Esterlen's LT application

[Heero 4092]

i'm actually down for maly i just think malocchio's brain is being addled by drugs here

[Guest]

The **** @Malocchio stop cucking Michael yimmya..

[lawnmowerman 3040]

1 hour ago, Tahmas said:

We can discuss the marriage of Gucko and Malocchio on a separate thread (Please do this, I love the memes).

 

i dont like boys.

[Avacyn 1712]

What can I say about Rhys? I can say a lot of things.

I can say that he's a bully. But it wouldn't be true.

I can say he's unfit to be staff on our minecraft-situated fantasy roleplaying server. But it wouldn't be true.

I can say that he, and the Carrions, they did this. But it wouldn't be true.

But the truth? Ladies and gentlemen, the truth is, Rhys is a man like no other.

He's like David Morrissey, if he had a bizarre accented affectation to his speech that's a blend of the songs of England and their prison colony.
But he's not David Morrissey- He's Maly. Malythil. Franz Carrion. Esterlen. Iorwen. Ricky Nixon, even.

But above all those things, he's the next pick for LT, because by god, if anyone can do it, it's him. 

Thank you, and good night.

[Aengoth 2890]

I've been held hostage by some strange fellow named Guck to support statements made by a "rather fit" twig child.

[Esterlen 4499]

13 hours ago, Corvoo said:

I won't deny he's knowledgeable based on all I've seen. But I've also seen a pretty terrible attitude in the past about certain things, and I don't think I'd want that kind of person on the team. That's all I really have to say on the matter.

 

On the contrary, I have a very good attitude. In the words of Jeb Bush, 'I know what I know, and I know what I don't know'. You may see me as arrogant and self-assured, but the truth is my attitude is one that's never hubristic and one which puts the community first. Community demand is what should be the driving force of lore, and it's the community who should have an integral role in lore's development. I've lambasted the mindless factotums of the staff team before, hence your claim that I have a poor attitude, but it's unlikely my problem has been with any individuals. Yes, I'm harsh and undiplomatic in my speech and mannerisms, because people respond more to an aggressive style than they do some vacillating, inconstant and 'civil' feedback thread.

 

My philosophy for the way the server should be run is one of as little staff control as possible - this is a server for the players, and it's they who should act as the crux of what the lore team does and the driving force that motivates us, not the bizarre inclinations of various cliqued-up staff bureaucrats. No more mud maidens. No more gender pearls. No more backroom dealings. Speaking of backroom dealings...

 

11 hours ago, ski_king3 said:

You abused access to the wiki to try and provide your friends with benefit in RP

 

And there you go again. No, I didn't. My crime was writing thousands of words and formatting countless documents. Nobody got any benefit except people who valued a comprehensive and nice-looking Wiki.

 

11 hours ago, ski_king3 said:

have a history of repeatedly harassing other players. You're unfit for any staff position on Lord of the Craft.

 

You said that same melodramatic line to RedBench a year ago. You should get a new slogan, that one has gotten stale from prolonged use, not to mention being completely wrong.

 

Get out, Colin, this is just sad! You're like the Debbie Wasserman-Schultz of the staff team, only she had the sense to resign months ago whereas you've stuck around and forced us to just deal with your inveterate corruption. If harassment is speaking out against your lunacy, then yes, I've harassed you a hundred different times. But if your definition of harassment aligns with, you know, the actual dictionary definition:

 

 

Then no, I don't have a history of repeatedly harassing other players. I've said plenty of mean things to others, but I've never harassed them. I'm willing to say I'm ten-times as fit for a staff position as you were, in all honesty - I'm strongly against corruption, hard-line staff authority, back-room dealings, and I'm not a member of the sexually-perverted, cybering 'staff elite' clique who come in and out of staff over the years like a revolving door. I'm an outsider and I have strong principles as to how the staff, including the LT, need to be checked and accountable to the community who they are supposed to represent. Whatever my faults, that's much more than can be said for you, the biggest establishment apparatchik since SupremacyOps (I actually liked Connor as a guy, just not as a staff member - I wonder where he's gone, I miss him!). 

 

7 hours ago, Vamoose said:

1+ from me, no one does libel better than this guy!

 

To meet the criteria for libel, the written word in question has to actually be false. 

 

[Corvoo 562]

21 minutes ago, Esterlen said:

On the contrary, I have a very good attitude. In the words of Jeb Bush, 'I know what I know, and I know what I don't know'. You may see me as arrogant and self-assured, but the truth is my attitude is one that's never hubristic and one which puts the community first. Community demand is what should be the driving force of lore, and it's the community who should have an integral role in lore's development. I've lambasted the mindless factotums of the staff team before, hence your claim that I have a poor attitude, but it's unlikely my problem has been with any individuals. Yes, I'm harsh and undiplomatic in my speech and mannerisms, because people respond more to an aggressive style than they do some vacillating, inconstant and 'civil' feedback thread.

 

My philosophy for the way the server should be run is one of as little staff control as possible - this is a server for the players, and it's they who should act as the crux of what the lore team does and the driving force that motivates us, not the bizarre inclinations of various cliqued-up staff bureaucrats. No more mud maidens. No more gender pearls. No more backroom dealings. Speaking of backroom dealings...

If this is the case (which honestly, it's quite possible I've heard lots wrong about you, I'll admit) then I'd have no issues whatsoever. Truth be told, I wrote that comment right after waking up and not taking into account that what I heard was just hearsay, I have no personal issues with you. Hell, I don't even know you. Apologies for my first comment.

[Vamoose 265]

1 hour ago, Esterlen said:

 

On the contrary, I have a very good attitude. In the words of Jeb Bush, 'I know what I know, and I know what I don't know'. You may see me as arrogant and self-assured, but the truth is my attitude is one that's never hubristic and one which puts the community first. Community demand is what should be the driving force of lore, and it's the community who should have an integral role in lore's development. I've lambasted the mindless factotums of the staff team before, hence your claim that I have a poor attitude, but it's unlikely my problem has been with any individuals. Yes, I'm harsh and undiplomatic in my speech and mannerisms, because people respond more to an aggressive style than they do some vacillating, inconstant and 'civil' feedback thread.

 

My philosophy for the way the server should be run is one of as little staff control as possible - this is a server for the players, and it's they who should act as the crux of what the lore team does and the driving force that motivates us, not the bizarre inclinations of various cliqued-up staff bureaucrats. No more mud maidens. No more gender pearls. No more backroom dealings. Speaking of backroom dealings...

 

 

And there you go again. No, I didn't. My crime was writing thousands of words and formatting countless documents. Nobody got any benefit except people who valued a comprehensive and nice-looking Wiki.

 

 

You said that same melodramatic line to RedBench a year ago. You should get a new slogan.

 

Get out, Colin, this is just sad! You're like the Debbie Wasserman-Schultz of the staff team, only she had the sense to resign months ago whereas you've stuck around and forced us to just deal with your inveterate corruption. If harassment is speaking out against your lunacy, then yes, I've harassed you a hundred different times. But if your definition of harassment aligns with, you know, the actual dictionary definition:

 

 

Then no, I don't have a history of repeatedly harassing other players. I've said plenty of mean things to others, but I've never harassed them. I'm willing to say I'm ten-times as fit for a staff position as you were, in all honesty - I'm strongly against corruption, hard-line staff authority, back-room dealings, and I'm not a member of the sexually-perverted, cybering 'staff elite' clique who come in and out of staff over the years like a revolving door. I'm an outsider and I have strong principles as to how the staff, including the LT, need to be checked and accountable to the community who they are supposed to represent. Whatever my faults, that's much more than can be said for you, the biggest establishment apparatchik since SupremacyOps (I actually liked Connor as a guy, just not as a staff member - I wonder where he's gone, I miss him!). 

 

 

To meet the criteria for libel, the written word in question has to actually be false. 

 

 

Now I understand what mythomaniacal means.

[Esterlen 4499]

19 minutes ago, Vamoose said:

Now I understand what mythomaniacal means.

 

 

 

 

[cruzazul 2815]

Wrongfully discharged from his Wiki position. The guy may be an insane aussie sociopath but he is more educated on the server lore, especially information regarding the human race than anyone else I know. If anyone is overqualified for this position it is Esterlen. +1

 

stop smoking cigs you ******* degenerate

[youlovesocks 652]

13 minutes ago, Cruz © said:

stop smoking cigs you ******* degenerate

toby does it...

[Publius 4098]

One of the few writers that I would say, out of hand, puts out more work and of a higher quality than me (even when I was writing Orenian propaganda full time). Treachery to him is just a dirty word for streamlined success, and knowing the constant bickering between LT's and the community, I think he could potentially serve as the foot and boot that crashes down on the heads of those who thought wrong by assuming their Lore would pass the test. +1

[Weabootrash 412]

23 hours ago, Esterlen said:

And there you go again. No, I didn't. My crime was writing thousands of words and formatting countless documents. Nobody got any benefit except people who valued a comprehensive and nice-looking Wiki.

https://gyazo.com/d3e8d593515d4b0b44b4790e6de6c2fb

i mean this was one of your crimes (tbh your only one)

 

please dont say it was the truth, even if it was the truth you're writing about another persons character in a negative connotation, showing bias. 

 

it's not that hard to avoid bias, choose different wordings or don't write it at all 

[ARCHITECUS 4788]

1 hour ago, Weabootrash said:

https://gyazo.com/d3e8d593515d4b0b44b4790e6de6c2fb

i mean this was one of your crimes (tbh your only one)

 

please dont say it was the truth, even if it was the truth you're writing about another persons character in a negative connotation, showing bias. 

 

it's not that hard to avoid bias, choose different wordings or don't write it at all 

As an anti-Rhysian fighter during that time in history

I'm sorry to say

but that wiki page

is completely true.

[Esterlen 4499]

3 hours ago, Weabootrash said:

please dont say it was the truth, even if it was the truth you're writing about another persons character in a negative connotation, showing bias. 

 

it's not that hard to avoid bias, choose different wordings or don't write it at all 

 

I will say it was the truth because it was the truth. If you'd like me to dissect it word by word and cite everything I can, I'll happily do so, but this really isn't the forum to be doing so (Not to deflect or anything, I want to put this issue to bed not try and obfuscate it).

 

I chose the wordings that a professional Wiki article quite feasibly could have used. Everything mentioned in that article was, sadly, fact. Was I involved in the events it describes? Absolutely. Does that mean my opinion of the events therein are liable to be biased? Of course. Does that make the article biased? Not necessarily. It regales a series of facts and quotations from others and is written in a neutral connotation, not a negative one. The wording was perfectly neutral and written from a detached perspective, and anything that was not was clearly identified as quotations from others. See this professional and public Wikipedia article on Michael Dukakis: (Click to zoom)

 

 

Is this paragraph, then, biased against Michael Dukakis because it establishes certain facts that aren't favorable to him, writing about him in what you'd call a 'negative connotation'? If the answer is no: would the knowledge that George H. W. Bush wrote this article (He didn't actually, obviously) influence your opinion about it being biased? Refer also to this excerpt from Dan Quayle's Wikipedia article:

 

 

Same deal there.

 

This is not to mention that I was doing twenty times the work of your average WT member. Croleo was clearly looking for a reason to get rid of somebody who not only rivaled him, but surpassed him in capability.