I realise that I didn't address Creeper himself in my last post, so I'd like to say directly that I hope you're doing as well as you can through all this. I can't begin to imagine how horrible this must have been.
Thanks to BoM for a generally decent post. I'm glad both for the stance eventually taken against all forms of doxxing, and for the stated willingness to accept how terrible the voices which appeared to speak for BoM were in the immediate aftermath. If nothing else, hopefully the complete ostracisation of doxxers will demonstrate that, in future, people should think before making people's private data publically accessible in a permanent archive. I'm also glad that the statement linked to both Rosa's and IMPC's apologies, and that both seem now to have displayed genuine contrition for what they did. Hopefully, if in future they join other online communities outside NS, they'll be careful never to do something like this again.
However. While the statement may have been incomplete without addressing those "communication" issues, it would have been complete without appearing to cast blame at Quebec. Perhaps some of what he's done has been in haste, but there is no sensible comparison to be made between a hasty and, perhaps, aggressive response to doxxing, and the act of doxxing itself. There likely is a problem with impulsivity in GP, but - while I doubt it was the intention of the authors of the statement - the way they went about presenting the chain of events as all being caused by impulsivity did compare Quebec's actions with Rosa and IMPC doxxing. I'd thought that may be an issue when first I read the post; All American Confederacy's posts prove the point: "It’s just universally, inarguably awful on all fronts. No side is good. Everyone’s just awful."
That is not true. Rosa and IMPC's actions, driven by impulsivity or not, were inexcusable. Quebec's were not. The perception that "no side is good" is one derived entirely from reading BoM's presentation of events, and demonstrates that its portrayal of events leans too heavily on criticising Quebec and others who argued vocally for action to be taken against doxxers.
I appreciate that BoM wants to see a less toxic GP, and hopes this will be the necessary wake-up call that the toxicity is harming people outside the game. But presenting, intentionally or otherwise, Qubec's actions as remotely comparable with IMPC's and Rosa's is not a good start. I, too, hope GP can become less toxic. I doubt that's going to happen, but I suppose we can hope.
I'd also question the decision by figures in BoM seeming to make light of the situation directly after their organisation posted a statement that included a partial acknowledgement that their leadership's posting around this issue has been in poor taste. That's honestly just baffling.
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