Gems From The GDB

While I agree with you where the majority of the responsibility for polite, respectful communication lies, I do think at times we can be counter-productive to our goals. If I say, got a job at a Wendy's or a Wal-mart or what have you, and I treated the customers like staff treat some of their players, I would, not be employed long, I don't think. And that's the key, I think, staff can choose to behave like some dickhead cop just because they have power over a situation in which people have a vested interest, or they can realize that they're harming the very thing they love by treating players like that. I, were I in their shoes, would choose to try and have a more positive outlook of even my most troublesome players, and try to say, well, what can I do differently here? Because this is unsustainable, as-is.

It saddens me that Purg tried to fight fire with fire, and this, in turn, harms his objectives.

I believe you had the best of intentions, I loved playing with you, to be honest. Do you remember that scene where that roundear "spy" was drug off? I laughed my ass off. I had to keep reporting him to the AoD because he would NOT stop threatening me.

It's worth remembering that the main point of contention was that the staff created a situation where players were expected to attack. The players attacked and got slaughtered by NPCs. Then staff shirked all responsibility for the scenario they chose to create. If the players weren't supposed to follow orders from the PC templar and get cut down by the code, then what was it the staff wanted to play out in that scene?

Well, there are some players, who tend to create some scenarios I just don't want to be part of. There's some PCs with way too much power (socially, codedly, or both), who, you likely just, shouldn't interact with... though as to the player who posted Nyr's reply, I have no way of knowing what was going on there, so I can't say.

When the same PC got killed by another staff mistake. A staffer threw a knife with a 1000 strength stat. They admitted the mistake and processed the resurrection before the player even got around to asking for it. They didnt need a public outcry, or a thread, or even a request. They admitted it on the spot and rectified it.

This 3 recruit dying scenario was a clusterfuck. The staff decided that it's a clusterfuck unworthy of a rez. You cant ... well ... you 'shouldnt' say that staff is incapable of admitting a mistake, because they have done it with another scenario. They simply made a different decision on this other incident. We all have our own opinions, this clusterfuck wasnt clearcut and obvious, no matter how much Purg thinks it is. So their decision was different then what Purg thought was right. Purg kept on pressing the issue, with continuously rising hostility, until it got to the point where it stopped being relevant who's right and who's wrong and became a matter of 'fuck you'. Admittedly, Nessalin and Nyr's behavior on this, made this whole thing even worse and regardless of Purg's words and behavior, Nessalin and Nyr shouldnt have lost professionalism. But ... they did, what else is new. No one argues that they're a pair of fucktards. My main argument there is that he approached the issue as if he is in complete and total right and that any other opinion except his is lunacy and idiotism. How often in your own life do you ever truly get your way, when you approach "anyone" in "any" topic, of "any" location with an attitude like that IRL?

Yeah, and that shit created these forums and made Desertman as well as others go dark side. Soooo ...







that's a weird double post Joffnyr and Nyr?