Resignation Letter from Administrator televandalist of Retro Achievements [Mirror]

Mirrored at the sole discretion of clymax for sake of transparency on Retro Achievements, which would be one of the aims of Moderator BahamutVoid in leaving his subsequent letter. To see tele’s developed sets on RA, check out his devlog or devved sets. If you have any concerns with this mirror, please reach out to clymax directly.

I’m getting this out of the way since I’m already getting DMs about my disappearance:

I left the admin/moderation teams and have temporarily left the Discord servers. I cannot support caving into an idiotic vocal minority over doxing, harassment, threats, etc. instead of outright banning them or fighting back. I’ve said it countless times: it is absolutely no one’s business what other people play and people who want to make it their business can just fuck off.

I personally don’t give a shit about any of the games in question, but I defend their existence on the site because RA is a supplementary service. The implication and accusations that we are supportive of RApe, RAcism, etc. over allowing games that include such things is fucking absurd and I think is impossible to take seriously. If it’s not those things, it’ll be something else. The likelihood of a domino effect in asskissing is something that I’ll have no part of, so good luck with that mess. I imagine the ridiculous UWC reports will also end up working since all it takes is threatening our “staff” for people to get their way and it’s incredibly easy to do. Thanks, internet.

I’ll continue doing hash management and maintaining RAPatches, if allowed, but I believe that will be the extent of what I do. Who knows how long that will last, though. I think continuing as a developer is up in the air at the moment, but that could fizzle out and leave no point to me contributing altogether. In the meantime, I’ll need others to take over DevJam, DevQuest 004, and a few other things. I’ll be in touch soon(tm).

For now, I’m taking a break from dealing with anyone.

– tele

[Editor’s note: for the continuation, click here.]

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