Bullying/Harassment

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Archon stated multiple times that he gets his enjoyment by stirring up drama.

Should the head office start punishing people for saying Er rigs the sim? Absolutely not. Context matters. It's kind of a fun joke that we can throw unwarranted blame at Er instead of just admitting that the sim does weird stuff. Obviously Er isn't rigging the sim and it's a fun running joke.
Archon giving the hawks shit for "cheating" was how he wanted to stir up drama. Your team could have easily rolled with the punches like Er does, or maybe tried to PM the head office saying "hey i'm getting really tired of this guy putting our team down and diminishing the accomplishments my team made".

Instead you reported his posts with like short reasons like "Obvious troll".

I think you need to understand that calling a specific person a douche, or an ass or "a fucking clown" and other stuff like that reflects poorly on you.

There is a huge difference saying something like  "The Otters are going to dumpster the wraiths" vs: "You are an idiot". One spurs rivalry between teams and adds drama and story to the games and match ups. The other is a personal attack where the goal is just to tear the other person down.

The only change that I think the HO could have done better is explain why your reports weren't valid.

So, I didn't want to comment on this thread because I'm a new player and don't know of much of the previous drama that has occurred. But this post irritated me a bit.

"Archon stated multiple times that he gets his enjoyment by stirring up drama."

So if somebody says "I get my enjoyment from being a dick to others!" they can then be a dick? This seems like an either poorly worded or poorly thought out statement. Just because that's how somebody gets their enjoyment doesn't make it okay.

"Your team could have easily rolled with the punches like Er does"

So because one person handles these jokes well, everybody should right? Now I'm not saying that no trash talk should be allowed and we should all be bff's, because frankly I don't get offended by words on the internet, but if a group of players are getting upset and quitting due to one player being a d-bag, maybe the HO should step in. For a league that wants players to have fun, telling a bunch of people, "Handle it like ER" seems counter productive. Also, if ER came out one day and said "all of the rigging jokes actually bother me and they are making me want to quit" would you tell him to handle it like old ER. No, you wouldn't.

"The only change that I think the HO could have done better is explain why your reports weren't valid"

This just seems douchey. Especially after several people quit over the Archon situation. Apparently, if people quit, their reports may have been valid, no?

Again, I don't mean for this to be a personal attack. Just my opinions on the words you used. Maybe I misunderstood or just don't get the whole situation, just my two cents.