Armageddon MUD crumples to the ground.

I'm fairly certain the moderators just served as another layer of defense to slow down or deflect 'detractors' from staff doing their job, instead of you know.. Community facilitators / mediators / moderators (gasp).

Weren't most of them aspiring to be hired as staff, former staff who were in on or supportive of the latrine culture or Mansa anyway?

Nao is exhibiting very typical Armageddon behavior, but he's telling the truth. The staffing team has changed almost completely. The only people that are on the team now when Shalooonsh was being enabled are Halaster, Usiku, and Eurynomos. Luckily, they don't hold significant positions of power within the -- oh.

I will also tiredly repeat that I am a female player, and Brokkr told the staff team the city and state I lived in when I had deliberately never put that information out for safety reasons. It was startling, confusing, and alarming, but I was too meek to speak up about it, and just rolled with the situation in the moment. Knowing the extent that other players were, again, stalked makes it even more disturbing.

Brokkr has always been an exceptionally bad egg. He can't write worth a shit, had boring characters, and closed out thesis long character reports asking for his feedback with, "Noted."

I'm sorry he did this to you. Was it during one of his weird, 2094709347 week long camping sabbaticals?

He is literally the epitome of, "stay around and don't make too many waves to get where you want, but also do because Silteyes definitely never cheated because he definitely wasn't Brokkr."

Why can't you just not read it if it bothers you? Why must it be shut down? I find the gdb and arm discord nauseating to read, so I don't. But I have zero opinion whether it stays or goes (and there's definitely some creepy and weird shit there, like the shalooonsh and brokkr enablers still being the ones in charge).

This board, perhaps unwittingly and unintentionally, serves as an opportunity for players like myself to commiserate with others over the rampant cheating that staff inflicted upon us for decades. I was the dumb one for staying as long as I did and putting up with it, but it happened and I'm glad to see my feelings validated by similar stories others share here. When I first came here I was like holy shit so I'm not insane, staff (as a culture, not an individual) do these things to other players too!

And yet somehow you'd prefer if those conversations took place behind closed doors in private chats rather than on a public discussion board like this. Why?
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Those toxic elements have names. You don't have to dance around the subject, you definitely don't have to be politically correct here! Mansa can't censor you for citing facts. Those names (among others) are Shalooonsh and Brokkr. And remind me, what did it take for you to remove those toxic elements in the first place? What exactly was it that resulted in a staggeringly slow response, a cheap excuse ("we had no idea!"), and then a pathetic sidestep saying he has "voluntarily stepped down" before fiiiiiiiinally agreeing to ban him, and then fiiiiiiiinally agreeing to ban his player account some time after that too? Help me recollect what it was that helped instigate the removal of the toxic elements you speak of. Just shut the game down for good, Usiku. It's old and weird.

On the off chance shenzi  decides to reply as someone who has taken heaps of criticism.

1. If you really believe something just give the receipts. Whether they're images or logs or just the logic / feeling you were operating under at the time.
2. You can admit fault without being a hypocrite. You can say I wanted X but apparently Y was the outcome. People can have good intentions and come up short.
3. You can acknowledge something unfavorable to yourself without "losing". People turn a blind eye to stuff all the time. Hell sometimes I don't look at my bank account because I don't want to know how little money I have in it right now (damn inflation). Sometimes I don't respond to text messages because I haven't responded to them and it's been so long it's awkward. You can have been present when bad stuff happened but maybe you just focused on the good. That was other peoples drama and nothing to do with you. It doesn't make it right or wrong it just makes it the truth. People will have opinions about it but hey the truth is the truth.

I actually encourage you to respond to some of this stuff. People spend a lot of their life avoiding confrontation with other people and themselves. It's pretty helpful to work through stuff and actually answer for decisions. It helps you more than it helps others but the upside is it earns respect too.