The Enlightened Who Resisted( A brief history of Kerala FS)
After the conclusion of June'20 FS @ Home in Trivandrum, Kerala , India, its paramount to write a post about the event.
The FS was conducted successfully after some minor and major setbacks. During the zoom call set-up during the event, Brian Rose and Pooja Srinivas joined which lifted all the agents' spirits.
We also conducted some events like Top 3 selfie, Top 3 Recharger etc. Also gave out some VR code which we got from Niantic to top contributors of the Decode Challenge.
Now the title of the post "The Enlightened Who Resisted", why is it that ?
This is the 4th FS in our state, second virtual.
1st - Kochi[Aug 2019]
- Kochi[Sept 2019] Cancelled
2nd - Palakkad [Jan 2020]
3rd - Palakkad[May 2020] (Virtual)
4th - Trivandrum[June 2020](Virtual)
There were a lot of blame and words exchanged after 1st FS and 2nd cancelled one. Since then the xfac isnt great. There was a post in reddit, which was deleted. So i can't find it.
Then comes the 2nd FS in Palakkad. The ENL Poc for that FS wasn't a proper one because it was an account which was used to level up the resistance POC.
This FS wasn't even advertised in any ENL groups by the ENL POC, but few people checked the registration link, saw the place and went there to participate even when they saw it on the previous day of the FS.
Since there was a minimum agent criteria met even before any other ENL agents went there, resistance blamed enl agents who tried to participate on short notice. Saying enl agents tried to ruin by not staying for Pic, which was done because of arguments during the event. When discussion was done over the authenticity of ENL POC, some senior members in the resistance sided with ENL POC, saying what's wrong with conducting an FS with enl agents in that city, even if the ENL POC is not affiliated with a faction in the state.
community.ingress.com/en/discussion/comment/70569
After Jan 2020, many discussions were made with resistance to conduct FS in possible cities, the demands changed each time from Place to ENL POC. Basically, every time some agreement was reached, new demands were made which caused the discussion to fall apart. People in resistance who were supporting ENL POC in Jan 2020 saying anyone can be a POC were singing a different tune during the FS discussion.
We changed the venue from Kollam to Trivandrum as per suggestion of Resistance, then they didint agree whom our POC should be.
Then during the 3th FS in Palakkad which was also a virtual FS the same thing happened. The same POC, with enl accounts which are level 1,2 with only FS badge. 10+ resistance agents. There was a single post in the xfac group about the event, ENL POC agent didint reached out to any other agents regarding the event. It was like an easy badge.
Palakkad had registered for the June 2020 FS, but the event was cancelled because both POC's in Palakkad in all the FS, were banned from Ingress.
Also after failing so many attempts to conduct a FS anywhere because of stubbornness of some resistance agents, we went ahead with registration of Trivandrum for June. The resistance POC was a friend from Tamil Nadu, who agreed to be the POC.We advertised each step of the event in the channel and xfac groups. Contacted many resistance agents, who turned down the invite. Then some agents from resistance contacted the Resistance POC, interrogated and threatened him of a backlash, some also encouraged him to attend out of country events. They also raised complaints to niantic and ifs, saying the resistance poc is a multi of the enl poc. But with the help of some resistance agents who are neutral, we completed the event successfully, distributed the gifts, wrapped it. Hence the post title Enlightened who resisted.
Another reason for this long post is also to tell agents in Kerala, what is the situation. The xfac is bad in some places.
But some agents are feeding wrong info to others because of Ego or what not which is making the relationship bad to worse.
When everyone in enl said Palakkad POCs are win trading, resistance rallied to support them. When they got banned, a new lie was spun saying enl mass reported to get them banned.
There are few res agents who carry a grudge and make decisions based on that. Its taking the fun out of the game for other resistance agents, who want to attend events or play normally.
Some resistance agents are scared to participate in FS because of mass reporting from their own faction. Some are interested , but scared to go against the common opinion of the seniors.
Keep the ego aside and play with the friends in your faction, nothing can be gained from the negativity
Comments
IFS badge is the new Guardian.
Any event with 100% RES orga is intended for RES only.
Want to solve the situation? You can't, only neutral RES can. Hosting toxic people in a community is always a source of problems and never a solution.
This situation is not an isolated one, you can find several posts like this one if you take a look.
You can think it like this: you don't need a badge for a meet up. Be creative.
Well said, i guess things will change once new resistance agents who are friendly come or when the bad elements retire.....
Nice Story...
This describes what ENL did to not conduct FS in the first place...
Don't make me post screenshots of the conversations or even chat extracts from Telegram before you guys deleted the decent conversations.
Going public with some Fake stories won't make you right..
And If you are clean then why this post...
Anticipatory Bail?
You say that...
Great...
Virtual IFs can be attended anywhere in the world. If you are having problems, just gather your friends/community attend another city for now.
And sorry, but I did not understand what happened. Enls didn't wanted an ifs and the res created fake enl account to make it happen?
He claims they fetched external players since orga don't need to be bounded to the region where the IFS is hosted.
I think this is all very easy: if XFAC is wrong for any reason, don't host XFAC events and no drama will be born. Oh, you want that badge at any cost? Then stop complaining.
You don't need a badge and double AP for a meetup, just get over it! I don't even thik someone cares at this point...
Not conduct ? Screenshots? I also have more than enough screenshots which says otherwise.
This post was made so its easier to guide resistance who are new to the scene here, when they start believing in "certain" lies which are being spread. Also the poc's getting banned is enough proof of authenticity of 2 FS conducted in Palakkad. The link will show that thread and what happened that day,