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Recently I reported being harrassed within a gaming community to the community. I was hoping for a route to resolution & discussion about this. This was brushed off as something that was "dramatic," something to be minimized, & to be addressed on the platform where it occurred.

Earlier this summer when the #ActivisionBlizzard events started to come into view, I helped in that weekly chat by coordinating a discussion with some very brave folks who shared their horrendous experiences with harassment of varying sorts endured while in the gaming industry.

There is a weekly news room regularly attended by several members of this gaming community. The person who removed my posts is one of the folks who often attends &/or facilitates this. With #ActivisionBlizzard harassment being a space of news, this was due to be discussed.

This person who deleted the post had been one of the men who had aired grievances himself about someone else. I called this out. Someone else did again (the same man as before) too but offered to have a dialogue about things off of the thread to keep the peace requested.

My post about things was deleted by the person in charge of the community. They suddenly decided that this was not the place to discuss grievances- starting now. Instead, folks should take it up with the platforms the harassment happened on.

Not shocking. When abusive behavior happens there are people who will rally around the abuser & call folks who bring attention to it liars. It's not an uncommon thing in the slightest sadly.