Hello all,

In the wake of today's post by Pink, I've been tasked with offering what transparency we can about what is happening within the mod group and outlining our plan moving forward.

The mod team as a whole was made aware of the situation involving Pink last week. As emotions were running high coming into the weekend, we asked all parties involved to take the weekend off and planned to reassess everything on Monday. During the weekend several members of the mod team (including me) not directly involved planned a voice chat session for conflict resolution to try and allow the involved parties to work through what had happened and find a plan to move forward. That call was scheduled for this evening (7/13) at 8:30 Eastern. The delay was intended to give parties a chance to gather thoughts, as well as to be able to accommodate the schedules of those who would be meditating. All parties agreed to this delay and schedule, and seemed to be at least agreeable in the approach.

As we were preparing to have this call, Pink decided to make her post to the sub, outlining her reasons for stepping away from the Jungle Beat. In this post she made many references to the events over the weekend as well as many comments referring to what had happened.

As you can imagine, that post threw a pretty significant wrench in the established plan of a mediation between involved parties. The call has now been cancelled, and we're trying to figure out what our next would be.

I want to be very clear. The admin and moderator teams were all fully aware of the instances that lead to this. There had been multiple attempts at reconciliation and apology that weren't successful. We had a further plan in place to try and work through these issues, with a conflict mediation plan, to which all parties had agreed.

Pink has now become completely unresponsive to any messages we've extended to try and find out what is happening. She has continued to comment on her post as well as on Twitter with her feelings about the situation, but as of the writing of this post has not responded to any of our attempts to contact her.

To say this is a shitty situation is an understatement. The mod team recognizes that Pink absolutely had right to feel wronged and threatened by what happened. Apologies and explainations were made, but did not affect the overall feelings and situation. We scheduled specific time and effort to try and offer assistance and help find a resolution, and that has now been postponed indefinitely. Any and all attempts to deal with it have been met with resistance, and now pointed silence.

To be very honest, we're at a bit of a loss as of what to do. Due to her lack of response to any of us, her seeming unwillingness to accept apology or explaination, and the disregard for the processes that she had agreed upon for resolution, Pink has been given hiatus status until further notice. Any official action regarding her future on the moderation team will be decided and explained to the sub. We'll offer more as we can moving forward.

As is normally the case in times like these, this changes nothing of the big picture issue for GME as a whole. People disagreeing, feeling hurt, scared, or threatened doesn't change the game plan. Buy and hold, and Power to the Players.

Edit: added "aware" in paragraph 1

Edit: enough questions about this that I wanted to make a clarification.

The moderation team as a whole was made aware of the issue on Friday the 9. The information was presented in a way that made all involved feel like resolution was not only possible but the preferred solution. Parties were asked if a delay in official action so we could weigh the options was agreeable. All parties, including Pink, consented. When the mediation session was suggested and implemented, once again, all parties consented. I was fully ready to enter into a mediation session tonight with all parties eager to address this to the satisfaction of all parties, because Pink had behaved in a way that lead us to believe that's where she was at in the process.

Evidently Pink didn't feel like this was enough, that she wasn't being heard, or that we weren't talking things seriously enough despite agreeing to every one of our offered plans.

At no point did Pink ever raise a demand or plan of action that was ignored or neglected, at least to my knowledge. Her posts were always centered upon bringing awareness to the situation to the mod group. The awareness was raised, and the mod team immediately went to work to figure out our preferred strategy. Part of our planned call today was going to be asking exactly what actions she's desired us to take because of this. She never asked us to remove any one, or gave us any actionable demands on her end. Perhaps this was because she assumed we would come up with her preferred solutions without her outlining them herself? But if there were specific demands on how she would have liked the mods to respond, she did not voice them.

When her post today was made, we were 3 hours away from our planned meeting, and everyone who has known and approved that course of action was incredibly surprised and confused as to why the post was being made. As I said before, we were aware that Pink was upset, but she gave every indication that she supported our plan for response and willing to participate in it.

That's why no actions have yet been taken, and any and all possibilities were on the table heading into tonight's call. But we never got to that point.

Hopefully this clarifies out decision making process.