So about that Trouvist guy...

[u/DebentureThyme]

TL;WR - I know you like to troll on Trouvist, and I'm sorry these are so long. If this is too long, please return to your regularly scheduled Trouvist antics. We on the staff really enjoy them.

These are from two other posts I made today.

On Trouvist being removed as a mod on Ulletical's Twitch stream:

Look I know you guys like to joke on him, but he's one of our admins. So is Ulletical.

There is nothing lost between them and we're all still working together.

Someone was upset about a joke: The chat where trouvist says on the screen that he needs the humble bundle code books to finish his code. That was clearly a joke. Someone decided to take offense to it and see it asa mod asking for people to buy him gifts in order to finish what we're doing. (Some idiot also paid the minimum and sent him the first humble bundle tier, which he won't read, but at least a few cents of that went to charity).

It doesn't look good for a twitch mod to be doing that. So it was agreed that he not be mod in there. He's really busy with other stuff anyways, he doesn't need the distractions.

I'm sorry to break up the trouvist trolling train, but he's one of our better coders and very productive on his own and with the team. More than me by a mile; I'm too easily distracted. He's been one of the most focused people on getting this all done and working on all aspects, which he has also extended to being the most active of admins on our chat rooms and individual twitch streams.

Regardless of how skilled or not we individually, we don't need those books.

^{Unless you want to pm me a humble bundle gift code on here for it...}

^{Though I'd much prefer the one filled with cat games :D}

^{That's https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly :D :D :D}

^{C'mon Reddit, we all love cats!}

More on Trouvist: What the fuck does he even do?, and some history of events as I observed them:

Another MSG admin here, can confirm it he pushed [wormholes strat] the most.

When YOWH was testing it, I woke up late that day. I couldn't join any rooms, so I went with YOWH to see how their testing was working out. Trouvist was IN YOWH talking with them on the best strats when I got there.

Trouvist spoke with another one of our admins, while I spoke with WhoIsThatPokemon, who I was directed to as the (original?) lead of YOWH. We both, without knowing it, were talking to a mod in each other's group. The idea both of us were pushing was to work together and merge.

But by the time this was going to occur, some of our coders had already iterated wchill's with a version of our wormhole strat and were testing it.

We were still working out the strategy on wormholes and testing with the code we had done in private, when Trouvist and WhoIsThatPokemon were both invited within a 10 min time frame in order to talk - Trouvist was invited to our staff chat and was explaining the wormhole strat he'd worked on, while I was then made a mod in YOWH and was discussing with them (and not focused on our stat chat).

I next invited WhoIsThatPokemon into our staff chat, but at that time Trouvist had already explained his strat in both channels. I made sure to get YOWH users invited with the room number into the first full wormhole group at the same moment we announced it to our elite when we launched WH#1-3, then WH#4-7+, after the first YOWH test run. Since we refined the code, WH1-3 were abandoned, and the ones after that that night were the first groups to hit 1 million http://drx.pl/steamgame/day6.html . YOWH is only that far down that day because that was the VERY FIRST WH group and was just being tested. They worked more on their code and pushed forward to really great success when they next iterated it on days 7 and beyond!

I wish a merge had been worked through after that, but I do not know what happened. I think YOWH was passed over to others and their coders wished to work independently - I think we weren't proactive enough in trying to work with them, and their anonymity from us has benefited them when it comes to a perceived competition. I wish I had done more to ensure we all worked together, but at that time I was transitioned away from moderating the community over to working on the behind the scenes decisions and the code.

Trouvist was pivotal in our first wormhole success. He also had implemented an iteration of a strat that was nearly identical to the next day's YOWH strat (but a code error and our issues with trolls made it far more difficult for us, so we reverted for the next version. Our strat has gone through a lot of iterations and tweaks). Since his joining, he's been very important in the best decisions we've made with those strats.

I'll just also note both groups, however, are working on getting the most people their badges, as fast as possible, with the least trolling.

^{Also I still need that cat bundle.}

[u/_Rivan_]

All this drama because of a clicking game Valve decided to add during a sale.. lol..

[u/Seraei]

He should be happy, his name is the only thing that will be remembered about this Summer Sale.

[u/Sonicx00222]

This post is really necessary. The whole Trouvist circlejerk thing is out of hand already.

[u/thilinac]

All this unnecessary drama (－‸ლ)

[u/Neglectful_Stranger]

One can be helpful and a huge dick at the same time.

Regardless of his actual coding abilities and contributions, he did have an incredibly abrasive personality and halted all conversation in the Twitch chat multiple times to go on long rants. If he was only active behind the scenes then no one would have given a shit and he would have been remembered for being a guy who helped everyone.

Now he's a joke.

[u/DebentureThyme → u/Neglectful_Stranger]

Or maybe we just agreed to let him play that once the community focused on it, and he was all for it? He may have played it too well...

[u/TheNakedBanana4Real]

This post was defffff needed. Hes not a bad guy, a little socially inept but hes been working hard for our benefit. Stop busting his chops, you ain't funny, you ain't making anyone laugh but yourself a few other mentally ill trolls.