My response and going from said response to another strong point
I can understand the argument that he would've been tainted over time. It seems he was a kid himself when he was put into a leadership position that he was never prepared for and he just got stuck. I've seen other badmins go down the same path, especially when they're running communities with a majority younger audience where they're rarely held accountable or forced to grow up. They get too comfortable and start acting irresponsible and creepy.
That being said though, I still can't excuse the things he did as an adult like sharing porn with minors or bragging about his desire to diddle young girls (fictional or not). I'm not going to say that makes him the embodiment of evil, but those aren't things a good person does.
I'd understand the cancel culture argument more if we were saying he needs to be stalked and harassed or if this was all about level design, but it's ignorant to think that an open discussion is too harsh on someone that's acted abusive and inappropriate towards kids for as long as he did and would continue if he weren't removed. There's a huge difference between being bullied for a tweet or a youtube video and someone being held accountable for genuinely bad behavior.
EDIT: I just want to add too, that I think everyone's voice should be heard on the issue. It's important that everyone gets to vent, even toward those venting. This is just the way that I feel about it.
Wow I
genuinely mostly agree with you, the only thing I don't agree with is the whole venting thing because things have gone down because of venting before but other than that you are
spot on.
Yeah I gotta say some of his threads that he created felt really childish when it came to what he would often say, now
yes the forum rules dictate that you
must be 13 or older in order to make an account but that doesn't stop people from lying about their age and in fact I know this because
I've done it before.
Don't worry I am older than 13 right now I assure you but back on topic this community alongside many others have to account for people lying about their age and if the person has done
just enough research to know how to avoid age restrictions but not know the dangers of avoiding the age restrictions which is why the removal of mystic (in my opinion) has improved this community.
One thing that always has to be accounted for is corruption which is why
so many game creating companies have gone corrupt because they didn't account for corruption (
and also mostly because of Halo 4 but that's an entirely different topic) in which places like this are no exception too, mystic was in such a powerful position for so long and he was already kinda childish in the beginning so the power obviously got to his head and things went down hill from there.
As I have stated before I've usually seen mystic as one of the most aggressive members of this message board and now that I look at it, it seems like mystic was more of a person only speaking his mind even if it hurted others so it seems like he kinda didn't care about srb2 and wanted to just do his own thing, I can estimate that he lost interest in srb2 around 2003 or 2004 because that was around the time when he stopped updating his Sonic 2 mod which is around Sonic heroes meaning tha- oh... Well that was pointless but my point is on the whole estimated time thingy is that he was already losing interest in srb2 in the early 2000's so after 20 years it was very clear that he just wanted to move on to something for a while.
I slightly understand why he would want to leave the community because...
seriously there's no way anyone can keep their passion in a non profit Sonic fan game for even
10 years let alone
20, but he should have done it and should have done it in a good matter instead of bullying the community and using that as his reason for not caring.
If even SSNtails and Sonikuu two out of three of the original creators left development of srb2 then I would actually assume that working on
the same thing for
that long would leave any one drained and completely changed permanently and not in a good way but as I once saw that someone said on this thread (but I can't remember their name) mystic's biggest mistake was not leaving the community, now I don't know what drove mystic towards staying in the srb2 community but there is obviously a reason that kept him staying but the cause of him staying seemingly for no good reason was him being a jerk to others and sometimes even supporting the wrong people.
The lesson of this post is that before going into a place of power be prepared to leave the position even if it's by choice or you'll change most likely for the worst if you keep doing the same thing over and over again every day and if you want to leave then just leave or talk about with others that are trustworthy.