Question.Follow

What happened to Katie?

She apparently got banned. I don't know the details.

She did create a puppet account to log on and let us know she's expecting. I'd love to know how that's going. I for one always liked the scrappy little scamp and wish her well.

I think she got banned. I think she said some stuff around the Allakhazam firing that didn't sit well with some higher ups but I'm not entirely sure.

It couldn't have gaped that wide, having never borne her demon spawn.

I never got into the hating Katie stuff that went on in the OOT. I didn't know where it came from and I hate alot of people. :P

Illia got laid off, which is why Alla left. This is all second hand, of course.

In my mind, she ran off with a bandito named Raul from across the border, and lives a simple life on a beach in southern Mexico with her newborn and Raul's doting but lovable mother.

I forgot how to say "mother-in-law" in Spanish.

Yes.

****, Illia's gone, too?
For the record Katie was around a long time before I ever was, but she was notorious for attaching herself as a clueless fangirl and then turning on the object of her affection. At many points she hated/loved many of the posters and became obnoxious with her criticisms. Then one day she committed the unpardonable error of letting us know she had a miscarriage, and the flaming was such that I don't know how she put up with it.

It was to her credit she had an incredibly thick skin, but I wasn't a fan.

So who's Top Dog these days? Can I see a flow chart? I mean, when I tell someone to fuck off because I don't want to pay my premium in three months, I'd rather not address my complaint To Whom it May Concern.

A apparently went voluntarily as a protest about B being laid off. Katie was indignant, and talked to the admins behind the scenes. C told her some things off the record, which Katie put ON the record, publicly posting it, and she continued to protest vocally in the forums about it all, insulting the site owners.

I was confused a while as to whether she'd actually been banned, or if she was staying away out of hurt feelings, because all this was the last straw for a lot of people who were fed up with her. Maybe a dozen people had permanently put "BAN KATIE" in their sigs, although most of them were taken aback when she actually was banned. Some jokes went around about who to put next in their sigs as "Ban -".

Some Katie gossip before all this happened with A and B: There was a round of new admin recruiting, and Katie wanted to be an admin. It quickly became clear that only people who could show some restraint would be chosen, and Katie realised that perhaps she was hamstrung in that by her posting persona. So to prove her determination, and to demonstrate what she was really like as a real life person, and not a forum troll, she asked the admins to change her name and strip her postcount, so she could start over as a new poster.

However, some other posters quickly became surprised and disgusted that the "new" "real life" Katie was often not any different from "forum troll" "pretend persona" Katie. Katie had a lot of sore spots, and when those subjects came up, she'd get angry and go in for the vicious verbal kill against other posters, in a way that was over-the-top insulting, if it wasn't "just" a trolling. These sore spots weren't even things directed at her, and people didn't pick on her first in the arguments, but just general sociocultural ideas that she held strong opinions on, and would pour out tirades on at the drop of a hat, insulting other people for their beliefs or actions or inactions. I have a suspicion this lost Katie a lot of respect in many other poster's eyes, and they were less tolerant of her; much more likely to view her as "sad" rather than "funny". It was all fun and giggles when she was a troll. Having her avowed promise that she would behave in her new posting account in the same way that she would behave at work gave other people a nasty mental image of her as a possible coworker.

The Katie implosion was a shame, because she'd garnered a lot of people's well-wishes and respect earlier by taking her grandfather, who had molested her many times as a child, to court, in the face of her own fear and almost total family opposition.

A lot of this happened in OOT. Katie was spending a lot of time over there, along with other Asylumnites.

Edited like that? I kind of didn't think any of this was private any more, as it all got played out very publicly in the OOT, albeit several months ago. For example she herself started several threads about her pre-court and court dramas, and her personal family issues.

Edited, Feb 3rd 2010 1:08am by Aripyanfar

/smile
/nod

I never had anything against Katie, personally. Back during Sk33tergate she stood up for me and spoke out against the way it all went down, but thereafter (come to think of it, maybe when Joph and I paired up), she all of a sudden turned on me and insulted me as often as she could for the slightest reason. Not sure what I did that turned her, but by the time I went on hiatus she couldn't stand me and whatever sympathy I once had for her was waning.

But she was a fixture.

Edited, Feb 3rd 2010 12:04am by Atomicflea

Really we should just swap forums, but that would be too simple.