New review suggests staff still suck at conflict resolution

did he punch your cervix with his monster dong?

I don't think anyone here will try and tell you Armageddon is the problem. The problem since the beginning of this forum has always been people who will always, invariably, and without fail, stick their fingers in their ears whenever a problem with Armageddon's community is revealed. Of course, the people who cause those problems are also a problem, but the people who stand by or defend those problem-causers are as bad, if not sometimes worse. The problem is people like Shalooonsh as well as people who defend him as some sort of god-tier roleplayer/staffer who can do no wrong ever. You can love a game conceptually and heavily criticize the people who run it poorly and people who defend poor management as long as the game remains fun to play for them specifically.

My main criticisms of this whole situation, as someone who believes Kaitrena based on the fact that her story lines up with past stories of Shalooonsh, but is waiting for some sort of video proof to confirm further, are:
1) Shabago should have been nowhere near the resolution of a staff complaint. There are three Producers and Shabago is not one of them.
2) Either in ineptitude or out of malice, Shabago low-key accused Kaitrena of multiplaying and banned what he thought to be her "alt account" and called the case closed afterward.
3) No one expects the same burden of proof from Shabago as they seem to expect from Kaitrena. He makes mention of seeing Shalooonsh's account and benig able to verify no messages took place, yet Kaitrena is the one expected to do a screen share, after having shared the most evidence any Reddit review of Armageddon ever has. Burden of proof on the accuser is always a good idea, but people did see Shalooonsh leave the Armageddon server and change his avatar, so he tainted any evidence that could be collected in the first place.

It is fair to say that there are elements of a cover-up here. And for what? To protect an extremely problematic staff member who runs roughshod over the players on a regular basis, and now (allegedly) has sexually harassed a player. Armageddon would be better without Shalooonsh's presence, and staff have rallied to keep them. What does that tell you (general you) about staff's plans for the game?

Minor note it is almost impossible to 'proof' something with screenshots on discord.

Why?

Discord is chromium and you can open the devtool and literally edit the information on the screen. Someone over on MSB was kind enough to demonstrate in a screenshot here.

Would changes like that persist after closing out and firing it back up?

If not, snagging OBS and recording a clip of the damning information on a freshly-opened discord app for upload wouldn't be too hard for anyone determined to make their case.

As posted in the reddit thread and the Discord support documents, you can change the 4 digit discriminator at will (including a custom one if you have Nitro) but the 16 digit user ID viewed by entering developer mode never changes. This can be viewed even if the account is deleted or you have the person blocked. There is no currently known way to spoof it in the Discord app itself or cycling it out for a new one without openly making a new account. Viewing the user ID in the Discord app is an absolute way to verify the validity of this situation here to prove who is lying. You're not really posting supplementary information here, just repeatedly being open about how confused you are about how Discord works. I'm a Discord admin for a relatively large MUD Discord myself and have had to validate fake screenshots in a similar way before so I am very familiar with how this works.

Unsure if I buy that it's fabricated. If staff says it's fabricated yet it's not then that's a major fuckup. That said, I did look over the screenshots, and in my opinion the only thing the alleged Shaloonsh did that was objectively wrong (regardless of creepy factor) is the threat to use NPCs to insure that no one in the clan will hire that PC.

It's well known that people use sex for influence, power, and even as a weapon. Armageddon is a harsh world, and he correctly pointed out that if you don't bring what's expected to the table, then you have to bring something else. They were even willing to accomodate the PC and players preferences so as to not make it too creepy. The correct response on the player's part, imo, if they really wanted to get into Kadius, would be to accept, then FTB the scene. Haha, a nice "fuck you" to what they percieve as "creepy" AND they get what they want out of it.

Or, that's just, what I would've done, had I been in their shoes... and if their would've been consequences for FTBing a scene I would have put that final nail in the coffin. I'm not saying whether it's fake or not, that's up to people better educated on the workings of discord than I am.

EDIT: I've seen enough petty shittiness from people to believe that either scenario may be true... knowing next to nothing about Shabago or the player in question (or even how freaking discord works) it's impossible for me to say what happened.

do you have any firsthand things you'd be willing to share about this? there's been things posted here before but have boiled down to 'my nameless friend said...'