After reading over that thread I'm kind of glad I eventually stopped playing Lioden, goddamn. Their mod team is fully anonymous in chat now, too? How is there any accountability with a system like that? Just let them have alt accounts they can actually play the game on in peace like pretty much every other pet site if there are privacy or harassment concerns. The site I work for right now is not a pet site but has allowed it for fifteen plus years and never had an issue.
I'm literally hung up on that so hard rn lol. I'm sure (at least I hope) that on the back end the devs have a way to see which moderator sent which message. But anonymity like that breeds power tripping because there's no personal accountability for making overly strict decisions, and it turns the mods into a monolith where every decision is going to be assumed to come from a unified front. Yeah, it means your words read as decisive and final, but that kind of loss of individual authoritative identity also discourages "breaking rank" to contest precedents you disagree with, which can lead to a sneaky spiral of increasingly more hostile moderation decisions.
Also...
> "You're just mad you got caught multi-accounting."
Somehow it's always staff's fault instead of one dumbass friend handing out hot items and funds without thinking about it, lol. Or one person only logging in to send stuff over to the others.
Like, protip: It's still funneling if the items are being distributed to three accounts instead of one.
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Re: Lioden Drama
(Anonymous) 2024-12-26 06:23 am (UTC)(link)I'm literally hung up on that so hard rn lol. I'm sure (at least I hope) that on the back end the devs have a way to see which moderator sent which message. But anonymity like that breeds power tripping because there's no personal accountability for making overly strict decisions, and it turns the mods into a monolith where every decision is going to be assumed to come from a unified front. Yeah, it means your words read as decisive and final, but that kind of loss of individual authoritative identity also discourages "breaking rank" to contest precedents you disagree with, which can lead to a sneaky spiral of increasingly more hostile moderation decisions.
Also...
> "You're just mad you got caught multi-accounting."
Somehow it's always staff's fault instead of one dumbass friend handing out hot items and funds without thinking about it, lol. Or one person only logging in to send stuff over to the others.
Like, protip: It's still funneling if the items are being distributed to three accounts instead of one.
Re: Lioden Drama
(Anonymous) 2024-12-26 06:25 am (UTC)(link)Holy shit, sorry for the novel. I have clearly had too much eggnog.