https://backrooms-oversight.wikidot.com/forum/t-16745321/major-bans
Hello, all. I'm writing this thread because I - casually involved in this community since May 2025 - have only now learned about the pedophilic nature of etoisle's ban, something which I had to learn through a user linking me, during a conversation where I had complimented etoisle's work, unaware of all this, to an informal staff member's writeup of how they were involved in the predatory Backrooms administration of etoisle.
Maybe it's my fault I didn't know beforehand, and I should have read the room or something. Maybe I should have looked into it on my own accord. Fine, I'll concede that. But frankly, I think that's a ridiculous way to learn about something which is important knowledge for any serious member of the Backrooms Wiki. By having this information available on the Clearnet it prevents people from making awkward mistakes like I did, and allows staff to show a narrative surrounding any given ban.
I think the O5Command wiki (SCP staff wiki) does a fantastic job at this, and the TS staff should model a thread (one like the thread which I linked and which, shamefully, has remained untouched for over a year!) around the way SCP staff does it, adjusting for the tighter-knit community, so that there can be a reliable source of truth regarding these banned users.
Why should it be that you have to join a Discord to even have the potential to learn about basic Backrooms Wiki user history?
I'd like to point to the sister SCP wiki again: a user of comparable status and wrongdoing, Bright, has had some notable action taken against them. Anyone who is interested in the SCP wiki is immediately and smoothly notified by a bulletin of Bright's abuse. Their pages are blanked! There's a basic writeup from staff of what went wrong that pops up on Google. Why is it that we can't match that as a site?
If we have already discussed this, why is there no public record of that?
(that last line is why i've ported this thread over here — i'd like, if someone googles etoisle ban, for this to at least have the chance to come up.)