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Stockholm much?

The core issue is the staff of ArmageddonMUD have become progressively more imperious as the years roll on. The game of today is not one of collaboration, but one where staff lock themselves away in a tower of bureaucracy and dictate terms down to a population of players scrambling over each other to show their approval, ever hungry for their next slice of karma cake.

They've shaped the community with their behavior and where we are now is a result of that behavior. There is no one posting here who does not or did not enjoy the game, yet there are so very many who have given it up in disgust of staff behavior. This forum is unprecedented in the RPI community. There has never before or since been a game with so many disgruntled, disenfranchised or maligned players that they've had the numbers to come together to cultivate an established and widely recognized sub-community.

You can shove your head as deep in the sand as your neck will allow, though. We tolerate ignorance and clarity in equal parts around here.

Let's get down to brass tacks.

This leak was a universal negative and no one should be disputing that.

There is every chance some of my information was included in the leak and even though I know it would be dated and useless, I'm no less troubled by how happy everyone was to see it happen. You'll trumpet the virtues of times gone by and staff you remember fondly, but you're cheering for someone violating our trust and throwing our information at the feet of every malcontent that lurks here.

We shouldn't play down the potential for risk, or blow it off because Nergal decided to make an embarrassing scene. The threat is still very much there for those affected.

I understand the personal information was at least not intended to be released and that swift action was taken to remove it. Thank you for that.

This raises some other issues that I find even more troubling.

Why was this information kept in storage for all these years? Why do they have the personal details on file of people who have been gone from the community for years and years?

You're quick to blame this fiasco on these forums and assume the guise of the victim, Adhira, but there should never have been information retained beyond someone's tenure or kept past the completion of each Arm meeting or staff rendezvous. There is no reason for that information to be kept in storage and common sense dictates you delete it to prevent situations just like this one from happening.

The blame lies as much on you and your irresponsible behavior as it does on barka and his.

It's my hope this epic clusterfuck can serve as a wake-up call for how thoroughly toxic the Armageddon community has become before it degenerates to the point where there's no recovering from it.

I would also like a unicorn.

As a fellow former staff member, one of the first things I did was run through all of the staff pages. They were all our personal pages. By which I mean the pages we created for ourselves with our own imm handles. It didn't look like anyone bothered updating them after any of us left, so anything you didn't put there probably wasn't on there. It's also worth pointing out that if your imm handle started letters higher in the alphabet than "PHP" your page did not make it online. The wiki cuts off alphabetically at PHPWikiAdministration.

Outside of the contact page (which I didn't see so I can't tell you who was/wasn't on it), as long as you didn't put your contact info on your Wiki page, the only other known point of exposure was if you gave your phone number out during the 2006 AIM (as jcarter mentioned).

It really seems like the staff are overexagerating the exposure for sympathy at this point. I am pretty oldarmer ever reveals himself, he'll be one of the staffers who numerous people here and on the GDB have mentioned being fond of. I can't think of any reason the current staff would send out bullshit warnings to retired staffers unless they were hoping for more drama.

We've lost many of our worthless contrarian spammers over this incident but we're also out a handful of good people, and I can definitely see the staff wanting to aggravate that while simultaneously crying for more pity from that cross they recently nailed themselves to.

@jaunt I fear you've posted this on the wrong board (or the right one, considering it'd be deleted off the GDB if you weren't dogpiled). Here, some of the people who you'd call the "Us" group left in protest. There, a few people disagreeing with the staff were kicked out regardless of which board they disagreed with the "Them" group on. This isn't the community that needs this speech.

Well, at least it won't get deleted here. I'll grant him that.

Fair enough. This board is host to... well, really anyone who feels like showing up. It takes a lot of stupidity and trolling to get banned. Really, an amazing amount.