Hi, a fellow RetroAchievements player from Chile here.

This is something talked somewhat when there's a RetroAchievements thread on /vr/ because you can't say that on the site or the Discord server, but the worst part of the site is definitively the moderation doing whanever they want, breaking the rules they made and creating new ones out of nowhere just because they need an excuse to massage their own ego... Of a Discord Mod, out of all things.

First there is Bahamut kidnapping for whole 3 years some popular games, being a ironic m0ron incapable of speaking normaly without using his ego for having a fuck1n virtual power role in a niche Discord server and always using the "cease this conversation or 'the moderation' will ban you", and then coming next there's BenGhazi/FBernsomesh1t using CHEATS to test the achievements he makes, closing tickets without resolving bugs or literally impossible requirements saying it's doable/working (of course it's doable with cheats or tas YOU FUCK1N 1DI0T) and then also being a pain in the butt by always using his Discord Mod ego to say people are wrong, he's right and if someone says B when he says A then he also threaten people with a ban.

And then to me there are some moderators like Searo, Auburn, Suffa and LordAndrew who are more ghosts doing nothing other than reading some text without context from the "Discord Mods" and saying yes because why not? But at least they aren't Hotscrock, this absolut piece of garb4g3 of a two faces who says something to you and then relay something else completely different to whanever Team it is because at the end it's always the same Discord Moderators deciding everything by their own whim. And this is because i'm not taking it personal, because if i was then i would've to relay some information i got from my brazillian webfriend how Hots is an absolutely bad Discord Mod trying to make the portuguese/brazillian places of the site absolutely devoid of simple banter and fun because he wants to "sell a good image to the people who aren't from Brazil" to his fellow moderators team, which none of them seem to ever care about since like the others he uses the excuse of "the team decided X thing" when they take the decision solo and use a wall to protect their frail ego of a kid who didn't grow up inside.

I could go on talking more about some "protected users" like LadyAn4lKaren harrassing everyone for being a c8nt and going unpunished, or Infernum being the most obvious cheater of the site winning even against YamatoVergil on cheating and being unpunished for being of the "Power Discord Moderators" circle, but this text a.k.a rant is going too far so i just want to end it here giving some piece of my mind too and wishing you luck with your situation Blaze.
Unfortunately RetroAchievements is a great idea being managed by terrible people, and recently it looks like even evading the community part you're still affect by the principal thing which is achievements with bad designs, poor quality work, sets made by a template and devoid of challenging fun and also it's way worse if you play a moderator set because he can untracked/ban you without any way to reverse it.

Feels kinda bad for WCopeland and Jamiras who puts so much work not only into the site but the community itself for it to be ruined by a few assholes with a shit ego, but a simple user/developer can't do anything other than play games...