December 2013-A mod named Zabiba was in a Skype call with his friend Magafe while staffing. During the call, Magafe told Zabiba he was gonna jihad over Skype, and Zabiba killed him. Unsurprisingly, Zabiba got demoted and both of them got ghosting bans.
Zabiba was one of the most popular mods of his time, and Sir Lemoncakes later told me that Zabiba was next in line for admin before he got demoted. People were mad when Highwon made the call to demote one of their favorite mods, and a mass resignation known as operation 666 was started. Operation 666 was small compared to similar events, with only a handful of staff participating, but it set the stage for worse to come.
August 2014-Highwon got tired of everyone forming cliques with their private Skype groups, so he decided to ban external chats for staff and force them to use Teamspeak instead. This went about as well as you'd expect it to, and it led to resignations, demotions, backstabbing, Highwon losing his temper in staff discussion, and it may be the reason Highwon gave up on the servers after 2014.
People eventually got used to using locked Teamspeak channels, but so many great staff members left because of Highwon's reckless decision that the staff team was never the same. On top of that all the people who never got invited to private Skype groups had to watch themselves be left out of locked Teamspeak channels, making the problem even worse.
January 2017-A popular admin named Anna got demoted for inactivity, but the demotion came while her mom was on her deathbed. As far as I can remember the demotion was justified, however the horrible timing led to the biggest mass resignation in SGM history.
Not only did a majority of the staff team resign all at once, but people who were respected admins the day before started to band together against SGM. People publicly leaked staff info, threatened to DDoS the servers, threatened to mass chargeback on donations, and some people went as low as to threaten to post CP in shoutbox.
So why am I giving an SGM history lesson out of nowhere? Because Jabba needs to hear this. I'm not involved in anything happening behind the scenes, and all I know about the situation comes from J3k's report and Jabba's response, so I won't try to argue who's right. While I can't say who's right or wrong in that report, there's one part of J3k's post I can say with certainty is true.
Highwon was always disconnected from the rest of his staff team, and the events listed were a direct result of that disconnect. One thing that's clear now is that the staff team won't accept Jabba as their leader, and they'll do anything to get rid of him. They're even willing to go as far as trolling their own servers until he resigns.
(Side note:Wtf are you guys thinking doing this? Community drama has no place on the servers and you should look for another way to get Jabba to resign. If you're mad you should never take it out on the servers.)
EDIT:Apparently I misinterpreted this message but my point still stands.
The whole reason AHG exists is because the staff wanted Highwon out of the picture. If the majority of the staff team sees Jabba they way they used to see Highwon on SGM then there's no way he'll be able to do his job effectively. There's plenty of people on the AHG staff team qualified to take on some or all of his work, and if his duties can be assigned to other staff then there's no reason to keep a director everyone sees as an enemy.
Jabba I'm glad you tried to repair this bridge before giving up, but it's time to call it quits. The only reason SGM survived all that drama is because it had a big enough playerbase to replace the staff team. If something like that happens while AHG is still trying to get off the ground there's no way it'll survive. In a time of crisis a leader should do what's best for the community, and if resigning is the only way to fix the divide in the staff team it's your responsibility to do it. You're no leader if you'd rather bring the community down with you.
Zabiba was one of the most popular mods of his time, and Sir Lemoncakes later told me that Zabiba was next in line for admin before he got demoted. People were mad when Highwon made the call to demote one of their favorite mods, and a mass resignation known as operation 666 was started. Operation 666 was small compared to similar events, with only a handful of staff participating, but it set the stage for worse to come.
August 2014-Highwon got tired of everyone forming cliques with their private Skype groups, so he decided to ban external chats for staff and force them to use Teamspeak instead. This went about as well as you'd expect it to, and it led to resignations, demotions, backstabbing, Highwon losing his temper in staff discussion, and it may be the reason Highwon gave up on the servers after 2014.
People eventually got used to using locked Teamspeak channels, but so many great staff members left because of Highwon's reckless decision that the staff team was never the same. On top of that all the people who never got invited to private Skype groups had to watch themselves be left out of locked Teamspeak channels, making the problem even worse.
January 2017-A popular admin named Anna got demoted for inactivity, but the demotion came while her mom was on her deathbed. As far as I can remember the demotion was justified, however the horrible timing led to the biggest mass resignation in SGM history.
Not only did a majority of the staff team resign all at once, but people who were respected admins the day before started to band together against SGM. People publicly leaked staff info, threatened to DDoS the servers, threatened to mass chargeback on donations, and some people went as low as to threaten to post CP in shoutbox.
So why am I giving an SGM history lesson out of nowhere? Because Jabba needs to hear this. I'm not involved in anything happening behind the scenes, and all I know about the situation comes from J3k's report and Jabba's response, so I won't try to argue who's right. While I can't say who's right or wrong in that report, there's one part of J3k's post I can say with certainty is true.
Overall with all of this evidence, we conclude that the community is not sustainable with Ethan as a Director.
Highwon was always disconnected from the rest of his staff team, and the events listed were a direct result of that disconnect. One thing that's clear now is that the staff team won't accept Jabba as their leader, and they'll do anything to get rid of him. They're even willing to go as far as trolling their own servers until he resigns.

EDIT:Apparently I misinterpreted this message but my point still stands.
The whole reason AHG exists is because the staff wanted Highwon out of the picture. If the majority of the staff team sees Jabba they way they used to see Highwon on SGM then there's no way he'll be able to do his job effectively. There's plenty of people on the AHG staff team qualified to take on some or all of his work, and if his duties can be assigned to other staff then there's no reason to keep a director everyone sees as an enemy.
Jabba I'm glad you tried to repair this bridge before giving up, but it's time to call it quits. The only reason SGM survived all that drama is because it had a big enough playerbase to replace the staff team. If something like that happens while AHG is still trying to get off the ground there's no way it'll survive. In a time of crisis a leader should do what's best for the community, and if resigning is the only way to fix the divide in the staff team it's your responsibility to do it. You're no leader if you'd rather bring the community down with you.
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