Hello everybody, I come from ResetEra, I normally don't post here, mostly because I don't personally agree with positions and attitudes from a lot of users and sometimes staff decisions but I've discovered something extremely troubling about one of the admins of ResetEra, Hecht, and since I've been permabanned from that site(ironically enough the same day I notified the mods about this and was waiting for their response) for concern trolling(fair to say I don't agree with the way my words and intentions were interpreted at all, take a look if you're interested:
#556 and
#567) I don't have anywhere else to really post this at this point, and I firmly believe this is something that NEEDS to reach as many resetera users as possible because i truly believe this is a fundamental issue about leadership over there.
Ok let's begin:
Everyone is familiar with the GOG tweet scandal by now. As the discussion progressed, some users were posting identifiable information about the person behind the infamous tweet. Of course(and thankfully) doxxing is heavily moderated on ResetEra and everything was removed. There are also multiple mod posts about refraining from releasing or endorsing the doxxing of this person. Here's the mod post detailing the forum's strong stance on releasing personal information of this person:
At the same on twitter someone started posting a twitter thread with identifiable information about the GOG PR person, and in the final tweet he thanked Hecht for providing this information,
this final tweet was liked by Hecht.
This is the whole thread. Sorry for all the censoring and all that, I would post the archive link, since I've saved this as soon as I saw it, but it contains doxxing information and I won't post it, but I have provided the archive to the mods and they told me that I could post information about it here and they can hopefully confirm that i'm not pulling this out of my ass.
Interesting thing to note: both the person that posted the thread and Hecht have their personal twitters set to private at the time i'm writing this. I'm not sure if that's related to this or not, but looking at the whole timeline and the timing of this I felt the need to point that out.
-The reason why this is troubling is because not only doxxing in general is abhorrent, but seeing on of the admins of one of the most influential gaming forums approve of such behaviour at the very least and also going out of their way to personally provide identifying information that lead to that doxxing at the very worst, is absolutely unacceptable and I just felt the need to bring this thing to light because i haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else.-
All I ask for is for someone at the top of the resetera management acknowledging this, and at least explain this behaviour and possible apologise for it and I haven't seen that so far.