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It's good to know you guys are taking action.As AKM said earlier, we will have to discuss the issue with the HR group after things calm down and we have some free time, and also talk with Imade about it in private, I think.
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It's good to know you guys are taking action.As AKM said earlier, we will have to discuss the issue with the HR group after things calm down and we have some free time, and also talk with Imade about it in private, I think.
Beating up 8 people at once? My g just log off at that point lmfao. Not even the most professional of boxers can do that..if there's literal 8 humans on you.I never knew about Sera honestly but beating 8 man while armed is literally lies to me.
I do learn martial arts but beating 8 people while they are armed would big NO for me and literally fairy tale story.
Not sure my dude.As AKM said earlier, we will have to discuss the issue with the HR group after things calm down and we have some free time, and also talk with Imade about it in private, I think.
Yep. Seems shitty of us not to be aware of what is really happening.Well, I gues my apology was meaningless. Who knew it was all a lie? I didn’t. It’s really sad tho.
You should obviously preferably find real people that you know IRL, and have good reasons to trust, before truly opening up to them, but that doesn't mean that you should expect everybody in this mostly nice community to be a treacherous, manipulative, and malicious asshole either.Not sure my dude.
Every time I try to voice my worries and fears, they were shut down to be meangless and unreasonable, yet the majority of those skeptical ideas came out as true.
Don't bet I will be keep listening to anyone of you the same way.
Right. We should be aware on the people that we trust, someday they will betray you anyway.You should obviously preferably find real people that you know IRL and have good reasons to trust before opening up to them, but that doesn't mean that you should expect everybody in this mostly nice community to be a treacherous manipulative asshole either.
What do you mean?The situation really should be put into more open "public" discussion where possible. Given the gravity of it, and just how many people/accounts were affected.
Thank you. Agreed.While I might disagree with everything in the wikia 100% its still a nice community a lot of people input a lot of their time and effoet in. Hope all the mods and other users who were dragged into this don't lose the trust in everyone else in the community because of this even though its understandable. Be well, stay strong and don't let this tear the community apart.
I'm saying that this affects not only those accounts but peoples ability to have faith that the site can deal with situations like this going forward. I just feel it would be beneficial to be more open in discussing events related to this in the open where possible. A good faith gesture I guess.What do you mean?
Ven single-handedly beat like 8 armed men in a fight
Be weary, while people on the internet can be very fun associates, they are NOT your friends. That only goes for people you’re close with for years on endSo I read the news, and I am in disbelief. There was a time when I thought she was a friend, which was some time ago but still. There were times when I had doubts, but I wanted to hope with everything that she was genuine. It probably only worked because I wanted believe. I’m just feeling extremely disgusted right now.
I am very sorry to hear that Andy. For what little it is worth, many genuinely decent members of this community still appreciate you and all the help you have given to this site.When I was a new user the first person I ever met was Sera, who instructed me on the site's standards after a bad profile I made. I became attached to her quickly and thought highly of her. Years down the road when I became staff and she returned to staff I still admired her and was happy to learn that she thought of me as a friend
I really don't know how to process what happened, I probably should have known since the e-mail merging incident during the forum move, but I was blinded by trust. Now that the whole truth has come out I don't know how to feel, do I just forget about her and act like nothing ever happened, I don't know. I'm just sorry for everyone who were manipulated by her and greatly disappointed to see how much someone can take advantage of people's trust online and lie to them like this. It really worsens a person's ability to put faith in others, which sucks for people like me who has lost contact with a lot of his irl friends and mostly finds company online
I am very sorry to hear this Starter Pack. You are one of our most helpful and reliable staff members, so I really hope that you will manage to recover.So, I was mentally and emotionally abused by a ghost, then. Great.
No, this is not a point of exaggeration or hyperbole. Back just before Sera made her farewell thread, she was going off the wall on VSC about feelings of depression and other adjacent topics. And I had the nerve, the gall, to simply ask, "Hey, are you okay?"
I won't go into the exact specifics of what happened afterwards, but suffice to say, that one seemingly harmless question gave her the opportunity to absolutely unload on me, calling me out for not minding my own business and, as she herself stated, "playing psychiatrist with her," as she stated so many other people would do with her before I did. We traded words, the situation growing more and more heated, and it soon got to the point where I was getting tragically depressed, what with having my own kindness being used as a tool to figuratively bite my head off. In fact, it was after this whole situation that she felt the urge to write that farewell post, and the worst part of it was that I ended up blaming myself for the whole thing. If I had just kept my mouth shut, I thought, she wouldn't have felt the urge to do this.
Now, I just feel sick and heartbroken. This whole...thing has left me feeling like I was played like a fiddle. She won my sympathy, and at the cost of me never again wanting to go out of my way to help anyone ever again, in fear of being attacked like I did with her. I am shocked and hurt by this, and I don't care if she made hyperbolic claims about her "social circle," if they even existed. I'm not even too phased about the fact that she lied about where she came from and what she looked like. The thing that breaks me is the fact that I was starting to trust her and let her in a bit, to the point where I felt comfortable enough to start talking about literally deathly serious topics at home, and she even later apologized for the trauma she caused me.
I certainly do not have as high of stakes as some others on here, particularly the people that may have been falsely accused for doxxing Sera. But as someone with an incredibly low sense of self-esteem of myself as it was, having someone controlling you and playing mind games with you, praying on your weaknesses to gain sympathy while simultaneously screwing with you just kills you.
I'm sad. I'm angry. I'm just...empty right now. As one final token of good faith, however, I hope Sera and her group, if they even existed in the first place, will stay healthy and try to live their best lives in the future. I wish them the best, likely unlike the majority of people coming here today, and I hope they will learn from this and change themselves for the better.
Helps me at times as well.I am very sorry to hear this Starter Pack. You are one of our most helpful and reliable staff members, so I really hope that you will manage to recover.
As I always recommend in these situations, because it works for me, please listen to relaxing music, watch upbeat cartoons or movies, go on nature walks, exercise regularly, and hug therapy pets. Meditation while listening to low volume Karunesh music is also useful.
If you do all of this in combination, it should help you out.
I can understand how the people here are hurt by this, but when you start thinking any of the stories I've seen from Sera at all, it was pretty obvious that Sera was talking out of their ass. For those that considered yourselves friends of Sera, you should have called this out, friends don't let friends do that.
and @Starter_Pack, and all of those who were manipulated. hold your head high, you were a part of the masses whom Sera managed to manipulate but at the end of the day life goes on, use this as a cautionary tale for others and grow from it, and if you want something truly calm to watch please see below.
I know that, but from what I have read there were several other stories that I missedWell once again, you have to consider that not everyone heard of these stories until now. I for one don't remember anything about Ven beating up 8 armed guys and whatnot.
And once again, you have to consider who actually heard these stories and when these stories were told.I know that, but from what I have read there were several other stories that I missed