A fan of all types of dessert. Director of Strategy, Social Media & Community for SEGA Japan. In a past life, ran a twitter for a speedy blue hedgehog.
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I checked in with Jun on this - it's totally fake! Ohtani-san had a similar issue earlier with someone uploading AI music and pretending it was official.
P.S. - I spent the last four years touching grass and learning game dev, and it was wonderful. Highly recommend. I missed you all!
As ever, still lots to improve, which the team is working on. For new users who can’t type yet due to the spam restrictions, thank you for being patient – as things calm down, we’ll gradually be opening the server so you can send messages too!
Finally, though the headline: “Sonic Discord has very busy start and then fairly wholesome rest of the day” is nowhere near as exciting, I do want to take a moment to say thank you to the positive and supportive fans who we’ve been interacting with. You all are great!
As a result, we’ve noticed a number of users getting incorrectly banned. We’ve already started unbanning some of those affected and will be fine-tuning this in the days to come. Thank you for being patient as we get that sorted.
You may see cherry-picked screens of bad actors trying to cause havoc, but these were all swiftly removed and banned. One of the key ways the server is kept clean so quickly is through the automatic filters, which are very strict right now. (Probably too strict!)
The very start *was* pretty wild, and this is normal when over 30,000 people arrive and all excitedly want to talk. The mods have been doing a heroic job keeping the server clean during that window, and since. Big props to all of them.
Hello! After years away, I return to Twitter (what's X?) today to talk about the new Sonic Discord. You might read a headline that says it’s on fire and everything is chaos, but as anyone in the server the last ten hours can tell you, that’s very much not the case. (Thread:)
Almost everyone is actually being very reasonable! A few bad actors trying to ruin things for others =/= everyone misbehaving. It's been very chill for the last 8-10 hours now.
Yep! The auto-mod is a bit too strict right now. As things calm down, we'll definitely take some time to review these.
Great job to the @sonic_hedgehog team and everyone behind-the-scenes for their hard work today! (And the fans for asking ~30,000 questions!)
As always, @itsamike, @RogerCraigSmith, @VOKirk, @VOColleen, @KatieChrz, @ThormannJustin and @TheFantasticIan knocked it out of the park!
That's a wrap! Thank you all SO much for sending in your questions today, and for trending us #1 worldwide...again!
An extra special THANK YOU to @RogerCraigSmith, @itsamike, @VOColleen, and @VOKirk for bringing these characters and your responses to life!