TSR Who's running the TSR3 social media accounts?

Ernie Gygax (before he and Stephen Dinehart accused the whole affair of being orchestrated by WotC and then deleted their Twitter accounts) indicated that Justin LaNasa was running the social media accounts for TSR3, Giantlands, and Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum. After a full week of insults, barbed exchanges, and problematic statements from all three accounts, the following has been posted by...

Ernie Gygax (before he and Stephen Dinehart accused the whole affair of being orchestrated by WotC and then deleted their Twitter accounts) indicated that Justin LaNasa was running the social media accounts for TSR3, Giantlands, and Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum.

After a full week of insults, barbed exchanges, and problematic statements from all three accounts, the following has been posted by somebody who identified themselves as "Michael", perhaps suggesting that Justin LaNasa is no longer with the company (which seems unlikely), leaving many on social media to question whether "Michael" exists. The new TSR3 was founded by LaNasa, Stephen Dinehart, and Ernie Gygax, and despite the acrinomious social media activity, the former two founders' names have largely escaped much of the criticism.

UPDATE -- the below tweets now appear to have been deleted.

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Around the same time, the header above the available events at the Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum website was altered to read: "Most role playing games will be played in old school fashion so if you're easliy offended or Rude ! DO NOT PLAY !" (sic)

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So who is TSR3 co-founder Justin LaNasa? He was an American politician who ran for office in 2014 and 2020, and who was involved in a minor scandal during the latter campaign.

 

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Eubani

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We have Rob Kuntz here, so others may be reading from TSR.

Here is x very informative academic paper on "network harassment" though for the greater good is not in the title, the research explored that.

There is a world of difference between harassment and consequences.
 

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imagineGod

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There is a world of difference between harassment and consequences.
I did not write that academic paper. Researchers are studying what one person calls harassment and another calls consequences. This is a field of study that did not exist in this format before online social media, and especially when mental trauma was not triggered by social media.
 




Eubani

Legend
Face Palm. SF is the main category and F/Apo is a sub-category of it. But when you've claimed/lied to have founded GENCON why not go whole hog.

This Nu TSR must be quarantined and left to rot on its filthy vine.
Maybe throw a bit of herbicide on to said vine to put it out of everybody's misery.
 



Umbran

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I did not write that academic paper. Researchers are studying what one person calls harassment and another calls consequences. This is a field of study that did not exist in this format before online social media, and especially when mental trauma was not triggered by social media.

So, there's a problem with using this model here - Ernie is not innocent or isolated. Ernie is part of his own network, which we can see when we look at his business partners on social media. By the model of the paper, that network commits harassment.

His statements were a marketing attempt to tap into that network. If he suffered harm (we have no confirmation that this really hurt him), it is because he tried to profit off of harm.
 


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