@Starr-Saphyre
I’m not going to get into a big thing here 'cos if he wants to defend himself he can, and to be honest any discussion like this is about 90% likely to devolve into dredging up of ancient dramas over who slighted who in a game I probably never heard of a decade or more ago, which I have zero interest in.

Briefly though, perhaps you’re referring to something before I met him though? I dunno.

Every player has other players they tend to gravitate to playing with because they know they get a good scene with those players, but I got to know him on HAM where he was most active in the Titans. A team which had about thirty five members despite that being pretty ridiculous because of a conscious choice to offer opportunities for new players to get involved specifically as a counter to cliquishness elsewhere. So in my experience at least? No.

Is he perfect? Also no. Nobody is. That’s why you have multiple staff making policy decisions.

@catzilla
Chaucer is one of the two headwizzes along with myself, on the principle that only one headwiz makes for a staffer who can’t be called on their shit.

I’m not sure if “sometimes gets a bit grumpy” counts as being a bad actor? Like anyone who has been around a community for a while there are people who have a personal beef, but that’s it. I wouldn’t take personal beefs too seriously.

@catzilla

Maybe one day we’ll have a superhero game not run by abusers

That has been the case for a while. HAM was founded by people who left UH over the abusive staffing and has been pretty much okay on that front. HAM’s own staff split was considerably more amicable and was provoked by creative differences and disagreements with certain aspects of policy. To be entirely accurate one of the policy disagreements was that some of us felt that HAM was too slow to react to and too willing to overlook “borderline” problematic behaviour from players, but I at least never saw any evidence of major staff misbehavior during the time I was staffing there. The occasional nothingburger interpersonal squabble that’s always going to happen in these spaces, but nothing abusive.

Superheroesmush.com is run by the group of us that split away from HAM’s staff. That’s not going to be a place anyone who thinks they get special favors by staffing is going to do well in.