Dear LotClers,
don’t you think this is enough now? It makes me really sad, to see a community I am about to join to get so upset, that the members spend hours and hours to write posts after posts..
Of course, there is a problem. An admin whom most don’t see fit to carry on with her work, an admin who is too detached from the community (as the community claims) to solve the problem. There may be others reason in addition.
You posted a ton of arguments which proof, that you are right to do so, to ask that this admin should be removed.
On the other side, if you look at the situation from ‚far away‘, from the outside, it looks nevertheless also like bashing one person endlessly, like trying to mob her away.
What would you do in Muffins case? Step down and admit to yourself, that you have lost a battle ? That you failed? I can imagine, that she might fall in a very deep hole if forced to do so. Do you really want this? Remember, she admitted more than one time, that she did wrong, even if she didn’t address all cases and did not apologise to everyone personally. There are voices, which testified, that she has been helpful. Try to think about a time, where she might have helped you and you forgot about it, because people tend to better remember things which upset them, than nice encounters - because they are the duty of a staffmember.
I think most of you didn’t deny that she is very dedicated towards the server and that she spent a lot of her time, helping players . That she did wrong in many cases does not take this away.
You on the other side can’t rightfully bear to have her interacting with players still, somehow, or coming back sooner or later.
I think, it would be very important to find a solution, where both sides don’t loose their face.
I don’t know, how the team is organised, I just write down some ideas which might help to bring this to an end.
- If Muffins is so determined to help the server, maybe she could work in an area, where she has not much interaction with players or other staff?
- Maybe she still can hold the title of an admin, but is suspended for some time, until she has recovered from the turmoil and has somehow proven, that she has changed and can control herself better? And when she comes back, she gets a second chance, but has to step down if she falls back in her old habits? (But, who will decide this?)
- Why not in general, introduce that admins/mods are only allowed to serve for a certain time? Maybe this time could be prolonged through an acclamation/poll by the playerbasis and the rest of the staff ? So maybe the responsibility towards the players is strengthened?
- Why not introduce somebody who speaks for the playerbase and is chosen by it, who has a say in the team as well, can cast a veto maybe?
There are surely a lot more ideas to get around this problem, you might find them , if you look for them. Just try to build a bridge!
I hope, I could help you all in some way, I have not slept over it, so if some thoughts seem to you fairly half-baked, forgive me.
~Tirrin~