honestly disgusted with the way lioden mods are handling all this, “short staffed” and “well-meaning” or not. they can’t stand any player criticism and even innocent questions are treated as attacks.
i’m sure by now y'all know that the chat was paused- why? i witnessed the whole thing happen in real time. basically, a bunch of players were asking why rumble is even controversial. people were explaining- calmly - about the possible health risks as testified by NUMEROUS people. and y'know what? after those explanations were posted, people started calming down. things like “well i like rumble but its not worth it if it hurts people’ were being said. sure, some people were being super ableist, but there were only two people i can remember specifically saying mean things.
out of nowhere, the mod team comes in and tells everyone to stop discussing “how rumble causes epilepsy, because its hearsay.” for one thing, people were explaining how it COULD trigger epileptic attacks. for another, hearsay? what? they said it was because they had no “formal complaints” that no one had the right to bring that up….apparently…
the discussion stopped for about two minutes and then someone must have said something because when i came back chat was paused.
in the help chat, a player innocently asked what happened to pause main chat. y'know, a perfectly valid question to ask in the HELP chat. here’s the screenshot.
and then the mod’s ever helpful, ever kind response (sarcasm here from me, obviously):
I did see one person say, “Why are the mods instantly deleting my messages?” and then get, instantly deleted, but I don’t know what they said before this or if they said anything after. As far as I’m aware, this is all that needed to be said for the mods to suddenly slam down the silence hammer.
i’m sorry, but i’m genuinely furious with the irresponsibility and lack of transparency the staff is handling this with. this isn’t just “drama,” this isn’t “hearsay.” this is real people speaking to you hoping for a solution and you didn’t listen until you were forced to. and any attempts to explain on-site, peacefully, WHY the marks were hurting people is met with accusations of drama-mongering and hearsay.
the lioden mods don’t care about their players. sorry to sound harsh, but they don’t. they only care about their own reputation and the money they get from players.
EDIT: lmao as I was typing this they added something to the chat. lovely;
“Actions against your account,” huh? Lioden mods really, really like to silence any issues players have, It’s unethical, it’s disrespectful, and it’s a bad way to run a website.
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