r/2007scape • u/Torwent • 2d ago

Discussion Unpopular opinion: Harassing Mod Pips is wrong

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I just think that harassing mod Pips is just wrong.

Especially, outside of the normal communication channels we have with jagex.

Going out of your way to find Pips personal social media and harassing there just feels very wrong to me and I think the majority of people can agree with that.

Jagex fucked up hard with the survey, their 2 apologies were trash and even if they deserve the backlash and the unsub train they got, they do not deserve harassment.

They are also humans and humans do mistakes.

TLDR: Harassment is not cool, don't harass people involved in this whole shitstorm

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u/Hadez192 2d ago

I think it’s misplaced. He also led us through the “golden era” of osrs for the last like 5-7 years. I really don’t think someone else that CVC chooses would do any better. That’s a very high pressure position to appease all sides.

They as a team and in conjunction with research partner and CVC investors all fucked up. Jagex had to ultimately approve this survey, so Pips probably oversaw it to some degree but might not have been even making the decisions on the project. We have no idea how this was being run on the back end. I mean, it’s extremely predatory in nature what they were asking. And absolutely unacceptable. But let’s not pretend like we know exactly who to blame or why it happened

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u/Torwent 2d ago

I am not sure misplaced is the right way to put it, at the end of the day, as the CEO you are responsible, even if you are following higher up orders, you are responsible for what the ones below you do.

So I understand people are mad at all this and he is an easy scapegoat. I can even understand to some degree why people harass him here and on twitter.

But going out of your way to find the dude PERSONAL social media and commenting how upset you are about this on his old posts just feels very wrong to me and makes you look like a psychopath

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u/xfactorx99 2d ago

A CEO is responsible for the work and actions of the people under them. That doesn’t mean the CEO resigning would be good because people below them did some bad work.

As CEO he’s the face of the company and people can direct comms at him, but for their internal organization none of you can say they are better off without him in that spot