Nyr's Greatest Hits

I kinda respect Nyr tbh. I was active when he got promoted to senior staff (whatever it was called at the time). That was the peak of his popularity. He handled most of the requests and the promotion cleared out a lot of the backlogged requests that needed senior staff to handle. Back at that time, staff took a lot of unwarranted shit from the GDB and a lot of the upper staff lost interest in the game. Nyr tanked a lot of the GDB flames on behalf of the staff. He deserves his spot.

He's a live GDB search engine. A lot of attention to detail and memory. He remembers my alts and even called me out on my shit by quoting something I said on my alt a few years before that.

But he's a dick.

Nyr doesn't really have any "hits". He's only slightly more abrasive than average. If he wasn't staff, nobody would notice. He'd be like... Synthesis.

People notice because they get pissed off about something in the game, and he tells them to STFU. You're not going to find any compelling evidence of him being a dick, because he lays just low enough to avoid rebellion.

I think it's just IC roleplay spilling over into OOC. He handles the GDB like Tek and templarate would. He doesn't outright silence people. He makes a gory example of those who speak up. If people bite his troll and attack him, he uses that as evidence to silence them. He's good at using his information advantage at shutting people down. He gets to imply that some people have no idea what they're talking about, because all the info is in his hands. Nobody can complain about an unfair plot or feature because only staff know all the details, and he uses that advantage to humiliate anyone who tries.

I really did like the guy a few years back. There was even that "we love Nyr" thread a while back that he locked because it was unfair to the other staff. I'd rather he go back to doing that and cut out the passive aggressive keyboard warrior crap. Let the GDB rip into each other and only step in when people start saying outright lies. I'm pretty sure he reads this faster than any staff complaint.

He has countless hits. Every time he makes some unprovoked attack against GDB users, uses his powers as a staff member to punish people in-game because he dislikes them, twists the truth in order to discredit inconvenient opinions or otherwise "does a Nyr", he's far out of bounds for the head administrator of a game that hundreds of people have contributed to. He has no respect for anybody at all, he actively seeks out opportunities to create confrontations with people where he can then use his clout as top staff to dishonestly humiliate them in public, and he's even worse in private if you ever have the displeasure of a one-on-one with him. The way he treats people borders on some kind of mental problem, like a mild degree of narcissistic personality disorder or something.

You describe a hugely inappropriate, unprofessional and abusive adminisitrator and then brush it off as if it was just minor indiscretions. Like I've mentioned elsewhere, there really is a reason why an entire community has sprung up around a slew of people's common dislike of the guy. It's not the first time there's an unofficial Armageddon circle, but it certainly is the first time in twenty years that a community has united mostly because one admin has wronged enough people for them to create a board devoted to talking about how bad that one person is.

That's to say nothing of the direction of the actual game during his tenure which, while perhaps a matter of opinion, warrants pointing out that despite having no competition at the moment and having recently done a massive recruitment drive and advertisement campaign, their numbers haven't gone up at all and the roleplaying scene is utterly stagnant.

He may have been cool once back in the day when he'd just joined staff and couldn't yet get away with being a gigantic manipulative douchebag, but I don't think that changes anything about the way he started to behave once he was able to get away with anything. If you want to know what a man is like, look at how he treats his inferiors.

Edit: ugh, did I just quote Harry Potter?

I respect your right to your opinion, moofassa but disagree. If you are following the GDB at all still, there is even a relatively recent example here (so recent that it is not even a week old yet):




I've added links to the original gdb posts in question that those are taken from verbatim. I can't help but wonder how a simple comment about the game being changed so that karma can be affected by gdb posts is taken as flaming or trolling. You are wrong, IMO, in your comparison to Synthesis. Synthesis might be a dick, but he's usually not going to try and bait people into it, and even if he did, he's not one of the game's administrators with the power of instant and permanent banning.

haha are you serious

Nyr:
*makes 'tribal levies' thus stirring up a more tribal mindset in Tuluk again*

*makes the Anakore's burrow (aka the only tavern just for tribals and the only tavern in the tribal market) virtual (aka more or less deleting the actual coded tavern, but it pretend 'virtual' exists now, how fun!) on damn near the same day*

He's so fucking antagonistic that he hardly even said anything about the complaint itself.
'You can't have a complaint until you check your roleplay.'
Him being ignorant of the real situation, and making snarky comments, is great though.

Nyr seems to be stuck on the racial aspect of the game and apparently has been for years. It really seems to grind his gears, though I'm not sure why. I think most people get there should be racism, but there comes a point where it can hinder RP. Jumping on Anaiah while there's hot elf on HG mudsex going on is very odd and says he had another issue and chose that particular thing for it to come out.