You are entitled to your opinion, you are not entitled to victim blame. By shifting the responsibility for the doxing and death threats onto “the way it was done” by the RC, you are shifting blame away from the violent members of the community and onto the RC.

Let us be very clear - no one should have to anticipate death threats over their engagement with a hobby. No hobby action one takes within a hobby space is ever justification for death threats. And, no matter what the RC might have done with bans, the responsibility for the death threats ONLY falls on those making the death threats.

Those are basic and obvious moral and legal tenants upon which civilized society exists. You can write them off as an opinion, but TappedOut, as a site, is against violence and any act condoning violence or blaming victims for being on the receiving end of threats.

Peligrad - I think that is important to accurately characterize how the transition to WotC occurred.

“Backlash” is an understatement - the RC members were doxed and received death threats.

Moreover, “mismanaged their authority” seems to be phrasing with little basis in reality and shifting the blame for the death-threat filled backlash on the victim, not the community members who broke the RC’s spirit. In reality, the RC was incredibly conservative in exercising their authority - each of the cards they banned leading up to this controversy was long on the “potential ban” watchlist, and in-line with similar other bans.

The RC telegraphed their move months - and for a few cards years - in advance, and somehow people were shocked by this decision. That is a pretty strong use that the problem was the community, not the long-term evaluations and conservative approach to their authority by the RC.

So, let us all be very clear where the fault lies - it is not the RC “selling out” and more a group of hobbyists decided that their hobby was not worth death threats.