There are a couple things I'd like to address here.

First  would be LordLundins assertion that he started behaving like more of an 'asshole' because of the direction of the game. I think it's fair to note that the player behind that account has displayed frankly psychotic behavior which has actually caused me to be concerned that he may be a danger to those around him. Including a post that he later edited from this very forum where he talked about wanting to drag some girl out in to the woods and torture her. Unless the games changes were some how responsible for his behavior outside the game I feel like that is a totally invalid statement, and if the game changes are somehow responsible for his behavior outside the game I highly suggest he adjust his priorities.

Regarding equipment and how insane he seems to think it has become, power creep happens. The majority of gear he himself may think is acceptable are things we would never have dreamed of when I was a newbie (clev on gear before level 25, hahahaha what?)

Now regarding Ignotus post. He did add a second post showing what lead up to my reaction in avatar, but I want to be sure to make it clear that my reaction was in anger after having been told to 'stop being an ass' My initial comment to him while maybe not super helpful was also not really an attack and could have simply been met with 'Clearly it isn't.' without the added insult. However this kind of difficulty from Ignotus is not exactly uncommon.

It probably does not make it ok to react the way I did, and I probably did go overboard, but I did not jump straight in to ripping him a new one like the initial post seemed to state, I'm pretty sure most people don't enjoy being told to 'stop being an ass' particularly when they feel they are making a reasonable request.

The bot in question made very politically charged comments, which really was my only issue with it. To be clear, and though it really has no bearing on anything, I am not a trump supporter. I was not offended by the bot personally. I simply saw the chance it could cause offense and wished for it to be removed. Later on Ignotus did make changes to the bot and I personally thanked him for it.

Regarding the channel xp ban

I think its important to note that these bans are temporary bans and last for only 10 minutes. It is not a permanent removal from the channel. Additionally a filter was recently put on the mud to truncate such things as excessive haha's and ignotus intentionally bypassed it as he knew the filter only looked for two repeating characters. So why does this filter exist? Why are these things important? I personally am known for using sarcastic over exagerated numbers to indicate things are well excessive, or a lot such as '1923912371718239'. A lot of people find this to be spammy. I am not a blind player, these sorts of things don't bother me, but just because it doesn't bother me doesn't mean it isn't an issue. As a community of largely blind players I assume that things like this are understood. So then I'm told 'but hahahaha only takes a second to read' Except not everyone has their readers set to the same speed and excessive repeats can and will effect people differently.  This has been a consistant issue where its been requested people avoid doing it, and then finally instead a filter was put in place. This filter is not obnoxious in any way, it doesn't do anything to harm the message. I get it sometimes people find something hilarious and get a little carried away and spam things a lot. I do it myself. There's no reason to bypass the filter though, it doesn't exactly prevent the communication of your amusement.

Me and Ignotus did discuss the channel ban after it happened, he actually came up with what I thought was a reasonable solultion (being able to opt in to the filter, as apparently for some reason the filter bothers people and thats why they chose to bypass it.) I encouraged him to talk to Dentin or Shadowfax about it, suggesting he email Shadowfax as I usually find Shadowfax is open to reasonable suggestions.

Regarding the lexie incident in bovine
I actually 100% agree that this was not handled well. However I think its a pot calling kettle black sort of incident. Perhaps it was not intentional but I have seen incidents of ignotus passing out warnings of bans to people while people in his own clan were just as guilty in a given situation. It's possible ignotus was unaware somehow and missed that, but I find it a bit suspect. I have also seen his moderator action questioned many times as people didn't agree with what he did - this is where I accused him of making up rules earlier, perhaps that was a bit harsh, but it certainly does display a solid lack of agreement on general policy. Sadly I don't have logs of any of this cause I don't personally keep logs.

I wasn't actually there when the lexie/jonathon thing happened, but me and Jonathon did discuss it at length later to which anyone who talks to him can find out I did agree with Ignotus on this.

Regarding the time table
I said earlier on bovine today that it's very possible all this happened in a shorter time span than I thought. In my defense there has been a lot of ridiculous drama happening lately and it's very hard to keep track of it all.  It's possible that Ignotus timetable is correct, though I'm told by someone else that my estimate is closer as the confrontational drama stuff had been happening before the event in the logs. I'm personally willing to admit I could be wrong here though, as I stated already I don't keep logs.

A final note

I'm not 100% certain a ban was warranted, however I wont say it wasn't warranted ether. I do know that I have personally seen a lot of conflict, a lot of intentional trolling, a lot of intentional difficulty and in general unpleasantness. Yeah previously there was certainly a precedent set that showed that trouble players could get away with things for a long period of time without consequence, and I'll be honest, the trouble players I mentioned in my previous post were certainly worse than Ignotus ever was. Heck, when I was younger and less mature I was worse than Ignotus ever was. However that doesn't mean policy changes aren't good, and that perhaps being less tolerant of trouble isn't a good thing. If I saw someone behaving in the way I used to behave 10 years ago I'd want them banned, and yes I acknowledge that means more than likely I wouldn't be around today. Though to be fair it is a temporary (albeit long term) ban, which does allow for people to have the chance to grow out of whatever issues they have and come back as perhaps a better person.

If Ignotus had taken the very short temporary channel ban in stride, had not intentionally avoided the filter, had done as I suggested and contacted the coders (who did infact actually make changes to the filter) and just let it go, didn't intentionally get super confrontational and uncooperative, perhaps this never would have happened.

I did find in discussion that Ignotus is capable of being reasonable and even appealed to that a couple times. I am a channel owner of channel xp, the channel he was temporarily banned from above. For those of you who might not play Alter Aeon the important distinction between being a channel owner and just a general moderator is as an owner I have the ability, and the right, to ban people from that channel for any reason I see fit permanently. When I saw Ignotus harassing Morpheus I could have outright banned him. Instead I told him that I had seen previously he was capable of being reasonable, and asked that he please stop the spam before I was forced to feel the need to ban him permanently, and he did stop. However it was only temporary and happened again later, I assume when he thought I wasn't around (this may be bias on my part, perhaps it wasn't anything so sneaky and he just didn't care if I was around.)

I find it odd that I have to try to be the voice of reason on these issues when honestly I'm typically a pretty abraisive and blunt individual. It's hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that players don't understand why their attitudes and behavior are damaging to themselves and people around them.

@Lordlondon, you should honestly go to counciling. That mudmail you sent to that girl threatening her was.... Well.... In sane. If you really ment such a thing, you need help. I'm not trying to start a flame war, but lokar's comment about you wanting to torture a girl reminded me of this.

@draq For the record the quote in question which ignotus got temporarily banned for had 11 repeats of 'hah' not 'ha' it was 'hah' intentionally as it bypassed the filter, the filters only function at the time being to truncate it down to only 3 repeats, so hahahahahaha becomes hahaha  with an asterisk to indicate it had been truncated. The current filter extended that to up to 9 repeats of two characters and removed the asterisk as the asterisk was apparently bothersome for some players.

What's wrong with you guys, mush-z doesn't even track anything too specific.
the game just wants to know wat client you are logging in from. it does not ask for your location. it does not have your home address. only your client, the version of the client you are using.
So, all this oh oh oh oh I don't want to be tracked is just nonsense, sorry.

It shouldn't be a problem anymore anyway, I turned it off yesterday in the latest mush-z beta.

@Exodus - You also completely eliminate the effectiveness as soon as you tell people as they can do exactly what Athlon did, change the code. Most large games track you by your game client, Ip Address, and account, most large games don't bother to inform you. Again I could understand the outrage if this code could even come close to doing something malicious but it doesn't. This outrage seems mostly manufactured by people who already are upset as a reason to pile on more to be angry about. I frankly don't get the issue at all.

most games have an agreement that you have to agree to that says  among other things that they are going to use X, Y, and Z to identify you. You are perfectly free to disagree and not play. If they update and begin to use a new method of tracking, you have to agree to an amended agreement. Anyway... for the second time, it's not about what the code did it's about how it was introduced that's  the real meat of the thing.

I expected that response.  At the end of the day, all of this is a bunch of subjective nonsense anyway.  if there were a serious interest in honestly developing/building the game up the overall morale of the AA community would have been taken into consideration in a much more professional manner.  Far too often I've seen admins, Morpheus being at the top of the list, who simply bash on players, some of them newbies who's primary language is not English, for asking legitimate questions.  Regardless, what solidifies it for me for the moment is post 28 as seen on the Case Law board, which takes an overall condescending tone against people who are seen as and I quote, "Jerks."  Whatever I may think of a member of this community, stooping to calling them anything is as far as I'm concerned, not acceptible from a moderator position; I would certainly not excuse it from an owner of any kind, and it pains me to see that others have so willingly.  The overall tone of the post is even less inviting, as it basically states that if you are for all intents and purposes known to have ties to any of these so-called toxic players you can kiss your AA account goodbye.  this means that I wouldn't be surprised to see myself no longer welcome on AA after having posted decisively in this topic, though I can honestly say I have no ties to keyIsFull or anyone else who was banned; in the end it'll be the nature of my posts that'll undo the effort my wife and I have put in over the past two years together, on top of the thousand or so dollars we've given collectively over the years to the game.
those are my greatest regrets at this point in time; decisions are being made and the outcry is being ignored.  In just the past year 3 major changes have come and been tampered with and the only conclusion the majority of the community is left to gleam from the way the devs act is because we say so; the excuses given are never what I would consider well thought out let alone realistic.  whether we're discussing blood bottling or the more recent subtraction to scroll scribing, people have been told, left ight and center to shut up and deal.  The end.

@Nocturnus While perhaps 'name calling' isn't appropriate Im not sure how else you would describe a person who goes out of their way to make someone elses experience worse. The player Teros has been known to illegally kill players on alter aeonx as well as other pretty scummy activity. The player Ignotus took it upon himself to harass morpheus everytime he spoke.

I myself have been a jerk at times (many times in fact). If you behave like a jerk you probably shouldnt be super shocked if you are called out as one. Im personally of the belief that 'jerk' is puting it mildly based on the actions of the individuals in question.

Not an outright lie at all unless you condider your post earlier where you originally quoted me without proper context to be an outright lie as well. To be fair I wouldnt expect people to ever believe I ment you sat on the mud 24/7 waiting for him to speak to harass him. Given the context of the conversation Im pretty sure its understood that it was ment to speak only on the events that lead up to your banning which I already acknowledged in a previous post may have fit your time table better. There is no lie here, you did in fact go out of your way to tell morpheus to stop spamming every time he spoke and you saw it.  I didnt mention a specific time table because that time table has already been discussed multiple times and I assumed it was established.

For the record Lokar took something I said and turned the words around on me.
To sum up for idiots, I stopped giving two fucks about my continued presence on the game due to changes I felt were negative for my experience.

Also @Ignotus haha, I'm with you there. Morpheus is an asshole and oughta be treated as such. Not to say that I wasn't, but I got what I deserved.

I think it's time to move along and discuss some of the other points addressed by the original poster and replies. This argument has been wringed out. Let's move on to the part of being told to suck it up because of Dentins greater vision.
You know some muds I've played that hadn't gone completely over the head with self-assurance actually collected their regular or experienced player base to discuss their experiences while playing and come up with future directions for the mud to make it a positive and enjoyable experience for everyone.