"No. As mentioned many times higherhighs is not an SwC employee and is not in a position to decide anything regarding SwC. Their only role is as a player that has volunteered to help send in reports regarding chat rules and to forward suggestions from players. They have no authority that any other player does not possess."


I am not a staff member, nor have I ever claimed to be.

I am not an employee, nor have I ever claimed to be.

I have no authority to make decisions, nor have I claimed to have any.

The green chat does not mean anything other than SwC is supportive of my efforts and validates them on some level.

It does not mean I officially speak for SwC, or that I have access to anything that any other player doesn't, because I do not.  

SwC is very happy with my efforts and that is what matters to me.

Keep up the campaign, or don't, it doesn't matter to me. This will be my last Bitcoin Talk response, my efforts will be to continue to help make SwC a better and healthier place to play in any way that I can.

 

Higherhighs, along with any other player, is free to send in screenshots of chat that they feel violates the rules posted. The decisions regarding whether this will result in a mute is then made by SwC management.

As we do not currently have a chat moderator present there have been a number of players that have assisted with this, and with relaying player feedback. But as always we invite all players to directly give us that feedback or message if they choose.

If any player has made comments with the intention of representing themselves as a part of the SwC team we would ask you to email support with a screenshot because this is not true and would not be allowed.

Isn't ETF staff? They usually have green text and are always promoting tournaments and time left to register.

The evidence is plenty in the way they are misrepresenting facts to state nonsensical statements in an effort to create a false narrative regarding me and SwC.

Ive 'arranged' for people to be chat banned from a discord channel, just another lie in some attempt to discredit me.

I am soooooooo sorry that it is no longer fun for you guys to play poker at SwC because you cant be abusive and use racial and homophobic slurs at will, like it was just a few months a go.

That is what has changed......you want to take all of your anger out on me, that is perfect, that is why I volunteered to be a part of the change that is happening.

A business doesn't want you to chat on their site/property, that is it. It doesn't matter if you don't agree or don't like the new rules, or that you don't like how they decide who to mute and when. Making me disappear changes nothing. Everyone is still accountable for their own actions and every business makes their own rules.

The focus remains on me, because abusers need someone to abuse, and I am tangible. I am something that can be targeted.

Just think about all of these attacks and accusations........regarding chat.........and not poker.......on a poker site.

I am so proud of SwC and the progress they have made in a few months.

The irony is not lost on me that the abusers are the ones that now feel like they are being abused......even if the reality is they are just being held accountable for their actions.

So I will ask one more time, what are you hiding from? Why create a new name to talk here? Be transparent.  But you and I know the truth, you didn't 'rub me the wrong way', you were abusive towards me, for a prolonged period of time, and chose to become abusive on social media anonymously once you lost your chat privileges at SwC.

You want to interpret things the way you want them to sound, so you can maintain your abusive tone all while continuing to remain anonymous.

"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.

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.

Let's clear some things up.

First, SkyReVo AKA Ugot0chance on SwC has played a good number of hours of chinese poker against me. And I first learned that solvers existed for chinese poker because he started accusing a different player we were playing against of cheating. Apparently, if he wins, he is the greatest, and if he loses, it could only be because someone cheated him.

I have never cheated one hand of poker in my career, and I have never used a solver while playing or for practice. Because of this, I am confident there is no proof of me 'cheating', because I never have.  

What uGot0Chance/SkyReVo forgot to mention is that I offered him $2,000, no strings attached, to provide any proof that I have cheated or used a solver in any capacity. This was my response to him calling me a cheater after our last session. That offer is still open and available to anyone.

I also offered him to escrow $2,000 and I would do the same, and I would livestream play him, to prove that my mind is the only thing I need to beat him. He also declined this invitation.


Now lets talk about chat. I have volunteered to help SwC clean up their chat/culture because their new rules were not being adhered to by many players/chatters who have evolved with SwC over the years.  The chat at SwC, had been very toxic, as there were literally no rules for chatting for 8 years.  This involved many players/chatters logging in every day to SwC to abuse other players with often time racist and homophobic remarks and a lot of abuse. This culture, may have formed a tight nit bond with a few players, but pushed a lot of new players away over the years and made it so it was tough for people to rec the site to their friends, knowing they would be exposed to extreme abuse.

Having been playing on and off on the site since very first month in existence, I had seen the evolution of the site and culture, and had always felt that this aspect of the site needed to change to be able to grow.  So when I saw an opportunity to help for a short amount of time to evolve the culture in a positive direction, I offered to help. I saw someone say that SwC shows me emails, that is not true, I discuss with them why players were muted when the player emails in, and the screnshot I saw, was from a discord where players who are on board with the changes, send me screenshots of abusive/racist behavoir.

Many players are thrilled with the new direction of SwC, but there are definitely a handful of players, that have deemed it more important to be able to drop racist and homophobic slurs at will then to respect the request and chat rules that SwC has put forth. These players seem to be the most vocal on social media and are distorting the truth in some type of effort to get me 'fired'. I put 'fired' in quotes because I am not paid or compensated at all.

uGot0Chance/SkyReVo lost his chat permanently for advertising another poker site and enticing SwC players to play there.....he made over a dozen of these posts on July 13th, and was permanently muted because of it.  Though poaching players for another site was more then enough to perm mute him, he also chose to be disturbingly abusive towards me, graphically giving me in-depth directions in the lobby chat on how to slit my wrists correctly.


Lastly, if you ever stopped playing on SwC because of the culture, I hope you stop by and check out just how different it has become. I am really proud to be part of the reason why hate speech and abusive behavoir are no longer tolerated on SwC, and although some of the abusers have now found an outlet thru social media, I am looking forward to SwC continuing to strive to be a poker destination for all players.

Thank you for your time,

higherhighs

I do understand why you may feel a little confused how one of the signees could send me the email, especially since multiple signees never saw the email or knew their names were signed to it before it was sent.......but someone did send me a copy of the email, and it was not SwC.

The terrorists I was referring to were were several players who I had seen a screenshot of discussing how they were planning on undermining the new rules and their strategy to maximize passive aggressiveness and try to not cross the line, in an effort to 'break me'.  Ill give you the names privately but dont care to stir things up publicly, but were signees.

There is no hit list, everyone who has been muted, has been trying to push the boundaries, or refused to fold an honor SwC's requests.

I saw someone say that SwC shows me emails, that is not true, I discuss with them why players were muted when the player emails in, and the screnshot I saw, was from a discord where players who are on board with the changes, send me screenshots of abusive/racist behavoir.

Dear SWC,

    Somewhere along the way, through years of playing and chatting together, and several different software iterations, the players at your site have become a community. As such, we'd like to address the way in which the recent changes have been made, which have been met with almost universal disapproval (and not merely from players who have been chat banned). We understand the desire to make SWC a more desirable place to play and would gladly welcome an influx of new players. However, we also want to retain what made SWC unique amongst all other poker sites and what made it feel like home to many: the ability to speak your mind, to respectfully (or not so respectfully) disagree with someone, or just chat about nothing at all really-because that's what you do with your friends. We're not upset that a small handful of words are banned; we're not upset that referral links aren't allowed, we're not upset that you are enforcing these rules. What's frustrating to us is the manner in which the rules are being enforced and the feeling that SWC is turning their back on some of their most loyal supporters. With that in mind, here are some suggestions from the community that would help improve the situation:

- A clear list we can refer to about what exactly is banned
-Electing a group of mods chosen by the community (with SWC input) who can enforce these rules with common sense and without bias
-Either remove or significantly reduce any Krill requirements to chat
-Give warnings instead of banning for first time offenders
-Shorten the ban time and remove infractions for those banned recently for minor transgressions

    It's a testament to the site that a player like beans could be chat banned and still help make sure players have chips to play here, or that a someone like Malkavian would still stream and promote SWC despite being too new to actually chat under the current requirements. Please don't squander this goodwill.

Seems like you have a personal vendetta but I'll bite in case I'm wrong.  How is he all but confirmed cheating?  Solver? collusion?