Farewell Letter by User Shaithis 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. If you have any concerns with this mirror, please reach out to clymax directly.
Original URL: https://retroachievements.org/forums/topic/32671
User profile: https://retroachievements.org/user/Shaithis
The post was made on October 4, 2025 but is now just an example of one of many posts that have been removed from the site.1 The user first joined the site on December 16, 2016.
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Link: https://docs.retroachievements.org/guidelines/users/code-of-conduct.html#freedom-of-speech
If you just want to rant or dump derogatory comments about how we run things here, you’re free to do that. But, as it’s demotivating and wastes a lot of volunteers’ time, we don’t want it on our forums or Discord Server. There are plenty of options where you can do it around the Internet.
Keep in mind that RetroAchievements.org is NOT a bastion of freedom of speech.
If you have criticism, you’re very welcome to say it, just be sure to be civil.
The Mirrored Post
however based on the bs around pokemon clover, i’ve decided to cease development and delete all work and backups as well as my account. let me be clear, that hack was nothing i was interested in playing, i am VERY fussy about the pokemon hacks ill play and this was absolutely not one of them. however the staff of this website have shown that they are willing to throw out hours and hours of work because of whining from less than 50 people.
what is the point in putting any effort into creating achievements when staff can just destroy it all on whim based on whining from people that were 1: never going to play it and 2: have absolutely zero problem with the thousands of games on here that feature rape, murder, theft, incest, pedophilia etc.
there is no point in contributing, at all to this site when at any second, anything you do could be undone and banned on a whim.
i’ve been working on these cheevos for just over 2 years and many are for highly requested game but admin have made it clear this is no longer a site worth putting effort into. i have recommended it to literally thousands of people through my youtube channel and i can no longer do so in good faith. whats next? ban cheevos for metal gear because it glories government coverup/ ban tomb raider for glorifying colonization? where does it end?
i’ll be deleting my account asap and saying goodbye to this site, its simply not worth interacting with anymore.
- This particular user claims to have “over 200 hundred[sic]” sets in development with what amounts to fifteen achievements per set, for a total of three thousand achievements. It should be noted here that the user account has been deleted, and the developed sets of the user cannot be verified except by site staff.
Assuming that the user has no published sets, then I personally find the user’s claim to be dubious at best, just as I think other users on the platform would. Still, even given the user CoC, I find it baffling that a decision would be made to remove such a post when the level of transparency with which the community is run is being called into question.
Finally, how much transparency can we really expect if the user CoC explicitly rules out freedom of speech? It may be prudent to consider revising the user CoC if the community is to move forward from the recent incidents related to Clovergate. ↩︎
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