Cav's Place

This Monday, I managed to get my MobyGames account back after another talk with Sciere. He did, after all, say that he will look into the matter and see who is in the right when he banned me, so I sent him a message after being banned for a full month to ask how that’s going and, I guess, pestered him enough with the long rants that followed for this to be the simpler solution. It doesn’t imply anything being done about the asshole, he doesn’t even seem to be looking through what was escalated and the submissions that were rejected just when I was banned and have therefore vanished from the “recently rejected” list by the time I was allowed back are lost for good, but he did say that if I’ll feel that anything else is sent back, rejected or escalated unfairly I should let him know right away so he can look into it immediately and decide what to do then, suggesting that he could perhaps ask jaXen to skip them if they won’t really go against the standards but that guy will remain adamant that they do.
That said, I’m only posting this today because I didn’t actually submit anything again until a little while ago. I’m not even sure I care to do it so much anymore, because there’s that feeling of not even being able to do that right anymore that all these rejections have created, even if they’re all from a single approver who clearly has a different interpretation of the standards than the others, and that’s definitely not what I care to be feeling when I’m doing some volunteer work. I kept going until I resorted to the, shall we say, act of civil disobedience that got me banned because it was a conflict and I didn’t want to give in to an asshole’s unreasonable demands, but when I generally think that everything I do is wrong, something like this was bound to have consequences once I was forced to give it some time to settle in.
The site is a dying mess anyway; had been “ill” even before being sold in 2010 and has certainly been dying ever since that happened, since that resulted in it losing even what little support it had before, so I’m not even sure how long will it still be active in any way. If even Sciere, who’s the top contributor, said that the fact that the owners have abandoned it for so long made him decide there are better uses for his time, which is also why he didn’t care to get involved in my conflict with jaXen until he absolutely had to even though he’s probably the one person there who may still hold enough influence to decide on such matters, you know the end is near… Unless, of course, some other company that actually cares for games, perhaps the older ones in particular, and gamers, the more intelligent and thorough ones in particular, will decide to buy it from the current owners and somehow save it. But that’s another issue…