I am attacking noone and being lumped in with those that do
If you wish to call out individual hypocrites then please do but don't lump any of us here
This you?
Also this explains the sites reticence to make any kind of stand against ACTI BLIZZ. you can't get your fat check from corporate if you're making some kind of stand. ActiBlizz sponsored OT's next?
One would wonder if this is the reason the staff seemed so reticent to take a hard stance with all the Blizzard issues in the last year.
I am sure its not to put off prospective buyers.
Suuuuuuuuuure!
Like, how are you so utterly lacking in self-awareness? Some of your first posts in this very thread were peddling insane conspiracy theories about staff and their policy decisions, implying the reason they chose to not ban ActiBlizz threads was because of the upcoming buyout (completely false, obviously). You also said the site didn't take "any kind of stance" which is also flat out untrue. All of those things are incredibly insulting to staff members, particularly the
mods who worked hard on handling those topics. But you are so lacking in self-awareness that you cannot even see how your own toxic shitposts are routinely part of the problem yourself. Not the first time this happens either.
It would have been nice if the mod who resigned practiced some of that empathy as well instead of calling users of a site they moderate "c*nts," "manbabies" and expressing a desire to ban at least one of them. And you also forgot to mention the only reason why the Discord servers were brought up was because one very popular user was perma banned for an off-site comment that was much more tame than what was being posted in these Discords by the staff showcasing a clear double-standard compared to staff members who were not reprimanded.
A lot of people who made MC what it was here were lovely and it's doing them a diservice to act like it was all a targetted harasment campaign from the begining. They just wanted to discuss Japanese games sales which they had been doing for years before the moderation involvement.
Oh boy here we go again huh. The people I called people cunts and manbabies were
specifically the assholes who were constantly harassing and insulting cvxfreak and demanding that he resign etc. (this was made clear in the comment I was
replying to, by the way). This means I "don't have empathy" now? LOL, spare me the pearl-clutching. No, I have empathy towards people like cvxfreak who didn't deserve any of this insane amount of vitriol, but yeah I guess I don't have much empathy towards toxic manchildren who harass my friends over petty nonsense like a 1-day ban. Funny that.
CVX freak and Morrigan looked down on the community with absolute contempt. Nobody else drove away that community than the shitty moderation.
Looking at the screenshots, you're telling me they were great mods when they were specifically targeting people in the thread (namely Chris) and then rallying people in their discord to defend them? It's simply laughable.
See this is more false narratives. I never was involved with that community. I never stepped foot in those threads. I was literally
Idontthinkaboutyouatall.gif about them. All I did was, in a semi-private Discord, say not-so-nice-things about
people who were harassing and insulting cvxfreak over and over when that stuff going down. I also didn't "rally" anyone, I just reassured people who wanted to go in there to support cvxfreak that doing so wasn't bannable (because, well, it wasn't), as they were afraid of doing that and getting dogpiled.
As for mods "driving them away", that's also laughable,
as they had already decided to leave by then (over the 1-day ban), long before things escalated with the screenshots.
In other words: you don't know what you're talking about, you're just parroting the same tired persecution complex nonsense that constantly circulates unchallenged in these Discord echo chambers where people whip each other into a frenzy over any slight, whether real or imaginary. Don't worry though, you're far from the first (nor the last) to do that. It is what it is.
I know we're getting off-topic, but it is beyond unprofessional for a mod to be shittalking users in space that's open to non-mods. Whether it's a "private discord" or twitter doesn't matter one bit, unless the "private discord" is exclusively a staff channel (which by my understanding of the situation, it most definitely was not). I ran forums for years and I know what it's like to have to vent about some of the nonsense you have to deal with, but you absolutely do not do that shit in front of other members.
Moderators have been shit-talking troublesome users to their buddies since the beginning of time. It comes with the territory because the job is basically to be hall monitor where they're mostly dealing with the annoying unruly children and bullies,. If you believe that a mod shit-talking bullies to their friends is beyond the pale, that's on you for imputing far more meaning and baggage onto the behaviour that what the speaker probably intends.
