Bebop's Message: "Another Armageddon Catastrophe"
Feb 27, 2023 17:48:35 GMT -5
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Post by punished ppurg on Feb 27, 2023 17:48:35 GMT -5
Delirium's response on the GDB was just put in moderation by Gynesis, who - at least 3 former staff sources tell me - got her spot on the staff team because Looonsh helped put her there. She was mudfucking his characters. They go back a long time, and everyone on that team knows it.
If there's ever been a moment in Arm's history where the malcontents of the shadowboard had a mandate to try and achieve positive change in the game we loved, it's right now.
If you're still playing Armageddon, I implore you to call this crisis of integrity out into the open. Delirium's post was a pressure release valve on the Armageddon team covering up years of privileged abuse on women, where private staff appeals were swept under the rug and public whistleblowing is still, right now, being shut down. Armageddon's legacy, and the sweat of the people who built this world that is now inherited by this clique, is permanently tainted by these revelations.
It's no longer about chopping dudes up with bone swords. It's about walking away, and not letting your effort be misguided in a system that uses you as a cog of a predatory machine. If you're thinking about playing, say that you're not. If you have friends playing, share with them Bebop's post on the shadowboards and call them into account for enabling this. Everyone in the sandbox is party to it.
The staff team is irrational, unreasonable, cannot be led to see the failures to enforce their own rules and maintain their own integrity. They have proven this time and time again just today. If you ever cared about Arm, now's the time to lean on your buddies. Make them pull the plug on this dumpster fire of mismanagement.
Things that need to happen:
1. Ban Shalooonsh/Malafaxis from the game. He shouldn't be allowed to play or further interact with the community. This should be a no brainer if the staff have an inkling of justice or plain rationality within them.
2. Fire Shabago from the staff team, dock his player account to 0 karma. Another no brainer. He's a metagamer and Shalooonsh's #1 enabler, on and off the staff team. This voluntary resignation bullshit is a sad copout from the rest of the staff team. Nothing will change if people like Shabago remain on the team.
3. Why was Bebop banned from the discord and forums? Unban her and other victims of the staff team's abuse over the past few years.
4. Why is Hestia, a staff member, allowed to victim shame and promote the silencing of players who have been abused and harassed by other members of the staff team? Remove her speaking privleges in the public discord and player forums. Ideally, she would be removed from the time. If there's going to be any cultural change on the staff team, it would involve removing bad actors such as her.
5. Why is Gynesis, a staff member, allowed to silence the community's outcry (and only coherent attempt to heal) on behalf of the reputation of her mudsex partner, and partner in crime, who lobbied for her to get onto the staff team in the first place? She should be censured and the depths of her associations with Shalooonsh should be detailed, so that this attempt to "hide behind the rules" can be more plainly seen for what it is: covering up for a mudsex pal.
6. Implement a new set of player-staff joint-issued guidelines. It would involve changes such as Staff Members not playing characters any longer (this seems to generate the majority of player-staff issues), more transparency, etc.
PDF copy of the thread Delirium's Response before it was moderated.
What constitutes sexual harassment and what should be done when it happens?
If there's ever been a moment in Arm's history where the malcontents of the shadowboard had a mandate to try and achieve positive change in the game we loved, it's right now.
If you're still playing Armageddon, I implore you to call this crisis of integrity out into the open. Delirium's post was a pressure release valve on the Armageddon team covering up years of privileged abuse on women, where private staff appeals were swept under the rug and public whistleblowing is still, right now, being shut down. Armageddon's legacy, and the sweat of the people who built this world that is now inherited by this clique, is permanently tainted by these revelations.
It's no longer about chopping dudes up with bone swords. It's about walking away, and not letting your effort be misguided in a system that uses you as a cog of a predatory machine. If you're thinking about playing, say that you're not. If you have friends playing, share with them Bebop's post on the shadowboards and call them into account for enabling this. Everyone in the sandbox is party to it.
The staff team is irrational, unreasonable, cannot be led to see the failures to enforce their own rules and maintain their own integrity. They have proven this time and time again just today. If you ever cared about Arm, now's the time to lean on your buddies. Make them pull the plug on this dumpster fire of mismanagement.
Things that need to happen:
1. Ban Shalooonsh/Malafaxis from the game. He shouldn't be allowed to play or further interact with the community. This should be a no brainer if the staff have an inkling of justice or plain rationality within them.
2. Fire Shabago from the staff team, dock his player account to 0 karma. Another no brainer. He's a metagamer and Shalooonsh's #1 enabler, on and off the staff team. This voluntary resignation bullshit is a sad copout from the rest of the staff team. Nothing will change if people like Shabago remain on the team.
3. Why was Bebop banned from the discord and forums? Unban her and other victims of the staff team's abuse over the past few years.
4. Why is Hestia, a staff member, allowed to victim shame and promote the silencing of players who have been abused and harassed by other members of the staff team? Remove her speaking privleges in the public discord and player forums. Ideally, she would be removed from the time. If there's going to be any cultural change on the staff team, it would involve removing bad actors such as her.
5. Why is Gynesis, a staff member, allowed to silence the community's outcry (and only coherent attempt to heal) on behalf of the reputation of her mudsex partner, and partner in crime, who lobbied for her to get onto the staff team in the first place? She should be censured and the depths of her associations with Shalooonsh should be detailed, so that this attempt to "hide behind the rules" can be more plainly seen for what it is: covering up for a mudsex pal.
6. Implement a new set of player-staff joint-issued guidelines. It would involve changes such as Staff Members not playing characters any longer (this seems to generate the majority of player-staff issues), more transparency, etc.
PDF copy of the thread Delirium's Response before it was moderated.
What constitutes sexual harassment and what should be done when it happens?