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The M'Hunters have:

- made false or unproven accusations against multiple players and clans

- made personal attacks against multiple players and clans

- excused the above behavior when done by members of their own clan

- mistreated many players, often on the grounds of lack of skill

- on multiple occasions, harassed other people (such as me and the Hysterical Koala) and clans (such as CORP- or in the condescending tone of Norman, "the Lawlz Clan") in threads completely unrelated to M'Hunters, derailing the discussion with uncalled-for personal attacks

- picked a known, egregious, willful ladder cheater (AI) to represent them in the maximum 3 tournaments in Clan League 8, thereby sending the message that- if you're a M'Hunter- you can cheat and get away with no consequences

Or as OxTheArtist summarizes:

slander, multi-accounting, stalling, using alts in RP Clan League, public embarrassment, circlejerking, calling other clans "mental problem" clans, arrogance, trying to get our weaker players compete for other clans because they can't get in our own lineup, adamant disrespect, and telling other people to surrender

I'm sure that others also have had bad experiences with and have experienced uncalled-for insults from the members and leaders of M'Hunters, and would appreciate it if they shared it here for the skeptics and for those people who've been lucky enough to escape their harassment.

Clearly, our community has had a problem with its norms. Most of you would agree that behavior on the forums (as an example) has become generally unacceptable and the quality has declined. Back when we had the choice to actually confront the sort of behavior that today often keeps us from enjoying posting in the forum, we decided we'd rather be comfortable and not create drama. Well, bad behavior often has incentives- for example, people cheat because it helps them win. When we don't confront that bad behavior, we in effect condone it because it's going to keep on happening until there's a strong enough set of disincentives. As a consequence of our inaction... these forums have significantly declined in quality, respectfulness. They've gone from a place where we once came for help, insight, and bonding to an unwelcoming place overwhelmed by personal attacks, harassment, abuse, and spam. And we let them become this place. We made the wrong choice because it was easy.

Today we have another such choice, to act to protect and establish beneficial norms for another part of the community. We have the opportunity to create disincentives against the sort of behavior that damages the community today and will continue to damage it in the future. Or we can do what's easy, avoid the discomfort of drama and controversy, and let the community decline as misbehavior becomes a new norm.

I'm asking you to create those disincentives and encourage the M'Hunters to reform themselves, stop their habit of abusing other players and clans, and to stop letting their members get away with egregiously bad behavior- to send them a message: "Yes, you're a great player, but that doesn't mean it's okay for you to behave this way."

I strongly request that, as members of this community- the people who both stand to benefit from a stronger culture of respect and good behavior and the people most capable of creating that culture- we take action by excluding M'Hunters members (or at least the ones who behave badly, including- but not limited to- AyanM, Norman, AI, and Rogue Nikolai Krogius) from inter-clan events and other large Community Events. Events like Clan League have removed clans in the past for undesirable behavior- like poor organization and lots of boots. These events and their organizers have the power to shape the future of the community and by refusing to take action, they only allow things to get worse.

Thanks.


(This thread stemmed from a long and rather dramatic series of comments in the Clan League 8 Division C thread- and we moved it to avoid further clutter. If you'd like some context and background, I strongly suggest reading it: https://www.warlight.net/Forum/159812-clan-league-8-division-c-official-thread?Offset=540#Reply)

Edited 7/23/2016 09:12:59

lvl me m8.

EDIT: https://www.warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=11612889 Put your money where your mouth is.

Edited 7/21/2016 02:50:39

Have you lost it?

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@Nikolai: No. On my end, I'm settling it by banning all members of M'Hunters from IPL when I release it this Sunday.

On your end, you can settle this by doing your part to improve your clan's behavior instead of making personal attacks every time it's criticized.

I like how your response to a message of "being good at a game doesn't give you a license to be an asshole" is to create a game to challenge me. Because clearly, if you're able to beat me there, the personal attacks you've been making against people like me should continue to go unchecked.

@Tabby: Ok. Thanks for letting us know.

Edited 7/23/2016 10:05:00

knyte has:

- made false or unproven accusations against multiple players and clans

- made personal attacks against multiple players and clans

- excused the above behavior when done by members of their own clan

- mistreated many players, often on the grounds of lack of skill

- on multiple occasions, harassed other people (such as AI) and clans (such as Mh, or in knyte's words, the "cheating clan") in threads completely unrelated to knyte or his clan, derailing the discussion with uncalled-for personal attacks and spam


I'm sure that others also have had bad experiences with and have experienced uncalled-for insults from knyte, and would appreciate it if they shared it here for the skeptics and for those people who've been lucky enough to escape their harassment.

Clearly, our community has had a problem with its norms. Most of you would agree that behavior on the forums has become generally unacceptable and the quality has declined. Back when we had the choice to actually confront the sort of behavior that today often keeps us from enjoying posting in the forum, we decided we'd rather be comfortable and not create drama. Well, bad behavior often has incentives- for example, people blame others because it makes up for their own inadequacies and ideological ego trips. When we don't confront that bad behavior, we in effect condone it because it's going to keep on happening until there's a strong enough set of disincentives.

And I'm asking you to create those disincentives and encourage knyte to reform himself, stop his habit of abusing other players and clans, and to stop letting him get away with egregiously bad behavior- to send him a message: "Yes, you're a great contributor to the community, but that doesn't mean it's okay for you to behave this way."

I strongly request that, as members of this community- the people who both stand to benefit from a stronger culture of respect and good behavior and the people most capable of creating that culture- we take action by excluding knyte(or at least the ones who behave badly, including- but not limited to- knyte) from inter-clan events and other large Community Events. Events like Clan League have removed clans in the past for undesirable behavior- like poor organization and lots of boots. These events and their organizers have the power to shape the future of the community and by refusing to take action, they only allow things to get worse.

Thanks.


(This thread stemmed from a long and rather dramatic series of comments in the Clan League 8 Division C thread- and we moved it to avoid further clutter. If you'd like some context and background, I strongly suggest reading it: https://www.warlight.net/Forum/159812-clan-league-8-division-c-official-thread?Offset=540#Reply)

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This isn't about me. Honestly, I'd be fine with this community enforcing norms even when it's against me. I fully acknowledge that I've been a troll and a jerk in the past. And I appreciate that people have been quick to criticize me for it.

Early on, I was like y'all, making personal attacks against Genghis or Juq for being "non-contributors" as if that's what determined the truth of their claims. I realized that kind of response didn't make me right; it just made me more of an asshole.

I hope y'all realize that too.

Edited 7/23/2016 10:05:06

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But it's up to Belgium to actually take action against Belgian terrorists. Everyone expects them to do.

Sure, sometimes countries don't take actions against terrorists. Afghanistan under Taliban rule, for example, didn't. Iraq doesn't today. That's their prerogative. And it's also our prerogative to take action against them for condoning terrorism.

This isn't just about AI, either. As you can see in the top post, we're talking about multiple incidents of mean-spirited and harmful behavior. Like I said, M'Hunters aren't inherently a bad clan- they're not the DARKLORDS or some organized troll group. They've made their contributions to the community (Norman's strategy guide is A++) and have plenty of great people (TBest for one)... but they also have a problem that they're ignoring, sometimes promoting- and that problem needs to be fixed because it's hurting the community.

Edited 7/23/2016 10:05:11

Please don't spam fora with more keyboard gunk.

Edited 7/21/2016 03:18:29

I just read through those multiple pages, and I think this is a classic example of M'Hunters toxic community. Within the past few months, AI cheated on the ladder, we can all agree to this statement yes?, and within that thread we had M'Hunters attacking knyte for calling out AI yes?, its literally quotable atm. This is followed by knyte recently pointing out that AI was just given max spots on the CL Roster after this came to light, which suggests to outsiders that you are quite okay with ladder cheating, as those slots are quite valuable, as you are now a representative of your clan. This development, along with the admission that the sole punishment for ladder cheating, which is a major and ban-able offense, was censure from the skype chat suggests you really don't care about the external community. Then there is the case that you basically trash talk everyone else, which is not very upholding of sportsmanship values that would be expected of any one playing this game in any way shape or form. This combination suggest to anyone outside the community that the external community doesn't matter to you, and you are totally willing to make it as toxic as necessary to protect a convicted cheater. While I would say that some of knyte's posts are aimed at M'Hunters/AI, those are the groups in question here, so they should be part of the discussion, what is unnecessary and unwarranted is the attacks on knyte, including the 1v1 game call. Basically we are asking you to be civil within these external forums, and if you can't do that to leave them.

lvl games are now unnecessary and unwarranted now on a gaming website. You have a beautiful mind.

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Wow, RNK, you really showed this guy who's boss!:



Edited 7/23/2016 10:05:17

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Further documentation of M'Hunters harassment of another clan and its players:

player - https://www.warlight.net/Profile?p=3631391841

screenshots - (this is from a conversation with Relm talking to a M'H alt he'd discovered)







(Note that the first message was from Zephyrum)

Normally, this kind of thing is a one-off, a bad egg, something that doesn't reflect a whole community. But with the toxic culture of M'Hunters (documented in the extremely personal responses in the thread I linked in my first post here), it probably isn't.

But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe BlackBart is just completely violating everything the M'Hunters stand for. Maybe the M'Hunters will tell him it's not okay and actually discourage him from doing this in the future. Maybe they'll even go further than just criticizing him once or twice in their private Skype conversation. They're clearly very selective when it comes to player skill, but apparently not so much when it comes to player behavior.

I hope they prove me wrong.

Let's please do our part to tell them that just being good at a game doesn't give you the license to be an asshole.

Edited 7/23/2016 10:05:22

lvl games are now unnecessary and unwarranted now on a gaming website. You have a beautiful mind.
Please read my entire post, you clearly just took something out of context. I stated that the attacks on knyte, including the call to a 1v1 game to prove his argument was unnecessary and unwarranted. How you got the statement that 1v1 games are unnecessary and unwarranted is beyond me. Please stop being toxic, or if you are going to refuse to change your personality on the forums, including attacking people for just stating the facts, just leave, we would prefer a less toxic community.

There is absolutely no evidence in that post that the player was an alt for an MH player. Furthermore, do you really think you can trust a level 9 alt to be truthful about who owns it? Sounds a lot more like somebody hated MH and spammed Zeph.

"You couldn't beat me in a lvl"

Nobody other than an M'Hunter is a degenerate enough to say lvl instead of 1v1. You do it yourself.

somebody hated MH and spammed Zeph.

Try reading before activating brainless monkey defense force mode, thank you very much.

Edited 7/21/2016 04:19:46

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Nikolai, I thought we agreed in that chat we had on your 1v1 that you'd move on from making excuses and toward holding your clanmates to the same standards you hold the rest of us to.

But I guess this is yet another little bit of proof that M'H aren't even going to bother investigating their player's behavior and would rather believe in conspiracy theories to excuse it.

Tbh until I saw this I didn't even know who BlackBart is. I'd be very much surprised if he'd incurred someone's hate to that level.

Edited 7/23/2016 10:05:32

TBH, you are the last person on planet earth to be calling out flaws. From spewing venom all over Division D thread just to increase the number of posts to plastering your graffiti all over the same thread to increase its post count to handing over MR to hostile actors inside of TLW to operating a horrific troll called NIGHT that rampaged the forums creating numerous idiotic threads, baiting rage, and trolling for weeks.

You forgot about that, didn't you? You are the King of Trolls and you dare to safegaurd the integrity of the forum. Absolutely despicable.

Edited 7/21/2016 04:31:10

lol their arguing is what is keeping this thread title alive for all to see

Edited 7/21/2016 04:33:09