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 take from zoeyrph. 

I also just wanted to point out that the screenshots posted on the main look extremelydoctored. They’ve been edited to hold three screenshots in one row — strategically downsized to make it harder for you to read. Not harder for you to read the conversation, but rather the text in the red.

Do you see this? It says Skype at the top. Even though they said that these are the kik screenshots. (x)

At first I thought this meant that the screenshots had been transferred through Skype. But it seems as though they used some sort of template incorrectly since they didn’t realize that the Skype watermark at the top was left twice in some screenshots, and once or not at all in others. In the screenshot above, I’ve shown the one Skype watermark caps. Here are the two and none watermarked caps.

Additionally, there is a black border on the side of the caps, but at the top (as posted by the main) the red runs along the entire 3-panel cap. This proves that there was at least someform of editing to at the very least place the screenshots next to each other.

This inconsistency is highly questionable — combined with the fact that the admins are depicted as friendlier and kinder in the screenshots posted from the main in comparison to those posted from the player in question’s blog.

Besides this, all 20 screencaps were taken at 9:15 PM. That’s a lot of screencaps for a maximum of 60 seconds, and there’s a 1/60 chance that they actually started taking screencaps the minute it turned 9:15. Just to break it down for you, 60/20 means that they took a screencap every 3 seconds. I don’t know if you’ve ever tried screencapping a conversation on the phone, but it definitely takes more than 3 seconds to scroll and stop where you last left off and begin again, and it’s even less likely that you can do it consistently 20 times in a row. What I’m trying to say is that the chances of the screencap’s timeframe being modified as per a template on Photoshop are more likely than being able to take 20 screenshots in a row at the right place on a kik conversation within 60 seconds (once again the chances they started capping as soon as it hit 9:15 PM are 1/60, so it’s really likely they had less than 60 seconds to take all the caps).

So yeah, just some things to keep in mind.

P.S. I just want to apologize for the low quality of these screenshots — I took the screenshots from the main, cropped them so that I got the individual cap, and then enlarged it to 300px in width so you can see the Skype watermark clearly.

For one, a player came to us about receiving hate from the beginning and we posted a warning that if more was received that everyone's anon option would be removed. As it continued, the mods did their best around their busy holiday schedules to get to the bottom of it. Eli informed us that he was tracking the asks so we waited to hear from him. We were told it was somewhere in the US (old posts I don't believe we have anymore.)

One of the admins was out with family the other evening when Eli informed us that he was getting more hate and told all of the admins to kik him. The admin that was out did just that. They went out of their way while with family as did another admin to make sure he was okay and to help him figure out who was the cause. Never did either of us jump to conclusions, we simply did all we could to help.

Here are the kik messages about it up until today:

While speaking, one admin told Eli he should take the anon off for now. The other admin said the same and still nothing. It remained on and he proceeded to post the hate as he got it.

This message is the one that was sent to him almost 24 hours before we came to our decision:

We should add in here that the stress from the anon hate Eli had been posting was affecting numerous players that eventually requested to leave over this. In no way should any of our players feel so uneasy they have to leave, especially not over a single person disrespecting our wishes.

A bit later after leaving, we found out that one of the members that had left because of all of this had spoken to him.  We also have those kik messages, but for that player's privacy, we will not be posting those unless she decides she wants that.

Well after this we received nothing, but come morning we saw him posting and hadn't received anything back. We wanted to make sure Tumblr hadn't eaten the message so we sent this and instead of responding he posted it and tagged it... We still aren't sure why he did this.

He still had not responded or removed his anon option when one of the admins returned from work so we sent him the reason we were removing him in a fanmail.

This was followed by a kik conversation you can see here. This was the entirety of our conversation and I said nothing more.

The messages which I think JAN (Erica) answered.:

Then, at the same time, to Mell. The main admin who also plays Derek and Jackson. We spoke through kik.

And then I go onto my ask box today expecting another anon hate but find this:

And so I messaged the main admin, Mell.