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  1. Hi there, it's haunter here. If you're reading this pastebin, then you probably already know what happened to me in the
  2. last few days, so I won't waste time explaining that. I just want to say that I was really disappointed by the treatement I received from Smogon higher ups. I was banned overnight, without even being able to present my side of the story and labeled as a
  3. manipulative person, which I am not. I know I will probably sound selfish here, but someone who's worked so hard for the
  4. site over the course of 7 years and without earning a single penny in return, probably deserved more respect. Anyway, mind you, I don't hate Smogon and I don't seek revenge. I have left a lot of good friends on Smogon and wish the site a long and fruitful existance. I'm only typing this file to explain my side of the story and to say farewell to the hundreds of people who've made my experience on Smogon unforgettable.
  5.  
  6. So, a few days ago, someone who used to go by the name of Princess Natalie/Silver Puppy pms Zarel and reports me for
  7. sexual harassment. I was kinda surprised of said report, considering that my interactions with this person had been
  8. extremely limited and I had never discussed anything sexual with her, being aware of her young age. Anyway, a few hours
  9. after I was informed about said report, I confronted Natalie on PS and asked her why she was trying to frame me. Below is the log of the conversation:
  10.  
  11. [21:04:19] ~haunter: I'd like to know why you told Zarel that I harassed you
  12. [21:04:25] ~haunter: when it's just not true.....
  13. [21:04:48] Silver - Puppy: Your pushing it a bit far there
  14. [21:05:17] ~haunter: what am I pushing?
  15. [21:05:19] Silver - Puppy: I still care about you haunter, I just don't want things to fly too far south in our friendship
  16. [21:05:27] ~haunter: what?
  17. [21:05:39] ~haunter: I haven't talked to you in months
  18. [21:05:54] Silver - Puppy: Cause I never see you on
  19. [21:06:02] ~haunter: I mean
  20. [21:06:14] ~haunter: I don't understand why you felt the need to lie
  21. [21:06:24] ~haunter: when I've been nothing but a friend to you
  22. [21:07:41] Silver - Puppy: well
  23. [21:09:01] Silver - Puppy: sometimes people aren't who they seem
  24. [21:09:12] ~haunter: I agree
  25. [21:09:27] ~haunter: I thought you were a nice person and did my best to help you
  26. [21:09:32] ~haunter: and you're repaying me with this
  27. [21:09:51] Silver - Puppy: I am a nice person....only with some different sides to me
  28. [21:10:00] ~haunter: different sides?
  29. [21:10:16] Silver - Puppy: mhm
  30. [21:12:00] Silver - Puppy: I'm sadistic. By you getting mad, it's only making me feel a bit better. And last night I cried
  31. so much, just needed some cheering up. I'm saying I used you, but you helped me only in a different way.
  32. [21:12:10] Silver - Puppy: *not
  33. [21:12:16] Silver - Puppy: *not saying I used you
  34. [21:12:17] Silver - Puppy: fuck
  35. [21:12:20] Silver - Puppy: typing
  36. [21:12:23] ~haunter: omg dear
  37. [21:13:00] Silver - Puppy: I still care for you
  38. [21:13:06] ~haunter: I mean, you do realize that what you did is wrong, right?
  39. [21:13:13] Silver - Puppy: yeah
  40. [21:13:16] Silver - Puppy: ik ;-;
  41. [21:13:23] ~haunter: gdi
  42. [21:13:33] Silver - Puppy: ?
  43. [21:13:51] ~haunter: Natalie, my dear
  44. [21:14:00] ~haunter: I like you and I want to protect you
  45. [21:14:10] ~haunter: but what you did to me is a crime
  46. [21:14:15] ~haunter: it's called defaming
  47. [21:14:18] Silver - Puppy: I know.....
  48. [21:14:25] Silver - Puppy: I'm sorry....
  49. [21:14:28] ~haunter: Im a grown up person and a lawyer
  50. [21:14:42] ~haunter: you could cause me serious troubles
  51. [21:15:07] Silver - Puppy: I'm sorry! I didn't know there was rules to it!!!!
  52. [21:15:50] Silver - Puppy: Why didn't you just ban me from ps.....
  53. [21:15:53] Silver - Puppy: WHY
  54. [21:16:02] ~haunter: it's a game for you... it's serious stuff for me
  55. [21:16:24] Silver - Puppy: I didn't know!!
  56. [21:16:34] ~haunter: if this thing escalates any further, I'll be forced to alert the authorities and have them prosecute
  57. you
  58. [21:16:53] Silver - Puppy: plz dont
  59. [21:17:06] Silver - Puppy: i have enough problems.....
  60. [21:17:17] ~haunter: please pm Zarel and explain to him what you did
  61. [21:17:32] Silver - Puppy: okay
  62. [21:17:35] ~haunter: I'll try to bury this
  63. [21:17:42] Silver - Puppy: im really sorry
  64. [21:17:45] Silver - Puppy: i really am
  65. [21:17:48] Silver - Puppy: i didnt know
  66. [21:17:49] ~haunter: and for god's sake don't play with people's lives
  67. [21:19:40] Silver - Puppy: can you tell him...,, im crying to hard/
  68. [21:20:44] ~haunter: it's important that you tell him
  69.  
  70. I also saved a few screenshots of our conversation, to further prove my innocence:
  71. http://puu.sh/hQSwG/708b47c10a.jpg
  72. http://puu.sh/hQSGt/ea5e6a449f.jpg
  73. http://puu.sh/hQSWC/966d28c1fe.jpg
  74.  
  75. Eventually this person also admitted having been suggested by someone (I'm omitting their names, cause I wasn't able to confirm this) to fabricate evidence against me:
  76.  
  77. [23:07:11] Silver - Puppy: I CAN TELL U WHERE I GOT THE IDEA
  78. [23:07:14] ~haunter: I'm just too angry right now
  79. [23:07:20] Silver - Puppy: I KNOW WHO WANTS U GONE
  80. [23:07:27] ~haunter: who???
  81. [23:07:37] Silver - Puppy: there is 2 people on ps
  82. [23:07:45] ~haunter: one is **
  83. [23:07:48] ~haunter: and I know that
  84. [23:07:53] Silver - Puppy: and the other is **
  85. [23:07:58] ~haunter: **?
  86. [23:08:00] ~haunter: who's that
  87. [23:08:05] Silver - Puppy: they dragged me into this
  88. [23:08:30] Silver - Puppy: they wanted me to tell them what u have being saying and stuff
  89. [23:08:43] ~haunter: who is **?
  90. [23:08:56] Silver - Puppy: **
  91. [23:09:01] ~haunter: ...
  92. [23:09:15] ~haunter: I don't even know who that is
  93. [23:09:22] Silver - Puppy: shes friends with **
  94. [23:09:32] Silver - Puppy: they dragged me into it
  95.  
  96. Natalie eventually agreed to provide me counter-evidence against **, but then I got banned from Smogon, so I lost any
  97. interest and gave up.
  98.  
  99. Natalie, if you're reading this, know that I never meant to actually send you to jail for what you did, even tho defaming people is
  100. horrible and against the law in most states. I hope you learned your lesson and, for what matters, I have no grudge
  101. against you. Please, and for your own good, detach from people who try to use you for their selfish purposes.
  102.  
  103. Anyway, those are the facts, you can judge them as you prefer. You might think that I was being manipulative but, before
  104. making such judgement, think about it: how would you react if you were falsely accused of an extremely serious crime and
  105. the person accusing you admitted to be making false accusations? How would you feel knowing that there are people who're
  106. fabricating evidence against you, in order to make false reports? Trust me, it is a terrible sensation.
  107.  
  108. In the next two days, I've known that Smogon had been getting other reports about me being "manipulative" and in certain
  109. cases "harassive". I'm not sure whether said reports were documented or not, but I know for a fact that I have never
  110. harassed anyone. I am a playful person and if with my jokes I have offended someone, I sincerely apologize. I never meant
  111. to make anyone feel uncomfortable. Mind you, I'm not a saint, but the very few people I flirted with during my time on
  112. Smogon/Showdown were all of age and all consenting. I won't drop their names to not cause them unnecessary
  113. stress/attention. Anyway, I've never harassed people on Smogon/PS, I have never harassed anyone in real life and I will
  114. never, ever, harass women, it's just against my principles.
  115.  
  116. I also want to say to not believe to the many fake logs that are circulating on PS these days. Apparently in one of them I
  117. claim being from Cali (lmao). Faking logs is extremely easy and people love drama in this community.
  118.  
  119. Anyway, what's done is done, I just needed to clarify my position, since my sudden ban from both Smogon and PS prevented
  120. me from doing so. I needed to do it to clear my name and I owed it to my friends/fellow staff members. I could easily
  121. evade my ban, but trust me, I'll never log on Smogon/PS again. I have no interest in coming back. I'm done with Pokémon as
  122. a whole and, as I told Joim a few weeks ago, I was going to quit anyway, probably at the end of the summer. haunter is
  123. dead and I'm completely detaching from the Smogon/PS community.
  124.  
  125. chaos, if you somehow read this, know that I don't hate you for hastily judging my actions despite my contributions to Smogon. You chose to protect your creature and I totally understand and respect that. I only wanted to leave on good terms and be remembered as a somewhat harsh but very dedicated community leader. I hope you believe that I've always served Smogon with loyalty and all I did in these years was in the best interest of the community.
  126.  
  127. With that being said and clarified, I want to type a few lines to say goodbye to the many, many, people I've interacted
  128. with in these years and who've made my stay at Smogon a great experience. It's next to impossible for me to mention
  129. everyone, so forgive me if I leave out someone.
  130.  
  131. Thanks to the Smogon Senior Staff group, especially Aldaron, Joim and McMeghan. Aldaron, you've been a great leader and a
  132. good friend, you have my utmost respect and I hope that you stick around to lead Smogon with your experience and
  133. dedication. Joim, you've been my most loyal and close friend in the last months, I'll never forget our chats and the fact
  134. that you chose to believe me, even when everyone was against me. McMeghan, we haven't known each other for too long, but
  135. I'm glad that you got Super mods and I'm sure you'll lead the OU tier better than I did. I also want to thank Hollywood
  136. for being an active leader and a good friend. Also goodbye aim, you're a funny dude and a good player.
  137.  
  138. Thanks to the OU team, Reverb, ginganinja and AM in particular. Reverb, you've been a good friend both on Smogon and
  139. outside of it. You've been loyal to me and I always got your back. I hope you believe me when I say that I never expected
  140. things to end this way. I wish you all the best in real life, you deserve it. ginga, you've trolled me a lot in these
  141. years, but in the end I knew you considered me a friend and I've always reciprocated your friendship. AM, you've been the
  142. most competent and professional moderator the OU forum has ever had, please stick around and earn a spot in Smogon higher
  143. up. I also want to say goodbye to the former OU mods, especially people like Pocket and Alexwolf. You guys worked hard and
  144. never caused me troubles. Thanks a lot and good luck in real life.
  145.  
  146. Thanks to the RMT crew, especially harsha, tab, Taylor, IronBullet, Jirachee, Reymedy and good old people like franky.
  147. Take care guys.
  148.  
  149. Thanks to Pokémon Showdown Upper Staff, especially Jasmine and The Immortal. Jasmine, we used to fight a lot over stupid
  150. shit, I regret not being able to spend more time with you. You're a great leader and a good person. The Immortal, you
  151. don't talk much, but when you do, you're never banal.
  152.  
  153. Thanks to the global moderation team of PS. I'd have to mention 30+ people here, so forgive me if I only focus on the
  154. closest friends. Dell, I know that you think that I lied to you, but believe me, I never did. I've watched over your whole
  155. PS career and I'm sure you'll get Leaders some day. You've been a good friend and I really enjoyed our chats.
  156. Shaymin/Kayo/Dan and the whole THP staff, you're a great team and I liked all of you as individuals. Keep up the good job.
  157. Astara, you're the sweetest person I've met on PS, please do never lose your pureness. Rosie, Nani Man, Julian and the
  158. whole AUS crew, I've always enjoyed spending my free mornings in your company. Nani, you're a super chill dude and one of
  159. my sincerest friends. Please post your tanned pictures someday!!! SteelEdges, I hope you finally manage to lose some
  160. weight and to take things less seriously. It's been nice talking to you when you were not angry. Articunt (Articuno*),
  161. you're super funny and I'll really miss joking around with you. Good luck on your new job! Goodbye to Scotteh and Bumba,
  162. greet the mighty Showderp for me and tell them that their favourite PS nerd is finally heading out! I'm certainly
  163. forgetting someone, but believe me when I say that I've enjoyed every single moment I spent on Showdown and you all made
  164. my stay unique.
  165.  
  166. Ciao e grazie al team italiano. Un abbraccio a Test2017, The Quasar ed Inflikted, in particolare. In bocca al lupo a Galbia
  167. e useless trainer. Siete dei ragazzi splendidi ed è stato un onore per me conoscervi e frequentarvi. Vi auguro tutto il
  168. meglio. Sono certo che non crederete alle tante bufale che si dicono sul mio conto in questi giorni. Sappiate che sono
  169. stato sempre sincero con voi e che mi mancherete.
  170.  
  171. Last but not least, thanks to the hundreds of PS regulars I've interacted with on daily basis. Abra, Eyan, sparkychild and
  172. the Lobby staff. Gros Orteil, Bluwing, Prankster, Irraquated and the whole BOF crew. Good luck in your future endeavors
  173. guys. I will miss you all.
  174.  
  175. Finally, goodbye Bloo, no matter who you are, you've been a special person to me.
  176.  
  177. And this is all, farewell guys and long live Smogon!
  178.  
  179. ~haunter
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