04-13-2024, 04:31 PM
[quote pid="156967" dateline="1713042923"]
i meant two things.
one: staff brushes the actions of their friends under the rug. there are people in this community that make women extremely uncomfortable by harassing them, who never see consequences because they're friends with staff.
two: battons was eventually proven innocent, but before that people had already begun to treat him as innocent and demonize anyone accusing him. i don't trust that a genuine accusation would be taken seriously (since it had been ignored by icey), nor do i trust that this is a safe place for victims because of the mob mentality here that jumps at the throat of anyone who dares to accuse their friends.
there are some staff doing good work. not a lot, but some. i respect them, but i also feel so bad for the sisyphean task ahead of them
[/quote]
Thank you for your quick clarification!
I do think that staffing bias is a problem, and incredibly difficult to resolve.
With Battons, the whole situation should have been much more heavily moderated. I do believe in innocent until proven guilty, something that is paramount to justice in my opinion. However, while it should have been presumption of innocence until more evidence about the situation was provided, it should not have been allowed to devolve into people harassing each other. If someone from the admin team ignored the accusations without investigating, then that's a problem.
What I will say is that I wish that staff from other servers had adopted the very harsh guidelines that PH has for racism, sexism, etc. I know that PH got a lot of shit such as being called a "daycare", but people who were racist or sexist were quickly removed from the PH community with haste. While the guidelines PH as are really strict, I do feel that it went a long way to protecting the players on the server. I really do hope the current staff team does a serious big think about the current guidelines, and perhaps putting in protocols for how friends can moderate friends.
i meant two things.
one: staff brushes the actions of their friends under the rug. there are people in this community that make women extremely uncomfortable by harassing them, who never see consequences because they're friends with staff.
two: battons was eventually proven innocent, but before that people had already begun to treat him as innocent and demonize anyone accusing him. i don't trust that a genuine accusation would be taken seriously (since it had been ignored by icey), nor do i trust that this is a safe place for victims because of the mob mentality here that jumps at the throat of anyone who dares to accuse their friends.
there are some staff doing good work. not a lot, but some. i respect them, but i also feel so bad for the sisyphean task ahead of them
[/quote]
Thank you for your quick clarification!
I do think that staffing bias is a problem, and incredibly difficult to resolve.
With Battons, the whole situation should have been much more heavily moderated. I do believe in innocent until proven guilty, something that is paramount to justice in my opinion. However, while it should have been presumption of innocence until more evidence about the situation was provided, it should not have been allowed to devolve into people harassing each other. If someone from the admin team ignored the accusations without investigating, then that's a problem.
What I will say is that I wish that staff from other servers had adopted the very harsh guidelines that PH has for racism, sexism, etc. I know that PH got a lot of shit such as being called a "daycare", but people who were racist or sexist were quickly removed from the PH community with haste. While the guidelines PH as are really strict, I do feel that it went a long way to protecting the players on the server. I really do hope the current staff team does a serious big think about the current guidelines, and perhaps putting in protocols for how friends can moderate friends.
![[Image: ZN1HpFb.png]](https://i.imgur.com/ZN1HpFb.png)
