Re: Roninarmy, the official Forums for Green Ronin, may be shutting down



I was involved in the incident that sparked this whole scenario. I was perhaps the second person banned overall. Let me tell you how it looked to me, and to the dozen and a half people or so who were also "present" for it.



1) A prominent member of this community went to that community and started making declarations that a prominent member there (BatgirlIII) found distasteful.



2) BatgirlIII politely and rationally objected in one post, and began to write a second, lengthier, more detailed post.



3) A moderator - Fildrigar - jumped in with a profanity-laced, histrionic screed warning BatgirlIII about expressing her opinion on this subject again.



4) BatgirlIII finished her post, not having seen said screed.



5) Fildrigar immediately permabanned BatgirlIII, citing "TOS violations," where there were none. We managed to screencap her post, and she was polite and rational again, even if she expressed an unpopular opinion.



6) Everyone involved expressed shock and dismay that this would happen, specifically because BG3 was banned not for breaking the rules, but because a moderator disagreed with her. We posted as much. It is at this stage that many additional people, including myself, received two-week bans.



7) Evidence of the entire debacle, including Fildrigar's profanity-laced tirade, was deleted by a second moderator. We were warned from discussing the matter further.



8) One forum member followed a link in the second moderator's signature to her blog about her work. He asked her politely how her personal philosophy reconciled with her actions.



9) The head of Green Ronin responded with the post linked in the OP.



10) The moderator who originated this whole mess came back to the scene of the original crime and started antagonizing people about the ordeal.



11) A group of us who saw the whole ordeal - most of whom didn't receive disciplinary action, but now don't feel comfortable or safe posting on the RoninArmy boards - decided that maybe we should start our own forums instead. Working on that now.