On the summary that was posted above, I'm all for civil discourse, if it's earned. Oddly enough, It's actually a thing Colin asked for back in the day on the old forum and many of us attempted to have it with him on his opinions on gaming and some other related issues. When people, non-hysterically, brought up many of the falsehoods and other concerns we had (usually with exact time-stamps), he took his ball and went home and called everyone names and swore us off. Since then, we've all seen what a diplomat he can be on Twitter and other platforms. Whenever he lights up whatever hot take (not the fun kind!) of the day he has and receives flak for it, he regresses into petty name calling and assumes everyone else is crazy and all evidence to the contrary is people lying and trying to smear his name. It's this odd repeated cycle where he starts with something brash, there's the predictable response, and then he cherrypicks what he finds is the most hostile or extreme reaction and lumps everyone together into that response and then expresses exasperation about how "absurd" everyone is but never acknowledges the one constant in every instance, himself.
I'm not going to bring up all the dumb shit he has said over the years, it's all out there (it's more then just a couple of tweets), and much of it any community would find offensive. Jones appearing on his Patreon, a Patreon dominated by his majorly controversial political opinions and personality, doesn't sit right with a lot of us. It's difficult to know exactly what and how something was said based on that summary, but it sounds rough. They apparently talked about the overwhelmingly positive podcast feedback (wasn't overwhelmingly great on this side to say the least!), talked shit about one of the websites that has probably(?) the biggest EZA communities besides Patreon, seemingly didn't challenge his past lies/controversies (never expected this, but still let him have free reign to continue down his path) all while playing buddy-buddy with him. It's good that Jones acknowledges it's fine that people vote with their wallet, but I just wonder, was this all worth it? Now the EZA community is bizarrely intertwined for the time being with Colin's significantly controversial politics, plenty of infighting in the EZA community, some actually pulling or considering pulling funding, and Jones didn't really challenge him politically or have much of substance to say other than coaching Colin for the next time he steps in shit.
As I've said before, I'm not pulling my support or any other steps like that. Jones and the rest of EZA have been so great for so long and I'm not going to throw that all away for something "small" like this that I deem as a poor, hopefully isolated decision. This whole situation just came out of left field for seemingly really no good reason and It's a bummer that this has been the dominant "thing" of EZA these past few days and for the immediate future. Hah, I'm about 55 episodes behind on Tabletop, might be time to catch up.
Sidenote: Good job on taking care of the guy offering pirated content. Don't like Colin, but that was a lame thing to do.