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Undeleting this so everyone can see, what should we do here?do it you mother ****** and. dick sucker
Given @Tempestdragon6 's attitude toward the Dereck03, who are simply doing their job, I believe a severe punishment, ranging from at least a 1 year ban to a likely permanent ban, is warranted. I deleted his comment but it can be seen above.
Sigh, when someone like Tempestdragon resorts to incendiary comments, it undermines whatever point they are trying to make and ends up making his side look bad. Stop doing things like these.Undeleting this so everyone can see, what should we do here?
Given @Tempestdragon6 's attitude toward the Dereck03, who are simply doing their job, I believe a severe punishment, ranging from at least a 1 year ban to a likely permanent ban, is warranted. I deleted his comment but it can be seen above.
I checked the warning tracker and saw that this isn't their first offense of this kind—they already have multiple warnings and a ban—and this time they came out of nowhere and were completely aggressive. I'm going to ban them permanently. If anyone has any objections, I'm here to discuss it. For now, time to sleep, Tempest.Sigh, when someone like Tempestdragon resorts to incendiary comments, it undermines whatever point they are trying to make and ends up making his side look bad. Stop doing things like these.
For him, I'm fine with either a one-year ban or an indefinite one, with the option to appeal after a year, though I'm still open to hearing what the higher-ups think about it.
The first part of the Be respectful rule says any threatening messages should not be posted. If 2 users are right now feeling creeped out around a person because it now feels like they are being "stalked" by him, then that should be described as threatening. Sorry but there are no excuses for this kind of behavior.I think quite a few of those quotes aren't rule violations. Referring to rule breaking behavior as "atrocious" is beyond mild. "I don't want these people" is also just the start of the sentence, the rest of it seems to suggest that he doesn't want them editing the context of the screenshots. There's more to your report, and I'll get to that then, but I think the first part is just blatantly not a violation.
Now about this part, Reporting the users on off-site violations is ok. If it were public information that is. This is a private server. As mentioned by Astral, this server needs people to tell them their vsbw username, send a screenshot of it, and then they will be accepted as a member. If he did join as a member, which it was stated he didn't, this wouldn't be a rule violation. But he didn't join the server. Also, as i said before, this is private information. Let's assume for a second what you say is right, let's say someone in the server thought it was getting out of hand, will they send it to some random member? I'm sure there are a multitude of mods here who also use discord and you can even DM them on vsbw itself, this could've been handled through a message to mods instead of sending it to Mr.Yoon.About stalking and sockpuppeting;
This isn’t stalking or any kind of privacy violation, it’s just a report about users breaking off-site rules, which is allowed. As for the “sockpuppeting” claims, there are plenty of ways this report might have been done without using a sockpuppet. For example, someone in that private server might’ve genuinely decided to report what was happening to prevent things from getting worse. They may have wanted to stay anonymous for obvious reasons, so they passed the evidences to Gamin and had him report it instead, and this is likely what might have happened. I find evidences for the sockpuppet report very weak on its own. That is my opinion on these two.
Don't the rules of vsbw state this directly. He directly invaded an entire private server's users' privacy and leaked private messages from them. Now there could be the issue of sock puppet as well. He also now made 2 members, who are still members and have not received any suspension or ban, feel threatened in real life, which violates the out-of-site rules of vsbw and Be respectful section.Yeah. I just don't think Yoon, at any point, significantly broke the rules. Reading the rest of the report now that I have a moment, I'm just going to dismiss any action cast against the guy. All of his actions are, at most, mildly rude, and at least, well within the bounds of the rules.
Doxing is stated right here. Unless of course you or reiner or any other mod here can prove that this wasn't doxing or sock puppet and this wasn't an invasion of privacy, i believe many rules were broken here. Please consider this again.Actions taken against another user off-site of such a nature that could reasonably cause undue harm and/or distress for the other user in on-site interactions. This includes, but is not limited to: harassment, threats of violence or similar harmful actions, unsolicited sexual misconduct, impersonation, hacking, and doxing.
If the question isn't powerscaling related, we would probably disregard it. The only circumstance I can imagine at this moment where we might rule otherwise is if the user is actively pestering/harassing the author, since this would still fall against the written rule. We don't care if you ask the author what their favorite colors are or what inspired them to make such a gosh darn interesting verse.May I ask why: asking questions that are not even gonna be used on site for scaling or any other use here, is against the rules here? (I would understand if they were used on site, but since they are not, I am just extremely confused, how this can be a rule.)
I would rather a one year ban for TempestDragon. I think that the current atmosphere understandably creates derision, frustration. From our perspective, it is right and good that we maintain the peace of the thread so that we can work through this. But from TempestDragon's perspective, he is being quieted, when he has not had as much a chance to speak. I doubt letting him speak would help, but I think it is a not unreasonable thought. Yes, his decision based on that impetus is unreasonable, and a one year ban for such a blatant display, combined with his past history, is fair. But I would rather not permanently ban him.I checked the warning tracker and saw that this isn't their first offense of this kind—they already have multiple warnings and a ban—and this time they came out of nowhere and were completely aggressive. I'm going to ban them permanently. If anyone has any objections, I'm here to discuss it. For now, time to sleep, Tempest.
The allegation of stalking is baseless, to use your example. Yoon's screenshots come from a server that one of you guys must have invited him to, as it has been repeatedly pointed out that it was invite only. There's no stalking at hand, people were just caught and want a counter-report. It's petty.The first part of the Be respectful rule says any threatening messages should not be posted. If 2 users are right now feeling creeped out around a person because it now feels like they are being "stalked" by him, then that should be described as threatening. Sorry but there are no excuses for this kind of behavior.
We are not upholding the rules of the server. It doesn't change our opinion about what constitutes as harassment (in the form of stalking). Someone DMing the information to Yoon also isn't stalking. It would be even less of a situation of stalking than if he had joined the server. The speculation at work here does not constitute a rule violation.Now about this part, Reporting the users on off-site violations is ok. If it were public information that is. This is a private server. As mentioned by Astral, this server needs people to tell them their vsbw username, send a screenshot of it, and then they will be accepted as a member. If he did join as a member, which it was stated he didn't, this wouldn't be a rule violation. But he didn't join the server. Also, as i said before, this is private information. Let's assume for a second what you say is right, let's say someone in the server thought it was getting out of hand, will they send it to some random member? I'm sure there are a multitude of mods here who also use discord and you can even DM them on vsbw itself, this could've been handled through a message to mods instead of sending it to Mr.Yoon.
On that note, did Mr.Yoon ever explain how he got those screenshots? I ruled out the possibility of another person passing this to Mr.Yoon because they can always DM a mod instead of asking him to report it. Isn't that more logical if they wanted their name to be anonymous?
Respectfully, "undue stress" arising from being reported for your own rule violations is not the kind of stress we're talking about there. I think that the verbiage employed here is blatantly overdramatic. I find this report to be deeply unflattering to make, at this time. He reported evidence of a legitimate rule violation-- we don't especially care whether he was sent it by someone else, or if he was in the server on false pretenses. Doesn't bother us one bit.Don't the rules of vsbw state this directly. He directly invaded an entire private server's users' privacy and leaked private messages from them. Now there could be the issue of sock puppet as well. He also now made 2 members, who are still members and have not received any suspension or ban, feel threatened in real life, which violates the out-of-site rules of vsbw and Be respectful section.
Showing screenshots from a Discord server is not Doxing. To compare the two is just an outright lie. I don't believe you're referring to a sock puppet on the wiki, but rather an alt account on Discord, which, again, we do not care about.Doxing is stated right here. Unless of course you or reiner or any other mod here can prove that this wasn't doxing or sock puppet and this wasn't an invasion of privacy, i believe many rules were broken here. Please consider this again.
Again I'd like to state this so everyone can see it. The supporters were part of a private server. They needed to mention their vsbw account to join the server. Mr.Yoon's account was not there. So either person from the server, who saw the mess it was in, came out to for some reason send the screenshots to Mr.Yoon. instead or reputable mods like Mr.Bambu and Antvasima, and ask them to make a public report so everyone can see these screenshots, which makes no sense. If I was in the server or anyone was in the server and wanted to release those screenshots I would DM them to some mod and ask them to take action on this. But randomly sending it to another user? And even if it was sent to another user, it could've also been sent to the mods. The mods are better at keeping your identity anonymous as we know. So unless Mr.Yoon can confirm that this was the method used and the person indeed for some reason didn't want to send this to the mod, which i need proof, I would assume this is a sock pupper account and Mr.Yoon has used an alt account to get screenshots from a private server and used them for malicious purposes (trying to get 4-5 members banned). This is doxing, sock puppet, and invasion of privacy and violates 3 rules in the server, and this is other than the Be respectful one where members are now creeped out because of him.
And i'd request the mods to understand the severity of this situation.
Please take your time reading this, as unless what i said can be proven by Mr.Yoon, it all leads to one strict conclusion![]()
If they had anything to say, they would have said it, and I can understand the frustration, but they weren’t even mentioned in the report and aren’t involved in any way, so I doubt they have much to say here. Their only two messages before they lost their temper with the message directed at me were unnecessary comments that added nothing, which is why they were deleted, so that doesn’t help at all; they have a history of being an aggressive person to begin with.I would rather a one year ban for TempestDragon. I think that the current atmosphere understandably creates derision, frustration. From our perspective, it is right and good that we maintain the peace of the thread so that we can work through this. But from TempestDragon's perspective, he is being quieted, when he has not had as much a chance to speak. I doubt letting him speak would help, but I think it is a not unreasonable thought. Yes, his decision based on that impetus is unreasonable, and a one year ban for such a blatant display, combined with his past history, is fair. But I would rather not permanently ban him.
I know. Unfortunately, as the abjudicators, benevolence falls to us to dole out. This was one heated comment, I'm just saying I'd rather not ban him forever based on it, even if it was indefensibly shitty behavior. As always, others are welcome to disagree, and the majority vote would stand; I have no intention of causing a fuss about it.If they had anything to say, they would have said it, and I can understand the frustration, but they weren’t even mentioned in the report and aren’t involved in any way, so I doubt they have much to say here. Their only two messages before they lost their temper with the message directed at me were unnecessary comments that added nothing, which is why they were deleted, so that doesn’t help at all; they have a history of being an aggressive person to begin with.
Tbh, I don't care how long the ban lasts, he deserves it; I made it permanent just because, but I want to make it clear that I'm open to discussion regarding the duration.
Me neither, so let's see what the others have to say,As always, others are welcome to disagree, and the majority vote would stand; I have no intention of causing a fuss about it.
Me neither, so let's see what the others have to say,
@Just a Random Butler @Reiner04.
You’ve already discussed this issue, but I’d like to ask for your opinion again: Do you agree that the ban time should be reduced to one year, or should it remain permanent with the possibility of appeal after a year, as Butler suggested?
My stance remains the same. I don't mind any of the two. Although, I am more in favor of one year.For him, I'm fine with either a one-year ban or an indefinite one, with the option to appeal after a year
I was already more on the side of permaban but left it to majority on what they decide btw 1 to forever but if i have to say a fix duration, then i would say that permaban is more warranted here. Tempestdragon wasn’t involved in the report, so it doesn’t make sense for him to be so openly rude, especially when he clearly knew the consequences and It was completely uncalled for and unwarranted to target you, of all people, when you hadn’t even said anything about the report. Given that he has already been warned and banned for similar behavior before, I’m fine with a permanent ban.Me neither, so let's see what the others have to say,
@Just a Random Butler @Reiner04.
You’ve already discussed this issue, but I’d like to ask for your opinion again: Do you agree that the ban time should be reduced to one year, or should it remain permanent with the possibility of appeal after a year, as Butler suggested?
With all due respect, when does one "unlock" maturity? It's a process. None of us are 100% mature, we are just looking for a baseline level of respectfulness. Many teenagers possess the trait, many adults do not.Tempestdragon is clearly a teenager; one year wouldn't really fix anything. He was angry, of course. However, he's immature, and to judge someone becoming mature only comes with an actual sign of growth.
If he's unbanned after a year, we won't know if he's mature enough to be on the site, and this could all just be repeated. A permanent ban sounds better, with several chances to appeal after you've displayed growth and apologise. A teenager doesn't unlock maturity after a year.
Of course, none of us are 100% mature, but generally, teenagers are more likely to be immature than mature. A baseline of respectfulness doesn't solve an issue if someone is immature; then there isn't a chance they can maintain a baseline level of respectfulness over time, they'll just fall back into the habit. Of course, with time comes greater maturity, and it's plausible that an apology accompanied by proof of change would demonstrate that maturity. Which is why I prefer a permanent ban with chances to appeal.With all due respect, when does one "unlock" maturity? It's a process. None of us are 100% mature, we are just looking for a baseline level of respectfulness. Many teenagers possess the trait, many adults do not.
This is a sort of general statement; have you gone through the matter currently at hand, and do you have an opinion regarding that? The accusations amount to users in a Discord server talking about and planning questions to ask the author, some of which were more explicitly powerscaling-centric than others, and one user, AlexSamDen, offering to alter questions so that they did not register as powerscaling-centric.Excluding a few caveats, I'd say that asking questions of writers is fine. The purpose of the rule against it is to stop lots of pestering of authors and to get rid of dishonestly acquired WOG. If we ask Toriyama (RIP) "when did Goku start thinking of Vegeta as a true rival" and he answers "the Cell Games", that's fine. If we bombard him with questions about measurable powers and destruction to the point he starts answering "I don't know" or "please stop harassing me", that's obviously different.
I'd honestly consider asking for clarification on things from the author to be fairly minor and even okay, and to only become a major issue if A) there's a dishonest leading question which is then used to make changes (this is best stopped by simply rejecting the CRT and scolding the user) or B) a spamming of messages that becomes harassment. This risks the Wiki's reputation and is objectively wrong. This warrants a ban if it does in fact reach the point of harassment.
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I just want to add, as my last reply, because I think it's important and nobody mentioned it.
Questions we send to Fuse couldn't be used anyway. Why? Because they are not public. We can send a DM to Fuse with a question, not write the question on his wall. And IF he answers, that answer is also in a form of a private message.
What I mean by that is— If WoG exist strictly in one user's inbox as a screenshot and cannot be checked or verified, it cannot be used for the wiki, because screenshot with an answer can be very easily faked. As far as I know VSBW accept only public statements of the author and not something he whispered to a single user in DM. So Fuse's answers are unusable before anyone even get an answer. Alex couldn't "use them in the future". He couldn't use it at all. No one of us could even if we would want to. So what he did is harmless to the wiki from the mere beginning.
That's my last comment on this. I leave everything else to mods.
There are definitely elements there that could be construed as harassment (planning to ask targeted questions) and dishonest (altering questions to disguise their intent).This is a sort of general statement; have you gone through the matter currently at hand, and do you have an opinion regarding that? The accusations amount to users in a Discord server talking about and planning questions to ask the author, some of which were more explicitly powerscaling-centric than others, and one user, AlexSamDen, offering to alter questions so that they did not register as powerscaling-centric.
I also must raise an issue. It's being claimed that the statements weren't intended to be used for revisions, so why plan out disguising them to not be recognised as power scaling questions?I'm not particularly interfering in the conversation, however, a certain issue with the very core of the report was brought up 3 times already, but ignored for some reason
This is the original time it was brought up
That claim is difficult to accept, given that some members, only a few pages earlier, expressed intent to use these WOGs on other wikis and thus, It would take much stronger evidence to prove the questions were asked through private DMs that can’t be traced back to the author.I'm not particularly interfering in the conversation, however, a certain issue with the very core of the report was brought up 3 times already, but ignored for some reason
This is the original time it was brought up
This matter I already explained hereI also must raise an issue. It's being claimed that the statements weren't intended to be used for revisions, so why plan out disguising them to not be recognised as power scaling questions?
There are wikis that allow wog from private DMs though, to be fair, It would take much stronger evidence to prove the questions were asked through private DMs that can’t be traced back to the author.
1) There are wikis that accept DMs and there's also a matter of debates on Reddit, Discord, YouTube and TickTock which many of the members of the server participate inThat claim is difficult to accept, given that some members, only a few pages earlier, expressed intent to use these WOGs on other wikis and thus, It would take much stronger evidence to prove the questions were asked through private DMs that can’t be traced back to the author.
Idk if my vote counts as a TH, but I share the same thoughts as @Reiner04 for the most part. Asking battleboarding questions is against the rules. Asking non-battleboarding questions is fine tho. This seems to be the case of asking the former which isn’t fine. I also support the short ban for planning on asking the author power scaling questions.Updating the thread to inform you all that I have adjusted TempestDragon's ban to 1 year. I would also like to inform you all that he reached out to me, and said that the reason for his outburst was that he was also in the Discord server where all of this happened, and that he felt his privacy was infringed upon. I obviously think this is a silly claim and one that holds absolutely no water, but at the same time, it does help explain why it is he became so angry: he does have some personal tie to this case.
With that said, unless there is something else to add, I would consider that matter resolved. I would also consider the report against Yoon resolved, as everyone seems to be in agreement that it was insubstantial (or, at least, nobody voiced disagreement with that yet). As for the core problem here, the Tensura WoG issue.
Votes on that subject have varied. These are against a rule violation:
These are in favor:
- @Planck69 argued against it being a rule violation and affirmed he felt it was alright, even if it looked bad
- @Vietthai96 argued against planning CRTs being a rule violation, though I am not sure if he had time to read the actual accusation
- @DarkDragonMedeus was explicitly neutral, but leaned in favor of leniency
This amounts to a vote in favor of 4/5-2-1 (acknowledging that DDM's neutral vote was more in favor of leniency than punishment), with an admin and a mod against and two bureaucrats and two mods (and possibly an admin, I'm inferring from Lephyr's post here). With DDM's preference acknowledged, I would like more staff input.
- @Reiner04 argued early on that it was strictly against the letter of the rule, not accounting for how bad it looked with additional details
- @LephyrTheRevanchist initially suggested only a WoG ban on Tensura, but later shifted to neutrality on a ban (and possible support on warnings, I would like elaboration on this)
- I argued in favor of these being rule violations, including a short ban for AlexSamDen
- @FinePoint argued that these actions fall against the letter of the rule, as it exists now, and later clarified support for Alex's ban and warnings
- @Antvasima agreed with my arguments
I am 100% fine with the warnings. Maintain neutrality with the ban.
- @LephyrTheRevanchist initially suggested only a WoG ban on Tensura, but later shifted to neutrality on a ban (and possible support on warnings, I would like elaboration on this)
In all seriousness, asking a question doesn't automatically qualify as harassment. Consider real life celebrity interactions. People see them in public and ask for an autograph, that's not harassment unless the person imposes themself on the celebrity against that celebrity's wishes or oversteps acceptable boundaries. If the celebrity asks to be left alone and the person won't leave them alone, for example. A more extreme example might involve showing up at the celebrity's home or showing them some proof that the person has stalked them.I know my earlier comment was considered clogging bybest modDereck, but i really think this should be brought up:
If the rule states that stuff can't be used and authors can't be harassed (which obviously is correct), shouldn't the report that denounces a violation of the rule evidence that, in this case, @AlexSamDen harassed Fuse or attempted to use information obtained in that way in a CRT here in the site??
I agree 100% with youIn all seriousness, asking a question doesn't automatically qualify as harassment. Consider real life celebrity interactions. People see them in public and ask for an autograph, that's not harassment unless the person imposes themself on the celebrity against that celebrity's wishes or oversteps acceptable boundaries. If the celebrity asks to be left alone and the person won't leave them alone, for example. A more extreme example might involve showing up at the celebrity's home or showing them some proof that the person has stalked them.
To be very noted, Bambu has explained very well his reasoning for a ban.I agree 100% with you
And we have nothing showing that @AlexSamDen was using the material to create a CRT with illegal-by-our-standards WoG
So why are we cogitating his ban? I am reading this from the original @Gamin_Yoon23 report and this is definetely not clear
It's a preemptive ban to entirely discourage even the thought of using these questions or their nature, and which, in the way he sees it, the intention of potential malicious usage. Of course, I expect him to explain himself further, but honestly to me is very straightforward.It's my belief that a warning should be given to relevant parties, and at the very least @AlexSamDen is deserving of a brief ban. The implications of his actions are, in my opinion, impossible to benevolently interpret. We cannot say for certain that everyone on that server was so aligned to manipulate the context to bypass VSBW's rulings regarding WoG, mostly they were asking powerscaling adjacent questions that may or may not have been malevolently used. Alex's actions give me no doubt as to his intentions, at least.
To be fair, @AlexSamDen has a habit (on the verge of being a role) of proof reading and rewording everything. That includes our CRTs and sandboxes and profiles as well. Thus at some point he started asking everyone to send whatever tensura related stuff they're doing so he can proofread and reword them if neededI agree 100% with you
And we have nothing showing that @AlexSamDen was using the material to create a CRT with illegal-by-our-standards WoG
So why are we cogitating his ban? I am reading this from the original @Gamin_Yoon23 report and this is definetely not clear