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I doubt it had anything to do with that. Probably hit the contract end. D&D was not proven then, and had been on tiny staff life support for a while. You need to terminate contract positions before a certain time lapse otherwise they are deemed to be employees. Just about everyone WoTC hires are...

And one allegation that a complaint was not looked into (who was being complained about not specified so no way to know if any relation to Satine) turns into a torrent of assumptions about why and who knew and that M person is not fired yet? And the person complaining kind of takes over the...

Satine was a contractor years ago. WoTC almost always ran contracts for one year. She was not an employee and other than some allegations from one side, there is no proof that anyone at WoTC did anything. Everyone is assuming that she had some real power, who knows and what the actual situation...

Even with mod text earlier warning people to stay on the subject of the two people in the OP, WoTC employees are still being named and speculated about in very negative ways. I try and be silent if I cannot be kind and not speculate in very negative ways. Also, if there is a real black list and...

What is he supposed to say? I have not seen any bad behavior to have been alleged to have happened at GaryCon. If they are not guests at next year’s GaryCon, that about sums it up.

So you do think that walking by the wedding party taints me. And, I must admit, Thursday was my AL day so I was walking to a 5e D&D game. One that Mearls worked on, Satine was the community manager for in 2016 (that is a guess from memory) and that two other evil OSR personalities consulted on...

if you know nothing, maybe not slurring someone is the decent thing to do?

Mike Mearls, who attended Gary Con like he had plenty of times before, stopped by a former co-workers wedding which was the feature event Thursday night and which took over the bar which is the main social space in the hotel. Or, you can read it like this was intended and he flew to the site...

She did not say she would immediately contact everyone that wrote a specific post, she said she would get to them.

Most such businesses are actually individuals. Now RPG work generally pays poorly and maybe this experience has a social good by chasing people away from the space into more productive endeavors. I actually (tongue in cheek) scolded a friend who bends over backwards to make sure his freelancers...

I agree that I see no evidence in this thread of sexism or racism (and the mods here don’t let that stand if it is happening). However, it is in the thread. The insinuation that she is getting attention because of her gender and an insinuation that it is racism as well. Couple that with the...

Wonder why people get away with bad behavior for quite a while? This thread has a good clue. One person says anything and they are just sex shaming, sexist racist people. That is why many people, especially ones new to the scene or feeling unsure are scared to come forward.

Dude, read what you are writing. Does not matter to what degree it is discussed, it is all sex shaming.

First of all, I am not questioning someone that worked/works in the sex industry being in the TTRPG space. That would hit pretty close to home for me and I have said several times in this thread that in my opinion it ok and I think it is a valid topic for discussion. You are thinking too much...

It is not sex shaming to question the porn industry. Again, right to that canned response. Porn is restricted to 18+ in the USA. Child porn is a serious criminal offense. There are documented and peer reviewed studies that show it can be harmful (and others that show it is not and all sorts of...

There is a difference between people not reading their contracts and having unrealistic views on how contractors get paid and the allegations that people were not paid at all. One I have a small amount of sympathy with the business owner. The other is a huge issue. And the examples that people...

It is not. I don’t invest in tobacco companies and would have an issue with someone being prominent in promoting that product being a spokes person for a hobby I enjoyed. In this particular case I both do not think it is relevant and I personally have no problem with her former profession. I...

I wonder is wandering off into the weeds and the lectures about sex shaming really have that firm a place here. Immediately going to sex shaming whenever the topic comes up is just a canned response without nuance or context. I can be ok with the porn industry and understand that society as a...

That is a pretty broad brush you are painting there.

She was playing D&D before that show. In my personal groups over the years I have had players from all walks of life. The fact that porn actors or actresses play D&D is not surprising to me. Is the next attack going to be against Joe Manganiello because of Magic Mike being about male strippers?