07-17-2021, 11:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-17-2021, 11:08 PM by iStegosauruz.)
So I'm going to try to give some insight from the perspective of someone who was in the room during a lot of the decisions around how we recently have handled multis and to some extent how those decisions impacted this situation. As always even though I'm commenting from my personal perspective as Head Office my words are not indicative for that of the entire body so please no one demonize any of my fellow members for what was my position during the situation.
I absolutely understand where Jiggly was coming from in wanting a chance to forge a new identity. Although there are very few people in the league who have faced the same amount of public vitriol as they have anyone who has been on the frontline of a dramatic situation in the league knows it can really get to you. I can't put myself entirely in Jiggly's shoes but I can empathize to some extent from the situations I've been in that have gotten me blasted publicly for.
That all being said, blanket allowing second accounts with no repercussions is a dangerous thing to do. The biggest glaring issue that I had is that with the ability to create a new anonymous account came the detachment of reality from a lot of situations. The league can already be a toxic place as is and allowing someone to say or do whatever they like and then pull a ripcord and be an entirely new person only increases the toxicity in my mind. In the status quo - or a status quo where anonymous second accounts aren't allowed - you have to pick and choose your words to some extent because the reputation you build follows you. If that didn't happen there's less of an incentive to pick and choose your words. Thats a negative for the league in my mind.
The second issue I had with allowing anonymous second accounts was the issue that it creates with potential "revenge" accounts. We'd all hate it if someone created an account, strategically tried to get a team to draft them, and then retired immediately to fuck that team over out of spite for something done previously. There's a way for allowing it to be weaponized thats also a negative for the league.
There were plenty of smaller things I considered but those were my two biggest issues. That being said, I don't personally think Jiggly was trying to do either of those things with this second account. We spent several days trying to formulate a potential exception but we struggled to create one that didn't require us to weigh whether one person's trauma was either more or less deserving of an exception. Thats a prickly thing to be tasked with and something that I think would be a ticking time bomb of issues within the league.
We also ran into the issue with this situation that no matter what we did Jiggly had broken the rule about not being allowed to do rookie tasks a second time. That is something we would punish for which begged the question about whether the punishment should be publicly posted or not. The issue we ran into there was that if we weren't going to post it we had to have a concise and fair rule for what punishments got an exception to being publicly posted. The moment we posted a punishment about the Taka account having done the rookie tasks a second time is the moment we'd essentially blow Jiggly's cover.
All of this came together to form a very complicated situation. I fully understand there will be different perspectives about how we handled the situation and thats understandable. My hope wasn't that Jiggly would retire the Taka account because I think they had a lot more allies than they knew about - even those who didn't know the breadth of the situation before it came out publicly. I do hope they decide to come back to the league and give it another shot - for as many people as there are who can be toxic and negative there are four times as many people who are supportive and kind.
As an aside, I think the league needs to be less harsh on those who knew about the situation prior to it coming out publicly. Someone relied on them in confidence about things that were difficult for them and I don't think thats a bad thing or something we should be discouraging.
I absolutely understand where Jiggly was coming from in wanting a chance to forge a new identity. Although there are very few people in the league who have faced the same amount of public vitriol as they have anyone who has been on the frontline of a dramatic situation in the league knows it can really get to you. I can't put myself entirely in Jiggly's shoes but I can empathize to some extent from the situations I've been in that have gotten me blasted publicly for.
That all being said, blanket allowing second accounts with no repercussions is a dangerous thing to do. The biggest glaring issue that I had is that with the ability to create a new anonymous account came the detachment of reality from a lot of situations. The league can already be a toxic place as is and allowing someone to say or do whatever they like and then pull a ripcord and be an entirely new person only increases the toxicity in my mind. In the status quo - or a status quo where anonymous second accounts aren't allowed - you have to pick and choose your words to some extent because the reputation you build follows you. If that didn't happen there's less of an incentive to pick and choose your words. Thats a negative for the league in my mind.
The second issue I had with allowing anonymous second accounts was the issue that it creates with potential "revenge" accounts. We'd all hate it if someone created an account, strategically tried to get a team to draft them, and then retired immediately to fuck that team over out of spite for something done previously. There's a way for allowing it to be weaponized thats also a negative for the league.
There were plenty of smaller things I considered but those were my two biggest issues. That being said, I don't personally think Jiggly was trying to do either of those things with this second account. We spent several days trying to formulate a potential exception but we struggled to create one that didn't require us to weigh whether one person's trauma was either more or less deserving of an exception. Thats a prickly thing to be tasked with and something that I think would be a ticking time bomb of issues within the league.
We also ran into the issue with this situation that no matter what we did Jiggly had broken the rule about not being allowed to do rookie tasks a second time. That is something we would punish for which begged the question about whether the punishment should be publicly posted or not. The issue we ran into there was that if we weren't going to post it we had to have a concise and fair rule for what punishments got an exception to being publicly posted. The moment we posted a punishment about the Taka account having done the rookie tasks a second time is the moment we'd essentially blow Jiggly's cover.
All of this came together to form a very complicated situation. I fully understand there will be different perspectives about how we handled the situation and thats understandable. My hope wasn't that Jiggly would retire the Taka account because I think they had a lot more allies than they knew about - even those who didn't know the breadth of the situation before it came out publicly. I do hope they decide to come back to the league and give it another shot - for as many people as there are who can be toxic and negative there are four times as many people who are supportive and kind.
As an aside, I think the league needs to be less harsh on those who knew about the situation prior to it coming out publicly. Someone relied on them in confidence about things that were difficult for them and I don't think thats a bad thing or something we should be discouraging.