December 17

The December 17 Incident (also known by 12/17 or December 17) was a notable event that culminated in the removal of lastquest's Head Administrator privileges, the appointment of lronWraith as the community's head administrator ad interim, and the banning of multiple people - most of which have not been unbanned since.

Events leading up to the incident
The day before, the role Bot Master was created for the purpose of an administrator to manage server bots when needed without needing to go through the head administrator.

This role was entrusted to Aethericus (then-ProtoDominium) who was responsible for proposing server reforms upon returning to the staff team as an admin the month before. lastquest was known to be responsive and quick to listen to potential reforms proposed in #planning during his short tenure as HA. At 20:34 EST that same day, lastquest enabled Manage Server permissions to the role @everyone inadvertently. It was initially debated if the "misclick" was an accident but it has been agreed upon that the action was an accident and the HA apparently overlooked the entire thing. The permission was intended for the Bot Master role.

The incident
On December 17, 2019 around 08:27 EST, the granted Manage Server perms were discovered and acted on. It is unclear how 12/17 went down throughout the entire ordeal with existing media, but it is known that:


 * the server name was tampered with malignantly
 * people were able to speak in the #announcements channel
 * new roles were created
 * every channel's permissions were tampered with malignantly

Throughout the entire 5 hours, the staff that were available were not able to reverse the Manage Servers permission and had to wait until ImperialBlood was online to revert it as he was the server owner. Damage had to be reversed manually during the incident. A group of non-staffers was also instrumental in reversing damage committed by malicious actors. Those non-staffers (Tlymantrips, bruno6690, and ProtoGodzillaman) were recognized later after the ordeal.

31 ascertained offenders were banned throughout the entirety of the event and later in the day. The initial bans were permanent and non-appealable but a small number were apparently reversed due to error or later forgiveness. The majority of bans still hold true and the offenders are not allowed back in.

Aftermath
Community Leader ImperialBlood stripped lastquest of the HA role after 36 days on the job. lronWraith, the head admin before lastquest's predecessor was appointed acting HA until elections were held; distinguishing him as the only head admin/community manager to hold office for two albeit non-consecutive terms. lronWraith was not succeeded until April.

Imperial also removed a handful of roles that originated since months earlier including Emojee (emoji perms for non-staffers) and The Lover of Rhiannahn (inside-joke role for MEE6).