It didn't help that I am friends with some of those devs so besides what I saw in the games threads I got into a lot of conversations about shit people were doing and saying.
It got bad with Notty, we'd been talking for ages at the point where she left and we were friends by this point so her getting to the point where she just couldn't cope with the few idiots giving her a hard time over their lack of common sense annoyed me.
I'd got on with Knobbly for ages and was also involved, due to sticking my nose in, with the issues between him and PinCake over the crossover with Acting Lessons and Retrieving the Past. I've made no secret of my dislike of Pink on a personal level. I don't like him as a person but will admit he does put the work in on his games and didn't deserve a lot of shit he got that pushed him away. That's more a case of I don't like the guy but I can respect him if that makes sense.
So I spoke to Knobb a hell of a lot and we got friendly so knew of the shit a handful of people were constantly barraging him with. Sadly it was the same people every time. Why they couldn't move on and leave him alone I don't know but it went from complaints to actual harassment.
I was gutted when he left the site, I genuinely enjoyed chatting with him.
I didn't know Nyx well but saw a lot of shit she got in her games thread.
Sierra Lee used to come here but got pushed out by abusive posts and DM's.
MissFortune, dev of we were just kids, has a guy that is constantly harassing her. I don't mean game complaints I mean abusing her and calling her a pedo because she has kids in the title of her game despite no kids being in the actual game. Fun fact, I started mocking him and he dm'd me telling me i'd fucked up and he was the owner of cracked.io and was going to hack me and post my life there .... it never happened. I do know people on the site and let them know someone was posing as the sites owner in case shit rolls in their direction because I don't know who's he's spouting that to and it could cause problems if he threatens the wrong person.
But that's the kind of person in that minority that ruins things for others.
I admit I get ..... heated ...... at times but I only ever aim that at people that need their bullshit calling out. Like I said, I love this site and I love the pervs that dwell on here so for that minority to ruin it for others fucks me off.