Kry, do not start with me.
Before you decide to try and tear into me, read.
Multiple times over the course of my posts in the forums, I have said time and time again. Raz' behavior was deplorable in this case. Raz did NOT do a good job in handling this. But because I'm not falling in line and singing the staff's praises in reacting in the way that they did, I'm defending him? No. I'm really not. What I'm saying is people are losing their goddamn minds over something that really has not utterly destroyed the community. Maybe it has for you, but weren't you always the one telling me that FeralHeart was a cesspool of toxicity and that the people on the game weren't worth it? Now you can finally leave it behind.
Yeah, welcome to the internet, but I'd like to think that, like in life since we're all actual human beings, it means you don't have to be a shitty and petty person back all because someone was shitty to you. Perhaps if the staff had taken a principled stand that wasn't just ragequitting and throwing maps up to further provoke a situation that they KNEW was going to continue to go downhill, people might not have lost their minds. Inciting riots is not how this should have been conducted. The staff is not an entirely innocent party either.
Again, like I said, read the post. I said Raz should not have done what he did. I'm just also saying that the staff should not have done exactly what they did. Should they have retaliated? Sure. But not in such a disorganized and ridiculous way that suddenly had everyone running into the streets with furry torches and pitchforks. Because, trust me. I know a shit-ton about history. And if you actually know who this account belongs to, you know I've studied it and have a degree in it. Great things don't come out of riots. It comes out of protests and actual organized and civil social disobedience and change. The riots only happen when the peaceful protesters get attacked by the oppressive forces coming after them. The civil part that actually inspires change is not what happened here on FH. People just went freaking crazy.
I'm heading out of the forums at this point, because like a rational human being, I know this will blow over. It always does. Everyone can keep throwing their temper tantrum, and FeralHeart will either keep going, or it won't.
Hopefully y'all will mobilize this well when it comes time to do important things like vote and march and actually be socially proactive like I've felt the need to do over the past several months. Maybe I just see what matters a bit more, and I just don't think this game is THAT worth it to get riled up over. Is it full of nostalgia and memories? Sure. But I can let go of that just like anything else if the time's come for it to get shut down. And if not? I'll do what I can to work to make it better in my own way. I'm just not going to scream about how administrators are bitch-asses and how they're Hitler or Drumpf in the process. Nor am I going to do that about the staff. Or you.
It's not hard to figure out who I am addressing, and I have read.
If I may be so bold to ask how the staff should have reacted? You state that you understand history, and yet you're still calling people petty. I've left FH. Because whether or not this blows over it's now an empty shell. You continued to speak up and talk to people like they were children. Let's cut the high-horse crap, and stick to the actual topic. How what Raz is doing is wrong. No involvement with the staff's retaliation, no involvement with how people are reacting in chaos.
What Razmirz is doing is very much wrong, and shows no community care and very poor communication skills. It gives us no explanation as to the details of this program. So until there is a good explanation as to how this works, and how the system will prevent trolling and such, then people will believe what they want. Hell, because of this, people may still believe what they want. Poor communication, poor staff managing skills, and very poor execution. Telling us that this will be implemented with such little knowledge appears like a threat to a game that many people have grown up on.
So to me, when one is bringing in "look I don't accept what he is doing, but look at what everyone else has done too" dragged into a thread that should be a reaction to his actions, and pretty much his actions only, seems a bit like you're trying to pry people away from the main topic. If that makes sense? I hope so.
