Posts made by saosmash

@macha I really thought, genuinely, that since more than ten years had passed your behavior might have changed and that you might have grown out of some of your patterns. But we really should have banned you from our game when your player management thread reached the end of its second full page.

I can only hope that your demonstration of yourself to the community over the course of this contretemps has showed the gaming community enough of who you are that, in the future, you won't be able to manipulate other staffers and hurt other games the way you hurt ours.

Bye!

@macha A slap on the wrist for saying "message received" and then blocking you? Why?

@mietze I'm sorry that you feel as though there has been any failure here on your part. I don't think it was ever reasonable to expect you to come back and magically fix all the issues that occurred in your absence. Please continue to take care of you.

@lotherio "from the outside"?

@lotherio Auspice was removed as admin based on her actions. People reacted badly to things that she did. Not to harm her or coerce her, but to stop her from continuing to hurt people.

Actions have consequences. I'm not party to what happened amongst the admin, but I do remember at least one hurtful lie that she spread about me personally that I was shocked and upset to discover evidence of, so ... I'm not at all sorry that someone who behaved that way is no longer a mod here.

Are you saying you are a neutral party? Because that's definitely not the perception you are conveying.

Your position on discord is weird. I gave out my discord ID because people I otherwise don't communicate with were banned or left the forum where I usually communicate with them. Now I talk to them on discord. Curious??

@lotherio The new "code of conduct" appears to be a result of review. It appears to be a result of review that fails to address several of the issues, continues to insist on all complaints being in private, and doubles down on the initial flawed ban (while appearing to say you can just block people you don't want to talk to -- but you still can't block Derp, which was high on the list of reasons I had concerns about the initial elevation).

It is not reasonable to demand silence while continuing to speak.

I think you need to look into the definition of your terms. For example, dictionary citations:

Bully (verb form): "seek to harm, intimidate, or coerce (someone perceived as vulnerable)."

You can't bully someone who is in authority over you.

Clique (noun): a small group of people, with shared interests or other features in common, who spend time together and do not readily allow others to join them.

The exclusivity is part of the definition.

I have been holding my tongue here because that has been the request. I have little interest in continuing to participate in a version of this community that does not course correct, but I have continued to wait and observe. What I have observed so far has not heartened me.

Any story I could tell probably comes down to "you had to be there," but this hobby has been a consistent source of hilarity for me for decades.

@misadventure yup

@derp I loved to see her and Uhura introducing herself to each other too. All the lovely nostalgic fan service, but not in a way that it was disruptive to the story? Very nicely done.

@derp also re: strange new worlds the expansion on Spock/T'Pring was fascinating (lol) and i loved getting more insight into Vulcan social norms being matriarchal (which falls in line with T'Pau!!!). It was just such great insight into a female character who in the original series was basically just like an irredeemable raging bitch, and the show is like 'oh did you know relationships have two people in them who both have perspectives'.

When this was first bruited about I was like, ??? more prequel shit, but honestly I take it all back. Makes me wanna go look for Sarek/Amanda fanfic that takes that into account, except that I'm old and I don't have time for fanfic anymore.

(Also omg baby Uhura legitimately solving things with communication!)

It's also nice to have TV that I can watch with my dad. Discovery has been A Bit Much for him, but the aggressive tie-ins to TOS work to keep him interested. My parents were huge Trek nerds. We watched GoT together but it was basically like, uh, suffering.

@wretched Aww I liked that. It made so much sense with respect to how Wesley left the series and Wil was clearly having so much fun. It was such a nice set of goodbyes.

I'M STILL CRYING OVER THE HUG. YOU KNOW THE ONE.

Mabelle made a great event last night. I was super impressed with all the effort SEVERAL players went to to do prepared poses for performances etc. Good job erryone.

Disagree. There are plenty of places on the internet to talk politics. I don't object to the politics forum existing - obviously, I read and post it - but making it opt-in rather than opt-out was a better solution for that and the hog pit.

Our political opinions and our hog pit arguments are unsightly, like warts. Let people decide to commit before they have to see the warts.

So like...

Is @il-volpe trying to avoid getting moderated for personal attacks by just making their personal attacks so inexplicable no one can understand them? Lol.

Tinuviel left. Leave him be.

@phaedrus It's much easier to rewrite reality when the other witnesses to your behavior are forced not to speak, yes.

@buttercup Thank you.

@buttercup I understand that people are being pretty reactive right now but "lynch mob" seems pretty inappropriate.

@solstice omg, I'm sorry this happened to you, and I wish I could punch that person in the throat.

@mietze We love you, mietze. Please take the time you need. I'm sorry this has been such a cluster. Thank you for letting us know what was going on even though it was difficult for you.