Piercing the "Corporate" Veil

Well I never meant to start a "let's out them" thread. I personally don't care who Nyr is or anybody on staff for that matter, or anyone who posts here. But my point was more in regards to how people act on the internet. We have this game we all play with a certain expectation of "anonymity" but some people decide to share personal details of their actual lives. I personally do that a lot, via my videos on mudding, my stream channel for League or the fact that I have many Arm players on Facebook.

So my thought process was some people will try to like toe this line where they share some stuff here and there then try to stay anonymous. I just realized that Arm staff was kind of bad about this. I met a lot of staffers back at the APMs at DragonCon and it was super cool but it was almost a bad thing because I now had this idea about a lot of them that may have been completely false.

Pulling back the veil can be a good thing, but I recognize a lot of people want their privacy, but if you're going to post a video on youtube talking about Arm (Nyr) then that kind of opens you up to people and I think trying to remain some sort of digital personality through forum posting is absolutely ludicrous.

I get you, Delerak. Although I'll admit to a perverse glee in holding those who think they're anonymous' feet to the fire, my main thrust was continuing to develop a theory I have about everyone's favorite staff-member.

I recall Nyr actually being a decent Storyteller, at least player-side. A little bull-headed, sure, but also dependable and industrious. IIRC, his GDB posts contained some modicum of actual wit, as opposed to unvarnished invective. He even had, dare I say it, a certain charm that was on display at his best. Overall, not a jaw-dropping addition to the Arm staff, but solid, and certainly nothing like what he's (d)evolved into today.

My theory is that he's gone from a (presumably) good player, to a decent Storyteller, to a questionable Admin, to, finally, a Goddess-awful Producer.

I would love to see some logs of either his player or Storyteller days; I have plenty of my own material since then, mainly in nasty-grams. Does anyone have something like that, confirmed?

The end goal is to see what the hell happened to make Nyr such a sorry excuse of an administrator. If we can find this reason, perhaps we can make him good like the old days.

I'd say that's incredibly productive.

I'm not really interested in going out of my way to figure out which staff member is whom, but I'm pretty sure somebody has mentioned Nyr's player GDB handle on these very forums, if you want to track it down.

They don't have the capacity to get him to leave. If it truly came down to it, Nessalin's vote would trump Adhira's based on the fact he owns the server. And Nessalin would side with his buddy -- that's assuming Adhira would even approach such an invested stance as bucking him out (what with everything he's helped design ensuring his needed input).

Someone needs to be the person to invest hours approaching a full-time job towards Armageddon based on the bureaucracy creep that's occurred, and the only person who can do it is the fella who helped it get that way. You also have to take into account the staff body that Nyr has raised which supports him unconditionally.

It would be infinitely easier to, instead of fighting this losing battle, one of the coders (not Nessalin) yanked the database and code, and a shard broke off with completely different policy. It would take a long time to get off the ground, but so would the alternative.

But this is off topic so I digress.

Also, thank you Px3 for distilling down my flailing better than I could.