Who hasn’t heard of the old wives tale of “be careful of what you wish for, you just might get it”? And what I wished for (eversince I was wrongfully temp-banned from the BBD), that I wanted a shakeup of the moderators. I wanted them to be put in trial, and answer of why I haven’t seen them physically active in the community.
And now (as the tails part of the coin guarantees)… I almost regret wishing this, due to what would have to be done, in order to achieve said wish.
If you remember from the last blog post I talked about this, John got involved in the mess with the moderators. And now, he’s also trying to spearhead it (with a Group DM. Along with him and myself, was Sneaky the Wolf Dragon). I told them what I have yet to tell you folks (as to me, it wasn’t really that important).
Basically, Tuesday night, Twitchin was telling us about this ‘bryan666’ person, who was stalking her. Kept on attempting to refriend her (even though she had him blocked). And he was even doing it in her stream.
But what I saw, was that game-breaking bug the devs have yet to fix. The bug is undoing every attempt to mute and block the offending player. If you go to another world, the person is unblocked. If you teleport to another part of that world, the person is unblocked. The only way to make sure the changes are permanent, is to use VRChat.com’s website. I gave her instructions to do just that, and she thanked me.
(UPDATE (5/10/18)): This bug has finally be FIXED! Rejoice!)
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Creepery then DMd me and is all “you see Benie, you would be a much better moderator than me. You actually help out, and you know what to say.” But.. given my track record (aka the MRT Server), I had to respectfully disagree with him. I also tried to encourage him to simply be like me (if he thinks I’m ‘so much better’ than him).
Not to mention, I was also laughing (and nearly choking) on irony. Myself, better than Creepery? HAH!! The only thing I have, is I’m more aggressive when people push me over.
Moving on, John then made a strawpoll, who he shared it with people that he (and the rest of us) could trust. At last check, we had 13 people voting for a shakeup. It really made me happy, seeing people were waking up to this. Let’s get this shit done!!
And then… Sneaky proposes something that I’m not OK with. He wants to do this, during the meeting (instead of waiting to see what happens to Creepery on Saturday). Like, literally stand on the stage (while the other mods are talking) and expose them. When I told him I was strongly against this, it seemed like he was questioning my bravery. I tried to explain how it would never work like that (as it would be insanely risky). And all he said was “one vote for no”.
Then John starts freaking out, seeing more no votes. He starts feeling that Creepery might be responsible for it. I ask him to verify, praying that what I’m hearing… isn’t true. Then try to ask Creepery directly, if he actually did it. He doesn’t respond until John is all “Creepery did it! He sabotaged us!” (showing proof with him talking to Creepery). But Creepery… actually told me that Impulse initially voted no (and not him), purposely lying to John, yet tells me to stay quiet about it. I told him that I couldn’t lie to them, and I had to do the right thing.. even if it means hurting our friendship.
So I’m pretty sure you folks are seeing where this is going, when I said how I would ‘create a shitshow’ in the title.
I was forced to tell them, who were absolutely shocked Impulse would betray us like this. Creepery comes on, saying how we’re ruining this for him and we’re going too far. We all try to talk sense into him, that this isn’t the case. But it seems he’s refusing (or unable) to see this from our perspective, and then ends up leaving, telling me how “Impulse is disappointed in you”. During that time, Charms is asking John to speak with him (and he has to leave the DM).
Sneaky volunteers to calm him down (since I was unable to), and manages. Then later, Creepery posts a picture from his phone of the mod chat, yelling “IM FUCKING DONE”. I take this picture and post it in the Group DM, and say “You know, I feel somehow this is my fault”. Sneaky tells me it’s not, and reminds me of what we’re trying to do. And you folks probably feel it is my fault; how I seem to forget ‘the mods have lives’. Though, I had mentioned this to them earlier, and Sneaky’s all “if you have a life, you shouldn’t be a mod”.
He also said this to Creepery, where I interrupted him with “Sneaky, I have to respectfully disagree to you. I know a lot of mods with lives. But it’s being able to balance your life with your mod responsibilities, that should determine if you’re willing to be a mod or not.”
John then starts talking (being filled in by Charms), showing some the mods are doing their jobs (but behind the scenes). He says that Twitchin is a mediator between the Best Bois and the Warhammer 40k clan, and Ginger manages the Google Forms.
I’m glad they at least are doing things, but I personally would like to see them do more.
But what of zexc, who ranks people up? Charms claims he’s not even sure what he does. And what about RapidFoe, and Kirby? What are they doing for the community? ‘Moderating the chat’ doesn’t seem to be their jobs.
And then, there’s the ‘Mini-Mods’… who don’t even bother dealing with trouble. Why, is the rank even a thing? *facepalm*
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Then John gives us some good news: Lycan and Ice are “getting dealt with”, and Ice himself, is ironically on thin ice. Very good. I’m glad my call for action isn’t falling on deaf ears.
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(Transitioning to today (May 10th))
Still a bit concerned about the fact Charms knows about this (yet surprised (but glad) he doesn’t want to talk to me about it), I asked John if Charms gave him any other info. What he said was pretty scrambled, as he was having issues with his mic, then said he lost connection with Discord (yet hopes Charms heard everything).
Reminded of what Charms had told John yesterday, I told Sneaky of what would likely happen if he was to talk to him. I felt at this time, we would be given an ultimatum: drop it and stand down, or be permabanned from the server. And Sneaky refused. Eventually (after explaining my feelings), he was forced to understand that standing down, is the only real option.
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But I could feel Sneaky’s anger (as I share it). We were this close from causing a civil war (in order to have actual mods, that won’t be pushed over), and then… then, Impulse ruins it for us. And that’s when I feel we should demand him to explain himself!
John did, but it wasn’t in our favor. Impulse said, that it was his job to protect the mods from attacks like these. I was, completely appalled by this. How.. in the fuck, when he told us how the mods ignored him. And he does THIS to us?! No, there’s got to be more. But neither one of them wanted to try and pressure Impulse to reveal it.
It was up to me. I tried my best, trying to make him understand. And he tells me how “it doesn’t matter” how the mods treated him, for he has a job to do! It. doesn’t. fucking. MATTER?! The way he was talking to us.. did he not THINK, I would try to do something about it?! Were we seriously supposed to be all “ohh, that sucks dude, but there’s nothing we can do”!? It sure fucking seems like it!
Here, Creepery said that Impulse was ‘disappointed’ in me. I told Impulse, how I was disappointed in him. Clearly, he’s just like Creepery. He has no guts. Because it’s totally not the other way around, where I’m probably taking this too far and forgetting this is a game!! It can’t be that!
Fuck off, common sense. 😛
…Meh. I guess I should be lucky, that I wasn’t kicked out of the BBD over this. I feel I was ‘given a warning’ to not go against the mods in any shape or form. But one thing’s for sure, I’m not even going to attend the meeting tomorrow (as I don’t want to hear what the mods have to say (as I’m 100% sure the words “Its ‘just a game’ guys!” would be used)).
I’m debating if I should just leave the community. Hell, with the way I treated Impulse, I’ll probably be kicked out tomorrow (after the meeting).
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And as for Creepery, I’ve left his Discord server for the 3rd (and probably final) time. Not to mention, I haven’t spoken to him all day. I feel like our friendship is hanging by a thread, and it’s up to whoever to cut (or yank) it off. If the guy remains a moderator after Saturday, I will of course be quite happy for him. But, I dunno what’s going to happen if they feel that he shouldn’t be a mod. I might be blamed for it, then again I might not. In one hand, I feel I need to be there for him. But on the other, I should give him his space.
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He said he’ll likely quit the server “and go to ashi and zura” (even though I have warned him about Ashi)… but I think I’m tired of warning people. Yet I said this before, when I had said “I’m done defending a community”. I even said “I’m done defending Creepery”… I MEAN it this time.
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Looking back at this.. this new plan by John was flawed ever since he made the poll. He felt with enough votes, the mods would have to listen to us, and even Sneaky felt we would be golden.
I seriously wanted to wait until Saturday, and see what happens with Creepery. That was the original plan… but John changed it, to where we could possibly get this done quicker. I never encouraged him to make the poll, by the way.