Pikachu is either abusing his power or extremely incompetent

Link the current Sythe account: @Pikachu
Which violation you are reporting the user for: There are clear signs of judicial bias being shown in our recently report. He has shown no intention of getting things right. This is not the professional behavior we expect from a global moderator.
Why you think they're violating Sythe rules: MyPVM Plugin Exposed/Violations & Resolved

In this report, we will argue several points. As the post may get long, feel free to skip any sections that you may find more relevant.


Releasing Sensitive Information

@Pikachu decided that it was in his best interest to release this information without consulting us on the pretense of damage control. Damage control is defined as "an action taken to limit the damaging effects of an accident or error". We did not share this information to cover an accident or error. We could've been purposely vague (eg. "We use approaches available on approved community plugins.").

Furthermore, we respected everybody's time and wrote a deep-dive for you in an attempt to help better your understanding. This backfired as, in return, Pikachu spat in our face.

The evidence that Pikachu revealed does not affect the conclusion of the report. We shared sensitive information in an attempt to show that our methods are approved. Instead, the conclusion Pikachu reached was the polar opposite - "there very strong argument they uses bots/marco on accounts". Given the circumstances, there was absolutely no need to reveal what we posted. We can only assume this was done strictly out of malice.

Furthermore, the information is an area that is not listed in the default examples. This is a gray zone - we deemed this information sensitive. Releasing such information without consulting the user is a serious violation of the trust that we have about our privacy in the system. We don't believe it has been done in previous reports. Why is it being done now?

Getting around client safeguards is a serious development hurdle. We believe it is also the reason why most developers opt to integrate with an existing client rather than creating their own. This is evident by the distribution of posts in your Client Plugins section (https://www.sythe.org/runescape/client-plugins/). Given how Pikachu decided that this was not sensitive, insults not only the work we've put in to derive such as solution but the entire development community as a whole.


Zero Accountability. Unreceptive to Feedback.

@Pikachu has shown no interest in correcting incorrect statements.

After Pikachu delivered his ruling, the thread was immediately locked, giving us no opportunity to correct any misunderstandings. We understand that reading long posts is mentally taxing and users often make mistakes. But to straight up give an ultimatum without discussion shows a clear lack of interest in reaching a ruling that is both fair and correct. This behavior is not seen in any other posts, nor by any other moderators. What makes this situation special?

A common thought that users may have is: Was this done by accident? Why didn't we reach out?

We did reach out:
- by communicating on certain public Discord channels, ignored
- by communicating to Pikachu directly through direct messages, ignored and unfriended
- by reporting the post directly, ignored

Unreceptive. Don't say that we didn't try.

Pikachu does not care about the truth. All rulings are immediately final. No exchanges. A judicial body making invalid defamation statements is concerning.


Making Rules on the Fly

Pikachu has introduced new rules at his own convenience to indirectly justify his rulings. Many times, these are not backed up with actual written rules or any precedent.

In https://www.sythe.org/threads/4342573/ our TOS was overridden using the image that "deposits are not meant to be used for profit".

From A Guide to Terms of Service (ToS), we have always been able to create our own interpretation of a TOS. We have strict terms to protect our valued customers. With workers, trust is a two-way street, if you don't do anything shady, we've never had any issues with sending payouts and returning deposits.

Not only was this "overruled", but it was also done under the pretense of us using deposits for profits. We have made several attempts to donate the fund to the community repayment pool instead. Need evidence? Feel free to search on both Sythe and on the official Discord. Painting us in this light is straight up slander.

While we didn't agree with his ruling, we acted on it out of respect.

Do you want to know what that result was? https://i.imgur.com/XUhfBOd.png

Also, pushing for new rules after delivering your ruling sounds a bit backwards to us. Updating guidelines + more transparency around TOS

Here on @CheapGP report, he thinks his in the wrong, but because there is no actual official Sythe Rule that he is breaking, he chooses not to punish him. Our situation is not different, Pikachu thinks we're in the wrong, but there is no actual official Sythe rule that we're breaking. Yet, we got punished, and after the report he opens a suggestion thread to instill a new rule.

https://www.sythe.org/posts/79980383/

Conclusion: He punishes retroactively whenever it suits him and is completely inconsistent about it. Clear favoritism.

"Contempt against court" is not a Sythe rule. Neither is forcing others to change their TOS the exact way you wanted them to. We acted out of good faith with good intentions. This is now being abused.


Professionalism

We also question how serious Pikachu was when dealing with our reports.
Pikachu has a history of bragging about not reading reports.



On top of that, Pikachu has been locking and unlocking the thread, not giving us a fair chance to respond. Then, when finalizing his own ruling, he quickly wrote down his verdict in the middle of the night, locked the thread, and continued editing it afterward to make himself look better.

Pikachu's level of unprofessionalism doesn’t match the standard of professionalism we’ve come to expect from Sythe staff.

Also, we want to ask @Pikachu who did he consult to come to the conclusion of what he is saying, since he never compiled a RL client before afaik. Was it one person? 2? Or ChatGPT?


Understanding DNT

We’d like to point Pikachu to Sythes explanation of the DNT Understanding the DNT (Do Not Trade) rank

DNT is for the protection of others. It’s not meant to be used as punishment.

Pikachu claims we should get a DNT because of "contempt of court". My question is: how does contempt of court (which isn’t even an official Sythe rule) prove that I’m such a threat to the community?


The Wrong Verdict

We were the ones who made the report against Mcneil's about him leaking rsn's, with anon account.

Mcneil's client was shut down when 3PC bans came into effect. Our developer decided to use the same name. Our client was meant to be internal facing only, so we didn't think it mattered at the time.

I hope that you can show proof that we use the same client other than just the same name. You have access to our download files. I'm hoping that your "extensive research" also resulted in the download file for Mcneil's steroid. A simple comparison on file size and directory should be more than enough.

We don't send anything to Mcneil. This should not be included.
We also have other issues with your ruling, but understand that it can be based off user interpretation. We won't be fighting that.

How did we get from "terms of service" to "section of site"? All customers must agree to our terms of service before placing an order. If you wanted us to also update a blog post, it should've been stated in the original ruling.


Contempt of staff ruling

Given the tremendous amount of disrespect shown to us and the fact that an timed ultimatum was given based on incorrect facts, and attempts of communication being refused, you have essentially forced us to give a false confession and self-incriminate. Since you enjoy quoting lawbooks so much, feel free to give State v. Sawyer, 561 So. 2d 278 | Casetext Search + Citator a read.

We would like to resolve our DNT. Please make the necessary edits to your ruling or provide evidence that we are using Mcneil's steroid. Furthermore, list all pages that you would like statements to be added. Finally, a nice to have would be that you reconsider your stance on revealing privileged information.