Speakin' of shady practices, I do wanna report user
@Iamunanimousinthat now for a coupla' things. I've been sittin' on this report for a while hoping I won't need to post it but recently and especially now it has become clear that I have to do it, unfortunately. It's gonna include several things so please do read it all.
First thing's first, the shady practices. The user have repeatedly tried to use multiple versions of the same scan (the latest official ones, that we would and should generally use in all CRTs and profiles and older, slightly mistranslated ones), and the user does this knowing this while possessing the latest scans. A few examples of this are:
This is from the recent Low 1-A staff thread
here
The second instance and third instance of it comes from the latest thread
here where they repeatedly use two different versions of
this and
this scan as well as two different version of
this and
this scan as well. Now the latter of these is something that
@Theglassman12 has
repeatedly(1)
tried(2)
asking(3)
@Iamunanimousinthat to stop doing but they just will not listen. Now my problem here is that this is BLATANT scan or context manipulation that's goin' here. Even if one were to argue that they're similar translations or can be "interpreted one way or the other" (which itself is debatable for some of these), the fact remains that they are deliberately manipulating context here by choosing and picking whichever scan or version of scans fits their agenda the best and often using them at the same time (as all of these examples show) just because it states exactly what they're looking for. I don't think we've ever allowed this kind of thing to pass unchecked for any verse and rightfully so, this is blatant manipulation here.
Now, onto the second part of this report. I'd also like to tell everyone that
@Iamunanimousinthat tried down a
spite downgrade against Tier 1 Dragon Ball in that thread. How do I know it's spite? Well, for one you can peep the thread itself and see both the quality of the arguments, and the general sentiment from both users and mods alike. Now, that alone isn't enough to prove spite, so here's another reason. That thread was closed with not even 2 moderator disagree votes. Only
@Damage3245 there disagreed,
@Maverick_Zero_X and
@Theglassman12 did show up but I didn't see any of them explicitly disagreeing with it. So that Tier 1 thread was actually closed and dismissed before 3 moderator disagrees (and ideally for a Tier 1 DB thread you need way more than that) and before grace had even passed, it wasn't a serious downgrade; as I said, a spite thread.
Now the most damning piece of evidence for it however comes from Discord screenshots, so I hope everyone reading this is fine if I post them. Normally I don't wanna include stuff like Discord chats in reports for obvious reasons but, since I am making a report and evidence is needed, I'll have to share it. So here goes.
This screenshot has them protesting how they were being asked to provide evidence for their claims (in the Low 1-A staff thread) but Dragon Ball's time room "gets to be a dimension" (which was the main crux of their "downgrade", in case you didn't want to read the thread itself).
The next screenshots are
this and
this. They claim that they made an entire downgrade thread because..... some comments on that Sailor Moon general were (admittedly so) off-topic/goofy, and to be fair Bambu did later ask us to knock it off and we did but this is way before that. To save you the trouble of searching,
this is the post they're referring to. Just an image of the main DBZ gang in response to a comment that literally says "main DBZ gang". Again, it was off-topic admittedly, but it was also just a bit of goofing around (at that point) in the thread, not targeting anyone, nothing. This was, what they claim at least, their reason to try a spite Tier 1 downgrade for Dragon Ball. And also to drive that point home, it came right as our
Operation Star Destroyer (I came up with the name btw) starting racking up lots of agreements from mods and users alike. So this should definitively prove that this was a spite downgrade, not a well-intended revision nor a serious one.
And last but certainly not the least I'd also like to report their general behavior towards me and almost anyone who has disagreed with them recently. There's just too many examples to list here so I'm just gonna list the ones that I found the most damning or the ones targeted towards me, I'm sure the mods can look for other statements like these (not sure how the warning tracker works so correct me if I'm wrong) or I can provide them later if I'm asked to.
Here they basically imply that asking for stuff to be spelled out is for kindergarteners
Here,
here (calling me knowingly/deliberately dishonest),
here (stating that I am trying to "defame" them, painting me as malicious),
here (in the staff thread no less),
here (once again accusing me of being malicious and painting them or other supporters in a bad light, even when I denied multiple times that I am NOT accusing them of the mistranslated scan and I still don't),
here (accusing me and others of being toxic and childish, and this is also not exactly a great way to ask a mod to evaluate a thread),
here (exact same thing). Just generally attacking me, calling me a knowing, bold-face liar, calling me deliberately dishonest, constantly accusing me of painting them in a bad light or having some malicious intent against them or their threads and whatnot. Most of these accusations I've just taken on the chin and never even questioned back. There has been one instance (in the High 1-A+ thread) where I did sort of get fed up of this constant toxicity and did threaten to report them for lying too (but I didn't because I realized it was a stupid accusation).
And just overall a
constant barrage of
misdemeanor towards all those that disagree with them or tell them to reconsider their approach including
mods (this one sounds weirdly threatening, I'm impressed at how calmly Glass handled it). And also the latest statement here lol, don't even know what to make of this: "
The fact and you and glassman want to purposefully paint me out as being malicious over the most pettiest and trivial shit ever, is ******* sad and pathetic."
So yeah, I am compiling this entire post to report
@Iamunanimousinthat for all of this. I am aware that the user has been reported before for misdemeanor with staff and users before, I'm here to show that this is continuing to an extent that I believe is unbearable and not healthy if we wanna maintain a functional wiki honestly. I can easily cite more examples for everything here and then some, to expose even more of this pattern, but I believe that'd be unnecessary. I will here that I do NOT believe that I'm entirely blameless in all of these, I am under no such delusion, and I have
apologized when they told me that I was coming off as aggressive to them, and I don't mind doing that again because it's entirely possible for me to come off as aggressive even if I don't intend it. But I have generally strived to maintained a calm attitude throughout all of this and tried to think nothing for most of these, but it's starting to become uncontrollable especially with this latest post of theirs, outright hostile (what even is that lol).
