I'm not coming across as a "white knight". No one looks good in this, and I'm not defending the mods' actions. The ban warnings were fucked up, the fact that there was no compromise from Mini was fucked up. But enough people are already going into that in much better detail than I can.
And I don't think the players started it, for the record. The mods obviously started it with the fact that Mini couldn't resolve her own player plot with Batty's. I am denying none of these things.
However, the way that was went about it was severely disheartening to me. The only reason that plurk remained even somewhat civil is because Linda did most of the talking. And honestly, I don't accept "but Anduin could have shown!" As an excuse. Anduin has been a known non-entity in most plurks for a while now, and no one has seen them do much of... well, anything. Sure, they weren't planning for Anduin to not show and for it to be four people to just Olga, their communication clearly shows that. But they had to known it was going to be a likely possibility.
Olga should have disengaged, but Batty should not have brought that many people into the plurk. Having at least one person to corroborate and back up your points would be seen as logical, but there were enough people in that plurk for Olga to feel cornered, and that's as much Batty's problem for bringing in a whole group to make her feel better as it is on Olga for not letting it sit until she could talk to the other mods at length.
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And I don't think the players started it, for the record. The mods obviously started it with the fact that Mini couldn't resolve her own player plot with Batty's. I am denying none of these things.
However, the way that was went about it was severely disheartening to me. The only reason that plurk remained even somewhat civil is because Linda did most of the talking. And honestly, I don't accept "but Anduin could have shown!" As an excuse. Anduin has been a known non-entity in most plurks for a while now, and no one has seen them do much of... well, anything. Sure, they weren't planning for Anduin to not show and for it to be four people to just Olga, their communication clearly shows that. But they had to known it was going to be a likely possibility.
Olga should have disengaged, but Batty should not have brought that many people into the plurk. Having at least one person to corroborate and back up your points would be seen as logical, but there were enough people in that plurk for Olga to feel cornered, and that's as much Batty's problem for bringing in a whole group to make her feel better as it is on Olga for not letting it sit until she could talk to the other mods at length.