@Prototart

It’s always great fun when you pivot wildly Vorpal-wards. Wasn’t it you who once dubbed him “Furry Satan made MU*nifest”? That was a classic - I think he had it made into a t-shirt. Do another! The two are not quite so thick as thieves as you seem to think though.

Chaucer wasn’t going over Shakes’ head because Shakes was headwiz, not Chaucer. He fought for characters Shakes didn’t want on the grid all the time, that was because they had fundamental disagreements about what should be allowed, it wasn’t something special you were uniquely getting. Would he fight for a wacky proposal from someone he thought he knew could be trusted with a wacky idea more than for someone with no prior on the game though? Yep. He’s guilty of that, for sure. Every now and then someone totally new the game wanted to app a demon wizard speedster amazon green lantern who could fire ninja stars out of their eyeballs and fart kryptonite, and he didn’t fight very hard for those at all. Shocking.

Oh, and I was on staff. I saw the discussions in the staff channel and the +job exchanges. I know why you were uh… invited to a parting of the ways. You may be missing one or two minor details in your description of events.

@EyeofProvidence

I know of one player who’s apparently notoriously been following the same MO (spending his whole time trying to persuade players of female characters to let him get them pregnant) for many years, so you may well be right. And then there’s the legendary Jill the Guest…

One thing I’ve noticed in my time in this hobby is that there’s a common reluctance amongst staff to act until they really have to, and a common reluctance on the part of players to actually put in a complaint and let staff know there’s a problem. I get it, most people are fundamentally conflict-averse and getting in someone’s face isn’t the fun time anyone’s signed up for. Unfortunately that encourages a ‘let’s make absolutely sure before we say anything’ culture which makes it far too easy for these people to hide their misdeeds. There needs to be a greater willingness to observe a clear pattern rather than await a slam-dunk, and more staff who are willing to bite the bullet and demand a change of behavior – or simply to tell someone to gtfo.

@hellfrog 100%. Let’s just say I’m happier staffing somewhere I can ensure that’s policy.