Hidden Pasts

Hello As you are likely aware, there has been much speculation about certain users and their accounts on previous websites. We want to make it clear that this website is NOT at all a safe space for groomers, pedophiles, and others with a sordid history in our communities. The mod team's goal is to free this website of the toxic culture the previous ones had. So many of us were victimized on those websites and communities in ways that is irreversible. Any amount of sexual predation is far, far too much. That being said, accusations without proof simply need to stop. If you believe someone is hiding under a new identity on Kovaze, gather your evidence and file a report or send it to a moderator. We can't operate off of assumptions and speculation. Users who have been proven to fall into this category have been banned already. If you have something tangible, we can act. If you have a coincidence or two and the fact that a user was a flirty, we can't act. In the past week, when I've reached out to users making these accusations, no proof was provided. Sometimes, messages even went fully ignored. All this has done is led to a witch hunt against certain users that appears to us as moderators as completely unfounded. We do NOT want to protect predators, but we can't punish people based on accusations that, as of right now, appear completely baseless. When we allow users to make these accusations without proof, they quickly become taken as fact and used against the accused. Users who were victimized in the past by those predators can be made to feel re-traumatized, legitimately triggered, or deeply uncomfortable. Even if the accusations were correct, the lack of proof and public nature of them is only going to cause mass hysteria. We ALL want this to be a safe community that is better than the ones before it. In order to create that, we all need to be mindful about the impact of what we say in serious situations. The blogs page is not the place to accuse someone of being a Tengaged/Zwooper pedophile under a new account. #mod-talk in discord is not the place. The only place to do this is a report, mails with a mod, or a similar forum. Continued behavior will result in some type of formal sanctions, ranging from a warning to a ban. It should go without saying that someone proven to be a predator hiding under a new identity will be permanently banned and barred from making any future accounts. Head Mod