I honestly would need a bit of a TLDR to even begin to get started on this.
TL;DR: A group of users have been heavily involved in various DC CRTs that are now closed were suspected by Ant and myself of working together to get their CRTs approved. They aggressively rebuked this accusation, going as far as to come here and ask for me to be banned for making a false accusation, but I have screenshots of Discord messages indicative that they not only were they collaborating, but at various times even recruited non-VSBW users to make accounts here to say "I agree" on their CRTs. I can't speak to whether or not the collaboration itself represented something problematic (though Bambu seems to think it definitely is) but I certainly take issue with them trying to get me banned as a 'false accuser' for calling it out.
That's a
very broad assessment, so in order to be fair to the full details, I'll explain more detail:
@Deagonx
Can you provide links to all of the main posts with matter of fact evidence, including the one where I quoted some evidence that you showed me in private, please?
Yes.
Mori, I think
this comment has the best breakdown of the evidence, but it lacks the background, so I will try to summarize the situation in a way that is fair to both sides. I apologize if it's not super concise, I am trying not to gloss over anything important so as to not misrepresent anything.
A group of users (Transcending, Beyond_Transcending, Xearsay, and Tetrahedron1234 to a lesser extent) have been involved in a number of DC Comics CRTs the past few weeks, which have been closed. They are being listed as a group because they have a strong affinity for showing up in each others threads to agree, arguing as a team, liking each others posts, etc. Despite this, myself and some other users argued against the threads, Ant ended up closing them.
One such user (B_T) took to the All-purpose request thread to object to these closures and ask that the threads be re-opened, in particular citing that one had more agreements than disagreements, and that others had similar numbers of agrees and disagrees. At one point Ant voices a suspicion that they were collaborating, which was aggressively rebuked by the group.
I chimed in that, as a mod of a Discord server many of them are in, that it's not an unreasonable suspicion as they had mentioned having a group chat together. Transcending began demanding evidence of him asking Xearsay to participate in his CRTs, so I posted a screenshot of a message from the Discord where he said to B_T: "
I posted the link to our CRT in the group chat with Xearsay."
From there things got increasingly heated, with Transcending objecting that while he may have asked users to participate, he
never asked for agreements in general. Then he posted here in RVR accusing me of making false accusations and saying I should get banned. More evidence was provided to rebuke their version of events, but both threads turned into dogpiling with all 4 of them commenting a lot and complaining of false accusations.
All in all, a trainwreck. 0/10 wouldn't recommend.