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I'm sure there is a portion of the playerbase who do not want to chance being censured or banned for sharing their opinions. I have several people on AIM right now who are shocked I was banned. None of them have posted in my defense and I have no asked them too. That being said this community wouldn't exist if there wasn't a sizable portion of CURRENT and ex players who had issues with staff direction and staff decisions and staff ethics.

i wonder how many people that are upset regarding leaked video game documentation available to people who aren't authorized to see it also apply that same thought process to pirating media? judging from the amount of self-awareness exercised, i'm going to say probably zero.

but anyway, that thread reads like people are roleplaying Tulukis on the GDB. the cult-like rhetoric is creepy as well as total lack of self-awareness. some examples:



these statements are patently false. as we've seen with multiple examples over the years, people who post here have been banned for posting here. also afaik no one here has engaged in behavior that can even be close to considered 'stalking'. not to mention the pot-kettle-black situation of a guy who admits to following gossip non-stop decrying other people who also like to read and post gossip?



users here are free to post w/e commentary and like of staff they want with zero repercussions. yes, people on what is essentially an unmoderated will disagree on the internet. i understand this is shocking to the sensibility but let's be realistic here, if there's a gang-up it's what, two to three people? none the less, there's many cases where people have openly praised staff and been positive and haven't been dogpiled nor accused of being a 'staff pet' out of the blue.

that being said, this guy has zero self-awareness and is applying the same rhetoric to a group of people that he condemns them for. another post:



here's a weird cultish post: awkward welcoming, shunning of the 'other group' which actually isn't a group but w/e, forced inclusion into a group and positive reassurances.



this is a former staff member. they are literally stating that you should be kicked off of Armageddon MUD because you logged into a 16 year old clone of the MUD. followed by some sort of moral plea that puts the onus of this leak on anyone involved in this forum. now let's put this into context: this leak does not and has not effected of Arm nor altered their use or play of the game in any way. on the staff side, there has been no evidence of any actual damage done. but yet you should totally refrain from posting on an internet forum and discussing a game.



again, no awareness. who does this person think is going to be reading these leaked documents? Armageddon MUD players. including Arm players that actively participate on the GDB. there is no 'group', as if this forum is made up of a separate entity that has its own sentience. they even acknowledge in the post that there were plenty of people who didn't support it here...but fail to make the connection.



i wonder if he believes that people who he's likely familiar with such as @rgs my2sids and malkeninthemiddle should be banned for coming here and posting? probably not.



this post. it really sums up a lot of the 'thought' in other posts have but puts it into words. if you are a negative person, even if your words are on a forum elsewhere, you should not be allowed to play this video game. so absurd. but this is what the poster believes.



haha, this post. the wording. it's beautiful. "it wasn't the vast majority". "said forum has made against the rest of the playerbase". "definite sizable portion". qualitative descriptions of numbers to prove a point, followed by a subservient declaration of the glory of staff tolerance, and a dash of 'they deserve it for talking about it on the internet'.

this whole thing tickles me. you would think people were talking about something that actually mattered. instead, it's petty squabbling and posturing over a niche video game and whether or not people should be allowed to talk about it on a separate website. the biggest take-away for me is just the dynamics and mindset of people involved. it's like a microcosm of the american two-party system, except instead of segregated teams fighting over the next president of a global superpower, it's a heavily overlapping group discussing what is ultimately a meaningless and transient topic.

Malken is actively flaming me personally on the GDB, spouting things that are objectively against the rules of the GDB; yet he hasn't been moderated nor will he. I encourage him to continue insulting me on a personal level, because it will prove my point about how the staff members are unilaterally rejecting their own policies in order to single out me and others for their arbitrary punishment.

its pretty pathetic when players at Arm who are identified as 'Helpers' come over here to stoke the flames and spread misinformation to try to make "their side" look better.

but hey we're the crazy ones.

did anyone back the wiki up

Jcarter just needs to put it back up to say F U to the Staff and their shitty bannings.

here's where i'm at right now.

i'm sorting through pages and making a whitelist. staff has not contacted me so im gonna assume they really do not give a fuck or want to mitigate any unforeseen consequences.

i'm also inbetween on whether or not i want to release certain things uncensored -- player-submitted biographies in particular, as they have account names on them. i'll probably just edit out the account names and release them eventually because there's a lot have good content. there's also things like logfiles of senate meetings from an immpoint of view which I haven't combed through yet but when I glanced there was names attached -- I think it's character names but I'm not 100%. i'll try to put some of the wiki stuff in the next couple days.

in the meantime, myself and others have put up some pages on the Arm wikia wiki from the 'secret history' files.