Post by mehtastic on Dec 6, 2019 6:44:35 GMT -5
A new review on r/MUD describes Shalooonsh allegedly attempting to request mudsex in exchange for animating an NPC to interview a new player's character for a chance to join House Kadius. The review also contains a gallery of screenshots that demonstrate what the reviewer describes, as well as the results of staff's investigation.
www.reddit.com/r/MUD/comments/e6pzj3/my_armageddon_experience_interesting_game_strange/
Whether the allegations are true or not, they fit a pattern of reported behavior by Shalooonsh. If true, this report seems to suggest that Shalooonsh is pushing old boundaries. While he is primarily known for being a bombastic idiot on the GDB, both under his staff handle and his player handle Malifaxis, he is also known for being undesirably sexual around the Armageddon community. This report seems to highlight that lesser-known and less-seen trait.
The gallery also highlights poor conflict resolution skills on the administration's part. The reviewer notes that the staff tried to paint her as a suspect, by doing an IP check on her account and concluding without evidence that the "Shalooonsh" account that messaged her on Discord must be an account that shares an IP address with her. But the reviewer claims to live alone, occasionally playing Armageddon from a public IP address. In banning a random account that shares an IP address with the reviewer, they more likely banned someone at random than any actual perpetrator. Beyond that, it's quite telling that Shabago tries to flip the script, changing the topic from the reviewer's possible victimhood to staff's and Shalooonsh's victimhood. The reviewer reported sexual harassment directed at her; Shabago changes the topic to harassment directed at the staff. This is the behavior of a narcissist.
The reviewer doesn't seem to catch on to this going by her words, but the staff definitely tried to give her the run-around with reporting what happened. When she requests a means of reporting the matter in a way Shalooonsh won't see the report, and thus likely retaliate against her for it, she is given the email admin@armageddon.org to email, which should conceivably work. But staff claim not to receive the email and don't seem to react at all until they are directly contacted on Discord. This shows another attempt at staff avoiding accountability for their actions.
Whether you believe that Shalooonsh did what the reviewer reported or not, it is quite clear that staff have no interest in ensuring the safety of players in their community. They have demonstrated that they are much more interested in denying blame and passing it back to the person who reported the wrongdoing in the first place.
I don't know whether Shalooonsh actually did what the reviewer reported. I do see how it can be faked, by manipulating numbers in the browser's inspector. That would have to be faked on the reviewer's part, and it seems like a shit-ton of effort to do that while playing two characters; not to mention Shalooonsh has been sexually weird in the past and the reported behavior lines up with his past. Ultimately, I don't really care either way; if it did happen, the reviewer handled it nicely by reporting the issue and walking away when staff started to circle the wagons. If it didn't happen, staff didn't do their due diligence, and banned a random player for it that shared the reviewer's IP address before calling the case closed. Unlike past reviews, people can't say that there isn't an abundance of proof on the reviewer's part. This thread isn't so much about Shalooonsh as it is about Shabago and conflict resolution methods on the staff team in general, really. Their methods only seem to be getting worse: more paranoid, more likely to pre-judge anyone that reports staff wrongdoing as a potential multiplayer, and more likely to be insular (and therefore, less likely to take suggestions from players and ex-players).
www.reddit.com/r/MUD/comments/e6pzj3/my_armageddon_experience_interesting_game_strange/
Whether the allegations are true or not, they fit a pattern of reported behavior by Shalooonsh. If true, this report seems to suggest that Shalooonsh is pushing old boundaries. While he is primarily known for being a bombastic idiot on the GDB, both under his staff handle and his player handle Malifaxis, he is also known for being undesirably sexual around the Armageddon community. This report seems to highlight that lesser-known and less-seen trait.
The gallery also highlights poor conflict resolution skills on the administration's part. The reviewer notes that the staff tried to paint her as a suspect, by doing an IP check on her account and concluding without evidence that the "Shalooonsh" account that messaged her on Discord must be an account that shares an IP address with her. But the reviewer claims to live alone, occasionally playing Armageddon from a public IP address. In banning a random account that shares an IP address with the reviewer, they more likely banned someone at random than any actual perpetrator. Beyond that, it's quite telling that Shabago tries to flip the script, changing the topic from the reviewer's possible victimhood to staff's and Shalooonsh's victimhood. The reviewer reported sexual harassment directed at her; Shabago changes the topic to harassment directed at the staff. This is the behavior of a narcissist.
The reviewer doesn't seem to catch on to this going by her words, but the staff definitely tried to give her the run-around with reporting what happened. When she requests a means of reporting the matter in a way Shalooonsh won't see the report, and thus likely retaliate against her for it, she is given the email admin@armageddon.org to email, which should conceivably work. But staff claim not to receive the email and don't seem to react at all until they are directly contacted on Discord. This shows another attempt at staff avoiding accountability for their actions.
Whether you believe that Shalooonsh did what the reviewer reported or not, it is quite clear that staff have no interest in ensuring the safety of players in their community. They have demonstrated that they are much more interested in denying blame and passing it back to the person who reported the wrongdoing in the first place.
I don't know whether Shalooonsh actually did what the reviewer reported. I do see how it can be faked, by manipulating numbers in the browser's inspector. That would have to be faked on the reviewer's part, and it seems like a shit-ton of effort to do that while playing two characters; not to mention Shalooonsh has been sexually weird in the past and the reported behavior lines up with his past. Ultimately, I don't really care either way; if it did happen, the reviewer handled it nicely by reporting the issue and walking away when staff started to circle the wagons. If it didn't happen, staff didn't do their due diligence, and banned a random player for it that shared the reviewer's IP address before calling the case closed. Unlike past reviews, people can't say that there isn't an abundance of proof on the reviewer's part. This thread isn't so much about Shalooonsh as it is about Shabago and conflict resolution methods on the staff team in general, really. Their methods only seem to be getting worse: more paranoid, more likely to pre-judge anyone that reports staff wrongdoing as a potential multiplayer, and more likely to be insular (and therefore, less likely to take suggestions from players and ex-players).
