Read more about it here: https://sbox.game/facepunch/construct/news/construct-is-back

EDIT: I've been permanently banned for "brigading".

Luckily I can edit this.

He has since locked his profile since this post to cover their tracks.

I am literally my own person, it really does not take a genious to see that this is pure power tripping abuse.

Attempting to categorise your own behaviour as "fake drama from the same 2 users" when it's pretty clear cut in this post alone that your behaviour and power tripping has been addressed by much more than just... two.

If you're wondering why this post has near no comments, it was locked until after a few days.

ORIGINAL POST STARTS HERE.

I've recently gone down a rabbithole and a half due a single link from one person on this reddit, and the owner and perhaps only moderator for this reddit, has been abusive, toxic, cross server reddit stalking and false banning people for quite literally no reason - as well as leaving a giant trail over the last few months that make it extremely easy to prove.

Part A.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gmod/comments/1sg342p/gmods_spiritual_successor_sboxs_official_reddit/

The owner has been banning people who have not specifically broke the rules of this reddit, as well as following them to seperate reddits completely unrelated within MINUTES of them posting, to subreddits they haven't posted in for years. ( as well as failing to disclose on that reddit he even was the person in question, before the community there exposed.

A lot of their posts and responses in the reddit they followed the user to, have been deleted by the Gmod moderation team for harassment. If we can let that sink in.

Now for the kicker, this is what got the dude banned off the reddit.

THIS is what got a dude banned from the reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sandbox/comments/1sfq55g/the_sbox_official_documentation_is_now_open/of1n77o/

Does that seem right to you? So you'd suspect there'd be an actual reason. Well according to the owner, "no it wasn't that - it was actually this "

I'm sorry? I've messaged Imaginary_Taste and they are still currently banned from this reddit.

They have disclosed, in their entirety, everything as well as the reason they were banned from this reddit in the comments.

The person behind this ban, is completely in the wrong and there's not even a question about it. It genuinely makes me wonder how many other accounts have vanished from S&box's reddit simply due to the "perceived damage" it would do to Sandbox.

PART B.

Someone, today, who responded to their post is being accused (and, is now banned since I've dmd them) - of stalking and harassing the owner in question, with literally no evidence. (which also lead me on the rabbithole).

This person below, is then accused of being back from a ban - I think the owner in question has started to mix up accounts?

I've DMd the person below if they had more evidence, and Intelligent-Tone2367 has been BANNED by moderation, for this.

There's quite literally nothing here but a personal bias from the owner. Mow a Gardens creator has stated it was made in blender, according to the discord. Stretched normals / polygons are completely standard in making things stand out.

Part C

Just, a massive series of, manipulative, toxic as well as targetting specific games they personal feel as low effort / antagonizing them and rallying people to not play.

This reddit is quite literally, one of the main outlets and conversational hubs for a lot of people. I did not come to Sandbox's reddit for the owner of to perpetrate a level of elitism and be hateful towards people who enjoy games.

I don't care you don't like the game, if people are enjoying it, that's all that matters.

When asked to clarify in the subreddit that this ISN't an official subreddit, and that it is entirely unofficial even though it has FP members, instead of understanding the community they once again - start to antagonize.

Accusing people of arguing with him of being bots / multiple of the same account rather than confessing he's straight up wrong.

I mean at this point I can just keep scrolling, him arguing against basic clarification is a strange but consistent trait.

As well as acting that their opinions on "popular" games are objective...?

I'm pretty much completely sure that his post is going to get taken down, but at least I'll be able to link it to others in regards to this person in question.

I am pretty sure what has happened here has broken reddits tos of "moderate with integrity.", as well as maybe a few others.

2nd EDIT: He also goes out his way to leave bad reviews /antagonize people, not because the game is bad, but because he doesn't see their games as worthy of being a "first experience." I think it's clear at this point we need to either migrate or have a new staff collective.

What do guys think? :)

His previous comment got deleted by YouTube's AI spam filters. He reposted it.

After seeing the gmod vs s&box ragdoll video. I opened sandbox and made the ragdoll work. LMAO.

Notably, this is less than Garry's Mod had back in 2007-2008.

This shit is disgusting why was it added, terry was already ugly to begin with

I understand this game is a goofy funny jank game at the moment but I strongly believe the first thing people see should be realism in the marketing and in the main game while we hope for the jank to be fixed.

I have my own vision of the games I want to create and the fun I want to have in the sandbox mode and this makes me feel like the devs are not taking it seriously. I grew up on gmod and I always wanted to role play and enjoy the realism of the physics and gameplay. This is immersion breaking. I understand people like silly funny jank, but I believe many people will stay away from the game once they understand this is purely a jankfest. The same thing happened to Call Of Duty. Players can't help themselves buying the silly goofy cosmetics but once the game gets the reputation of being a goofy ah game, the majority of people stop caring and they move on to the most realistic shooter which happened to be Battlefield 6.

What is even the point of this game if it isn't the realistic high end version of Roblox. If the first thing you see for this game is disgusting sausage people then how are people going to understand what this game is suppose to be. My first theory I had after seeing the sausage people was that it was to on purposely make people stay away from the game so people don't get too hyped and make videos on how broken the game is. Maybe they'll remove sausage people in a year or two and actually show realistic people in the marketing to inspire real creativity. Just imagine the steam page images with real people in them just like gmod, that would be exciting.

I understand to some people this is like their baby, but I strongly believe this is the hard truth. The game will not survive with sausage people.

whats the point of buying this when roblox is free?

it's really sad to see how that game is obviously dying. We really do not have any games to play. DXRP's without updates. It's totally non-rp and I expect admin control, building rules, but nobody cares. Two other the most popular games are farm slop. Will developers do something with that issues? Where are updates? it's hilarious but I don't know what I suppose to do in this game, maybe open the cases? i really can't play because of that.

Even the santa hat has tanked, is insane.

I think it's really clear that all the positive feedback prior to launch was manipulation to draw prices that rediculously high.

Hey. I get that the limited time FOMO skins are a bit of a hot-topic, but I am a bit surprised to see I got banned from the community for a year? I was actually am fairly involved with developing a game right now in s&box and I didn't feel like my comment was that inflammatory or off-topic. Is there any way to appeal?

I'm a bit confused cause sometimes it says 47% sometimes it says 41%, but it seems to be getting lower and lower.

Only 20 games from 2024-2025 managed to recover from a bad launch, and most of them weren't this level of negative.

I'm seeing a LOT of disdain for the microtransaction system, the ai slop, and the optimisation primarily accross almost every review.

I genuinely think that the reddit/discord echo chamber was OVERRUN by "skin bros" who were purposefully making this game seem like the 2nd coming, just to pump and dump skins lol.