Completed Report against Pokeben

Hey, just letting you all know, i have seen this.

 

Well ok then. I can't say I expected a report to come out of this, especially not from you (more on that later). I suppose I'll just get right into it.

Below, I have arranged for you what I believe to be the relevant messages of my interactions with Nikki yesterday (there's a lot). Feel free to look back through the discord shoutbox if you feel I'm leaving something out:

Spoiler: Messages

I had said nothing to Nikki whatsoever, but she still felt the need to harass me in shoutbox, calling me toxic and transphobic and saying things like "i hope you die soon pokebitch". As you can see, I didn't get involved in the conversation until she asked me if I was going to apologize, at which point I asked what for. Up until this point, my only interaction with Nikki was me commenting "what" on their coming out thread. When I did respond to her, I did so, in my opinion, very professionally.

> In this whole conversation, I referred to her as "nilz" once. I would hardly say I "refused to accept" her transition.

Here you can see a short conversation Nikki and I had later that night:

Spoiler: Later that night

You have to understand that from a staff perspective, this is all a bit sudden and hard to believe. Nilz is, and has been for as long as I've known them, a toxic player. I can't recall one instance of Nilz not being a rude and toxic troll. But I guess that has changed now that he's Nikki? As you can see in the first photo I've provided for this section, I express my confusion and weariness to Nikki directly-- they did, after all, refer to another player as the homophobic slur just the other day. I'm not entirely sure why I'm being reported, as Nikki and I actually came to an understanding, as seen in the photos above.

I'd also like to point out her excessive use of emoticons and words like "rawr" and "lol" and her strange use of capitals. What's with all of the "whatevs", "xD", ":3", and caps? They don't really communicate a sense of seriousness. It's almost like nilz did a 180 flip when he became Nikki. Because of this, I found it especially hard to believe her transition.

If you have any other questions or concerns you would like addressed, feel free to leave them here.

 

Yeah, figured I would get some flack for calling her "Nilz" in my response. However, I only did so as to help aid my retelling and explaining of the situation and my thought process. Nilz BECAME Nikki because... he did. Nilz WAS toxic, but maybe that's changing now that HE is Nikki. I thought I was very respectful in my use of pronouns and correct name.

That said, should I have called her a troll in shoutbox? No, but I hope you can understand why I was slightly hesitant to treat this legitimately. Nevertheless, I shouldn't have called her Nilz, and I take full responsibility for that.

 

Nilz (past self) became Nikki (current self). Nilz (past self) was very toxic and very much a troll, but maybe that is changing now that he (past self) is Nikki (current self). I was simply referring to Nikki in the past as Nilz because it helped to explain my thought process. I honestly don't see why this is such a big deal; some leniency has to be granted for the sake of explanation. That's the only reason I said Nilz instead of Nikki.

 

Just replace the capitalized "HE" with (past self). I was just capitalizing it to put emphasis on the fact that I was talking about her past self. That is all.

 

Maybe you should have read the entire report carefully because I DID own up to it, and I DID say I shouldn't have called her a troll in shoutbox.

 

Im locking this thread until @Reda-Lex can deal with it

 

Whether or not Nikki's transition is real or not, this not up to anyone to judge and her transition must be taken seriously. This isn't a secret to tell you that Nikki has some history of trolling, it's normal to have doubts. I would also like to point out that this message right here was posted when the thread was temporarily locked for being a "troll" thread.


Pokeben continued to use her old name and pronouns multiple time in his response. I don't think classifying these messages as transphobic is appropriate, but handled the situation in a wrong manner and he need to put more effort in using the correct identity.

This report against my moderator will be marked valid for:
-Refusing to use the correct name (aka Deadnaming).
-Refusing to use the correct pronouns.

Pokeben will be suspended for a duration of 2 weeks, due to this report and due to an other private report.