You’re basing this on two things:
- ‘Contributor tags’ - I presume you’re referring to the state on GitHub? This shows up for anyone who ever had a commit in a repository.
- ‘Moderator’ - I forgot I even had this still! There’s a lot of people who have moderator permissions despite not being part of the project anymore, or even having visited the forums in a while . (it’s curious that these moderator accounts don’t get cleaned up, especially given the last time spurious moderator accounts were a thing led to a data breach)
Let’s name some:- @transparent-tracing: Quit the project in early 2022. Still has moderator access and visits the forums daily, despite not having posted or been active in the community for a while. Supposedly hangs around closely with the group that’s been escalating against me and has been a key player in said escalation however, so technically is less excluded than I am, which is also probably why their access hasn’t been removed.
- @_duk: Hasn’t been directly involved in a while, last visited October 2023. Still gets asked a few things from time to time, though shouldn’t need moderator privileges directly.
- @Boss: Last visited the forums in May 2022.
- @Kng: Last visited the forums in December 2021.
These do not necessarily reflect the actual state of my involvement, which is more along the lines of ‘indefinitely suspended and even posting this or helping out on GitHub or even playing the FiveM client or interacting with anyone who plays or uses FiveM/RedM is potentially violating some terms’, and any requests for clarification were also curiously ignored.
I was supposed to be involved like most other direct employees/contractors (which would’ve basically been the same way as before, minus having access to production systems directly, which was a decision I’d made myself because the access would usually lead to a lot of the mutual fear stuff), however this state has somehow been in limbo for a very, very long time now, without any direct reason being indicated as to why it’s taking this long, including to the team.
(this is also something that isn’t explicitly stated in public, indeed, fueling a lot of speculation and circling back to the initial part of the topic here: the sudden lack of transparency. the ‘indefinitely’ state is a new one, I was originally told I’d be able to return a week or so ago - only to get an awfully surprising email a few days later…)
The remaining parts that feel like an attack on ‘I’m glad you’re no longer involved or able to do anything!’ are best addressed in the post below, as well as in my post above yours:
Why is only negative stuff ‘not excusable’, but somehow the positive things (me having worked on 90%+ of the project!) are supposed to be taken for granted?
As said, this attitude (did something bad and therefore should be disproportionately shunned forever!) is just awfully counterproductive, and in fact led to a lot of additional escalations in the past as the weird passive-aggressiveness just led to more little things happening.
Also,
… the intent, to my understanding, at least, had always been to have me be equivalent to the remainder of the former team: no more and no less, no ‘super leadership’ privileges that could lead to people being hesitant to provide feedback to me, no access to production systems (unless needed and in a supervised way), but also no extra weird responsibilities, gatekeeping or other expectations that other team members also didn’t get. Of course, starting from day one, this promise already turned out to be broken, and over the following months, more and more things started falling apart or being escalated against me.
Going only by public information won’t give you a complete story whatsoever. I’ve been keeping quiet for the past while as well, but given the state moved to ‘indefinitely’ after I was already made to wait disproportionately long after a sudden escalation by one of these former friends, and also given the narrative being spread here, I’m somewhat trying to be a little more transparent here. Similarly, if I’m supposed to not say anything here or do anything differently, I’d like that to be pointed out to me directly, not for that to be something I find out indirectly weeks to months later as it comes up in some story way after the fact… communication has been lacking and the past months have been full of a lot of bombshells regarding things like that.