About Reveille

[avin]

Being honest, I din't knew who he was and wasn't very impressed.

I found strange that a fiancée went into his computer, find Enworld and decided to post here. I think it was the last thing I would do.

But when "she" started to talk about D&D gods... well... that was the true red alert.

I'm just curious why he did that.

I support perma banning.

 

[Kez Darksun]

I never knew Rev, so to see this be a hoax is more disappointing than hurtful, especially after seeing just how many people cared about him or just cared enough to add their well-wishes for him and his family. If this was caused by something going on in his life, then I do hope he gets the help and support needed to get through it. What I am going to take from this incident is not a lingering sense of hurt or disgust or disappointment, but rather a sense of gladness at the amount of support and caring shown by the community here.

 

[Henry]

The part that ticks me off the most is that when something like this happens, it takes the trust that a community has in one or more of its members who have met each other in person, gamed with them, fellowshipped with them, and smashes it.

It makes any future discussions of someone's health or well-being suspect, and makes people distrustful of REAL situations like that in the future. How would someone like Angelsboi's death, or Chairman Kaga's, be received if you had a dozen people yelling "TROLL!" to them or friends of theirs who posted about their circumstances? Diaglo, Joe Carriker, and others knew Angelsboi personally, and I can only hope when he passed no one was tempted to yell " It's FAKE!" when it happened because of events like this recent one.

That's the real loss to me in a situation like this. I'll still continue to care, and offer help or kind words where I can, but it just adds one more barrier of distrust to a community that I otherwise consider to be a pretty friendly group of people.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Hi folks,

Thanks for keeping your responses reasonable.

There is no connection with any April Fools pranks.

Please bear in mind Aberzanzorax's comments - if don't speculate on his motives or mental condition we are less likely to end up accidentally hurting any other ENworld member.

Personally, I'm happy to approach any reports of problems from community members in good faith in the first instance, and will continue to do so. It may mean that sometimes I'll get suckered, but I'd rather that happen than that I fail to offer condolences and prayers for those who are in need.

Thanks guys.

 

[Jack7]

I kind of became suspicious when there seemed to be no real effort to respond in any way to investigate the possible real causes of the supposed coma.

If someone were in a real coma it seems to me the first thing anyone, laymen or doctor would investigate would be cause.

Then the fake deities thing really put the cap on it for me. Not knowing the guy it seemed an unlikely coincidence.

But I'd say he probably either does need help of some kind, or he thought it would be some kind of elaborate April's Fools joke.

If he does need help then Godspeed to him, if it was an April Fools joke then he didn't think it out very far, as to how others would react to the details and set-up of the joke.

I forgive him for his motivations either way, of course I really have nothing invested in him as an individual.

I do think though he owes those whose trust he betrayed an apology and some real thought and consideration on how this might have been perceived by some.

It seems like the guy is acting like the kind of teenager whose chief concern might be "punking people." If that is the case then that kind of thing won't take you very far in life for very long, and should be reserved for your best buddies on the weekend, not for the wider world over a long period of time.

But if I'm not mistaken, and I've have to go back and reread the various entries, didn't he have some assistance in his "joke." Didn't some people say they had visited him in the hospital?

Or maybe I am recalling wrong. Maybe someone said they intended to visit him and that was the way the deception was uncovered - I haven't had the time to read every entry in either thread.

In any case now that you are "awake" Rev, and who hasn't done something dumbass in their life that they later regret, just think about this in that regard and I hope you will feel an inclination to apologize to your friends whose trust and concern you actually did betray.

I'm sure they will forgive you, just don't push your luck by making this kind of thing a habit in life.

It seems a lot funnier on TV than it does in real life.
And maybe that's part of the problem, confusing fantasy and fiction for real life.

In a fantasy or fictional world you just start over, no harm done. In real life you have actual obligations in your behavior towards others.

In real life Character means far more than a set of disconnected rolled up attributes. It's what other men and women can trust you to be. Can expect you to be. Can rely on you to be. Friends, or strangers.

So, maybe think about the difference.
Sometimes we dream we are "awake" and very wise, so much more clever than everyone else, when in actuality we are asleep to everything but ourselves.

And good luck with your meditations on the matter.

Personally, I'm happy to approach any reports of problems from community members in good faith in the first instance, and will continue to do so. It may mean that sometimes I'll get suckered, but I'd rather that happen than that I fail to offer condolences and prayers for those who are in need.

Thanks guys.

Well said.

 

[Ydars]

Admin edit: Fair enough. I mentioned this earlier in the thread -- the timing is just unfortunate. This isn't an April Fools prank. I wish it were. I'm not a big fan of drama, and we don't find this funny in the least. ~ Piratecat
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Thanks for that Piratecat! I sort of knew that this was going WAY too far for an April Fool's joke, but then the internet constantly wrong-foots me, so on somedays I really don't know which way is up.

I just hope that this WAS an April Fool's joke by Reveille, that has sort of gone wrong. That I could vaguely understand.......................

 

[JeffB]

I have some choice words for him- but of course thats against the rules.

Glad he's banned- that was beyond low. I watched my father have a siezure after a long bout with Alzheimers and slip into a coma for a few weeks, waste away and eventually die when we took him off "life support". I found myself getting back into that scenario mentally in depth everytime I checked Revs thread. So I felt bad for him, and for "Mandy"- I felt awful reading it, but I hopd for the best.

Karma will find him.

 

[Tewligan]

But if I'm not mistaken, and I've have to go back and reread the various entries, didn't he have some assistance in his "joke." Didn't some people say they had visited him in the hospital?

The only one who said they had visited him was "Mandy", who turned out to be an account that Reveille created just for the hoax.

I'm totally fine with him being permabanned.

 

[JeffB]

double post

 

[Knight Otu]

Disappointing. What suspicions I had (and having witnessed the situation with Del, I did have suspicions) were allayed by thinking that Reveille wouldn't need that kind of validation. But the bit with the FR gods...