Staff Complaint - Melarara

[Filthyfrankster]

BYOND Key: Filthyfrankster

Staff BYOND Key: Melariara

Game ID: N/A

Reason for complaint: 

Primarily for influencing the decisions of staff team members over the past few months following a set of recent run ins in-game between my character (Ki) and Mel's pharmacist (Yekta). Which can be traced back in here for incident one  and the second but also most concerning one here  which involved a DOMINIAN character who specifically have hatred over machine and machine life engraved into their culture snitching to Yekta over some comments that Ki had made. This implied to me at first that were was a case of metabuddying between this exchange of information. The CCIA OOC investigation that followed by a staff team member led to nowhere. However messages between myself and Mel led up with this being exchanged.

 

 

After the second investigation by CCIA was over with, I began to notice the staff team seemingly to be watching over my actions more and more. Which led to a much more series of bwoinks, warnings and punishments issued. Which is strange because this occurred after the run in with Mel IC'ly. However in the past, I know that staff members tend to leave some passive aggressive notes in any warnings they give me. Hence the one below which was given to me by a member of the staff team that will remained anonymous. This led to the straw that broke the camel back when during a non-canon event hosted by Cybs, my character had decapitated a probably infected IPC which led to a 3 day ban and a job ban from machinist. That's fine, mistakes were made. However the salt in the wound was the fact the banning admin used another friend of mine to act as the messenger to tell me my character was deleted by staff decision with both Cybs and Mel refusing to speak to me over discord over what had occurred after the pass down that my character was deleted. 

 

Evidence/logs/etc:

Additional remarks:

 

This 'defamation campaign' that has been claimed I am doing by Cybs has been based around the fact that I've been voicing my suspicion behind the staff team actions being puppeteer'd. Since my character was deleted, I went to approach the artist after we had already paid them for a massive commission of the engineering/operations department and asked for a refund. This was given a big fat no to which I began asking players if it was justified to do a dispute via paypal. This put the whole commission at risk which I brought up to other players if it was justified since the whole ordeal was around my dispute with Mel. Even before that, after the ban. I noticed many of my friends who were either on the staff team either stop speaking to me or straight up block me. Even then, many of my non-staff member friends simply stopped talking to me. 

Not only have these events put the whole commission piece at risk in the community, it has damaged a number of my friendships. Call me thick-headed if you'd like. I don't take well to staff members approaching me with a passive aggressive attitude or the passive aggressive notes that they leave. But I'm simply not going to roll over and simply go 'it is what it is' in any chance to humiliate me. 

Edited March 4 by Filthyfrankster

[MattAtlas]

1 hour ago, Filthyfrankster said:

However in the past, I know that staff members tend to leave some passive aggressive notes in any warnings they give me. Hence the one below which was given to me by a member of the staff team that will remained anonymous.

If you're going to say "this staff member will remain anonymous" then you should actually hide my ckey in the note you posted from me.

I'd actually like to ask the point of putting this in this complaint directly, since you posted that image of the warning I gave you and then never elaborated on it.

[Melariara]

Alright. Let's begin.

2 hours ago, Filthyfrankster said:

However messages between myself and Mel led up with this being exchanged.

This interaction came about from Ren Hartfort attempting to get Yekta Nazeri and Ki Haerhuke to apologise, after the second IR was posted, before it was investigated, which Yekta accepted in exchange for attempting to get the IR removed. I did indeed speak to an agent in regards to doing that, but they decided what was said was improper in the workplace. Here is the full conversation:

2 hours ago, Filthyfrankster said:

a DOMINIAN character

Leonides Montaigne-Ramsteinn is not Dominian. They are Fisanduhian.

2 hours ago, Filthyfrankster said:

Cybs and Mel refusing to speak to me over discord

I cannot speak as to why Cybs has removed you from discord, but I personally removed you from my friends list and indeed blocked you two days after the above interaction when you did not respond in any way, shape or form, or even offer an apology for you or your characters actions.

2 hours ago, Filthyfrankster said:

[ Picture of a warning]

This warning has been posted before at this location. Why are you posting it again three years after it was given?

[Bear]

The CCIA was mentioned at several points here so I've been asked to give some clarification on the investigation that occurred as the head of the CCIA. The investigation, in question, was regarding a harassment claim between a group of characters pertaining to inappropriate workplace conduct. Which can be found here:
 

I was approached in DM's by Melariara to drop the IR sometime after. However, after deliberations with my team, we decided this was not a situation that any HR department would let go without a modicum of investigation due to the nature of it due to it involving multiple people and having sexual undertones with the harassment for the reporting parties' preferences and lifestyle. Melariara had no influence on this decision or part of it, as she was involved. With this in mind, we utilized our authority as CCIA to pursue the IR without the consent of either party, which remains a function of ours.

I hope this helps clarify the CCIA's part in this, which is minor to the entire discussion, but still relevant. Feel free to let me know if there are any questions.

[Alberyk]

I will handle this.

[WickedCybs]

On 04/03/2024 at 03:03, Filthyfrankster said:

However the salt in the wound was the fact the banning admin used another friend of mine to act as the messenger to tell me my character was deleted by staff decision with both Cybs and Mel refusing to speak to me over discord over what had occurred after the pass down that my character was deleted. 

You blocked me, and I know this because I did attempt to send you a message first regarding your character. After this it came to my attention you were actively complaining about the matter to other staff members, so it did fall to them to say something in my stead. Complaining about that is hypocritical.

I was unblocked shortly after the message was relayed for you to express your discontent, but I don't really care to be blocked/unblocked on a whim as you need me. I also don't care to speak with you anymore in general now. You haven't been a pleasant person and while I can believe that you may mean well to others in general, you have a tendency to blame others for your mistakes or fabricate their guilt where there is none. You may remember when you snapped at me for "making you look at bad" by "spawning in items" for an antag in front of you and then backpedaled and apologized when you realized... traitors have uplinks and the guy used that. The worry about how you're viewed is a common theme here and it's no excuse to treat others badly.

The day I banned you over your behavior in the Air Konyang round was also the first day I even learned you had issues with Mel. I was more than a little confused to see you squarely blame it on her as an example of some conspiracy against you when you had your conversation with Lmwevil/Squidqueen.

While you're probably still not going to believe it, the idea that I needed to be convinced to delete your character or that anyone else was involved in it is completely wrong. After I banned you initially, I did a more thorough review of your machinist in the past to see if the character itself has been a problem. I haven't really been on the server much since December of last year so I wanted to do my due diligence. Mel's only contribution to that was saying she didn't really want to open a ticket with you during that round. Her silence was contrasted with your firm belief she was behind it all and the need to tell others about it.

Your behavior is also why I've removed you from the game. I felt fully justified over it then and even more so now seeing as how you've made a staff complaint on the person who wanted nothing to do with you rather than one who banned you in the first place. I didn't even know you made a complaint on her until after I browsed the forum to see the latest custom item application today. Targeted harassment really disgusts me and I'm not about to let it slide for anyone who does it.

The TL:DR is that you, solely, are responsible for this. 

[Alberyk]

The note was done by someone else and handled already in the past. So, what is the evidence that Melarara was behind this?

[Filthyfrankster]

This is far from targeted harassment. The main reason behind this complaint is to combat the permaban issued by Cybs and my reasoning for the approach. Since the ban was issued for the interactions and conflicts with Mel, I wanted to explain /why/ I thought the way and discussed her to others about the thought process. I simply want this ban lifted, the character ban and the jobban I can accept the L on. However the server wide ban and the immediate blocking from Cybs who had to use another staff member as the messenger. 

As for evidence, since I'm not in the Aurora discord servers. I would like to bring in any notes on my account (from the administration side, since that's where the hidden admin notes are). Mostly the ones focused around the interactions after the first CCIA case.

 

But again. The primary purpose behind this complaint is to simply display my view of the matters regarding Mel and this ban for this 'hate campaign' I have created. To clear the air and simply show what I witnessed from my side of events that led up to this. But to be fair, this should of been settled better for a ban appeal itself. 

 

 

[Alberyk]

On 12/03/2024 at 15:24, Filthyfrankster said:

The main reason behind this complaint is to combat the permaban issued by Cybs and my reasoning for the approach.

The complaint is against Melariara.

On 12/03/2024 at 15:24, Filthyfrankster said:

As for evidence, since I'm not in the Aurora discord servers. I would like to bring in any notes on my account (from the administration side, since that's where the hidden admin notes are). Mostly the ones focused around the interactions after the first CCIA case.

How that proves anything?

On 12/03/2024 at 15:24, Filthyfrankster said:

But again. The primary purpose behind this complaint is to simply display my view of the matters regarding Mel and this ban for this 'hate campaign' I have created. To clear the air and simply show what I witnessed from my side of events that led up to this. But to be fair, this should of been settled better for a ban appeal itself. 

Complaints are to dispute an action or complaint about staff behavior, so it has to be any of these, not to explain yourself.

[Filthyfrankster]

Go ahead and close this complaint then, please. I'll file for an appeal on the ban with my side of the events then.