Category: Pokemon

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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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Mirrored at the sole discretion of clymax for sake of transparency on Retro Achievements, which was one of the aims of Moderator BahamutVoid in leaving his farewell letter not long after Admin televandalist’s own resignation letter dropped. If you have any concerns with this mirror, please reach out to clymax directly.

Original URL: https://retroachievements.org/forums/topic/32745?comment=323605#323605

We understand there are questions about recent moderation actions. When an account’s only activity is attempting to escalate tensions, we treat it as disruptive rather than legitimate engagement.

Remind me how many points or sets do the users who recently joined and are taking over this site as the morality police have?

And yes I’m directly referencing xkeeper and succintandpunchy for being complete sociopaths with no history on this site, rolling in and doing nothing but what you’ve described in your quote.

Ten years I’ve been here and I’ve never seen Scott do something so incredibly stupid as this. My account is gone in 14 days. That’s all these new accounts have done.

The DARVO and gaslighting around them accusing everyone else of doing exactly what they’re doing has created an incompatibility with skill expression in games and morality.

You don’t have the best players if you aren’t agnostic to the content of the games and curating what or what isn’t included due to the morality of these disruptive internet nomads.

This is unchecked cluster B behavior that is socially acceptable for some bizarre reason despite nearly the entire actual community with history here saying they don’t want this here.

I will drop this fucking site in a heartbeat I don’t care how many points I have if you don’t rein this shit in.

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Clarification from Hash Manager and Clover Developer tomojin of Retro Achievements

Mirrored at the sole discretion of clymax for sake of transparency on Retro Achievements, which was one of the aims of Moderator BahamutVoid in leaving his farewell letter not long after Admin televandalist’s own resignation letter would drop. To see tomojin’s developed sets on RA, click here. If you have any concerns with this mirror, please reach out to clymax directly.

Original URL: https://retroachievements.org/forums/topic/32729

The topic has since been locked.

In response to one of the points in this thread: https://retroachievements.org/forums/topic/32727

Were there threats against RA staff?
No direct threats have been confirmed at this time, and any that might arise would not alter the decisions above. Our moderation team has addressed all reported threats within the community. We take member safety seriously and will continue to act decisively against such conduct.

I would like to state that Scott did in fact tell me that staff members were being threatened. This is part of why I dropped the claim – I thought it was an emergency situation. He also told tele that he was being threatened and he was at risk of being doxxed – tele has publicly explained this already.

Sorry, I feel this has to be stated because this point is simply misleading. It makes it sound like this never happened because nothing was “confirmed”, and it makes it sound like tele’s explanation wasn’t true, which is harmful to his reputation. But the truth is we were both told that staff members were being threatened.

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