But, what about HigherHighs? They do not speak for SWC?
Also, at one point ETF had the same green text as HH.
No. We have attempted to make this as clear as possible. Higherhighs, nor any other player, represents or speaks for SwC. If they have given you that impression it was either a misinterpretation or a misrepresentation on their part. The only official messages from SwC will come from clearly identified SwC accounts.
There are a few players that have green chat text but it is not an indication of any official position or authority. There are also other players that chose a custom chat color when that option was available for a limited time. If they have not changed their color since that time it will remain. For this reason chat colors alone are not used as a method to signify anything. Official accounts will be clearly identified as such; for example, SwC_Support is an official account used by support in chat.
That just isn't true though. I rubbed HH wrong and they said they were going to ban me, then I was banned from chat. If that is true, then why do you continually let HH act like they represent you in the chat. It has gotten to the point where people have issues and are asking if HH is there and talking to them about it. You could go in the chat right now and ask if anyone thinks HH is part of the SWC team and you will get a large I'm out of responses of people saying yes.
If HH is fraudulently representing themselves in the chat why wouldn't you ban them so they wouldn't continue to do so?
"HH is part of the SWC team" that type of statement can be interpreted many different ways. By definition a team is:
verb
1.
come together as a team to achieve a common goal.
"he teamed up with the band to produce the album"
Similar:
join (up)
join forces
collaborate
get together
come together
So just in the example given by the definition, a person teams up with a band to create an album.......but that doesn't make the person part of the band.
As I have said since the beginning of this, I volunteered to SwC to help them enforce their new rules they put in place months before I started helping out with anything, rules that were ignored and fought back against by some players. They did give me green chat to show their support for the perspective I was bringing to the chat box, and show their support for me.
I am unpaid. I am not given any other compensation or benefits or incentives. I have no access to anything, and no authority on anything. I am just anti-abuse and was happy to help make a difference any way I can in what I perceived as the biggest problem holding SwC back from growth.
I also notice that those who are disgruntled here, decide to share their stories with newbie accounts and without mentioning their screennames, so that their abusive actions for getting muted can remain a mystery to those reading. While seeking to attempt to push SwC back to a place where there is no accountability for actions.
I am proud of SwC for making the drastic steps and changes necessary to evolve the past toxic chat culture of years into a completely new and much more positive environment in a relatively short amount of time. I am proud of them for standing up to bullies and abusers. I think the decisions they are making are going to promote long term growth, and that any short term blowback is primariily coming from a very small number of brutally abusive players/chatters. And it would not surprise me if 1 person is behind multiple accounts on this thread.
I don't expect to be volunteering my efforts for that much longer, and look forward to just playing poker again, but until then, I am happy to 'team up' with SwC to promote a healthier chat culture and offer my help in any way I can.
Per SWC in this chat, you are fraudulently portraying yourself in the chat box. You acted like you were a chosen volunteer to handle these duties. There is a difference of just taking things upon yourself and "volunteering" by reporting people to SWC support. This hands down shows that you are a liar. This also shows that you just want to troll people in the chat to try and report them. You are acting like you have a connection with SWC management in the chat but they say there is no relationship with you. Stop lying and pretending to be someone special in the chat box. This site would be better without you doing that. You've created so much trauma by lying and acting like SWC picked you to help out.