About Reveille

[Wik]

His detailed private medical information is not for discussion here.



We can neither confirm nor deny her existence. Nor, ultimately, is his love life our business.



We have said before, and I reiterate, that though we understand the curiosity, the details of the discovery will not be discussed by the staff.

Those interested in his details may communicate with him directly.

Well, you're no fun.

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that being said, I totally agree with you. One thing I will say, regarding Fru's grandparents... it is statistically more likely for long-term couples to die very close to one another. They're older, and the death and stress puts a strain on the heart, or something like that. So, I'll believe it - it doesn't hurt me not to.

 

[doctorhook]

His detailed private medical information is not for discussion here.

We can neither confirm nor deny her existence. Nor, ultimately, is his love life our business.

We have said before, and I reiterate, that though we understand the curiosity, the details of the discovery will not be discussed by the staff.

Those interested in his details may communicate with him directly.

Well, I suppose that's pretty unequivocal. To put it in other words, "Respectfully, none of your business, Doc." I'm still curious, but can understand that his private life isn't open for discussion, regardless of circumstances.

This has been hella weird.

 

[Filcher]

Lame.

The one commodity we have to exchange is trust. Having abused that, it seems only appropriate that one loses access to the community.

The sad part is that, in his gambit for attention, Rev lost the respect/camaraderie he had earned from engaging with the rest of us.

Stupid waste of our time, and his.

 

[EATherrian]

It's an off topic forum thread. It's basically a long discussion about what ever pops into any of the poster's minds (while trying to stay within the Grandma rules, which we do a horrible job at doing). Keyword Hivemind or Hive.

Ah, thanks for the information. I was lost there for a bit.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Ah, thanks for the information. I was lost there for a bit.

Don't mention it. Hell I often get lost there (especially when the thread jumps 100+ posts in the span on 3 hours).

 

[Roman]

Yes, we did. However, we will not engage in a "telephone game" here, especially when we clearly disagree on whether it was appropriate.

I only got to this point of the thread as of now, so perhaps this has been answered already, but let me just ask this:

I understand that you won't engage in a 'telephone game', but I am actually rather worried about Reveille. Doing something like this may indicate a desperate cry for attention and perhaps even end in suicide if the attention is not received or if the hoax is exposed. Please, please can you at least indicate that this is not the case in this situation to put my mind at ease? Thank you for your understanding.

 

[Relique du Madde]

I only got to this point of the thread as of now, so perhaps this has been answered already, but let me just ask this:

I understand that you won't engage in a 'telephone game', but I am actually rather worried about Reveille. Doing something like this may indicate a desperate cry for attention and perhaps even end in suicide if the attention is not received or if the hoax is exposed. Please, please can you at least indicate that this is not the case in this situation to put my mind at ease? Thank you for your understanding.

Now that I'm out of those blasted "stages of Grief", I was actually going to try to contact him myself. Especially since this after noon I mentally went over all the posts in the Hive threads and realized that I missed a lot of warning signs and little bits of info that I should have approached but decided not to.

 

[Roman]

I can assure you, the admin and moderating staff will be having some discussions about this, and we'll review our policies and consider viable technological aids to help prevent this sort of thing happening in the future.

We are not, however, going to do that as a knee-jerk reaction. We are not going to take action out of fear or anger or frustration. We're going to take our time about it, and make sure that we are considering consequences carefully.

I am not sure whether my opinion on this makes any difference or not, but I would strongly urge you to do nothing about this. Sure, find his IP and ban it permanently, but no new policy can realistically protect the community. The only thing you can achieve is to inconvenience normal posters, but whoever is so dedicated to deception will still be able to deceive. Even if you do something drastic like one account per IP (the alts can just be created in an internet cafe) - basically new restrictions will only inconvenience legitimate posters, while not solving the problem.

 

[Roman]

Now that I'm out of those blasted "stages of Grief", I was actually going to try to contact him myself. Especially since this after noon I mentally went over all the posts in the Hive threads and realized that I missed a lot of warning signs and little bits of info that I should have approached but decided not to.

Having now read the entire thread, I am no longer so concerned about his possible suicidal feelings. It is now clear that this was not some isolated grab at attention, but it fits a pattern of activity with his alternate accounts in the Hive and deception there.

 

[pogre]

I came to this forum to check on posts about Rev...

I had not seen the "gods" post, but I was taken in by the earlier stuff.

I'll be honest, I can be taken again. I'll continue to take people at face value to the best of my ability.