At the time she did not trust any member of the mod team would treat her fairly and wanted witnesses to ensure the mods she contacted would act reasonably, and she also wanted the pressure of having witnesses to keep herself from saying something she'd regret.
You know, I agree that the mods pretty much fucked the dog in every possible area here, but this was stupid, and it was triply stupid that Batty brought in someone who isn't even in the game. The plurk got leaked to the public at large anyway, and that could have happened even without extra uninvolved witnesses, so the excuse of needing you there as witnesses to prove something is obviously ridiculous -- the screencaps did a better job of proving what happened than your word would anyway. And I don't even feel like the second reason needs to be addressed. Batty is an adult and she needs to be accountable for her own actions just like the mods do. If she's incapable of handling discussions without having a posse of people to hold her hand, she's not mature enough to be in this game, period.
Basically, bottom line is that the mods handled this horribly, but you guys (and Batty in particular) aren't exactly smelling like roses here, and to be honest while I appreciate that you had the balls to apologize, I'd like to see other people involved do the same, Batty in particular. The way I see it, the mods made an initial fuckup by being inflexible, you guys overreacted to that fuckup, and the mods in turn overreacted to your overreaction. Are the mods probably more at fault? Sure, and they also have more responsibility by virtue of being mods, but the fact remains that the situation probably could have been resolved quietly had there not been the overreaction on your parts. The mods would have still fucked up part one, but it wouldn't have exploded into an incident which has frankly killed (maybe temporarily, maybe not) the game's OOC atmosphere for everyone, including completely uninvolved parties like myself.
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You know, I agree that the mods pretty much fucked the dog in every possible area here, but this was stupid, and it was triply stupid that Batty brought in someone who isn't even in the game. The plurk got leaked to the public at large anyway, and that could have happened even without extra uninvolved witnesses, so the excuse of needing you there as witnesses to prove something is obviously ridiculous -- the screencaps did a better job of proving what happened than your word would anyway. And I don't even feel like the second reason needs to be addressed. Batty is an adult and she needs to be accountable for her own actions just like the mods do. If she's incapable of handling discussions without having a posse of people to hold her hand, she's not mature enough to be in this game, period.
Basically, bottom line is that the mods handled this horribly, but you guys (and Batty in particular) aren't exactly smelling like roses here, and to be honest while I appreciate that you had the balls to apologize, I'd like to see other people involved do the same, Batty in particular. The way I see it, the mods made an initial fuckup by being inflexible, you guys overreacted to that fuckup, and the mods in turn overreacted to your overreaction. Are the mods probably more at fault? Sure, and they also have more responsibility by virtue of being mods, but the fact remains that the situation probably could have been resolved quietly had there not been the overreaction on your parts. The mods would have still fucked up part one, but it wouldn't have exploded into an incident which has frankly killed (maybe temporarily, maybe not) the game's OOC atmosphere for everyone, including completely uninvolved parties like myself.