this server is in shambles

[Boomzerang 515]

the staff team are in a constant state of either jerking each other off or banning people for the tiniest reasons, which could easily be talked over or fixed with slaps on the wrists, while putting off dealing with, or outright ignoring blaring issues in the server, such as an online child predator which they took an alarmingly long time to actually ban

it doesn’t help that each new FM is provided with a handbook to deal with dissent in the forums, while GMs ignore, deny, or remove evidence of any issues that are brought up to them personally.


how to babysit staff members 101:
force players to make anonymous staff reports that take a month+ to look at and are usually left on “feedback noted”

this server is in shambles and the staff are to blame, change my mind.

[KeatonUnbeaten 1103]

‘haha im a typical staff member, i find your critiscism funny and will shrug it off as a joke.’

*bans about a dozen ******* people*

[dogbew 267]

As any staff member quickly learns, the easiest way to deal with criticism you don't like is to make it go through useless beuracracy until the people angry about it stop caring. Notice how you can't tell how many anonymous staff reports there are at any one time, and can't tell when and if one has been completed.

[OzYmandi 647]

‘while gms ignore, denyor remove evidence of any issues that are brought up to them personally’

 

Thats about 98% of the GM team, bud.

[chaotikal 2392]

Now this... this is epic, gamers.

 

 

not that weve been pointing the same problems out since 2015. or whenever tahmasx was promoted...

[Hobbs_Burrows 497]

Staff members aren’t above the law, they are just volunteers. They should have the same rules applied to them in the same way. That is to be publicly named, shamed, and punished when they break rules.

 

Imagine someone being allowed to be judge and jury in their own trial, and for it to be conducted in SECRET.

 

The fact is they love to give it out, but can’t take anything back.

[JustMeMorgan 2065]

Bring back Knox

[Auriel_ 652]

2 hours ago, Boomze said:

it doesn’t help that each new FM is provided with a handbook to deal with dissent in the forums, while GMs ignore, deny, or remove evidence of any issues that are brought up to them personally.

 

unfortunate, , ,

Edit:

No, if someone goes off on a tangent that is otherwise childish, overly toxic or something mindboggling that theyd even post it's getting yeeted on the forums.

 

On dissent, however, as stated, if someone goes on the equivalent of a rabid tangent, we're probably gonna /delete it. I dont know but half the time we delete things it's on a rage thread against either a player or a playerbase.

 

Mind that I wrote this on a phone, but in short I would simply like you to know the state of FM atleast from onenof their standpoints. 

 

have a beautiful day

[Nathan_Barnett36 1564]

My comment was removed. I’ll repeat what I said I guess.

GMs are players to, they play the server. An anonymous staff report is to keep it anonymous. Jandy clearly didn’t want to be anonymous and there is no forum rule stating he must write staff reports there. I don’t see why it was locked as it broke no forum rules and I don’t understand why my comment was removed.

[L0rdLawyer 2272]

5 minutes ago, Nathan_Barnett36 said:

My comment was removed. I’ll repeat what I said I guess.

GMs are players to, they play the server. An anonymous staff report is to keep it anonymous. Jandy clearly didn’t want to be anonymous and there is no forum rule stating he must write staff reports there. I don’t see why it was locked as it broke no forum rules and I don’t understand why my comment was removed.

For once in my life I can say this. Nathan Barnett is a 100% correct. 

 

@Corpean @Telanir

 

Anon staff reports were designed to allow players a cover so they wouldn't be targeted by the members they reported. Usually anon staff reports are just left to the side until the admins can play it off.

 

Staff are still players. You dont have to make everything hush hush when reporting them. 

[lemontide331 1615]

awful staff team and an owner that has 0 interest in the server gg ?

 

but it’s been like this for the past 4 year so .. ? 

[rukio 8924]

The mob mentality that the server displays time and time again is exactly why staff reports are and always should be anonymous. There's no rule that my human roleplay post has to be in the human subforum but it should be common sense, Yes? If a gm bans someone multiple people really like or unable someone people hate all they get is flamed. None of us see what happens behind the scene or were probably even there for what he got banned for. Stop complaining. Her name wasn't public knowledge and he used it at least twice iirc while being an extremely angry kid. Stop hating on xalid for doing his job. If it was someone you didn't like who got banned you'd have the complete opposite reaction to what you have now. Don't kid yourselves. 

 

I think part of the issue is that when people point fingers at each other....unless there is solid evidence to back it up then it cannot happen (the ban) on the spot. Sometimes it does take a few days or weeks to find/verify whether or not the evidence is accurate. Disclaimer though, that opinion is just that. An assumption. 

 

The server isn't in shambles but the player base needs to stop throwing tantrums when they don't get their way. 

 

 

Edit: if what I said isn't legible I just woke up. 

[_Jandy_ 3519]

5 minutes ago, Lockezi said:

I take everyone’s fantastic criticism with open arms!

ur stinky

[jdesarno 381]

13 minutes ago, Hyena said:

The server isn't in shambles but the player base needs to stop throwing tantrums when they don't get their way. 

 

Speaking from an actual player’s perspective, this is entirely accurate. 

[Boomzerang 515]

13 minutes ago, Hyena said:

The mob mentality that the server displays time and time again is exactly why staff reports are and always should be anonymous.

Why should it be so?
Because players get riled up and start harassing the person in question? Because players’ opinions might affect the result of the ban?
That’s all well and good in a perfect world with non-corrupt governors, but just as players are salty, toxic, and to some extent ruthless in their actions against someone they dislike, staff is not infallible. They have their biases, dislikes, and downfalls.

The idea isn’t to make all staff reports public, nor to abolish the anonymous report system. But have you noticed that while an anonymous report will take upwards of a month to be fully carried through, and this one BR on a GM was addressed nearly instantly?
Tell me, how long do normal BRs against ordinary people last? Certainly not upwards of a month. Now, I don’t know about you, but as much as I might be biased, and as much as I like to give people I like the benefit of the doubt as often as possible, that doesn’t mean I will take nearly ten times as long to look over their case as I would looking over another person’s.

And, as a final note, might I add that the BR made on Xarkly, which I will fully admit is the reasoning behind this post, was not on abuse of PEX, nor anything to do with actually being a GM – it was a BR on the player themselves, over something completely detached from their volunteering. It was something that a normal player also got banned for – what is the difference between the cases, when they both did what they did accidentally? Why does one require an anonymous, detached ban report, and the other needs only the use of a /ban command?