附录1，Cryo给蜜蜂总监群的有关性骚扰报告的原文
The Imperium has a problem.
If you had asked me a year ago about harassment in the imperium, I would have said it’s damn near nonexistent. However, in the last 8 months Delta Sqad alone has had 3 major incidents, none of them reaching a satisfactory conclusion. A sub-50-man Squad has had 3 major incidents in 8 months. I can’t imagine what happens to people that don’t have the full backing of the group they are with. I have included statements from each person involved in each event they were a part of, finishing off with my suggestions for structural changes.
Redacted the GLD incident
On April 15, 2022 while in a mainfleet stratop with redactedFC as FC, a GLD member by the name of redacted was chatting in fleet chat with others engaging as well. One point redacted said “He won’t eat my shit. He’s “dieting”… Fslur”. Myself and someone else made a comment in fleet chat regarding this to which he said “Sozz” and then “I’m from the 80’s… Like 88. It wasn’t a big deal calling friends fslur back then.” I told him to “stfu” to which he responded with “ok fslur”. I immediately said something to redactedFC who was the FC and I believe redactedFC kicked him from the fleet. redactedFC was aware and said he would handle making sure that GLD Directorate/CEO were aware. I also made people aware in Delta Sqad discord where several Directors are, including redacted director. I had never experienced anything like this before or the need to report something like this, so I trusted that redacted and redacted Director went the correct avenues which I still believe they did. From my understanding, redacted Director made the illum room aware of this situation and it was being handled. It is also my understanding that redactedFC was able to get in contact with the GLD CEO and make him aware as well. During this whole time, it was essentially out of their hands and handed over to the proper people in leadership. I never once heard from any of those people directly and had it not been for redacted DIrector, I would have had no idea if it was even being looked into at all. A simple “It’s being looked into” from Innominate would have sufficed at some point. Sunday rolls around and I’m made aware that potoboy was asked to apologize to his CEO and that would be the end of it. Absolutely no one who was making the “final decision” reached out to me to even let me know this was the decision. This was all brought to me second hand. I did not feel this was reasonable enough at all and felt like it was just a way to sweep the whole situation under the rug. It truly made me feel like my feelings of being called a fslur within my own Alliance were being invalidated/not that big of a deal.
I wanted to leave the alliance because I knew I could still hang out with the people who cared in the Delta Sqad discord but I didn’t feel like outside of that, anyone within leadership of making a decision was going to stand up for me. I did the next best thing I could think of and made a post on goonfleet in helldump on Sunday night just to shine light on the entire situation. A lot of people in the alliance read it including Merk and Mittens. They were more than aware at this point. From my perception, this seemed to light a fire of “Hey, what is this all about” within leadership. By Monday morning/afternoon, I saw that Mittens was speaking in elysium about the situation and at that point had given a “kick redacted from your corporation” to the GLD CEO. Once again, I was totally unaware of this until someone in Delta Sqad mentioned it was happening. Once again, no one ever reached out through any means to say “We are for sure taking care of this”.
In situations like this, communication with the person who was affected is absolute key, no matter the outcome. It at the very least tells them “We hear you, we’re looking into it, and we’ll make a decision.” But when people feel aren’t getting that, they have to fill in the blanks and just assume they’re not being heard. I really hope this can make a difference how we communicate with people when these situations arise. It truly is needed.
My final thought on all of this is what if some new alliance member was in that fleet who is struggling with being gay and coming out and their source of being themselves is going on a fleet with their alliance members and see someone use the word ‘fslur/fslur’ 3x and it taking someone creating a helldump post to get serious attention paid to the situation, otherwise it would have just been swept under the rug. Potentially their once source of gaining confidence with their online spaceship friends is erroded for fear of being found out. Goons and much of Eve have a notorious history with using slurs, so it’s going to give people pause within the LGBTQ community.
Redacted on harassment from redacted this issue is still unresolved. The text below was posted to a director on Jan 29th at merchii industrials request and they didn’t respond and wasn’t viewed till April 6th.
I met redacted (AKA redacted) through my Twitch channel in spring 2021 when she started hanging out in my live chat. We developed a rapport as she was also a new streamer and a regular presence in other Eve streamers’ channels. Once I became a member of Goonswarm, I started poking at others in the Twitch community to join as well. There was a lot of content from the war and I wanted my friends to experience the same welcoming environment and camaraderie that I was enjoying. redacted expressed interest and I vouched for her to join Karmafleet in June. redacted’s application to KF was rejected and the only context she gave me was that they felt another corporation would better suit her interests as a miner/industrialist, but she took it very personally. She continued to message me and used lovebombing tactics to gain my trust and further insert herself into my inner circle. When she again expressed a desire to join Goons, I told her that ASCEE is recruiting, as was Merch Industrial. She applied to MRCHI but, unbeknownst to me, obfuscated the fact that she ever applied to Karmafleet. From what I gather MRCHI never learned about her rejected application until I brought it up in the wake of this trash fire, and they accepted her in the beginning of July.
After moving to Delve, redacted expressed to me that she was having a good time getting assimilated into the community. Reviewing my correspondence with her, I have come to understand that her impetus for staying in Imperium was motivated by her attachment to me. She had said things such as i want you to get super popular, cause then some of that could rub off on me and talked about getting people to donate as much money to me as they did for Mind1. She joined the same SIGs as me, and would message me in Discord about SNS and Meta Show, but I never saw her go on any fleets or participate in any alliance related activity. redacted would ask me to go run abyssals or mine in hi-sec with her, but she would avoid hanging out with me while I was with other goons because she couldn’t monopolize my attention. In November, I was dealing with the breakup of a long term relationship and talking about it with redacted on Discord. She used this opportunity to say that she had had a crush on me for several months. I told her I am flattered but (as she knows) I’m not gay, and she walked it back, saying that she had a “no straight girls” policy anyway. My belief is that because I rejected redacted after months of her ingratiating herself to me while in Goons, she started huffing copium and taking it out on others by goonfucking and starting drama.
When the mining industry changes were announced, I saw redacted take opportunities to pick fights with other goons in my Discord comms. She came to me malding over what I perceived as benign arguments about like, ore compression and faction lasers. (I know pretty much nothing about mining, and part of the meta is complaining about CCP anyway, so I didn’t have a frame of reference for how disproportionate her reactions were at the time). I do know that when redacted gets in a fight, it is often precipitated by some outside event setting her off and she brings that aggression with her to the next situation. When confronted about her anger management issues and lack of impulse control, she leans on outside influences and evades responsibility for her own behavior. It is my belief that she escalated fights with other goons that she perceived as threats because they were personally closer to me, and used the drama over the industry changes as an excuse.
After she was kicked from MRCHI, I spent two hours on the phone with Redacted while she tried to convince me that she was the victim of passive aggressive accusations and lies. I did not know that during her time in GSF she was approached on several occasions about fleet participation, but it does not surprise me that she responded with aggression and antagonistic behavior. I recommended that she try investing more time in Blue Potion Gaming’s Discord server, which she had been part of for several months. BPG is a new Twitch stream team that focuses on destigmatizing mental illness, and they’ve recruited several members who identify as part of the LGBT community, including redacted. As a trans woman struggling with mental health issues, I felt this would be a better gateway for her to find like-minded gamers to hang out with, since things with Goons clearly were not working out.
Several days after she was kicked, there was a conversation in the BPG general chat about the loot pinata in R-A. Large Quafe Zero (LQZ) is a new Imperium member and he said he didn’t know anything about the event. I asked him if he had downloaded Jabber yet, and he said he had but wasn’t used to reading pings yet. redacted chimed in under her redacted username, saying that she mostly ignores pings, and posted a screenshot from Pidgin, saying “the best part about reading pings is parsing them out.” It was a ping for a harpy fleet, not very difficult to interpret, but maybe that just proves how much she ignores Jabber. I assumed it was an old screenshot and a pathetic attempt at flexing like she was still in Goons. I did not see it was dated 1/13, and she had been kicked on 1/9. The following weekend I saw redactedon grid in 1DQ, and knew it was the same one when I checked her bio and she had links for the redacted Twitch/OnlyFans. One of her last messages to me on Discord was “i probably should bug someone to join an imperium corp to give redacted corp ceo the “fuck you” middle finger” so this was hardly a surprise.
I told the BPG server owner Chicken that redacted’s post should be deleted if it hasn’t already. She thanked me for letting her know, and then asked if I had taken a screenshot. I sent her the one I took of the harpy ping, and she said that one must have been deleted by someone else because what she just deleted was a screenshot of redacteds overview with all the blues on grid during SNS, and redacted saying something about shooting supercaps with fireworks. I would consider that an innocuous post, any red cloaked up in 1DQ could easily see that, but with redacted track record of constant conflict I believe there is cause for concern. My overall impression is that redacted behavior has resulted in her getting the boot or ragequitting every alliance she’s tried to join including PAPI. She has a very hard time playing well with others, not that Goons are renowned for such things, but she would rather sow discord and start internal drama than chill with friends and get drunk in fleet once a month…not to mention being a manipulative creep.
Relevant screenshots are in the imgur link, if you need any other info just let me know.
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redacted was a Twitch follower of mine since March 2022, who posted a lot in my channel and my Discord. He told me in direct messages that he struggled with mental illness and had come back to Eve after some time away from the game and joined GSF/became an FC for the social aspect. He also wanted to stream and I was happy to give him some pointers. So talking about Eve is where that should have stopped, obviously, but he ended up telling me that if I had an OnlyFans he would probably end up homeless. Here’s the thing: I am more than happy to direct someone to my Patreon for extra content, but rather than just go do the thing he started asking if he could negotiate essentially à la carte content for me to personally send to him because of his financial situation, I redirected him again to my Patreon so he could go ahead and sign up and stop bothering me about it.
The types of forever-alone/simp posts he would make in my server also started to raise some eyebrows and I was charitable enough to tell him “Look, post in my server with things related to my stream and that is fine but stop posting this other stuff especially from iFunny because neo-Nazis recruit off there,” and he acquiesced regarding iFunny posts. I only have so much time and energy I can spend dealing with mainfleet pubbies who want my attention, and it is very apparent to me now that the more I would ignore him the more extreme his personal posting started to get, like messages about his dad being in the hospital, then talking about getting kicked out of his house and having to stay with his grandma, going to family therapy, wanting to jump off a bridge, all things designed to get attention and pity because he needed me to be a therapist-girlfriend-mommy, not a spaceship friend.
Naturally stalkers of mine has it in for Azo Pathwalker, whom I often refer to as my gay Canadian boyfriend (see redacted campaign to get him booted from the alliance because she was jealous lmao). redacted claimed that redacted bullied him out of Delta Sqad. First of all we had no idea he’d ever been in there. Second of all, if you’re trying to run a character assassination campaign on redacted, calling him a cyberbully is the least realistic thing you could ever go with. My final straw was when he pinged me about forgetting to unsubscribe to my Patreon, and I guess wanted me to feel bad for his $5-tier sub going through by accident- I told him he was wasting my time and he doubled down on trying to be a Nice Guy ? for messaging me in the first place. He didn’t seem to understand anything beyond I Was Mad, so he started apologizing to me like he was a kicked puppy boyfriend. He goes back and joins Delta Sqad, which he knows I’m in, starts posting, irritates people and gets kicked for saying some very problematic things that made members uncomfortable. I spoke with friends in both Delta and Theta Squad about this guy who was very vocal about these squads being his social circles. He’s kick-banned from all of them. redacted had a very public meltdown about being “bullied” out of GSF and he was leaving-- and lied about people telling him to kill himself, when that didn’t gain traction he started calling goons facists and said that Deltas were Nazis. I posted some of his problematic messages to me in helldump. redacted started slinging insults at me, vowing revenge, and threatening self-harm until the thread got locked.
I wonder if redacted ragequit goons, or if they did in fact kick him. I have no idea, because no one said anything except “don’t post callouts in helldump.” Sue me for wanting to make sure this guy doesn’t ever come back, because when Innominate (allegedly) requested information regarding redacted and the MRCHI leadership’s request for a blacklist, literally nothing happened, she still keeps getting allowed back in by random corps. I still have to see these people in my community. As far as I’m concerned these people should be banned from every Imperium Twitch channel. They do not deserve to feel welcomed in these spaces, while I have to feel extremely uncomfortable with the fact that I cannot be in Rampage Inc or Mind1 chats because they are still there. Let me be clear: I am not going to put myself through the mental and emotional anguish that inevitably comes with rereading messages from this unhinged creep so that I can show anyone more screencaps. Last time I did that, under the impression that the situation was being actively investigated and taken seriously, NOTHING happened.
Proposition.
Most video game orgs handle harassment issues by people running it up to the guild leader then they judge it how they see fit; I would like to believe the imperium can be better run than a wow feeder guild. I am proposing a new department or expansion of minicom. A player advocacy org that in my mind would function like a union rep they are the aggrieved parties advocate with the directorate understanding how to move the leavers of power in the imperium to get their case seen investigated and resolved faster than a line member with no understanding of how these systems work.
Communication and structural improvements.
People messaging random directors then and feeling your complaints are disappearing into the either forgotten about. I am outright arguing that directors don’t have the bandwidth for this task, it requires investigations, talking to multiple parties and keeping the person who filed the complaint in the loop to their satisfaction. A director of finance or coordination simply doesn’t have the time to bring every case to a conclusion.
Strategic Anti Sex Pest Jira Tickets (credit to RedactedF for the name) - People should be able to file a complaint get a case worker and know that their complaint is getting looked at e.g. the ticket would say received - investigating - resolved. A system like this would give people an understanding that the wheels of bureaucracy are moving and they haven’t been forgotten about.
The person that feels they have been harassed needs an advocate that they can be in communication after filing the complaint to help walk them through the process from beginning to resolution to make them feel safe and the imperium is working for them.
Small amendment it would be ideal if people from different backgrounds review each case IG I am not going to see things the same way as a LGBT person, Women or POC so I may not fully understand the depths of the offense and harassment each case needs to be examined with as much deference to the aggrieved party as possible.
