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Post by lechuck on Dec 30, 2019 5:38:33 GMT -5
It's pretty clear by now that qwerty is current or former staff. Probably the latter, with friends still on the wizlist. They most likely retired from staff in order to continue enjoying the game without putting in work, and has made it their mission to come here and do PR. Ties with staff remain close enough that they can ask imm buddies for pfile information and such, and PM users here to fish for their account names under the dubious guise of looking into their concerns. They care enough about the game that the existence of a rogue community is too big an elephant in the room to quite ignore, but undying loyalty to Armageddon prevents any chance of objectivity and common sense. In other words, an absolute shill whose every post consists of whiteknighting for the game. It's frankly impressive that they managed to rack up this kind of post count doing the same one thing. Lately they've grown slightly more canny to the tone around here and started joking around, but it serves no other purpose than to appear more like a genuine member of the community. I remain unfooled.
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Post by vex on Dec 30, 2019 6:21:00 GMT -5
All of the 'evidence' presented can be falsified, and the procedures needed to verify information pertaining to the alleged incident, would require a gross violation of multiple parties privacy, as well as a tier of talent far above what the anti/pro arm community is capable of producing, even if either 'side' could be considered credible enough to present it in an unbiased fashion. Neither side is, imo.
Ultimately, nobody has "evidence", just some conjecture based upon assumption that what they 'think' is right, because it suits their narrative.
And I rather doubt, anyone here has either the skills, or the pocket book, to afford someone with the skills, to ever clear the air on the matter... which, I'd assume, makes it a raging success, no? Game successfully smeared, staff successfully smeared, people both for and against the state of the game have and continue, to make asses of themselves over it, and nobody is really left holding the bag. Even the op, ultimately, probably wouldn't have been banned, had he not unloaded on staff over this hot mess of a topic.
Lots of drama, lots of bad feels all around, all of it very public, and "kait" just disappears into the digital ether, without any measured of accountability, either way.
Its interesting, if nothing else.
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Post by delerak on Dec 30, 2019 9:37:41 GMT -5
All of the 'evidence' presented can be falsified, and the procedures needed to verify information pertaining to the alleged incident, would require a gross violation of multiple parties privacy, as well as a tier of talent far above what the anti/pro arm community is capable of producing, even if either 'side' could be considered credible enough to present it in an unbiased fashion. Neither side is, imo. Ultimately, nobody has "evidence", just some conjecture based upon assumption that what they 'think' is right, because it suits their narrative. And I rather doubt, anyone here has either the skills, or the pocket book, to afford someone with the skills, to ever clear the air on the matter... which, I'd assume, makes it a raging success, no? Game successfully smeared, staff successfully smeared, people both for and against the state of the game have and continue, to make asses of themselves over it, and nobody is really left holding the bag. Even the op, ultimately, probably wouldn't have been banned, had he not unloaded on staff over this hot mess of a topic. Lots of drama, lots of bad feels all around, all of it very public, and "kait" just disappears into the digital ether, without any measured of accountability, either way. Its interesting, if nothing else. It's a fucking mess. Shaloonsh is probably a piece of shit but that doesn't mean they have to remove him because of it. I recall him posting to me on the Arm Facebook page about how since I was in the Navy he is going to become "pro-war" or some shit. I bet I can find it if I wanted to but that basically sums up what kind of person the guy is.
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Post by delerak on Dec 30, 2019 9:40:59 GMT -5
lol.. His post are gold on the Arm MUD facebook page if anyone wants to go look. He has one diatribe talking about his cock and how much someone misses it and is stalking him to get more of it or something.
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Post by dvorak on Dec 30, 2019 10:06:46 GMT -5
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Post by dvorak on Dec 30, 2019 10:11:19 GMT -5
lol.. His post are gold on the Arm MUD facebook page if anyone wants to go look. He has one diatribe talking about his cock and how much someone misses it and is stalking him to get more of it or something. It is perfectly okey to wish harm and death on other people as long as you do it on Facebook. Hello SEO: armageddon mud maps, armageddon mud skill list, armageddon mud spell list, armageddon mud secrets, armageddon shadowboard, is my boyfriend a sociopath
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Post by delerak on Dec 30, 2019 10:33:33 GMT -5
lol.. His post are gold on the Arm MUD facebook page if anyone wants to go look. He has one diatribe talking about his cock and how much someone misses it and is stalking him to get more of it or something. It is perfectly okey to wish harm and death on other people as long as you do it on Facebook. Hello SEO: armageddon mud maps, armageddon mud skill list, armageddon mud spell list, armageddon mud secrets, armageddon shadowboard, is my boyfriend a sociopath Clearly the guy is a piece of shit. I never said otherwise. Arm is still under no obligation to remove said piece of shit.
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Post by dvorak on Dec 30, 2019 10:47:03 GMT -5
It is perfectly okey to wish harm and death on other people as long as you do it on Facebook. Hello SEO: armageddon mud maps, armageddon mud skill list, armageddon mud spell list, armageddon mud secrets, armageddon shadowboard, is my boyfriend a sociopath Clearly the guy is a piece of shit. I never said otherwise. Arm is still under no obligation to remove said piece of shit. Okey, I am glad we agree we shouldn't just get rid of people because they are a dick or have a very big dick. In other news please welcom Nyr, Nergal, Talia, Cavaticus, Seidhr, Hishn, Halaaster, Bhagharva, Eurynomos, Vanth, and Naiona back to the staff team. We're glad to have their help once again. Please be kind to them okey.
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Post by najdorf on Dec 30, 2019 10:56:58 GMT -5
I have read the drama with a bowl of popcorn, seriously entertaining stuff. And clean for over 1.5 years now, and looking back, I am really sad to have wasted 15 years of my life into this game. And I thank to Shalooons, my redeemer. Without you, I would never have left this game.
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Post by delerak on Dec 30, 2019 11:30:32 GMT -5
Clearly the guy is a piece of shit. I never said otherwise. Arm is still under no obligation to remove said piece of shit. Okey, I am glad we agree we shouldn't just get rid of people because they are a dick or have a very big dick. In other news please welcom Nyr, Noted Liar Nergal, Talia, Cavaticus, Seidhr, Hishn, Halaaster, Bhagharva, Eurynomos, Vanth, and Naiona back to the staff team. We're glad to have their help once again. Please be kind to them okey. We have nothing to do with it. Staff have never cared what the players think about certain staff. Most of them burn out and leave, players have never really had anything to do with staff leaving the game. If you believe that you're naive.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2019 11:46:45 GMT -5
Okey, I am glad we agree we shouldn't just get rid of people because they are a dick or have a very big dick. In other news please welcom Nyr, Noted Liar Noted Liar Nergal, Talia, Cavaticus, Seidhr, Hishn, Halaaster, Bhagharva, Eurynomos, Vanth, and Naiona back to the staff team. We're glad to have their help once again. Please be kind to them okey. We have nothing to do with it. Staff have never cared what the players think about certain staff. Most of them burn out and leave, players have never really had anything to do with staff leaving the game. If you believe that you're naive. Well. No. I believe players did. Both Nyr and Nergal. But it wasnt coups. They weren't banned, or fired. It's just gradually due to the public outcries more and more of their day to day began being put under scrutiny, moderated, supervised, judged by others. That level of scrutiny eventually becomes unbearable and they fade into background
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Post by jcarter on Dec 30, 2019 11:50:21 GMT -5
debating whether or not arm staff have a literal obligation to remove people from staff is a bizarre thought process, particularly given that no one is claiming that they do and everyone seems aware of this.
they're free to keep shalooonsh on staff but at the same time i have no pity when dudes like that get threads like this, people returning nastiness to them (e.g. nile on nessalin), and so forth.
i said in the other thread before, even entertaining the idea that the whole thing is a conspiracy theory to "bring down" shalooonsh or whatever x-files theory qwerty has, people like that don't just have someone develop a hatred out of them out of nowhere and for no good reason.
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Post by jcarter on Dec 30, 2019 11:51:23 GMT -5
We have nothing to do with it. Staff have never cared what the players think about certain staff. Most of them burn out and leave, players have never really had anything to do with staff leaving the game. If you believe that you're naive. Well. No. I believe players did. Both Nyr and Noted Liar Nergal. But it wasnt coups. They weren't banned, or fired. It's just gradually due to the public outcries more and more of their day to day began being put under scrutiny, moderated, supervised, judged by others. That level of scrutiny eventually becomes unbearable and they fade into background if only poor innocent nergal and nyr had you actively defending themselves on these boards, they might still be around.
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Post by delerak on Dec 30, 2019 11:53:27 GMT -5
We have nothing to do with it. Staff have never cared what the players think about certain staff. Most of them burn out and leave, players have never really had anything to do with staff leaving the game. If you believe that you're naive. Well. No. I believe players did. Both Nyr and Noted Liar Nergal. But it wasnt coups. They weren't banned, or fired. It's just gradually due to the public outcries more and more of their day to day began being put under scrutiny, moderated, supervised, judged by others. That level of scrutiny eventually becomes unbearable and they fade into background If their actions got them removed that's different. Nergal was apparently wholesale banning people for just posting here which is absurd. That is what got him removed (if he even was?), not player backlash. The highest echelons of staff have never put any stock in player concerns about staff. Sanvean perhaps did she would at least listen and try to moderate and be a mediator of sorts but at the end of the day that staff member isn't going anywhere because they insulted you, shit on you, or otherwise. A "staff complaint" will never result in the staff member being removed, perhaps talked to but removal forget it. I contend that 99% of staff leaving is because they got tired of the bullshit and verbal abuse they contend with on a daily basis in the request tool.
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Post by delerak on Dec 30, 2019 11:59:27 GMT -5
debating whether or not arm staff have a literal obligation to remove people from staff is a bizarre thought process, particularly given that no one is claiming that they do and everyone seems aware of this. they're free to keep shalooonsh on staff but at the same time i have no pity when dudes like that get threads like this, people returning nastiness to them (e.g. nile on nessalin), and so forth. i said in the other thread before, even entertaining the idea that the whole thing is a conspiracy theory to "bring down" shalooonsh or whatever x-files theory qwerty has, people like that don't just have someone develop a hatred out of them out of nowhere and for no good reason. They have no obligation in general. I feel like some players think arm is supposed to function like a business or organization, it doesn't. It functions like a club. There is an in-crowd and an out-crowd. The staff are the in-crowd, once you're in the psychology of that is simple, and the players are the out-crowd. The same thing happens on our side. So to think that we have any say in what goes out in the staffs in-crowd is just not true. They don't care what we think for the most part, they have the request tool for complaints which is there just for appearances more than anything. Has any staffer ever been proven to be removed due to player complaints? Anyone have actual proof? Didn't think so.
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