unprofessional.
In this context, it feels very rude.