About Reveille

[Piratecat]

I'm proud to be an EnWorlder!

Me, too. The outpouring of caring really made me proud to be part of this community. What Charles Ryan and others have said rings very true to me. Moderation-wise, I understand that peoples' opinions of the correct consequences are going to vary. We'll make the call we think is best, and thanks for respecting that even if it isn't necessarily what you'd do.

If you really want to contact him I'm sure the mods could give you his e-mail address.

If you click on his name next to one of his posts, the option to email him should still work.

 

[Klaus]

In the immortal words of Eric Noah:

"Well, crap on a stick!"

 

[Charwoman Gene]

Many of you NEVER posted in the HIVE.

Deliberate attempt to pick a fight removed by admin.

It's just a reprehensible childish thing to do. I find it kinda ironic that I am going through health issues and scares right now while he was pulling this.

 

[reveal]

But, he has drawn on that reserve of goodwill under false pretenses. Now, if someone has a real problem, and actually needs to draw on the community for support, people are going to be reserved, a bit skeptical. Folks with problems may not get what they need, because everyone's going to wonder, in the back of their heads, if this is "another Rev".

His intent may not have been to be able to laugh at our gullibility, but the effect is to distance us from each other. That is not harmless.

That's taking it a bit far. Understandable since emotions are flying high now. But look at it this way; over on CM, a user named Del faked his own death. The community banded together and an outpouring of sympathy came forth. When it was learned that it was an "April Fools" joke, he was quickly and vehemently chastised. He wasn't banned but he, smartly, never came back. The community had spoken and he paid heed.

His behavior didn't cause the rest of us to become more cynical and scoff others when they had problems, saying things like "this is just Del all over again." No, we kept going and treated everyone the same. In fact, we probably became a bit closer because we all had more in common; our sympathy for Del at first and then our loathing of him. It also allowed folks to see other member's true colors; it's amazing how much of a person's true nature can be gleaned by how they treat others in a moment of crisis.

I think folks here should wait at least a week or more to let their emotions run their course before deciding on a more "permanent" punishment for Rev.

 

[DaveMage]

I suspected, but decided to take it at face value.

Same here. Somthing like this happened at CM a while back, so it was a bit familiar at the start. It was also off that the fiance would bother to come here during such a time (unless, of course, she was a regular poster). Usually, when a loved one is in the hospital, all the focus goes there - not spending time on message boards.

 

[Umbran]

Hmm... did anyone actually ask him for his reasons?

Yes, we did. However, we will not engage in a "telephone game" here, especially when we clearly disagree on whether it was appropriate. If you want to know his side of the story, you'll have to ask him.

Similarly, no, we are not going to discuss how we caught him.

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

He paid nothing for his wrongfulness is utter BS.

Many of you NEVER posted in the HIVE. You never had a thousand post long conversations with Rev so you can't imagine the amount of doubt and damage this can cause to anyone's relationship with him on ENWorld.

What Rev did casts doubt on EVERY fact he ever stated in the HIVE and in the Off Topic forum. Sadly those doubts will always linger since there is little or no concrete evidence for anything he said. As more and more HIVERs start reading and responding to these events we will only find ourselves questioning his actions more then many of those on this board will. He was one of our own. We thought we knew him. We thought we were all friends. We don't know what the hell lead up to those disastrous actions he took, nor if we could have stopped them. That's not even mentioning that some of us already feel embittered and betrayed by all of this.

So you claim he paid no price, well think again.

The price he paid was the loss of respect he received. He paid through his loss of credibility as well as his being outed and made into a pariah and potentially becoming labeled as the biggest (compulsive) lier this site has known. He tarnished himself and he will not come out unscathed or as anything but tainted.

The price he paid is greater then many of the people on this site will ever know since there are few posters in this community that can fall greater then he did without being a full admin or a game developer.

I agree 110%. What Rev did was was wrong and hurtful, and he most certainly has paid a price for it.

 

[Drkfathr1]

Sometimes I hate being a cynic, but in times like these I'm glad. My shennanigan meter was off the scale with this, but I chose to remain neutral.

I would say that he obviously has personal issues and needs help, but that's certainly no excuse for taking advantage of others emotionally.

It does do the cynic in me good to see the outpouring of sympathy this community offered, and even now that a hoax has been revealed, its interesting to see the offers of forgiveness as well.

Gives me a bit of hope for human nature.

 

[diaglo]

In the immortal words of Eric Noah:

"Well, crap on a stick!"

this.

 

[guivre]

Called it.

What did it for me was just the sheer nonsense of that last message from "Mandy"

"The Experts say when he's done talking to them he'll wake up"

Bad, actionable expertise there I would think.

Also I was a bit suspicious that this girl would transcribe these 5 names of D&D Gods and--without knowing what they were--come and report them to a D&D forum.

All kinds of bells went off.

This.

It was dubious before but at that point it became obvious that it wasn't real. It wasn't worth risking a ban to point out my doubts though so for once I exercised caution and stayed away