Armageddon MUD crumples to the ground.

The staff will just say it was never reported and that they have no idea what you're talking about, while not paying any regard to the fact that every staff member has access to a "Delete" button on requests. Staff are not supposed to click it, but it's there, and it works. A lot of the requests that staff claim not to find were most likely deleted by Shabago or Shalooonsh.

If staff wanted trust and accountability, they would have implemented audit logs for all material staff can access. Just a timestamp and a username every time a request was accessed, changed, or deleted. But they have all the ethics of an office that sells fake medicine to old people and has a lot of shredders.

This is pretty damning IMO. Even moreso than the runlogs getting deleted so "events older than 2 months cannot be investigated." A culture of unaccountability when it is useful. 

A lot of people are sick over Armageddon shutting down again. I want you to think about being in a situation like Bebop, where bad things are happening to you but to pursue accountability is to also risk alienation from the community. As so many of us have, here on the shadowboards. To insist that the staff team hold themselves accountable to the lip-service they pay to ameliorate these ethical issues: one would be forgiven for taking the staff team at their word, their projected image of ethics; and then also one would be forgiven to be scandalized after they asked for help with an honest heart from the staff team, and the request was rejected. 

I don't see the events around this Templar death being any condemnation of Bebop. I see it as a testament to the dysfunctionality that is wound up in the Armageddon community, with these opportunities for sponsored roles, account karma, and staff favor / animations / staff support in the pursuit of plots — all of these things are at risk if someone rocks the boat. There is a phenomenon that identifies this behavior in an Institution. It is called, "Organizational Silence". I encourage you to look it up. Why can Jerry Sandusky take advantage of 40 boys over the course of 15 years? Because the boys, and the witnesses, were instructed that they would suffer (in loss of agency, opportunity, or through stress inflicted on peers) if they came forward. I'm certainly not alleging that the Armageddon issue is as serious as the Penn State case: merely using this as an example of the phenomenon. 

Claude helps me define the term.




When it became apparent that Bebop no longer had anything left to lose, Bebop no longer had any stake in the game that was the withholding factor of the announcement; and also, when Bebop was disheartened that any attempts to reach the right solution through the staff's invitations & methods, failed; then, Bebop came here! The producer team were poor stewards for allowing this to happen under their watch. I don't think that Usiku and Halaster were "evil" when they did that — I think they were reluctant and unprepared to face the idea that Shaloonsh was a predator, and that they were enabling him. And he was such a good writer, too.

Here is another point. Probably it would be better to feel lonely for a while over something trival like a game and forgetting it all together then continously thinking, tinkering and speaking over it for many many years turning it something more then a simple hobby.

I respect your argument. You have an opportunity here to establish a rather strong rhetorical win for your position if you followed through with your own advice and forgot about Armageddon altogether.

p.s. staff should read up on trust thermocline theory. It's not a perfect analogy but it's broadly applicable.

As an outsider, this is what sort of amazes me: even in the 2000's, Armageddon had this reputation.  Are these people really this dense?

This but just wanted to add to something that people may forget or not realize.

Shalooonsh took pictures outside of the building I lived and worked in, in a small Midwest city's downtown even though I hadn't seen or spoken to him in over five years.  Yes, not having the game would have sucked but I was at actual real risk of being impacted in real life by this unsettling behavior.  Shalooonsh used to walk around my block and befriend my neighbors and estranged family members to keep tabs on me.  I only knew this man in person like one real life year.  This sort of behavior went on for several years, increasingly online, intermittently in person.

Most probably don't realize this, but I didn't come forward until about six months after I left the state he was living in/near.  Not only did I not care if I was expunged from the game, I finally felt at a physically safe distance and emotionally supported in real life.  Because of those things, I didn't have to worry about my real life being impacted anymore or that my place of business/home would be visited if I came forward.  As I've emphasized, there have been real life repercussions to the other staff empowering him to use Armageddon MUD as his conduit for connecting with players and triangulating them into online and in-person abuse.