Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4530750-20160228040801/@comment-4530750-20160228043511

I've seen a lot of disturbing behavior on the Internet, over the years. I've met and interacted with a lot of individuals that now make my skin crawl. I've found that, at the end of the day, people do not impress me. They never cease to disappoint and I've become increasingly isolationist because of it.

The dislike that I have as a player and member of the community for that group of people is not because of their roleplay. I don't care about their roleplay. I've always found that people getting upset over pretend events caused by made-up people in a fictional universe to be stupid.

What bugs me is the recurring pattern of abusive behavior. It has come most often under form of trying to isolate others, stalking them and, most often, perpetrating rumors and vitriolic behavior.

Here's the thing, though: you're not alone, no matter how much the people being abusive towards you want you to think you are.

Infada -- my thoughts and opinions of him aside -- reached out to Heron. Others might not be as open about it because they're worried of becoming targeted themselves (which is already a sure-fire sign that things are wrong) and some may support Heron and others in similar positions in their own way, but they're there for you. They're thinking about you and what happened, and they care.

Unfortunately, I find myself in a bit of an unfortunate fix. I do not support TSG. However, having their content on the wiki, by default, means that I support them in some way, or I would delete it. I am effectively supporting advertisement for their group by having it still here and not making a massive stink about it (not that I would, I'm more rational than that, in reality).

On one hand, I don't support them, and do not want to support them. I don't want them here, I don't want to see them, I don't want to read about it and I don't want to promote them. For that reason, I want their content gone. Many of their members (outside of the leadership) are people that I have had problems with both in and out of game because they're insufferable. Their behavior has been, at worst, stalkerish and abusive. At best, trolls that take things too far.

On the other hand, this is a community wiki. Should we be regulating the content that gets posted here on the basis of what the players have done? Is that gate-keeping? Where is the line drawn? Though, to be honest, where the line is being drawn doesn't really worry me. If something this bad were to come out about another player, I would speak to the rest of the team and ask them if we can treat it the same way we're dealing with this -- an open forum in which people deposit their thoughts, concerns and ideas.

While I am considered ban-happy by many, I am not prone to powertrips, and I am not interested in pushing the boundaries concerning the limits I believe that I have and should maintain as an administrator.

In any case, the bottom line is that I support players like Heron and I want that to be reflected, if possible, on the wiki, and that means not hosting TSG-related content. I don't want to promote it, and I don't want to see it here. Since they are so fiercely interested in policing things and doing things their very strict and border-line ridiculous way, they can go play in their sandbox alone. That's what happens to kids that won't play nice.