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First off...I'm glad to be part of the team, and looking forward to working with everyone on here. Secondly, it seems like some people can't take that this was a joke. I honestly thought this joke was hilarious, and was all in good fun.
Congrats, Mods! And it's nice to see the forums sense of humor again. :3 Haven't seen a good example of that since *dramatic zoom* *whispers* "The day Rick took over"
Congrats, Mods! And it's nice to see the forums sense of humor again. :3 Haven't seen a good example of that since *dramatic zoom* *whispers* "The day Rick took over"
Nace, this is proof of your complete incompetence as admin.
You said you would announce the new mods within a week. It's been almost 2 months, and now instead of giving us a straight answer you treat this like it's some sort of game. You actually expect people to watch an hour's worth of blibbering idiocy in order to find out an answer we genuinely need to know. I regret even filling out the application, because this just goes to prove that I would be moderating a forum run by a complete fool.
Nace, this is proof of your complete incompetence as admin.
You said you would announce the new mods within a week. It's been almost 2 months, and now instead of giving us a straight answer you treat this like it's some sort of game. You actually expect people to watch an hour's worth of blibbering idiocy in order to find out an answer we genuinely need to know. I regret even filling out the application, because this just goes to prove that I would be moderating a forum run by a complete fool.
Also I don't see what the fuss was about. This was just a small joke that they were pulling on us. Also, though they promised it would only take a few weeks, two months is also a somewhat rational time for choosing a new mod. You have to take such things into great consideration.
Because I spoke out against the mods, I get floored by literally half the forum for saying anything negative at all. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
Have you taken time out of your day to consider what I've said? I'm not speaking nonsense. I know you do this "for fun", but if you're going to run a forum, and even if it is for fun, you have to be serious sometimes. And yes Nace, I am questioning you and the rest of the admins competency. I know it isn't normal around here to question people's authority, but perhaps you should listen instead of declaring what I said as irrelevant. You can't just pull out the TOS and claim I'm doing something wrong when I'm not. What did I do that was against the rules? Say something that didn't follow the hivemind? Oh wow, so bad. Other people were the ones making a big deal out of it. Not me. And you say you try your hardest, but honestly you don't. At all. You barely follow your own TOS. You don't enforce any of your rules. You claim you only let in the "mature" underaged users, but that's obviously not true. Half the userbase is a bunch of immature children. Now tell me again how you enforce the rule and your oh so smart strategy of picking out the "mature" children. I wouldn't be surprised if you banned me for posting this message. At this point I don't care. RPZ is a lost cause.
Because I spoke out against the mods, I get floored by literally half the forum for saying anything negative at all. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
Have you taken time out of your day to consider what I've said? I'm not speaking nonsense. I know you do this "for fun", but if you're going to run a forum, and even if it is for fun, you have to be serious sometimes. And yes Nace, I am questioning you and the rest of the admins competency. I know it isn't normal around here to question people's authority, but perhaps you should listen instead of declaring what I said as irrelevant. You can't just pull out the TOS and claim I'm doing something wrong when I'm not. What did I do that was against the rules? Say something that didn't follow the hivemind? Oh wow, so bad. Other people were the ones making a big deal out of it. Not me. And you say you try your hardest, but honestly you don't. At all. You barely follow your own TOS. You don't enforce any of your rules. You claim you only let in the "mature" underaged users, but that's obviously not true. Half the userbase is a bunch of immature children. Now tell me again how you enforce the rule and your oh so smart strategy of picking out the "mature" children. I wouldn't be surprised if you banned me for posting this message. At this point I don't care. RPZ is a lost cause.
I see your frustration and fears as rational, though this is a sentiment not shared by me. I too would like the rules to be better enforced. But the situation here on RPZ has been much worse in the past.
I personally found this joke to be mildly amusing. Sure I would've preferred that they would just outright announce the mods without the whole joke, especially at such a moment of tension, but this isn't the worst thing in the world, in my opinion at least. I've been through situation like this before, put it was about the future of a game that I had paid for.
I don't want this to evolve in a much worse situation. I too have some dissatisfaction with the staff, but I am sure this is something they can overcome.
Because I spoke out against the mods, I get floored by literally half the forum for saying anything negative at all. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
Have you taken time out of your day to consider what I've said? I'm not speaking nonsense. I know you do this "for fun", but if you're going to run a forum, and even if it is for fun, you have to be serious sometimes. And yes Nace, I am questioning you and the rest of the admins competency. I know it isn't normal around here to question people's authority, but perhaps you should listen instead of declaring what I said as irrelevant. You can't just pull out the TOS and claim I'm doing something wrong when I'm not. What did I do that was against the rules? Say something that didn't follow the hivemind? Oh wow, so bad. Other people were the ones making a big deal out of it. Not me. And you say you try your hardest, but honestly you don't. At all. You barely follow your own TOS. You don't enforce any of your rules. You claim you only let in the "mature" underaged users, but that's obviously not true. Half the userbase is a bunch of immature children. Now tell me again how you enforce the rule and your oh so smart strategy of picking out the "mature" children. I wouldn't be surprised if you banned me for posting this message. At this point I don't care. RPZ is a lost cause.
I see your frustration and fears as rational, though this is a sentiment not shared by me. I too would like the rules to be better enforced. But the situation here on RPZ has been much worse in the past.
I personally found this joke to be mildly amusing. Sure I would've preferred that they would just outright announce the mods without the whole joke, especially at such a moment of tension, but this isn't the worst thing in the world, in my opinion at least. I've been through situation like this before, put it was about the future of a game that I had paid for.
I don't want this to evolve in a much worse situation. I too have some dissatisfaction with the staff, but I am sure this is something they can overcome.
I don't necessarily want it to evolve into something huge, but I can't help but be frustrated at people's dismissal of my words because they disagree with it. I wouldn't have responded again if it wasn't for that.
Please feel free to use the suggest feature if there's anything you think we can be doing differently. This thread is about discussion of our new moderators.
Recently I have noticed more than a few members expressing their discontent with the forums and the moderation of the forums. I appreciate that these users are conveying their thoughts and opinions, as each and every voice here needs to be heard equally. However, at this time I would like to remind the users who are unsatisfied that we have a specific place for proposing improvements. If you would like to give constructive criticism of the Staff team, the forum, or the way we go about things, head on over to the Suggestions & Questions thread. Here you may make a positive suggestion on how we can better your experience while on RPZ, or even simply ask a question about our decisions as a team. Hope this helps!
Oh dear. We're back to this, are we? Well well well... There's so much to say, but where to begin... How about this, shall we?
Sidewalk Surfboard
Feb 23 2017, 07:43 PM
Ok, so let me get this straight here.
Because I spoke out against the mods, I get floored by literally half the forum for saying anything negative at all. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
Have you taken time out of your day to consider what I've said? I'm not speaking nonsense. I know you do this "for fun", but if you're going to run a forum, and even if it is for fun, you have to be serious sometimes.And yes Nace, I am questioning you and the rest of the admins competency. I know it isn't normal around here to question people's authority, but perhaps you should listen instead of declaring what I said as irrelevant. You can't just pull out the TOS and claim I'm doing something wrong when I'm not.What did I do that was against the rules? Say something that didn't follow the hivemind? Oh wow, so bad. Other people were the ones making a big deal out of it. Not me. And you say you try your hardest, but honestly you don't. At all. You barely follow your own TOS. You don't enforce any of your rules. You claim you only let in the "mature" underaged users, but that's obviously not true. Half the userbase is a bunch of immature children. Now tell me again how you enforce the rule and your oh so smart strategy of picking out the "mature" children.I wouldn't be surprised if you banned me for posting this message. At this point I don't care. RPZ is a lost cause.
You can feel free to be salty as heck, but that's no reason to attack a staff member, and I'll explain why. Breaking down your post here, let's go from there. If anyone is "flooring you" on this forum, it's because you're attacking a staff member. Look back, you'll see it clearly. We've always considered what our members felt was best for the community, but it's hard to make everyone happy. We take ALL factors into effect when making changes, adding things, removing things, and doing anything drastic. We go for all options, not just one. It's interesting that you say this, as we all have stuff we take care of, we all have stresses to deal with. The fact that you're butthurt over a small joke really saddens me. We take care of quite a bit, unbeknownst to you. It's really interesting that you say this, BUT we do try as hard as we can. To give you a little insight, here's what goes on.
We as a team try to sort out issues. However, that's hard when dealing with a lot of life stresses. Honestly, before you saying I have nothing there, let me give you an idea of what I deal with. I am almost 25 years old, I am an adult. Quite frankly, it's sad that I have to do this, but to make you realize just how much crap I go through, you're gonna get it all.
I work 2-3 jobs. I help my family pay bills. My parents are not allowed to work, so I help them. My sister is a deaf little crap who thinks everything should be her way (sounds very familiar here), and I deal with crazy psychotic people at work quite often. I also have to babysit a bunch of children on the forum with my free time. I actually have a lot to take care of, with not enough time, and some of the staff team is dealing with similar issues. While we try to adhere to our CoC and deal with certain issues, this comes into the issue of making sure everyone is satisfied. To be quite honest, I'm trying to be nice and not do so, but don't tempt me. This isn't the place to try, either.
Sidewalk Surfboard
Feb 23 2017, 08:23 PM
aLooneyfan
Feb 23 2017, 08:15 PM
Sidewalk Surfboard
Feb 23 2017, 07:43 PM
Ok, so let me get this straight here.
Because I spoke out against the mods, I get floored by literally half the forum for saying anything negative at all. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
Have you taken time out of your day to consider what I've said? I'm not speaking nonsense. I know you do this "for fun", but if you're going to run a forum, and even if it is for fun, you have to be serious sometimes. And yes Nace, I am questioning you and the rest of the admins competency. I know it isn't normal around here to question people's authority, but perhaps you should listen instead of declaring what I said as irrelevant. You can't just pull out the TOS and claim I'm doing something wrong when I'm not. What did I do that was against the rules? Say something that didn't follow the hivemind? Oh wow, so bad. Other people were the ones making a big deal out of it. Not me. And you say you try your hardest, but honestly you don't. At all. You barely follow your own TOS. You don't enforce any of your rules. You claim you only let in the "mature" underaged users, but that's obviously not true. Half the userbase is a bunch of immature children. Now tell me again how you enforce the rule and your oh so smart strategy of picking out the "mature" children. I wouldn't be surprised if you banned me for posting this message. At this point I don't care. RPZ is a lost cause.
I see your frustration and fears as rational, though this is a sentiment not shared by me. I too would like the rules to be better enforced. But the situation here on RPZ has been much worse in the past.
I personally found this joke to be mildly amusing. Sure I would've preferred that they would just outright announce the mods without the whole joke, especially at such a moment of tension, but this isn't the worst thing in the world, in my opinion at least. I've been through situation like this before, put it was about the future of a game that I had paid for.
I don't want this to evolve in a much worse situation. I too have some dissatisfaction with the staff, but I am sure this is something they can overcome.
I don't necessarily want it to evolve into something huge, but I can't help but be frustrated at people's dismissal of my words because they disagree with it. I wouldn't have responded again if it wasn't for that.
I would like to flat out say at this point that not once have you been dismissed, at all. You've been ignored on your level of maturity at the fact that we are aware of our situations and how we handle them. In addition to that, we're also aware that you've disrespected and attacked a staff member. Not cool, dude. Now, I've not had any issues with you in the past, but if you surely want to keep acting like a child, I can take care of that right now. This is not even needed, over a video. It's pointless for you to throw a fit over that. Again, you'll be okay.
Because I spoke out against the mods, I get floored by literally half the forum for saying anything negative at all. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
Have you taken time out of your day to consider what I've said? I'm not speaking nonsense. I know you do this "for fun", but if you're going to run a forum, and even if it is for fun, you have to be serious sometimes. And yes Nace, I am questioning you and the rest of the admins competency. I know it isn't normal around here to question people's authority, but perhaps you should listen instead of declaring what I said as irrelevant. You can't just pull out the TOS and claim I'm doing something wrong when I'm not. What did I do that was against the rules? Say something that didn't follow the hivemind? Oh wow, so bad. Other people were the ones making a big deal out of it. Not me. And you say you try your hardest, but honestly you don't. At all. You barely follow your own TOS. You don't enforce any of your rules. You claim you only let in the "mature" underaged users, but that's obviously not true. Half the userbase is a bunch of immature children. Now tell me again how you enforce the rule and your oh so smart strategy of picking out the "mature" children. I wouldn't be surprised if you banned me for posting this message. At this point I don't care. RPZ is a lost cause.
I see your frustration and fears as rational, though this is a sentiment not shared by me. I too would like the rules to be better enforced. But the situation here on RPZ has been much worse in the past.
I personally found this joke to be mildly amusing. Sure I would've preferred that they would just outright announce the mods without the whole joke, especially at such a moment of tension, but this isn't the worst thing in the world, in my opinion at least. I've been through situation like this before, put it was about the future of a game that I had paid for.
I don't want this to evolve in a much worse situation. I too have some dissatisfaction with the staff, but I am sure this is something they can overcome.
I don't necessarily want it to evolve into something huge, but I can't help but be frustrated at people's dismissal of my words because they disagree with it. I wouldn't have responded again if it wasn't for that.
It is not the criticism we object to. It is the way you communicated it.
Maybe you could share your solution to the maturity level problem with us? It's easy to say "Get rid of the children." but less simple to come up with a workable solution that A.) isn't totally ineffective because people lie about their age and B.) doesn't adversely affect or drive away others who are playing by the rules.
And you know what? Making a pissy post about the board and the admin on Instagram where you thought it wouldn't get noticed is a pretty immature act in itself.
Because I spoke out against the mods, I get floored by literally half the forum for saying anything negative at all. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
Have you taken time out of your day to consider what I've said? I'm not speaking nonsense. I know you do this "for fun", but if you're going to run a forum, and even if it is for fun, you have to be serious sometimes. And yes Nace, I am questioning you and the rest of the admins competency. I know it isn't normal around here to question people's authority, but perhaps you should listen instead of declaring what I said as irrelevant. You can't just pull out the TOS and claim I'm doing something wrong when I'm not. What did I do that was against the rules? Say something that didn't follow the hivemind? Oh wow, so bad. Other people were the ones making a big deal out of it. Not me. And you say you try your hardest, but honestly you don't. At all. You barely follow your own TOS. You don't enforce any of your rules. You claim you only let in the "mature" underaged users, but that's obviously not true. Half the userbase is a bunch of immature children. Now tell me again how you enforce the rule and your oh so smart strategy of picking out the "mature" children. I wouldn't be surprised if you banned me for posting this message. At this point I don't care. RPZ is a lost cause.
I see your frustration and fears as rational, though this is a sentiment not shared by me. I too would like the rules to be better enforced. But the situation here on RPZ has been much worse in the past.
I personally found this joke to be mildly amusing. Sure I would've preferred that they would just outright announce the mods without the whole joke, especially at such a moment of tension, but this isn't the worst thing in the world, in my opinion at least. I've been through situation like this before, put it was about the future of a game that I had paid for.
I don't want this to evolve in a much worse situation. I too have some dissatisfaction with the staff, but I am sure this is something they can overcome.
I don't necessarily want it to evolve into something huge, but I can't help but be frustrated at people's dismissal of my words because they disagree with it. I wouldn't have responded again if it wasn't for that.
It is not the criticism we object to. It is the way you communicated it.
Maybe you could share your solution to the maturity level problem with us? It's easy to say "Get rid of the children." but less simple to come up with a workable solution that A.) isn't totally ineffective because people lie about their age and B.) doesn't adversely affect or drive away others who are playing by the rules.
And you know what? Making a pissy post about the board and the admin on Instagram where you thought it wouldn't get noticed is a pretty immature act in itself.
So what you're saying is that I'm not allowed to express my opinions of the forum outside of the forum because it's negative? That's not how things work in the real world. Trying to be the thought police inside the forum is stupid but somewhat understandable. Trying to control my thoughts and words outside of the forum? No. Screw that. Expressing my thoughts isn't immature. Trying to control what I have to say is what's immature.
Because I spoke out against the mods, I get floored by literally half the forum for saying anything negative at all. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
Have you taken time out of your day to consider what I've said? I'm not speaking nonsense. I know you do this "for fun", but if you're going to run a forum, and even if it is for fun, you have to be serious sometimes. And yes Nace, I am questioning you and the rest of the admins competency. I know it isn't normal around here to question people's authority, but perhaps you should listen instead of declaring what I said as irrelevant. You can't just pull out the TOS and claim I'm doing something wrong when I'm not. What did I do that was against the rules? Say something that didn't follow the hivemind? Oh wow, so bad. Other people were the ones making a big deal out of it. Not me. And you say you try your hardest, but honestly you don't. At all. You barely follow your own TOS. You don't enforce any of your rules. You claim you only let in the "mature" underaged users, but that's obviously not true. Half the userbase is a bunch of immature children. Now tell me again how you enforce the rule and your oh so smart strategy of picking out the "mature" children. I wouldn't be surprised if you banned me for posting this message. At this point I don't care. RPZ is a lost cause.
I see your frustration and fears as rational, though this is a sentiment not shared by me. I too would like the rules to be better enforced. But the situation here on RPZ has been much worse in the past.
I personally found this joke to be mildly amusing. Sure I would've preferred that they would just outright announce the mods without the whole joke, especially at such a moment of tension, but this isn't the worst thing in the world, in my opinion at least. I've been through situation like this before, put it was about the future of a game that I had paid for.
I don't want this to evolve in a much worse situation. I too have some dissatisfaction with the staff, but I am sure this is something they can overcome.
I don't necessarily want it to evolve into something huge, but I can't help but be frustrated at people's dismissal of my words because they disagree with it. I wouldn't have responded again if it wasn't for that.
It is not the criticism we object to. It is the way you communicated it.
Maybe you could share your solution to the maturity level problem with us? It's easy to say "Get rid of the children." but less simple to come up with a workable solution that A.) isn't totally ineffective because people lie about their age and B.) doesn't adversely affect or drive away others who are playing by the rules.
And you know what? Making a pissy post about the board and the admin on Instagram where you thought it wouldn't get noticed is a pretty immature act in itself.
So what you're saying is that I'm not allowed to express my opinions of the forum outside of the forum because it's negative? That's not how things work in the real world. Trying to be the thought police inside the forum is stupid but somewhat understandable. Trying to control my thoughts and words outside of the forum? No. Screw that. Expressing my thoughts isn't immature. Trying to control what I have to say is what's immature.
We've never once told you that you could NOT express your opinions and where you do. We've gotten onto you for how you approached the situation. If you want to continue to be butthurt, then fine. However, you've not calmly shown us the situation.
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