#MeToo comes to Armageddon MUD

I dislike putting the onus on the accused, and how trial by public opinion is now the norm.

I also dislike scum being able to hide behind plausible deniability or lack of proof.

..some people are never happy.

Agreed, no doubt.

I even have (very minor) experience with a false Me-Too claim, when someone I'm distantly related to went through it, and was actually backed by their employer, and vindicated.

www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2018/04/27/tvos-steve-paikin-is-in-the-clear-but-sarah-thompsons-thinking-is-obscure.html

That said, with the amount of toxicity and shitty people in muds, no claim really surprises me. But still hear you, if a claim was made by someone with an "identity" to back them up, and was supported by a verifiable second, third, or so on person, it gives a lot more edge to the claim of indecency.

Logs of what? OOC harassment over AIM/Discord?

Whistleblower already said she/he didnt file a complaint, but instead sent an email. What if this was deception and there 'are' no emails sent? How does staff prove that there are no emails? There arent any emails! But if they claim there isnt, then it's just them hiding the evidence? How can you prove that something doesnt exist, when it doesnt exist? If one were to claim that something didnt exist and then suddenly the log of that appeared? Then ohhh, this is some solid shit. But if one claims something doesnt exist and it does not freaking exist, then where do you go from there? There's a few staffers right now who are currently leaking info. The request tool history is open to every staffer of any access. If these complaints exist, they'll appear. And they'll appear in format only a staffer would be able to demonstrate. But what if they dont appear? Is it that there is no such thing that happened, or that staff is trying to hide it? What if emails did exist, but they do not provide logs, or anything else aside what was already posted on the mudconnector. IE everything non-substantial about AIM/Discord conversations with no logs. What should staff do? 


So alright. In answer to my request about a "Step by step" action. Your answer is for Staff to look through the history of complaints about Shalooonsh that revolved around sexual harassment. 
Done. Shalooonsh is a pretty acerbic in his animations. But pretty polite and light-touched in his interactions with players.  Malifaxis is pretty toxic in his GDB/Discord conversations.  The characters he plays are pretty varied. They're all sociopathic monsters, but in a fun way. 

Since this is an 'absence' of proof, it cant really be presented. You can only present a 'presence' of proof. But okey. Step one done. What's step two? 



Note: I dont actually 'know' if step one is done. Maybe Staff laughed maniacally about this issue, patted Loonsh on the shoulder, congratulated him for yet one more innocent victimized and continued watching the pair of players mudsexxing. The point of my arguments that there is disapproval about a lack of action from staff regarding these claims. And I'd like to find out what kind of action do people expect? Should Arm just ostracize Shalooonsh, not because he's guilty, but just to please some disgruntled people who are eager to see fault in 'everything' anyway? Should they post the entirety of every request ever made that involved shalooonsh to show there are no logs? 'How' do you expect staff to react to this?    How would you act if you were staff? Check logs and request history? Okey. Done. Didnt produce anything. Next?

Well. It's true. Arm is full of creeps. All Muds are full of creeps. Internet itself is fueled by Creepology.

It 'is' getting a little over the top, when the profile says that someone abused Imm powers to harass them. Or pestered them via outside of the game means. Discord/AIM. The profile is claiming that she's keeping her anonymity because ... she shared personal information? I dont know. the whole thing is kind of bullshitty.

But fact of the matter is that it is a directed effort to smear a specific person. One SPECIFIC person. A person who has friends, who meets those friends IRL, who has a life, who has a reputation and who does represent Staff. Therefore it 'needs' to be taken seriously. Except there is nothing to really do. There is nothing substantial, except a few low post counts profiles that might easily belong to the same person agreeing with each other.

Yeah, but you're missing the point.

The point is, things like this occur and have been known to occur on Arm. A couple of months ago, someone posted an advertisement on Musoapbox. It was the most amazing thing I've ever seen. Why? Because people came out of the woodwork to say they tried Arm didn't like it and even gave a here's why. Some of the things were eh...kind of stupid. Some of the things though, you had to simply nod and say "Yeah, that's true." One thing nobody did was say "post a log, prove it." Certain things you know happen on Arm. The only thing you can say is "That doesn't happen anymore." Which they did, but yeah offended people do come out of the woodwork to say something. 

So someone coming out to say they were creeped on shouldn't be unusual, because it's a thing you know happens. Anaiah did post a log where she was creeped on and there was staff involvement. Hell, I've been creeped on. People have different tolerances for things and they will wait a loooong time to say something. Fact. That brings me back to my point which was, most people aren't going to get creeped on and say "Hey, let me log this." they're going to just stop playing.

As far as the staff that supposed to be a creep. People are different things to different people and it's doubly so on Arm. Some people say he's great, some people say he's shit. That sounds pretty normal to me. He can be great and still be a creep. If he is Malfaxis I think I played with him in the Byn and I wouldn't call him great or wonderful. He played a weird chracter...that's it. He was weird. So YMMV with that kind of thing. Anybody can be awesome to one person and a douchebag to another. 

I'm not sure what he did before. But I do know he had to step down. Now he's back..people change, maybe he learned from his mistakes? But saying show a log when he was accused of something when he's known for doing stuff? Nah....

Okay, I'm out. Y'all are engaging in he said-she said, that's my friend, other people have done it so he must too, sort of nonsense.

You want to talk game mechanics, I'm your man. You want to just throw around allegations from people I don't know against people I also don't know ... that's not for me.