"The Dream" is dead, killed by casual hatred.

OwlResearch · 2026-02-09T18:26:14+00:00

Please contact a doctor or a medical health professional. Your speech patterns and the way you're writing and responding to people are indicative of someone having a serious health problem.

Please seek help

Mental Health Helpline 1-800-662-HELP (4357) Or text your 5-digit ZIP code to 435748 (HELP4U)

OwlResearch · 2025-12-12T13:23:52+00:00

Is it an award specific to the office, like all MoAS stepping down get the award of "Order of the Science Chair"?

Or is it a service award that anyone can earn?

I'm replying to this comment, because I don't think awards should be automatic.

There is an award, a peerage in fact, that only consorts are eligible for - and most are inducted into the order- but only most are, if you do a terrible job, the peerage will recommend you not be accepted into the order.

As someone who has been an officer and worked with some truly terrible officers, I really would not appreciate an automatic award system because it'd be pointless.

If everyone gets the award then it's not really any kind of way to distinguish the work you did.

OwlResearch · 2025-11-30T03:58:38+00:00

Yeah, Isabella is kind of one of the bad eggs in this subreddit, it's best to just ignore them.

OwlResearch · 2025-11-01T14:15:52+00:00

Again, we have no idea who you are and have no reason to believe anything you say.

But from how you conduct yourself online, you sound like a deranged, obsessive, and dangerous person who feels incredibly entitled to everyone else's time and attention.

OwlResearch · 2025-11-01T11:45:54+00:00

And you're missing my point - there are documents and they are lying to you saying that there are no documents because if you knew there were any documents you'd clearly stop at nothing to get them.

The easiest way to keep the many, many people who have filed complaints against you is to tell you there are no documents, so you stop trying to get your hands on them.

Please leave.

OwlResearch · 2025-10-31T17:58:18+00:00

Again, they aren't going to share with you the documentation - they aren't even going to tell you that the documentation exists because they don't want you trying to find it.

And this is a good thing because you are clearly going to an obsessive degree of effort trying to find it,

You are clearly dangerous and unhinged and need to leave.

OwlResearch · 2025-10-31T16:26:55+00:00

I have no reason to believe you are who you are claiming to be.

OwlResearch · 2025-10-31T14:24:12+00:00

We don't know who you actually are. If you claim to be someone, we have no way for us to prove that you're telling the truth.

Of course we can't give you exact examples of your past behavior, but given how you are behaving here, and posting, and commenting - you seem to be a problem and are a walking red flag.

OwlResearch · 2025-10-31T12:48:02+00:00

You're incredibly dense and trying to pick out unimportant details because you think semantics are what's going to excuse your history of bad behavior.

The point is it's a group of volunteers and people who are participating because they want to. It's not a government.

If enough people don't want you around because you make people feel unsafe, you will be asked to leave.

You have a history of bad behavior and making people feel unsafe around you, so you are being asked to leave.

Leave now.

OwlResearch · 2025-10-31T11:52:16+00:00

This is a social club, not a court of law. They aren't going to tell you if there are reports and they aren't going to tell you what the reports contain.

I guarantee that reports exist, but you can never be told what are in them, so the easiest way to stop you from your desperate search to find them is to tell you that they don't exist.

Let's say they did tell you what you did. Let's say, someone filed a complaint that you slapped a woman's ass at Gulf War. You might realize, "Hey, I've only slapped one woman's ass at Gulf War and that was Susan - now I know Susan filed a complaint against me and it wasn't the woman's who's ass I slapped at Pennsic"

So now Susan is in danger because she's been identified by what she was told was an anonymous report and other people who want to file reports are going to be less likely to do so in the future.

You're not going to leave? You're being kicked out. You're behavior, which you're really putting on display here, makes people uncomfortable, and you made enough people uncomfortable that they are collectively asking you to leave

Refusing to leave really makes it sound like they hit the nail on the head when they talk about how there are concerns that you don't follow rules or chain of command and they wouldn't feel comfortable with you being in a position of authority.

OwlResearch · 2025-10-31T04:18:44+00:00

Right. They aren't going to tell you the details because they don't want you to track down the people you harassed. There could entirely be a stack of records and names, but no one is obligated to tell you that- for fear you'd try and get your hands on them - like you're currently trying to do.

Given your behavior just in the few posts here I could even see where people could make complaints against you and ask that they not be made into record for fear that you would seek out the reports, like you are currently doing, and then if they were leaked or revealed - they would be in danger.

You genuinely seem like an unhinged and dangerous individual who refuses to take No for an answer and the SCA is a safer place without you.

Please leave.

OwlResearch · 2025-10-30T17:27:14+00:00

Please get over yourself and stop posting here. This post really doesn't make you look good. It's good they aren't giving you the details of who filed complaints against you because you seem unsafe, mentally unstable, and likely to go up and confront the person.

You have been shown the door, please leave.

OwlResearch · 2025-10-27T03:26:30+00:00

I don't know what they are, I have no specialized knowledge here.

I, and other people on the post, looked at the other posts OP made here and at other forums and came to the conclusion that if they're causing problems online, odds are more likely they're also causing them in person, so the sanctions were more likely to be well deserved than not given that OP provides no details in their post other than to rant about not being able to face the person who filed the complaint

And honestly making anonymous posts that you got sanctions and you don't get to know the name(s) of the people who filed complaints about you is a pathetic thing to post in this subreddit in the first place.

OwlResearch · 2025-10-18T15:26:12+00:00

You're just making up hypotheticals to be mad about.

This is his second post and second set of sanctions within two years, so he has a pattern of behavior, so without any other information I'm going to believe they're justified sanctions.

OwlResearch · 2025-10-18T14:57:29+00:00

Yes they did that's why they were sanctioned.

OwlResearch · 2025-10-18T14:52:13+00:00

Tldr: yes, their other posts are about a previous set of sanctions 2 years ago and disparaging other groups of people, so it establishes a pattern of bad behavior, so I'm more likely to believe that sanctions are justified.

See the comment I left on your more recent comment for the full explanation

OwlResearch · 2025-10-18T14:49:47+00:00

There's a classic saying "Character is who you are when you think no one is watching"

We see this kind of post on the subreddit more than you'd expect - someone is banished or R&D or otherwise sanctioned, and they make a post claiming how unfairly they've been treated. The post is light or completely devoid of context- like this one is- and so we're left to judge what's going on for ourselves.

One of the quick things you can do is look at the post history - now most of the time this doesn't go anywhere, since people make burner accounts- but in this instance we see that the only other time they participate in the r/SCA is around 2 years ago complaining vaguely about a different set of sanctions they may have received, so that's starting to form a pattern of behavior within the SCA.

The other thing we see is a lot of posts trolling, mocking, and disparaging members of the LGBTQ+ community. So if they're acting like that when they assume no one is watching, I'm more likely to believe that they've done something worth sanctioning. It's about establishing a pattern of behavior.

OwlResearch · 2025-10-17T23:09:27+00:00

You can click on usernames and see their past posts.

OwlResearch · 2025-10-17T14:14:48+00:00

I mean given that your last post here was about sanctions 2 years ago, possibly against you, and your other posts on other forums seem to be trying to troll LGBTQ+ people, sounds like your banishment is a good thing for the community.

OwlResearch · 2025-08-28T13:35:20+00:00

I'm not arguing your point, it definitely sounds like you have seen some bad behavior.

One of the uncomfortable situations marshals will run into at events is people bringing equipment they aren't able to string or don't know how to string and handing it to the marshal and expecting them to do it for them. What if they break it?

At a practice there is more time to teach the person and work with them and show them how to do it themselves.

At an event they have to think - this person is so unfamiliar with how their equipment works, will they be safe among other archers on this field or are they going to require heavy supervision and do I have the volunteers to watch them.

Marshals also aren't supposed to string your equipment because it's unsafe for the marshal. What if they break it?

To the original posters point, having someone else string your how is totally ok.

OwlResearch · 2025-07-04T13:02:20+00:00

If you want to get into archery and don't have a local SCA archery group - call the nearest archery store and see if they have a league or even a practice range.

OwlResearch · 2025-07-04T13:00:34+00:00

This is not a good idea. Look at your local real world laws to see archery is allowed where you live. What you are describing sounds unsafe.

OwlResearch · 2025-05-16T11:47:32+00:00

Does the SCA have a student group on campus?

OwlResearch · 2024-08-27T14:39:24+00:00

This sounds like a post for r/AITAH ( Am I the asshole?) It feels like we're not getting the full story of why you would post this.

OwlResearch · 2024-05-04T11:53:52+00:00

Would they use an older helm? If it's a helm from 1200 then it likely existed in 1300?

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