Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[BIONIC]

Anyways, onto more important matters:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sonic-x-shadow-generations-review-thread.1015095/#post-130454016

I want to fuck Shadow.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Anyways, onto more important matters:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sonic-x-shadow-generations-review-thread.1015095/#post-130454016

I want to fuck Shadow.

fat4all crying he can't respond

[DavidCroquet]

Anyways, onto more important matters:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sonic-x-shadow-generations-review-thread.1015095/#post-130454016

I want to fuck Shadow.

fat4all crying he can't respond

I think you mean "cumming he cum't cum"!

[AnnoyedCanadian]

I hate the fact that if you say you enjoy the Sonic games you have to say you aren't like these nutjobs.

[Potato]

Albania would be pretty nice to visit, except the temperatures. I feel like a witch melting when it's hot out.

Have you met Albanians?

[benji]

[Taco Bell Tower]

Oh lord, fat4all's ban is over 

[Rendle]

Oooh didn’t read but got it in case he edits

OK, so, honestly, I do apologize for cursing Nepenthe out the way I did. I should have known better and it was absolutely the wrong thing to do. I got way too heated and overreacted.

The truth is that when I saw her posts, I wasn't really thinking about myself but about the kids I've worked with in the recent past. I've worked with a number of Central and South American refugees, whose parents crossed the border to get their kids away from the violence of their homes and to try and provide a better life for them. All I could think about was Trump wanting to go around, door-to-door as he put it, and deport all of them to a home that would see them dead inside of a month of returning. I thought about what responsibility I have toward them and I got too heated and it was wrong.

I thought about the trans kid I still mentor, how he wants to start his hormones in the spring, after he no longer needs parental permission, how he's finally going to be able to live his life the way he wants and gets to be the man he has always been, and how Trump would take that away from him, dooming him to living in the body of someone he isn't, with the stroke of a pen. I wondered what responsibility I have to him and I got heated and I shouldn't have used the language that I did. It was wrong and I do apologize.

When I saw those posts, I thought about myself and the people like me who have chronic, preexisting conditions that would result in insurance companies denying us coverage if not for the ACA and how Trump was a single vote in the senate from repealing it. How my own medication costs $60,000 a year, with all the potential cancerous side effects, and how there's people far worse off than I am. I wondered about what I owed them and it got me seeing red and I reacted in the wrong way. There's no room for that sort of language or tone, especially from someone in my position.

I thought about these cousins from Eastern Europe I have never met but have talked to on the phone and how afraid they are of what is going on over there. About how the stories of mass graves and mass executions and kidnapped children and reports of sterilization and what sort of thing would happen to them if we stopped trying to help and left them to their fate. I got way too angry and there's no excuse for the sort of language I used.

The truth is that I've been struggling with the whole voting thing this cycle more than I ever have because of what I've seen in Gaza and my responsibility to the people who live there and my responsibilities I have to the people in the US and in other parts of the world. The truth is that it isn't an easy situation for anyone to navigate, there's no simple answers, no obviously correct choices to be had. This is why we have been asking everyone not to attack each other over whether or not they choose to vote. Criticize the stances on the issues that these candidates have, we'd never say not to do that, but in an election where so much is at stake there's no room for attacking each other and making insinuations and I forgot that and myself for a moment. I shouldn't have done that and I apologize profusely for it. To both Nepenthe and all of you. Everyone deserves better and I intend to make sure that happens.

He ends every single paragraph by apologising in a different way lol. I guess that's how thorough you have to be when your 'friends' would love nothing more than to tear you to shreds.

[Potato]

Benji can we have a streamer hate thread.

not a streamer discussion thread, just hate. Gameboy Nostalgia AND I can just aimlessly shit on streamers without ever actually watching any streams, and knowing only the barest minimum—often only the names—about any of them.

I think that would be a lot of fun.

EDIT: forgot to include "AND I" in the sentence. Gameboy Nostalgia, you are not alone!

Seconded! Give it to us Lord Benji!

[benji]

How my own medication costs $60,000 a year, with all the potential cancerous side effects

What do you think he's got? And did he try to give it to Nepenthe???

edit: hmmm, looks like it could be MS

[benji]

Benji can we have a streamer hate thread.

not a streamer discussion thread, just hate. Gameboy Nostalgia AND I can just aimlessly shit on streamers without ever actually watching any streams, and knowing only the barest minimum—often only the names—about any of them.

I think that would be a lot of fun.

EDIT: forgot to include "AND I" in the sentence. Gameboy Nostalgia, you are not alone!

Seconded! Give it to us Lord Benji!

Why should I have to emotionally labor?

[Potato]

Holy shit that thread is almost a full on online religion/race war. Era truly has gone to shit.

I'm telling you, at some point a MOBA rep lands on the shore like a British naval officer in Lord of the Flies and expresses that he's "moved and a little embarrassed" to find such a scene of depravity. Meanwhile, Morricunt is ready to set fire to the forest and Nepenthe has a boulder ready to drop on Piggy B-Dumbs.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Benji is literally putting a target on his back for harassment if he created the thread. Think of moderators for a change! 

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Benji can we have a streamer hate thread.

not a streamer discussion thread, just hate. Gameboy Nostalgia AND I can just aimlessly shit on streamers without ever actually watching any streams, and knowing only the barest minimum—often only the names—about any of them.

I think that would be a lot of fun.

EDIT: forgot to include "AND I" in the sentence. Gameboy Nostalgia, you are not alone!

Seconded! Give it to us Lord Benji!

Why should I have to emotionally labor?

Because I want you to emotionally labor. It please me, sexually.

You would deny me this?

[Potato]

Denims won't fuck you, Jeff! 

Melody might though!

[Potato]

"Your bias is quite clear and you don't get to demonize someone off of a 12-second awkward clip." - ZeoVGM, ResetERA.com prominent member.

Newsfeed please

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

 No one made a new thread for the Frogan ban in EtcetEra. I guess none of those "Allies" actually care.

[Potato]

Oooh didn’t read but got it in case he edits

OK, so, honestly, I do apologize for cursing Nepenthe out the way I did. I should have known better and it was absolutely the wrong thing to do. I got way too heated and overreacted.

The truth is that when I saw her posts, I wasn't really thinking about myself but about the kids I've worked with in the recent past. I've worked with a number of Central and South American refugees, whose parents crossed the border to get their kids away from the violence of their homes and to try and provide a better life for them. All I could think about was Trump wanting to go around, door-to-door as he put it, and deport all of them to a home that would see them dead inside of a month of returning. I thought about what responsibility I have toward them and I got too heated and it was wrong.

I thought about the trans kid I still mentor, how he wants to start his hormones in the spring, after he no longer needs parental permission, how he's finally going to be able to live his life the way he wants and gets to be the man he has always been, and how Trump would take that away from him, dooming him to living in the body of someone he isn't, with the stroke of a pen. I wondered what responsibility I have to him and I got heated and I shouldn't have used the language that I did. It was wrong and I do apologize.

When I saw those posts, I thought about myself and the people like me who have chronic, preexisting conditions that would result in insurance companies denying us coverage if not for the ACA and how Trump was a single vote in the senate from repealing it. How my own medication costs $60,000 a year, with all the potential cancerous side effects, and how there's people far worse off than I am. I wondered about what I owed them and it got me seeing red and I reacted in the wrong way. There's no room for that sort of language or tone, especially from someone in my position.

I thought about these cousins from Eastern Europe I have never met but have talked to on the phone and how afraid they are of what is going on over there. About how the stories of mass graves and mass executions and kidnapped children and reports of sterilization and what sort of thing would happen to them if we stopped trying to help and left them to their fate. I got way too angry and there's no excuse for the sort of language I used.

The truth is that I've been struggling with the whole voting thing this cycle more than I ever have because of what I've seen in Gaza and my responsibility to the people who live there and my responsibilities I have to the people in the US and in other parts of the world. The truth is that it isn't an easy situation for anyone to navigate, there's no simple answers, no obviously correct choices to be had. This is why we have been asking everyone not to attack each other over whether or not they choose to vote. Criticize the stances on the issues that these candidates have, we'd never say not to do that, but in an election where so much is at stake there's no room for attacking each other and making insinuations and I forgot that and myself for a moment. I shouldn't have done that and I apologize profusely for it. To both Nepenthe and all of you. Everyone deserves better and I intend to make sure that happens.

Absolute masterclass in whataboutism and non-apology from the man himself!

Even Nepenthe could learn a thing or two from him on how to not-apologise for whatever she's done!

[benji]

How my own medication costs $60,000 a year, with all the potential cancerous side effects

What do you think he's got? And did he try to give it to Nepenthe???

edit: hmmm, looks like it could be MS

Maybe not:

For the rich...

Seriously, shut the fuck up. You know literally nothing about how this will be used or distributed or anything about it. For people like me, this will be a godsend.

Seriously, fuck off with this shit. I'm tired of the performative bullshit.

There's too much money in treating Cancer. I have a feeling any potential vaccines will very quickly and quietly vanish.

Seriously with the conspiracy theories? Fuck you.

Tired of seeing you talk like that to posters. You are not fit to be a mod at all.

are... you sure this is an appropriate response? that person was half joking, but it's grounded in the fact that getting medical care of any sort isn't super accessible to, well, most of us

Try having a disease that would literally be cured by this and then tone police me.

I'm tired of people hiding their shit posting behind vaguely socialist politics.

i mean i'm certainly not advocating against this or anything but considering what goes on with even basic stuff designed to be as cheap as possible like insulin, things are pretty cruel here. i don't personally blame someone for having a bit of cynicism, especially considering that person is about as likely to get cancer as the rest of us are. but they were also pretty clearly saying it at least partially in jest. the others outright spreading conspiracy theories about how big pharma wants us to die of cancer or whatever are a different story lol

I do blame them. In the first handful of posts we have literally two bullshit posts, one of which is a literal conspiracy theory. And here people are defending them. Fuck my life, fuck my suffering, they want to shitpost. Shitposting comes first.

I mean he's right though. The thought process of "there's too much money to be made with cancer treatments" is some Mickey Mouse big pharma shit. There's not some secret cabal of scientists holding back a cure for cancer to make bank

I don't disagree with him. He could have said what you said and it would be perfectly appropriate.

Anyone saying fuck you to anyone else would get a small ban fairly quick.

No, it's a completely dogshit take that has no place in serious, respectable discussion.

I am not discussing the take. I questioned how a mod reacted to it.

Try saying fuck you to someone and let's see how far you make.

There is no necessity for such an aggressive answer and as I said, it's not the first time I have seen the mod in question behave like that.

i mean i'm certainly not advocating against this or anything but considering what goes on with even basic stuff designed to be as cheap as possible like insulin, things are pretty cruel here. i don't personally blame someone for having a bit of cynicism, especially considering that person is about as likely to get cancer as the rest of us are. but they were also pretty clearly saying it at least partially in jest. the others outright spreading conspiracy theories about how big pharma wants us to die of cancer or whatever are a different story lol

So I'm going to be straight with you in order to show why your post is total bullshit:

I have an autoimmune disorder and in order to control it I need to take medication that puts me at a higher risk for blood cancer. Beyond that, my disorder puts me at a higher risk for even more cancer.

So no, we don't all have the same risk. Some of us are worse off. Shit like this would literally be life changing, it could extend lifespans. When seeing it, some people go straight to conspiracy theories and shitposting. Instead of calling that out, you go straight to tut-tutting directly affect people who are pissed off.

i mean i don't even disagree with you here, this is blatantly a world changing medical development. it's a universal good. i don't think anyone is advocating for it not to exist either? like personally if you're at the income lv to where you've got medical coverage that'll get you into this that's great.

i was just a bit surprised at the response considering there's people here who do have things that're preventable and theoretically cheap but yknow, don't really get a fair shake of things due to capitalism. i'm not even sure if performative is the right word here, because it's honestly just that common. that's literally the only reason i chimed in, because on a personal level i've had to help someone quite a few times to cover insulin payments. if i wasn't around i don't know what'd happen to him. it's not some unfounded conspiracy theory, y'know?

It absolutely is. Seriously, enough. They're not going to hide the treatment from us all. And I would hope we'd have all had enough shitposting in general. Stop defending people's bullshit.

Yeah honestly some people on this forum really could use a dose of shut-the-fuck-up. Good on ya B-Dubs.

Thank you! Blind pessimism is spoiling this place.

Amen.

And thank you for what you said, B-Dubs. Long time coming.

I would love for this energy to be in almost every thread. So much shitposting like you quoted all over the place. It would be wonderful if it stopped.

That's an awesome news! I do wonder if it absolves people who are irresponsible with their health though.

What is wrong with you people, seriously?

Thank you for saying this, I'm not a super positive person at all lol, my wife's name for me is mr negative😅 but the amount of people on this forum that seem to just want everyone to give up on life like they clearly has is massively gross. You had the balls to say what I did not so hats off to you!

I'm tired of people hiding their shit posting behind vaguely socialist politics.

This honestly sums up a lot of posts on Era.

There's always a race to the bottom to have the most cynical, condescending post in response to any positive topic.

It's suffocating.

Edit: I feel like people think cynicism makes them intelligent, because they can't be "duped"

Also, pretty out of pocket the way mods are speaking to people in this thread. Any normal user would be banned for talking the way they have been in here.

I think it's because there is a realization that the misanthropes and perpetually negative doomposters and cynics have become way too common in this site and it makes this place much worse than it should be. I'm glad that they're being told that such posts are unwelcome in a thread that should be extremely positive.

Yet when people call out other equally annoying dipshits on this website using similar language they catch bans.

It's important to prepare for hardships imo

Reading or writing misanthropic forum posts does less than nothing to prepare you for the hardships of the future. It zaps you of whatever energy and motivation you'll need to prepare and adapt, instead of just giving up.

Doomposters / misanthropes / terminal cynics / empathy vaccums / whatever you want to call them help no-one and nothing. They're often harming the advancement of the causes they claim to care so deeply about.

I am sick of the doom and gloom as well. This forum can be poor for one's mental health at times.

This pearl clutching about decorum comes off as equally performative to the bullshit posts that the offending statements you're bemoaning were rightfully calling out

Get over yourself, fuck using rhetorical kid gloves for idiotic nonsense. We don't need to make a polite space for stupid cynical terminally online misanthropic ideologues racing to get their shitty hot takes in on a sensitive topic

Try having a disease that would literally be cured by this and then tone police me.

I'm tired of people hiding their shit posting behind vaguely socialist politics.

it's not tone policing to point out you were being weirdly hostile and kinda a jerk

I don't think that poster was defending the take, they were more highlighting how a mod can go off on someone with zero consequence, where if a member did it it would catch a ban for likely "antagonizing other members"

Era ain't immune to hypocrisy sadly

Seriously, do better

Honestly, that's ironic, coming from someone who would have been perma-banned if it weren't for your position shielding you from anything that even resembles consequence.

Y'all need to get off this, it's just blatantly not true. If you act like that for no reason or over something minor, sure, but you've always been allowed to be more aggressive if you're talking about conspiracy theories, spreading right wing viewpoints, being bigoted, etc etc.

I even linked an example earlier in this thread where a regular user did the same thing to transphobia and hasn't been actioned at all, and I've done it personally to russophobia on here.

Yeah, well it's not exactly the first time I've witnessed him saying shit that would literally get anyone else banned. In fact, I once saw someone else get banned because he went apeshit on them. Perma-banned, at that. And after that incident, a different mod had to come in and be like "We talked to B-Dubs and he said he's real sowwy" or some other horse shit like that. So yeah, excuse me if his "Be better" comment comes across as just a tiny bit hypocritical.

[Besticus Maximus]

Colitis/Chrons and Humira is my guess

[Potato]

How my own medication costs $60,000 a year, with all the potential cancerous side effects

What do you think he's got? And did he try to give it to Nepenthe???

edit: hmmm, looks like it could be MS

Maybe not:

MS cause is unknown but is thought to be an autoimmune disease.

[Snoopy]

Fuck me. I thought Dubs was going to break out into a rendition of We Are The World at the end of that.

[benji]

Found more:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-feel-like-covid-fundamentally-changed-the-world-but-most-of-the-world-is-in-denial.742455/#post-108994050

Or maybe it didn't fundamentally change the world and you wish it did?

fyi this is a super priviledged take. not a call-out (the things that have changed are easy to overlook), but take for example immuno-compromised people. they've had it rough before but now?

You know, I've never had someone try and bludgeon me with my own condition before. Congratulations. Turns out things have changed, people are bigger jackasses than ever.

That response was significantly less rude than your post it was responding to

Look at all your posts in this thread and then re-read this post. What are we doing here?

Way to miss the mark completely. Congratulations.

pot, meet kettle

Good thing you have such a high up position on this forum, because I've been banned for much more reasonable responses than this.

Not sure that moderation should have such favoritism, but hey, it is what it is.

man full offense but if you werent the general manager of this forum, you wouldve copped a warning/ban for hostility for this post if not an earlier one. every post of yours in this thread is dripping with smug contempt, is at a level of antagonism the posts you're replying to dont warrant & are inventing sleights that arent in the posts you're responding to (ie claiming the OP thinks the world is "destroyed"). And its not just this thread -- this seems to be your MO in every thread Ive seen you in recently that isnt about forum policy (and even then those posts tend to contain some dig about how the average user on this forum is jackass you dont look forward to handling).

I dont know if its this forum or something else in your life but it seems like you need a big break from something. Taking the position in every thread you're the rational correct voice and then angrily lashing out anyone who says something different (who then have to walk eggshells around you because you're high on the proverbial food chain) isn't a sustainable attitude. I hope you find what you need to take a break from and you're able to get it.

I absolutely agree with you.

Absolutely.

I had a more detailed post about how my own line of work was unambiguously changed by Covid and then scaled it out to a macro level to talk about how a certain war going on might have played out very differently if not for Covid, but you can't convince a person that doesn't want to be convinced, they'll just continue wagging their finger at you and going "nuh uh".

It was originally more indignant, but I'm not feeling like copping a ban because of an insecure mod on a power trip today. Your post was spot on though.

Showing that that rudeness and hostility are allowed when you're on staff when it shouldn't be allowed for anyone here.
Makes this forum even more miserable and hostile than it needs to be when staff are perpetuating it.

100% agreed.

[B-Dubs]

Again, what the fuck are these posts.

[B-Dubs]

or it did and you wish it didn't?

just because you are saying it didn't doesn't make it so.

see how much value these types of comments have?

Glad someone said it because it's a recurring theme with them in almost every thread I've seen them post in.

[B-Dubs]

I don't meant any offense but what kind of attitude is this?
It feels like you are mocking everyone who has been affected and life changed because of the pandemic including me and others
And some pointed out that your posts have similarities on other threads. That's alarming

b-dubs showing his ass as always.

Remembering the time when B-Dubs made a very insensitive post towards one of my partners earlier this year and it made her cry. I'm not ever going to let that go. (And if you're wondering the "It's so frustrating" part was in context of awful trans news going on in the US. He felt the need to show little class with "You're frustrated?")

Completely agree with this. Tbh a lot of staff here are the same.

what's extremely rude is deliberately misinterpreting a disagreement with what was said as a personal attack. that's what that community manager did. the comment they got very anti-social in response to was calling out a privileged take. the comment was not accusing the community manager of *being* privileged. the community manager chose to misrepresent what was said and decided to become righteously indignant and rude in their response.

It's always a good sign when specific top members of the admin team are specifically pointed at as reasons for why queer people and POC are leaving Era in droves when they pull shit like in that screenshot, acting like banning HL was like pulling teeth and taking out the anger on trans people (especially after the Cyberpunk debacle), or coming in this thread with the most "fuck you got mine" take imaginable for immunocompromised people. Then if you call it out, it always goes like

I took a step back on this response and slept on it in order to not react. However, it honestly still bothers me and I need to say something.

This response is inappropriate (especially from a staff member) and has rightfully gotten criticized for this by members here for unneeded hostility. Worse, I know this isn't the first time B-Dubs has upset multiple people for their attitude (as evidenced in this thread alone). I recall specifically requesting the ability to ignore moderators because of the way B-Dubs has responded in the past that has upset me.

I'm beginning to feel this thread is turning into a witch-hunt. I realize I risk further perpetuating that with this post, but people are understandably upset, and I don't think being silent on the issue solves the problem. I recognize these forums are the staff's domain. It is a privilege for us to post here. But at some point, when there's enough voices saying the same thing or feeling the same way and it comes up time and time again, it does warrant questioning as to whether this position is the right one to take for the sake of the community.

I know the moderators might be feeling pressured into closing this thread to avoid further conflict. I do fear it will be kicking the can down the road, though. Regardless of their decision, I hope internal discussions and reflection are had at the very least.

[Chudder Barbarity]

B-Chuds: *Rapes (not in a systematic way doe, only a little chaotic sexual assault) and murders Nepenthe and drags her corpse across the street in the Versa shouting "THIS IS MAGA COUNTRY" at the top of his lungs*

B-Chuds in response to the allegations: "Yeah I got a little heated, but did you know trans rights are human rights??? 

Oh ok, I guess all is forgiven now 

[Snoopy]

[JoeBoy101]

Oooh didn’t read but got it in case he edits

OK, so, honestly, I do apologize for cursing Nepenthe out the way I did. I should have known better and it was absolutely the wrong thing to do. I got way too heated and overreacted.

The truth is that when I saw her posts, I wasn't really thinking about myself but about the kids I've worked with in the recent past. I've worked with a number of Central and South American refugees, whose parents crossed the border to get their kids away from the violence of their homes and to try and provide a better life for them. All I could think about was Trump wanting to go around, door-to-door as he put it, and deport all of them to a home that would see them dead inside of a month of returning. I thought about what responsibility I have toward them and I got too heated and it was wrong.

I thought about the trans kid I still mentor, how he wants to start his hormones in the spring, after he no longer needs parental permission, how he's finally going to be able to live his life the way he wants and gets to be the man he has always been, and how Trump would take that away from him, dooming him to living in the body of someone he isn't, with the stroke of a pen. I wondered what responsibility I have to him and I got heated and I shouldn't have used the language that I did. It was wrong and I do apologize.

When I saw those posts, I thought about myself and the people like me who have chronic, preexisting conditions that would result in insurance companies denying us coverage if not for the ACA and how Trump was a single vote in the senate from repealing it. How my own medication costs $60,000 a year, with all the potential cancerous side effects, and how there's people far worse off than I am. I wondered about what I owed them and it got me seeing red and I reacted in the wrong way. There's no room for that sort of language or tone, especially from someone in my position.

I thought about these cousins from Eastern Europe I have never met but have talked to on the phone and how afraid they are of what is going on over there. About how the stories of mass graves and mass executions and kidnapped children and reports of sterilization and what sort of thing would happen to them if we stopped trying to help and left them to their fate. I got way too angry and there's no excuse for the sort of language I used.

The truth is that I've been struggling with the whole voting thing this cycle more than I ever have because of what I've seen in Gaza and my responsibility to the people who live there and my responsibilities I have to the people in the US and in other parts of the world. The truth is that it isn't an easy situation for anyone to navigate, there's no simple answers, no obviously correct choices to be had. This is why we have been asking everyone not to attack each other over whether or not they choose to vote. Criticize the stances on the issues that these candidates have, we'd never say not to do that, but in an election where so much is at stake there's no room for attacking each other and making insinuations and I forgot that and myself for a moment. I shouldn't have done that and I apologize profusely for it. To both Nepenthe and all of you. Everyone deserves better and I intend to make sure that happens.

And there’s the groveling apology. “Please, stop being mean and cancelling me!”

Ironically, it’s as hollow of apology as Nep’s was, but of course, the morons who pick apart the letter kerning of apologies from celebrities, streamers, and the like, will swallow this wholesale.

Utterly pathetic.

[jooseloose]

What's the hidden content here? https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/post-130492938

[DocWager]

Who’s QQ, and when did Melody brake up with them?

[Snoopy]

Ree are very upset Open Critic has a user score now.

Another place for online shitheads to express their anger......

[BIONIC]

What's the hidden content here? https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/post-130492938

Long story short, someone from my old MMO days reached out to me a couple years back and we talked for a bit, but conversations with him veered into attention-seeking creepy stalker vibes over time. I kept talking to him while trying to get him to straighten himself out, but the last straw was initiating a Discord call while I was driving to work over the past week. I was super pissed off about it, because I thought it was family or co-workers trying to contact me. I decided enough was enough and just blocked his ass everywhere.

Somewhat unsurprisingly, it turns out he has an account on this very forum, and DMed me here. Tried explaining the Discord call as accidental butt dialing. I put him on ignore, but it seems he still has the ability to DM me. Even sent me some messages with Discord chat among other people in that MMO community dated 2019 (I actually quit said MMO around 2016-2017-ish) speculating about how 'hot' I might be. Bleh. Is there anything on this site that allows me to just block this fool from being able to talk to me completely?

As for why I haven't reported him, I think the mods here have better shit to do than to get involved in some he-said-she-said shit that ultimately began with off-site drama (that would just be immediately solved with a true block function if it already exists and I just haven't found it yet), though I might just be exercising too much restraint here.

What the fuck? That's horrible, I'm sorry you're having to deal with that all the way down to this forum. I would definitely send this up the chain; mods have things on their plate but stopping users from harassing other users is important and I doubt they'd feel otherwise. You've made it clear you don't want to be contacted and if said person is violating that with unwanted DMs it's worth the staff knowing.

I don't believe there's a wholesale block feature on here beyond ignoring but if you'd like to test anything in the meantime feel free to reach out and we can see how we might be able to prevent it on a user level for now.

Yeah, I've been considering making use of the report function, but I don't think there's a need yet since he might just get bored and leave me alone. Quite frankly, I'm not really bothered at all, I just think of what he's doing as mildly annoying and sad. I've learned over the years from friends that had also played that MMO that he had a history of doing similar things with some other former players before they finally scorched his ass too.

Though if he posts in this thread to see what's behind these posts (especially while pretending to give a shit about what this thread's actual purpose is, I've already noted his presence in one thread that I had participated in beforehand), all the gloves will immediately come off.

Of course, whatever you think would would be best. I know how uncomfortable it can be but it sounds like you're handling it well, it's definitely sad and annoying to have to deal with. Definitely let staff know if it persists past this point though and in either case, stay safe.

Stalking is awful, I'm sorry it's happening to you. I believe mods can read DMs but I would encourage you to document everything as evidence when you do need to take the gloves off.

If you feel you're getting stalked through DMs, please feel free to report the DM. It's the only way we have visibility into them. And never feel like we have anything better to do because the safety of our members is one of my main concerns <3

I'll keep this in mind, though a few minutes ago, I discovered the option to leave a conversation and automatically mute any further replies to it, so he'll probably just be shouting into the void now. I'll strongly consider it if he figures out what happened and insists on starting a new one.

Are you the stalker?