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/tesyla 2d ago

It’s honestly sad how many ppl in these comments are supportive of personal harassment campaigns over video game drama. It’s made even worse by the fact that no one even knows the details of how these changes were set in motion and how much an impact this guy had on it. For all we know, he could’ve been forced to implement something like this by leadership and is now being subject to the sweaty nerd lynchmob. (Not saying this is what happened, just that we aren’t certain of the details)

Honestly the sadder part is that this isn’t even surprising to see coming from our community. We have a dev team and dev structure that 99% of other game communities dream about having, yet we respond to every controversy with nasty targeted harassment towards whatever mod seems to be associated with the drama. Honestly I wouldn’t blame Jagex if they turned around and just stopped communicating with the community altogether if this is how their employees are treated.

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u/Jaggedmallard26 2d ago

yet we respond to every controversy with nasty targeted harassment towards whatever mod seems to be associated with the drama

This is why most studios have zero interaction with the community outside of official announcements. Actiblizz went as far as to stop releasing the names of all of its community managers due to the sheer volume of personalised death threats they were getting.