DeFi Kingdoms' Degen Heroes Tell Mods: Stop Stigmatizing Us

DeFi Kingdoms’ largest guild filed a petition this week asking for the game’s moderators to stop ostracizing them, and to create “a safe environment” where players “can equally enjoy the game.”

“We ask that guilds in general, not just our own, are not pushed to the edges of the community and stigmatized by DFK Moderators and DFK Team Members,” the guild’s Thanpolas wrote in the petition, which was published on the game’s “Kingdom Building Website.” Noting that guild members collectively held more than 5,000 heroes, Thanpolas said the group was composed “mostly” of “technocratic members, software engineers, analysts and deep geeks, with a few exceptions.”

“However, while we are more than willing to discuss some of our internal guild workings with the DFK team, we also have a very large public space on our discord for all players of DFK,” Thanpolas added. “This public space is the driving factor for why we wrote this proposal.”

Delving into the guild’s grievance, he said the game’s moderators in the Discord chat-service were unjustly targeting players — including members of Degen Heroes — who wanted to discuss topics of interest, or events such as “summoning parties,” which involve scheduling a time to summon new heroes or pets and discussing the outcomes in the guild’s Discord:

There is nothing malicious or nefarious going on with Degen Heroes or any of the other 10 or so guilds that, to our knowledge, exist. We want to be able to host events (e.g., summoning parties) on our discord server and invite the DFK Community to join, without having our posts deleted, being warned, and risk getting banned from the official server.

It is discouraging behavior and treatment by DFK Moderators, especially considering most of them are already present in our discord server, have participated, and use our tools and services.

Degen Heroes and its members are here for the long-term, and we want to contribute and grow what is an amazing game, experience and community: DeFi Kingdoms.

The petition closes with a request for DFK to “please create a safe environment where all the players or group of players (i.e., guild) can equally enjoy the game.”

The guild is behind the development of a number of tools that DFK players widely utilize. Those tools include a “matchbot” that display the likely outcome when two heroes are used to summon another hero, in addition to live feeds that display when new heroes are created, sold, or put up for sale. The guild’s members were also the first to discover that locked Jewel could be transferred — a phenomenon that DFK’s developers have strongly condemned, and prohibited players from publicly discussing.

DFK guilds are presently informal associations in Discord, but the game is expected to launch in-game guilds and features related to them before the end of 2022. Thanpolas noted Degen Heroes arose as an attempt “to front-run the news and create our own guild.”

The game is the largest decentralized application (dApp) on the Harmony network, but has experienced an exodus of users during this summer’s market downturn. A total of 10,430 wallets interacted with the game on June 8, according to dAppRadar, down from a peak of 36,670 on December 8. The total for the 30-day rolling period was 72,410, a decline of 48.7 percent compared to the previous month.

Thanpolas, whose real name is Thanos Polychronakis, is a retired open-source software developer and a prolific contributor both to the Degen Heroes guild and DFK. Separately, he has submitted a proposal for a $50,000 grant to build an indexer for the DFK blockchain.

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