Bannings

@Dreampipe said in Bannings:

edit: this is poking fun at the inconsistent rule changes, i was afraid it would come off like i was being mean to kalakh

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I’m using this the next time I ban someone, don’t think I won’t.

Aria

@Roz said in Bannings:

@Dreampipe said in Bannings:

edit: this is poking fun at the inconsistent rule changes, i was afraid it would come off like i was being mean to kalakh

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At this point in my internetting, I saw this conversation and my thought process went something like:

“Is this what I think it is…? Please tell me it’s what I think it is.”

<enthusiastic clicking>

“YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES.”

Wizz

…holy shit y’all

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dvoraen

@Wizz OHAI. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?

Tez

@dvoraen Getting pizza! Can’t you see the gif?? I hope you brought enough foreveryone, @Wizz.

Wizz

@dvoraen said in Bannings:

@Wizz OHAI. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?

I step away for ~~like several months lol~~ JUST A LITTLE BIT and LOOK WHAT HAPPENS

eta: jk, jk. there’s not a non-boring answer to that question, I just needed a break! But I am super happy to see everyone picking right back up and moving on after everything!

farfalla

@Kestrel you're brilliant

Jennkryst

@Kestrel All the receipts! Or at least a bunch of them.

Applause

Meg

it’s so frustratingly disingenuous to pretend like being the current caretaker of a community forum, that you’ve been the caretaker for for less than 20% of its total run time, is somehow the same as building and running your own game.

those two things are very different things. we all can see that.

KarmaBum

@Meg you don’t feel “safe” calling this out on Derp’s echo chamber?

You know, where they’ve installed such rigid guardrails as “it didn’t happen on THIS site so it pretty much didn’t happen?” Or my new favorite “it is happening RIGHT HERE IN REAL-TIME AS GHOST IS ATTACKING PEOPLE ON THE FORUM but we’re just pretending those receipts are for a different store?”

Roz

I for one can recall the MSB thread about DownWithOPP being on Arx wherein a bunch of different players he creeped out were able to compare notes and realize it wasn’t just a once-off thing and was actually a recurring pattern, and thus felt confident in putting in complaints on the game. Because a lot of them were in a place of “he was kind of weird but maybe it was just accidental” place of not being sure they should report.

There was also an instance someone else has remembered where someone was hopping around a lot of Ares games and being creepy on rosters and the word going around on MSB helped at least one game quickly identify him and toss him out before he’d done too much damage.

But right, of course, MSB never helped to identify bad actors.

IoleRae

Spider was always really really hot and heavy on “pics or it didn’t happen”, too. I wonder why.

(I don’t actually wonder. They waged long-term campaigns against their targets, pretty much never anything you could point to individually as a specific ‘this was the problem’ incident. Say, changing the subject every single time their target spoke up on a channel about something. It’s not even REPORTABLE, but after 20 times of being silenced like this, it’s obviously a pattern.)

eta: It’s like nobody over there remembers that logs can be faked, or that several of the genuinely bad actors routinely do so. One of them likes to preemptively go to staff with the “hysterical crazy girlfriend” bit to poison the well preemptively about her victims.

KarmaBum

@Roz said in Bannings:

I for one can recall the MSB thread about DownWithOPP being on Arx wherein a bunch of different players he creeped out were able to compare notes and realize it wasn’t just a once-off thing and was actually a recurring pattern, and thus felt confident in putting in complaints on the game.

Or when a post I believe was literally called “vague post” helped stop Ruiz from serially predating people on GH - where she (female-player in case that helps Derp distance himself from the accuser this time) was conscientiously doing things in such a way that avoided receipts.

But clearly we were all just being hysterical women.