The Problem With Giant's Lair..

[Meatwad420]

Hello gamers,

My name is Ryan.

A couple things have been brought up relates to things I have done.

First: I have never joined a vc just to wait for someone to mess up so I could ban them. I joined a VC once to see what was going on. Some folks were playing resident evil. I played and streamed some Fallout 1, and during that time some guy dropped a gay F word. I issued a quick mute. I also submitted my evidence for this in a staff chat. Another staff member was also in that VC with me, Rick Sanchez, who I'm sure would have also followed the GL slurs protocol, since we do not tolerate slurs in this server.

Second: I am a staff member. Sometimes I have to interact with people who don't want me to interact with them during my staffly duties. This specific incident occurred on the morning of April 12. It involved a nice conversation in the general channel. At some point frosty started posting some random gifs totally unrelated to the chat, to which I asked what the gifs were all about. Frosty then asked me to stop interacting with him. I think I made one or two posts directed at him after that since that comment came out of nowhere and since he joined the conversarion. I have since made a course correction at the direction of both of my admins at the time: Sly and Fiz. Since then, I haven't interacted with the user in question at all. I respect their wishes to not interact with me. I am only interacting with this since I was directly mentioned by them, and I just want to set the record straight.

As for the rest of this thread, I'm not offering any of my opinions.

Have a wonderful rest of your night my GL friends

My God isn’t happy with you.

 

[Rick Sanchez]

First: I have never joined a vc just to wait for someone to mess up so I could ban them. I joined a VC once to see what was going on. Some folks were playing resident evil. I played and streamed some Fallout 1, and during that time some guy dropped a gay F word. I issued a quick mute. I also submitted my evidence for this in a staff chat. Another staff member was also in that VC with me, Rick Sanchez, who I'm sure would have also followed the GL slurs protocol, since we do not tolerate slurs in this server.

Hey Ryan,

I’ve tried to step back since my post and give space for open discussion without constantly inserting my perspective. But this is something I need to address directly.

The situation you referenced in your first point happened the day after the informal staff meeting I mentioned in my post. In that discussion, you explicitly talked about waiting for members like Frosty and Proper to slip up again, collecting evidence, and using that to build a case for banning them. The very next day, Proper, Frosty, and I were in General VC playing games when you joined. You didn’t say a word the entire time. Instead, you sat there recording, which is how you were able to act so quickly when that random person dropped in and said something bannable.

From my vantage point, that’s not passive moderation... it’s clearly targeted. You put yourself in that situation with a clear intent, waiting for something.. anything.. you could turn into justification. That wasn’t coincidence, and it wasn’t neutral. It was deliberate.