Darkish

Big part of the Hax situation is allowing people who have never lead anything to have authority. A LOT of the panelists use these positions to fuel their power egos because they (truthfully) haven’t had any meaningful control in their lives. Banning someone PERMANENTLY with no way to get back in the community over something so small is psychotic. Regardless of how serious you thought the situation (aside from literal illegal stuff) was, everyone can change. Craziest part is Hax SHOWED growth as well. As much as people are saying “he did all that to himself”, he truly didn’t. There is 1 person or a single group of people that could have stopped this and I know the guilt is simmering right now. As forgiving as I am I know the thought of Hax will be something they think about for the rest of their lives. We need to stop allowing “panelists” that NOONE VOTES ON to run everything. The bare minimum we need to do is be more compassionate, as well as not allow certain people to just claim that they are the decision makers for the entire scene that they are in. The community voting for their ban panelists needs to start being a norm. A handful of people should NEVER be able to decide that they run stuff alone. This goes for every region and every scene (including SFL). There has been a lot of unfairness since that HUUUGE ban wave back in COVID era. Things need to change.