In the midst of this Runnerboro election drama, it’s hard to find the truth. Over the past few days, I’ve seen many contradictory posts that made the rules for running for office a bit unclear, along with some defamatory remarks and insulting comments. So, I decided to compile some information about one of the candidates for mayor: trump15024, aka @Gabriel. I would like to address and clarify some of his questionable claims.
Let’s start out with Gabriel’s relationship with Runnerboro’s owner, @eatsmith, who is a self-admittedly inactive player. It seems like Gabriel disagrees with the method eatsmith uses to maintain his ownership of his island. Here’s a suggestion Gabriel made on October 7, 2017, regarding player inactivity: https://imgur.com/gallery/r7xoM; and here’s a post made by eatsmith on July 10, 2017, with a second screenshot of his relevant comment: https://imgur.com/gallery/gKNxt. It doesn’t seem like Gabriel likes what eatsmith does, which may create some tension.
Gabriel likes to bring up the past, so I decided to do so as well. Recently, Gabriel lashed out at @LavaFlake, a fellow competitor, by bringing up how he was previously banned (https://imgur.com/gallery/1xgLg). This didn’t sit well with me because Gabriel has been banned numerous times for various reasons. Feel free to check out pages 15-20 of the Ban Appeals section because there’s too many bans for me to cite.
As we all know, Gabriel is the current mayor of Runnerboro. However, he made a slight exaggeration by how much he won the election by. The first screenshot is his boastful post, and the second is the actual results of the election: https://imgur.com/gallery/utwdn. It seems like he either forgot the results, or he purposefully tried to make himself sound more popular than he actually was.
Now let’s get to the current events. I wasn’t going to get involved with this election until I saw Gabriel’s post about disallowing island owners to run for a position, which seemed a bit too convenient because many of Gabriel’s competitors owned islands. I watched @sundae22 comment on the post, and Gabriel got quite defensive and insulting. Unfortunately, this is hearsay because Gabriel decided to delete the controversial post, and I wasn’t able to get on my laptop quick enough to take screenshots. Luckily, sundae managed to copy the post and later posted the exact words of Gabriel’s original statement. Here’s sundae’s post in its entirety: https://imgur.com/gallery/9QXYG.
The biggest confusion for me is the whole “island owners can’t run for Runnerboro government” debacle. There have been so many contradictory statements, I didn’t know what the truth was until eatsmith made a clarifying post. I posted these screenshots in the order I saw them, but the posts may have been created in a different chronological time period: https://imgur.com/a/DVdys. I’ll summarize below: First, Gabriel claimed that island owners may have a conflict of interest if they ran for a Runnerboro government position (side-note, running 2 companies may be a conflict of interest https://imgur.com/gallery/Dkwuq). Then, he said that island owners couldn’t run for office and later retracted this statement, until eatsmith finally clarified that island owners could run. I have no idea why so many unfounded claims were thrown around, but (here’s some speculation, no evidence to back it up) maybe it was to scare the competition away from running; maybe it was to show everyone how powerful he was by bringing up his current status; or perhaps Gabriel simply likes making posts on the behalf on Runnerboro that contradict what the island owner says.
Now, you’re probably thinking, “This should be a private message, don’t stir up trouble.” Well, I decided to use Gabriel’s previous post against him. On August 27, 2017, Gabriel made a thread that I will cite as my reasoning (https://imgur.com/a/LM9JM). Also, everyone seems to be a fan of making public election posts, so I might as well join in. Notice how this is in the Off-Topic section; I don’t want to spam the regular forums with stuff about the elections, unlike some people I know.
I know this is just a minecraft election, and it’s not really a big deal. But at the same time, I’m sick of seeing candidates toss out unproven claims and argue all the time. Also, Gabriel made things personal when he insulted sundae and I, and when he made bold claims that were later proven to be untrue. There's nothing that bothers me more than untruthful politicians (I've met one of my State Senators and he's a slimy snake).
Somebody might bring up something that's been said in almost every election post: "That's slander!" I do confess that the things I've written here may lower Gabriel's reputation, but keep in mind that everything (except my speculation, which I clearly labeled) is true and are all things Gabriel has actually said. Even if you still think this is slander, remember that slander is spoken defamation, while this would be libel, or written defamation.
This post is a bit longer than I intended, but I believe everything I said here was necessary to inform the voters (and entertain the lurkers). Thanks for reading, I hope somebody got something out of this post
Let’s start out with Gabriel’s relationship with Runnerboro’s owner, @eatsmith, who is a self-admittedly inactive player. It seems like Gabriel disagrees with the method eatsmith uses to maintain his ownership of his island. Here’s a suggestion Gabriel made on October 7, 2017, regarding player inactivity: https://imgur.com/gallery/r7xoM; and here’s a post made by eatsmith on July 10, 2017, with a second screenshot of his relevant comment: https://imgur.com/gallery/gKNxt. It doesn’t seem like Gabriel likes what eatsmith does, which may create some tension.
Gabriel likes to bring up the past, so I decided to do so as well. Recently, Gabriel lashed out at @LavaFlake, a fellow competitor, by bringing up how he was previously banned (https://imgur.com/gallery/1xgLg). This didn’t sit well with me because Gabriel has been banned numerous times for various reasons. Feel free to check out pages 15-20 of the Ban Appeals section because there’s too many bans for me to cite.
As we all know, Gabriel is the current mayor of Runnerboro. However, he made a slight exaggeration by how much he won the election by. The first screenshot is his boastful post, and the second is the actual results of the election: https://imgur.com/gallery/utwdn. It seems like he either forgot the results, or he purposefully tried to make himself sound more popular than he actually was.
Now let’s get to the current events. I wasn’t going to get involved with this election until I saw Gabriel’s post about disallowing island owners to run for a position, which seemed a bit too convenient because many of Gabriel’s competitors owned islands. I watched @sundae22 comment on the post, and Gabriel got quite defensive and insulting. Unfortunately, this is hearsay because Gabriel decided to delete the controversial post, and I wasn’t able to get on my laptop quick enough to take screenshots. Luckily, sundae managed to copy the post and later posted the exact words of Gabriel’s original statement. Here’s sundae’s post in its entirety: https://imgur.com/gallery/9QXYG.
The biggest confusion for me is the whole “island owners can’t run for Runnerboro government” debacle. There have been so many contradictory statements, I didn’t know what the truth was until eatsmith made a clarifying post. I posted these screenshots in the order I saw them, but the posts may have been created in a different chronological time period: https://imgur.com/a/DVdys. I’ll summarize below: First, Gabriel claimed that island owners may have a conflict of interest if they ran for a Runnerboro government position (side-note, running 2 companies may be a conflict of interest https://imgur.com/gallery/Dkwuq). Then, he said that island owners couldn’t run for office and later retracted this statement, until eatsmith finally clarified that island owners could run. I have no idea why so many unfounded claims were thrown around, but (here’s some speculation, no evidence to back it up) maybe it was to scare the competition away from running; maybe it was to show everyone how powerful he was by bringing up his current status; or perhaps Gabriel simply likes making posts on the behalf on Runnerboro that contradict what the island owner says.
Now, you’re probably thinking, “This should be a private message, don’t stir up trouble.” Well, I decided to use Gabriel’s previous post against him. On August 27, 2017, Gabriel made a thread that I will cite as my reasoning (https://imgur.com/a/LM9JM). Also, everyone seems to be a fan of making public election posts, so I might as well join in. Notice how this is in the Off-Topic section; I don’t want to spam the regular forums with stuff about the elections, unlike some people I know.
I know this is just a minecraft election, and it’s not really a big deal. But at the same time, I’m sick of seeing candidates toss out unproven claims and argue all the time. Also, Gabriel made things personal when he insulted sundae and I, and when he made bold claims that were later proven to be untrue. There's nothing that bothers me more than untruthful politicians (I've met one of my State Senators and he's a slimy snake).
Somebody might bring up something that's been said in almost every election post: "That's slander!" I do confess that the things I've written here may lower Gabriel's reputation, but keep in mind that everything (except my speculation, which I clearly labeled) is true and are all things Gabriel has actually said. Even if you still think this is slander, remember that slander is spoken defamation, while this would be libel, or written defamation.
This post is a bit longer than I intended, but I believe everything I said here was necessary to inform the voters (and entertain the lurkers). Thanks for reading, I hope somebody got something out of this post
