two nutters RR'd from /tg/station community by MSO
Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2023 5:49 pm
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Adding my own 2 cents, every lost hos high hour hos player is 1 more to fight in policy with. you will be missed frArmhulen wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 5:54 pmAdding my own Sinful fan post to this chain, I really enjoyed Sinful's shennanigans in all the spaces he inhabited and I really will miss him. And this is coming from a forum mod who butted heads with sinful's posts often.InternJohn wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 5:28 pmAgreed. I've known Sinful to be a positive member of the community, just sometimes he could be insufferable in-game. But I've never personally had issues with him, and this entire thing is just very odd. I'm going to miss my friend and his yellow hair.wesoda25 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 5:02 pm I always enjoyed interacting with sinful in game and on discord, I'm going to miss him in this community. I understand and respect that a lot of private and personal information is involved in this and as such it won't be released. I don't need to see it and I didn't ask him to see it for that reason. However, it is upsetting to see someone whose presence I enjoyed be removed without ever concretely knowing why. Yes, this is something of an empty post. I'm just frustrated with the dialogue surrounding this and that's unfortunately the only thing in regards to this ban that I can affect.
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Overall I think the collective worry among people is that this was a personal hitjob on Sinful by the admins/MSO. But I don't really know MSO, and I don't think Sinful did either. I do know from reading the appeal, and talking to Sinful on discord, it looks like Sinful was actively seeking out MSO's help to resolve an issue. So it's just incredibly weird that admins/MSO would comb through so many logs of text just to vaporize 2 people like that. I don't think it was handled as well as it could have been, I always expected Sinful to eventually get QC banned, and I wouldn't have been surprised if I saw it, not this...
But there is nothing we can do except either hope MSO becomes merciful, or gives us better understanding of what happened.
How about white horse philosophy? I'm quite passionate about it.
In my honest opinion, if people aren't treating other people (let's face it, at the end of the day there is a brain behind each and every one of these screen names and profile pictures) with some sort of dignity we all should strive to act upon with our fellow human beings, I see no issue in their removal from the community and I would see no issue in helping to do so if I was in the situation. It's obvious to me that this community can really shape how someone acts and as a result it would probably be for the best for them to take a break for a little while and think about what they do and say in an online space.
how is literally none of this also applicable to the administration? it's no secret that sinfulbliss was not liked among the admins- there is no argument there. to me the prospect of the administration making a boogeyman out of sinful and then using said image to justify scraping through people's- who are most likely completely uninvolved- messages is totally not unlikely. it's something i would prefer to make sure is not happening.TheBibleMelts wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 6:44 pm his appeal, while still visible in this thread by intention, was moved to hidden trash because it painted a very obviously biased and likely intentionally crafted take to try and incite the same sorts of flare-ups in drama with the community that got him here in the first place - knowing that we've stated that we're not going to offer explicit proof against his points to the peanut threads out of privacy concerns.
again folks, if you feel like you're being swayed by either his appeal or the people involved in this thread itself, know that this sort of reaction was an explicit goal of theirs to invoke in people for the purpose of exploiting to their own ends.
you're always free to form your own opinions, but make sure you take into account where the seeds, nutrients, and fertilizer for those opinions are being sourced. this group created boogeymen, inflated them beyond reasonable proportion in their own minds, and then used that image to justify some pretty reprehensible actions and goals to attack those boogeymen.
from all of the folks i have spoken to about this, i have literally not heard of this once. i would love to hear this if this is the case. but i'm also not convinced that these people have come forward saying this in an attempt to save their own skin. so catch 22 on that part i guess? i dont know that kinda pisses me off that there's a catch 22 there.TheBibleMelts wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 6:44 pm a lot of the people involved with this, once separated from the echo chamber that facilitated this caustic groupthink have come forward and recognized this. don't fall into the same pit of negativity that warped the involved people into doing things worthy of being booted out of the gamestore.
I'll say I'll miss sinful too, his forum takes were mostly stupid, but always interesting.kieth4 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 6:18 pmAdding my own 2 cents, every lost hos high hour hos player is 1 more to fight in policy with. you will be missed frArmhulen wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 5:54 pmAdding my own Sinful fan post to this chain, I really enjoyed Sinful's shennanigans in all the spaces he inhabited and I really will miss him. And this is coming from a forum mod who butted heads with sinful's posts often.InternJohn wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 5:28 pmAgreed. I've known Sinful to be a positive member of the community, just sometimes he could be insufferable in-game. But I've never personally had issues with him, and this entire thing is just very odd. I'm going to miss my friend and his yellow hair.wesoda25 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 5:02 pm I always enjoyed interacting with sinful in game and on discord, I'm going to miss him in this community. I understand and respect that a lot of private and personal information is involved in this and as such it won't be released. I don't need to see it and I didn't ask him to see it for that reason. However, it is upsetting to see someone whose presence I enjoyed be removed without ever concretely knowing why. Yes, this is something of an empty post. I'm just frustrated with the dialogue surrounding this and that's unfortunately the only thing in regards to this ban that I can affect.
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Overall I think the collective worry among people is that this was a personal hitjob on Sinful by the admins/MSO. But I don't really know MSO, and I don't think Sinful did either. I do know from reading the appeal, and talking to Sinful on discord, it looks like Sinful was actively seeking out MSO's help to resolve an issue. So it's just incredibly weird that admins/MSO would comb through so many logs of text just to vaporize 2 people like that. I don't think it was handled as well as it could have been, I always expected Sinful to eventually get QC banned, and I wouldn't have been surprised if I saw it, not this...
But there is nothing we can do except either hope MSO becomes merciful, or gives us better understanding of what happened.
it's MSO's blacklist so like timber said either he oversaw the investigation and deemed it serious enough to escalate it to a blacklist or because he's in on the infamous sinful hate train and did it to be funny.
I once had enough evidence to lock away a prominent niche micro e-celebrity player and was blocked by the other admins because "they won't be able to play with their friends anymore "LEDDDriver wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:39 pm Damn guys, you know you can host a local server and play all together right? Or go play together in the myriad of other public servers together.
It's not like he fucking died.
I think the issue's on your part, Oranges. MSO did nothing to combat headmin bias the last time Sinful was a target of it.
so now you're suggesting mso is biased?datorangebottle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:26 pmI think the issue's on your part, Oranges. MSO did nothing to combat headmin bias the last time Sinful was a target of it.
they batcaved three admins for leaking player information, they already had information on them doing that, that one of them rolled over on their friends to attempt to save the group is their own problem.iwishforducks wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:21 am the fact that they batcaved 3 admins to try to get them to send over the ENTIRE TRANSCRIPTION of the ENTIRE SERVER. on what fucking hunch?
making much more sense noworanges wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:31 pmthey batcaved three admins for leaking player information, they already had information on them doing that, that one of them rolled over on their friends to attempt to save the group is their own problem.iwishforducks wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:21 am the fact that they batcaved 3 admins to try to get them to send over the ENTIRE TRANSCRIPTION of the ENTIRE SERVER. on what fucking hunch?
I could be suggesting any number of things with that one line of text.
Because there wasn't bias, no matter how much you go on about it. I hardly interacted with sinful before the ban and I looked the other way a lot with him and other forum posters. But then he crossed a major line, so I had to ban him (only from the player's club, pretty small ban in the great scheme of things.) Evidence was asked for so I provided it because I'm on their forums all the time and remembered times that were worth bringing up. Knowing what I know now I would have handed out more warnings in the first placedatorangebottle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:26 pm
I think the issue's on your part, Oranges. MSO did nothing to combat headmin bias the last time Sinful was a target of it.
This is the only part I'm going to respond to, because it's the only part I care about addressing.RaveRadbury wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:42 pmBecause there wasn't bias, no matter how much you go on about it.datorangebottle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:26 pm
I think the issue's on your part, Oranges. MSO did nothing to combat headmin bias the last time Sinful was a target of it.
San wrote: ↑my bias clouds me. i am a biased person against you.
as far as I am aware headmins don't have any power to blacklist someone, that's entirely mso's powerdatorangebottle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:39 pm My intent was to suggest that he doesn't seem to care about bias; in that case, headmins trying to get him to blacklist someone wouldn't find that particularly difficult.
Being an e-celeb has its perks. Just look at this thread, or the other major one some weeks ago. The amount of peer pressure ""friends"" are able to generate is baffling.Hulkamania wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:24 pmI once had enough evidence to lock away a prominent niche micro e-celebrity player and was blocked by the other admins because "they won't be able to play with their friends anymore "LEDDDriver wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:39 pm Damn guys, you know you can host a local server and play all together right? Or go play together in the myriad of other public servers together.
It's not like he fucking died.
I still posit that if the only place you interact with your "friends" is the tg community you aren't really friends.
Buddy, you can't do the rhetorical equivalent of "I'm not touching you" when "headmins" refers to three people in a group and it's easy to deduce who you're talking about, especially with your demonstrable history of dislike in regards to my headmin work. If we pull up that thread you're mentioning it will powerfully clarify. Unfortunately, getting the vibe that I was a tryhard sweatlord doesn't really prove anything.datorangebottle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:56 pmThis is the only part I'm going to respond to, because it's the only part I care about addressing.RaveRadbury wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:42 pmBecause there wasn't bias, no matter how much you go on about it.datorangebottle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:26 pm
I think the issue's on your part, Oranges. MSO did nothing to combat headmin bias the last time Sinful was a target of it.
What you did with that ban was far and beyond what an unbiased individual should have been doing, and has already been heavily discussed. I'm pretty sure we have an archive on the forums if you really want to relive the discussion that badly.
Regardless, my statement was not factually incorrect. The idea that you felt the need to defend yourself despite not being explicitly called out is pretty revealing.
People came to their own conclusions about the emotional sansplanation after reading the full text and even if you recuse San from it there was still a unanimous 2-0 vote and MSO elected not to engage.San wrote: ↑my bias clouds me. i am a biased person against you.
San's reponse was unacceptable and if I was in Rave's position I would have immediately overturned the ban the second one of my co-headmins comes out with how biased they were. And it's not San's bias that pissed me off, everyone has biases. It's that San didn't set those biases aside and make sure the ban was appropriately and justifiably placed - which wouldn't have been a monumental task, it's what headmins have to do occasionally. San instead just leaned into his biases and threw his hands in the air as if there was no way he could possibly give a fair shake against someone whose heinous crimes from the appeal were... Intentionally stoking drama and being rules lawyery.datorangebottle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:56 pm This is the only part I'm going to respond to, because it's the only part I care about addressing.
What you did with that ban was far and beyond what an unbiased individual should have been doing, and has already been heavily discussed. I'm pretty sure we have an archive on the forums if you really want to relive the discussion that badly.
Regardless, my statement was not factually incorrect. The idea that you felt the need to defend yourself despite not being explicitly called out is pretty revealing.San wrote: ↑my bias clouds me. i am a biased person against you.
From sinful's now-hidden appeal.Timberpoes wrote: ↑Wed Jan 11, 2023 11:38 am ...
Speaking from experience? When summoning MSO into something your cause better be objectively righteous. I'd exercise restraint when calling MSO into relatively minor topics that basically fall under headmin discretion. One finger on the Monkey's Paw curls.
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sinfulbliss wrote:Sat Dec 02, 2023 2:23 am ... So I reached out to MSO with the concern. He said he'd look into it. This is probably what led to his involvement and (somehow) my blacklist so I regret doing that, but that's neither here nor there.
RaveRadbury wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 9:50 pm "headmins" refers to three people in a group and it's easy to deduce who you're talking about
Headmin singular refers to one person of those three. But you clearly thought I was referring to you, here. If you remember my post history and the thread, you would know that only one headmin admitted their bias. Apologies if that was unclear to you.datorangebottle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:26 pm MSO did nothing to combat headmin bias the last time Sinful was a target of it.
I know you put a decent amount of effort into this, but I'd like to bring us back on-topic. This isn't meant out of disrespect for you- I'm worried I may fall victim to the same rules discussed in that appeal, and I'd rather not.
Totally agree with you here; if MSO didn't become involved here until Sinful involved him, then it's extremely ironic.I think there's some level of dramatic irony in this whole blacklisting by MSO though.
It's cool, you're not posting in bad faith specifically to stir up drama like Sinful was in those appeals. You're nowhere near breaking the rules; mere genuine and good-faith disagreement is fine and even being incorrect is fine as long as you're not doing it to intentionally stoke up drama in bad faith.datorangebottle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 10:23 pm ...
I know you put a decent amount of effort into this, but I'd like to bring us back on-topic. This isn't meant out of disrespect for you- I'm worried I may fall victim to the same rules discussed in that appeal, and I'd rather not.
datorangebottle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 10:23 pmRaveRadbury wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 9:50 pm "headmins" refers to three people in a group and it's easy to deduce who you're talking aboutHeadmin singular refers to one person of those three. But you clearly thought I was referring to you, here. If you remember my post history and the thread, you would know that only one headmin admitted their bias. Apologies if that was unclear to you.datorangebottle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:26 pm MSO did nothing to combat headmin bias the last time Sinful was a target of it.
Who were you referring to when you said this?datorangebottle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 5:51 pm Remember when a headmin was so biased against Sinfulbliss that he combed through his entire player's club logs just to clutch at straws for reasons to ban him?
It's nice of you to say that, but all it takes is one forum admin disagreeing with your opinion to earn me a warning, and those add up, no matter how slowly.Timberpoes wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 10:29 pm It's cool, you're not posting in bad faith specifically to stir up drama like Sinful was in those appeals. You're nowhere near breaking the rules; mere genuine and good-faith disagreement is fine and even being incorrect is fine as long as you're not doing it to intentionally stoke up drama in bad faith.
Even Ekaterina didn't get banned and it was often difficult to figure out if they were being sincere or just a professional troll.
And the the very least you'd be warned first. Probably.
You, obviously. That's on me; I forgot I made this post until after I'd gone and posted the other one. BRB, kicking my own ass until my memory stops being kind of shit.RaveRadbury wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 10:32 pmWho were you referring to when you said this?datorangebottle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 5:51 pm Remember when a headmin was so biased against Sinfulbliss that he combed through his entire player's club logs just to clutch at straws for reasons to ban him?
I misread one of your earlier posts and on review it was way different from what I initially understood and I conflated it with the other post so I had a hand in the confusion here as well.datorangebottle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 10:43 pmYou, obviously. That's on me; I forgot I made this post until after I'd gone and posted the other one. BRB, kicking my own ass until my memory stops being kind of shit.
One of the largest recurring issues of this headmin term is that they do not know how to do something without it looking suspicious as fuck, even if it's benign. It would be funny if this didn't happen almost every week.saprasam wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 10:56 pm i'd be worried too if the headmin team were to comb through an entire discord server's messages just to find dirt, & then when you try to appeal it, the appeal is instantly hidden from the public eye & they say it is all disinformation & lies & don't say anything about why that is
granted it IS a blacklist, but it's just baffling to me the way this is handled
this is probably a fault of my own for the most part - the moment that i'm not able to be as transparent about something as i'd like to be, i end up vagueposting in an attempt to convey my thoughts and what i'm doing to the best of my ability without crossing the line. it's a balancing act that i pretty greatly admire some of the other administrators in having honed as a skill, and one i'm still practicing.RedBaronFlyer wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 11:31 pmOne of the largest recurring issues of this headmin term is that they do not know how to do something without it looking suspicious as fuck, even if it's benign. It would be funny if this didn't happen almost every week.saprasam wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 10:56 pm i'd be worried too if the headmin team were to comb through an entire discord server's messages just to find dirt, & then when you try to appeal it, the appeal is instantly hidden from the public eye & they say it is all disinformation & lies & don't say anything about why that is
granted it IS a blacklist, but it's just baffling to me the way this is handled
we'd have to pay him more if we did that.
There's a technique I use to balance transparency needs, thinking of a triangle of:TheBibleMelts wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 12:34 amthis is probably a fault of my own for the most part - the moment that i'm not able to be as transparent about something as i'd like to be, i end up vagueposting in an attempt to convey my thoughts and what i'm doing to the best of my ability without crossing the line. it's a balancing act that i pretty greatly admire some of the other administrators in having honed as a skill, and one i'm still practicing.RedBaronFlyer wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 11:31 pmOne of the largest recurring issues of this headmin term is that they do not know how to do something without it looking suspicious as fuck, even if it's benign. It would be funny if this didn't happen almost every week.saprasam wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 10:56 pm i'd be worried too if the headmin team were to comb through an entire discord server's messages just to find dirt, & then when you try to appeal it, the appeal is instantly hidden from the public eye & they say it is all disinformation & lies & don't say anything about why that is
granted it IS a blacklist, but it's just baffling to me the way this is handled
i'm not gonna give you a warning for disagreeing and defending your stance you are allowed to do this.datorangebottle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 10:43 pmIt's nice of you to say that, but all it takes is one forum admin disagreeing with your opinion to earn me a warning, and those add up, no matter how slowly.Timberpoes wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 10:29 pm It's cool, you're not posting in bad faith specifically to stir up drama like Sinful was in those appeals. You're nowhere near breaking the rules; mere genuine and good-faith disagreement is fine and even being incorrect is fine as long as you're not doing it to intentionally stoke up drama in bad faith.
Even Ekaterina didn't get banned and it was often difficult to figure out if they were being sincere or just a professional troll.