UZDoom Statement About Marisa

We wish to make abundantly clear that, when the decision was made to ban Marisa, this ban was unilateral. She's gone from the forums, from the ZDoom Discord, and from FP, as of the 11th of March. Now, about what happened with Marisa. Marisa the Magician was accused of being a child groomer and pedophile in /r/DoomMods (the thread has since been deleted). The accusation came with a number of screenshots that displayed clearly sexual interactions between Marisa and a person who at some point claimed they were 17 years old. Among other things, the screenshots contained a message from Marisa where she said that her own first relationship was at the age of 18 when her partner was 14 years old. When we were made aware of that thread, we didn't go for a ban right away, because it went completely contrary to the character we knew her for up to that point. We struggled to believe that an author of many popular projects, somebody who did a lot of good for the community, somebody we knew well and many of us considered a friend, could be capable of this kind of terrible thing. Marisa had been a frequent target of harassment before as well. We did not want to act before all cards were on the table. It was not clear to us if the accuser was trustworthy or if the screenshots were real, and we did not exclude the possibility of a smear campaign. At that point there was nothing to discuss publicly, and there were no clear grounds to take any sort of disciplinary action, so we started investigating.

На скриншоте показано официальное заявление UZDoom о запрете пользователя Marisa the Magician и расследовании обвинений в сексуализированном общении с несовершеннолетними. Текст объясняет, почему бан не был выдан сразу: администрация сомневалась в достоверности обвинений, скриншотов и возможной травле. Мем используют как реакцию на драму в открытом исходном сообществе и как пример серьёзного публичного разоблачения.

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