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Re: Lightning Dom & "Gaslighting"

(Anonymous) 2021-01-09 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
AYRT
Wow, what an absolute dumpster fire this all is. Thanks for taking the time to dig up these threads and screenshots for me, I appreciate it. Genuinely can't believe how JT/JS kept weaseling their way into multiple dom management positions considering their track record, like... what??

Re: Lightning Dom & "Gaslighting"

(Anonymous) 2021-01-10 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
As someone who has been on Plague for a while...it's because of the unfortunate culture that was more prominent at that time.
What culture do you ask? The "staff/other flights hates us" culture. So of course, someone as infamous as Jon was welcomed to be a Dom leader in Plague bc dumb reasons (like, let's invite this person, they did nothing wrong, just spam fundraisers nonstop).

Off-topic rant: I want to think that this "victim complex" is less prominent, mostly because this past RoR was the tipping point for many plague oldies (realizing it's not that deep), the ban of ShadeofChaos and the ridiculous attitude of Kyra (boycott the site!!! I stand with plague!!! Ugh) was mine.

Also, fun fact: the way ShadeofChaos told her history (was banned because she bought too many gems in a short lapse) it's so stupid. Suuuuree it was just an unfortunate coincidence that she was banned right when staff cracked onto a huge black market operation, that also included another Dom leader (Fire's bank person) and others. Just one person (a random user, but they had/have a Tumblr) came clear that they were banned due to doing black market trades.

Re: Lightning Dom & "Gaslighting"

(Anonymous) 2021-01-10 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
Lol I jumped ship before Kyra did her rant, but that's because she and Mercedes were total tyrants in discord.

Re: Lightning Dom & "Gaslighting"

(Anonymous) 2021-01-10 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
people kicking and screaming about being banned makes me MORE suspicious of them actually multiaccounting or doing black market exchanges. if your dom bank is dumb enough to knowingly break TOS while holding the whole damn flight's dom funds... play stupid games, win stupid prizes i guess. it truly sucks that fire had to deal with that absolute nuclear fallout because of one player's actions, though

Re: Lightning Dom & "Gaslighting"

(Anonymous) 2021-01-10 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
No problem haha, I get really into tracking down old drama sometimes.

I think Plague might have been uniquely vulnerable to this scenario because the old dom team had kind of a history of being a cliquey friends group. So he just had to buddy up to people like KyraG and convince them that his reputation was just from people being mad that he was good at fundraising or whatever, and it wouldn't have been difficult. Also, he did have a lot of energy to put into dom, and that's rare enough that other dom leaders would probably welcome a new addition to the team, even if they had reservations about his history.

Re: Lightning Dom & "Gaslighting"

(Anonymous) 2021-01-10 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
He was friends with Shade, so that's likely how.
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