Damian L.

I regret to report that Stage 32 permits stalking, bullying, and threatening behaviour by its employees, workers, and members.

On July 22, a user created the account "Dumband Annoyed" for the sole purpose of harassing me on Stage 32. This user went through literally every single post on which I had commented, leaving abusive comments directed at me by name. A couple of other users posted comments wondering who this person was and why they thought they could get away with such flagrant violations of Stage 32's standards of conduct. I filed a complaint, and the account and all its comments were deleted within two hours.

On July 23, my account was terminated without notice and I received the following email (profanity in original, here censored):

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From: "SJA" <*******@yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, July 23,2020 16:52
Subject: Stage 32

GOODBYE, ***HOLE.
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This email was sent to my personal email address, not the professional one I used to sign up for Stage 32 (hence the charge of stalking).

This is my second email from this Stage 32 worker. Here is the first:

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Date: Tuesday, March 3,2020 20:18
Subject: F*** you, go away

You're a nasty piece of s***. I feel so sorry for someone who must denigrate others in a sad attempt to salve their damaged psyche.

Why don't you f*** off Stage 32. No one takes you seriously. Sooner or later users will come to the same conclusion others have and not fall for your inane, mean-spirited, baiting bull$#*!. You have nothing to offer except the stink of your fetid bile.

You're what's wrong with online life. Crawling out from under a rock to attack and slink back under. I despise you, f***ing ***clown. Of course, like a good sociopath, this won't reach you.

Do the world a favor and eat a bullet.

XXOO,
A. Friend
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This Stage 32 worker is abusing the power of their position to pursue personal vendettas against Stage 32 users. How many other users has this Stage 32 worker persecuted?

I filed a complaint through Stage 32's feedback form, and posted all correspondence on my Facebook profile (https://www.facebook.com/damian.t.lloyd/posts/**************). I received the following response:

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From: "Stage 32 Customer Service" <*******@stage32.com>
Date: Friday, July 24,2020 12:16
Subject: Re: Offsite abuse from Stage 32...

Hi Damian,

This is Stage 32's Legal Team. The person you identified is not an employee of Stage 32. They are a member and their account has been suspended. Representing them as a Stage 32 employee in a public forum is libelous. Please remove the post and any other social media posts with the misrepresentations. Thank you.
Stage 32 Customer Service
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The person I identified is clearly more than a mere member, as they have the ability to terminate accounts on Stage 32. Nevertheless, I recognize that the Legal Team may be technically correct that this person is not an employee, as Stage 32 may not pay them for their work. I thus revised my post to replace my initial term "Stage 32 employee" with "Stage 32 worker".

I received the following email from Stage 32 user Shadow Dragu-Mihai, addressed to my personal email address (not the address Stage 32 has on file for me). Note his implied threat that he knows where I live by mentioning my former address:

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From: "Shadow Dragu-Mihai" <*******@gmail.com>
Date: Friday, July 24,2020 11:22
Subject: Awwww...

Gee did little damian get bumped from stage32?
I wonder why (not really).

Wish I had something to do with it. But... alas, I was far down the line of people who had been asking the moderators to bounce you... Your bitter, unwelcome, unqualified, sometimes stupid and just plain rude commentary caused this. You did it to yourself. I am guessing it's a common theme in your life.

One of the other things you did is flag yourself as someone to NEVER permit anywhere near a production. Unfortunately, the dialog has now moved on to whether your puerile and bitter attitude is common in Vancouver... too bad I can't tell them it's rare in the rainy city... oh well.

Have a good life in your [redacted] basement... as you wait for the teensy Vancouver industry to come back on line... and maybe offer up another opportunity to pull out your aging zoom h3 for another no-budget short video... No one in the real industry will look at you.

And don't bother writing back, your addy is filtered to be forwarded with fun notes to gmail security services, and then trashed. I won't see them.

Ciao little flea!
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I filed a complaint about Shadow D-M's stalking, bullying, and threatening behaviour with Stage 32 and GMail. Stage 32 did not respond.

I can take no position on whether I deserved or not to have my account terminated; I recognize that Stage 32 has the legal right to terminate any account at any time for any reason or no reason. But this stalking and bullying by Stage 32 workers and / or users is not acceptable under any circumstances.

Stage 32's users, partners, and advertisers should be aware of the conduct of Stage 32's employees, workers, and members.

(The full matter, omitting nothing and updated as events progress, is documented on my public Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/damian.t.lloyd/posts/**************.)