Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo
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@SolarFlare said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
This is the problem with opaque procedures. All we have for proof that anything’s happening is the word of staff, and nine months of precisely zero behavior changes from problem players.
… and a bunch of people leaving because nothing is getting fixed.
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@64bitjedi said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
@helvetica said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
@64bitjedi said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
@GF said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
@64bitjedi said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
When the people who will defend others leave a space, that space gets worse. People need to know there is someone they can report this stuff to.
If this thread is the first time you’re hearing most of these complaints, then people do not know or believe there is someone that can report this stuff to.
Which is the only reason I’m here trying.
Take an action. Boot your problem staff or leave that game to start a new life. Otherwise, the only thing you’re here trying to do is PR, in which case we’ll feed you to @Jennkryst and their screenshots again.
Actions are being taken. I said I was making it up as I go along, I didn’t say nothing was being done.
What actions. Don’t say investigation.
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@blu Okay, nine months that I have solid evidence of.
Also, yet another “How dare you call me out in public instead of in private where I can just tell you to fuck off without anyone finding out” by Cujo in +public just happened.
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And icing to the cake, Cujo finally speaks on game.
**Hello all.
Recently the game added staffers, and a month or so later removed staffers. We were preparing for the time jump, and decided to take a chance on a group of new staff members. The ones who were the most active were kept, the others we took out of the staff roster. Two of them wanted someone banned from the game who they believed was a sexual harasser. The evidence had been given to us some time ago, some of it was witnessed in-person by myself.
I decided the evidence was not enough to have someone banned. They were deemed to be ill-timed jokes, at worst. The person was asked not to make those kinds of jokes again.
Yes, this person was added to staff as part of the group that was brought in to help. The situations that were used as evidence happened over a year ago. It was two claims of evidence. One was from 2018, the other from last year. The jokes were dealt with by talking to the player.
Hadrix / Rev was that player. I believe he’s taken to heart the after-math of those moments here. I believe he gets himself overly excited, and is capable of acting out. I believe just about everyone is capable of that, some worse than others.
Hadrix is on Staff now, yes, and like everyone else on Staff, if he behaves poorly he can, and will, get removed. The fact is that I need help, and I bring on people that I think will help me do work behind the scenes. This game requires a ton of behind the scenes management of ships, weapons, armor, clothing, planets, star systems, the galaxy, and everything inside it.
Not everyone would work out on Staff, some just wouldn’t be able to figure out the issues, others might be overwhelmed by it. Most of you just wouldn’t want to do it, because it isn’t fun. Being on Staff is not a promotion, if anything it’s additional workload x10 what you might expect.
But at the end of the day, yes, Hadrix was accused of sexually slanted harassment. The evidence that was given to Staff, both pieces of it, were reviewed, and he was asked to improve his behavior. It’s been over a year now, and overall, I personally feel that he has improved his behavior. It doesn’t mean he is impervious against punishment, or a ban. A ban is possible for him, for everyone if they become an active burden upon the playerbase, and the game’s health. I don’t feel Hadrix is either of those things right now though, and in fact he has been helping me a ton with the pre-Time Jump workload. This is why he was retained on Staff as one of the top 3 active newcomers.
All sexual harassment claims are taken seriously though, and if deemed valid, and actively a serious burden, then expect that player to get banned. We have had about 3 major cases of this in the past 8 years, and those 3 cases were dealt with swiftly once the proper evidence was ruled upon.
The game’s goal right now is to focus on the Time Jump in to the future, and that’s what we ultimately hope to keep the game’s direction entirely aimed toward.
- Cujo**
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@64bitjedi said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
@GF said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
@64bitjedi said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
When the people who will defend others leave a space, that space gets worse. People need to know there is someone they can report this stuff to.
If this thread is the first time you’re hearing most of these complaints, then people do not know or believe there is someone that can report this stuff to.
Which is the only reason I’m here trying.
Let me get this straight. Your goal here is to make people understand that you will be their advocate, and that’s why your first post was to say you never played on some other game we’re not really even talking about? That’s why you haven’t reached out to anyone who’s made an accusation and offered to listen? That’s why your tone has been pedantic and defensive? That’s why when people ask what you’re doing, you answer in the vaguest possible terms that could not possibly provide any comfort or confidence to the people who have been hurt on your game?
I will try to give you the benefit of the doubt that you actually believe you’re here to let victims of your game know they’re safe in your hands, but even if you believe it, the level of thoughtlessness and incompetence you are displaying is unconscionable. You are so bad at the thing you claim to want to do that you are actively doing harm to your own purported cause. You seriously need to step out of that role immediately until you have done hard research into how to talk to victims of sexual harassment.
I suppose me telling you this obligates me to give you a crash course on the topic, but I am much too tired to deal with it and too flabbergasted to do so with any degree of good faith.
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Unsalvageable.
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@RedShoes said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
The game’s goal right now is to focus on the Time Jump in to the future, and that’s what we ultimately hope to keep the game’s direction entirely aimed toward.
lol this absolute narcissist shit right here. Kind of had to expect it since we had an actual flying monkey show up in real-time in a thread about a missing stair. It’s got to be wild being on the inside of a cliche and imagining you’re going to gaslight an entire forum full of people with finely tuned bullshit detectors.
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@RedShoes said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
Being on Staff is not a promotion
Everyone knows how much bullshit this is. I mean, the whole post from Cujo is bullshit based on what’s been shared on this thread, but this part in particular.
Is being Staff a lot of work? Absolutely. Is it a promotion? I mean, I guess that depends on your definition of a promotion, but it certainly increases your social capital on the game. Claiming that being added to Staff isn’t a promotion is mealy-mouthed gaslighting bullshit.
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@RedShoes said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
All sexual harassment claims are taken seriously though, and if deemed valid, and actively a serious burden, then expect that player to get banned.
I need to block this thread or something because it is going to turn me into a full-on misandrist. Jesus fucking Christ.
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@GF Oh shit, I didn’t even close-read that line. Jesus. I don’t want to hate all men, I am a man.
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@RedShoes said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
I believe he gets himself overly excited, and is capable of acting out. I believe just about everyone is capable of that, some worse than others.
BOYS WILL BE BOYS
sexually slanted harassment
It’s just called sexual harassment.
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@64bitjedi said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
@helvetica said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
I mean, if I were you I would cut ties with this mess. Maybe you could help build something worthwhile with some of these players who are dedicated to making a better, more socially responsible game.
When the people who will defend others leave a space, that space gets worse. People need to know there is someone they can report this stuff to.
There’s no being a safe space collaborator when the person in charge is rotten. There’s only making the issues public and either ousting or leaving. If you think that you leaving the game would mean that no one else on staff would defend others, you’ve already lost. You can’t save a game from that situation. The fish rots from the head. You cannot have a functional staff wherein any staffers are fundamentally unsafe to report these sorts of issues to, much less the majority of staffers.
Frankly, no one who has had to be given multiple warnings about inappropriate jerks that others reported as sexual harassment should ever really be considered for staff positions, IMO. The “I’ve been watching him for improvement” should be about him being able to remain as a player on the game, not be a fucking staffer with power over other players, including those he has harassed.
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@Roz said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
The “I’ve been watching him for improvement” should be about him being able to remain as a player on the game, not be a fucking staffer with power over other players, including those he has harassed.
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@64bitjedi This is not personal. I do not know you. If you stay on that game with that person in charge, you’re the asshole.
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@GF First I would have to have any idea who made the complaints, and I think we all know why me suddenly asking for the names of accusers might have pretty bad optics.
Nobody is going to believe me if I suddenly show up on scene, telling everyone, “Hey guys! Banshee is here! You’re all safe now!” That would be hilariously dumb. I also can’t make that promise yet. I never said those things because I can’t deliver those things. I can’t provide restitution for the people who were hurt.
I cannot undo what has happened. I don’t think I can even provide some measure of comfort to people that were wronged. But someone in the community is here, putting themselves out there for the discussion. So if you want to discuss this, there you go. If you don’t, that’s fine too.
Also, I never promised that I was good at this. I never pretended to be an expert.
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@helvetica said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
@64bitjedi This is not personal. I do not know you. If you stay on that game with that person in charge, you’re the asshole.
I know that this issue is a hand grenade, so I’m trying to keep my feelings in check because my pride won’t help anyone. But being called ignorant and incompetent by others feels pretty personal. I know that wasn’t you, but, jeeze.
*Clarified whose pride I meant.
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@64bitjedi said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
@helvetica said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
@64bitjedi This is not personal. I do not know you. If you stay on that game with that person in charge, you’re the asshole.
I know that this issue is a hand grenade, so I’m trying to keep my feelings in check because pride won’t help anyone. But being called ignorant and incompetent by others feels pretty personal. I know that wasn’t you, but, jeeze.
Word. Being sexually harassed is also very personal.
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Hadrix and Sumi are both toxic as fuck, and them continuing to remain in positions of power dooms the game as long as it exists.
It shows that all Cujo cares about is scene numbers and activity. Not about all the people they bully and hurt.
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@64bitjedi Not to double @ you, but you’re allowed to take a break from this conversation. It’s obvious you’re having trouble with some of the things that this group thinks may redeem you. At some point, you’re just being a punching bag for somebody else. And we keep punching, here.
