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I liked that Adhira offered to do the Teamspeak. I mentioned something to that effect on my post yesterday.

tedium is brilliant here:


It's basic business retention. One of your customers is unhappy? Placate them by giving them incentive to come back that serves the greater need of your business. By telling an unhappy player to fuck off, in so many words, you drive dedicated players away and generate bad press about your brand. In this case they turned a newish player in a leadership role for an underpopulated clan into an enemy. This board doesn't exist because there's a conspiracy against Nyr, it's because he has less leadership sense than a 17 year old assistant manager at a fast food joint.

Heh Kronibas, seems you've chilled some, perhaps what ever temper you flared on the other end has chilled some too.

People get nasty on the net, but I generally go by not letting some mean text linger and create some undue desire for revenge and justice. IF anything, motivate me to find better means of conflict resolution and situation diffusion.

To be fair to staff, Triple P is a sharp dude. Perhaps didn't expect him to rebel so quickly, efficiently, and with in good merit with solid arguments.

The great newbie underestimation!

We would have killed him, too, but he wasn't enough of an idiot to fall for a random rinthi screming at him to eat a dick.

Yeah, I have chilled.

I was in a bad spot, saw all those staff members talking trash, and that, in combination with some RL bullshit I was fighting through, made me fly off the handle.

If I had read the entirety of the retention thread beforehand, I don't think it would have sit me the same way...

but there I am, most of the way through playing through the month of January, and suddenly, I notice new staff members talking shit about this forum... and it dawns on me that "making ArmageddonMUD great again" is more of an uphill battle than I originally anticipate, which threw me off and made the whole thing seem pointless for a moment.

Maybe that was paranoid of me, but sorry, the way things have went down have made me feel defensive; it is hard, really hard, to get out of "knives out" mode once you're IN "knives out" mode... does that make any sense?


I feel like a lot of players are still in "knives out" mode, just because they have been there and done that when encountering BS from the forces above.  Instead of antagonizing them further, I think a good question to ask is this:

How can we convince both sides to stash their swords and move forward with good faith?

Ultimately, I think that ball rests in the staff's court... as long as they act like they refuse to trust posters here and continue to reinforce nyr-established divisions, problems will remain.

Losing players to save face seems like a perfect example of squandering potential for no others reasons save spite or pride... and leader-admins of a game should be bigger than that, especially when it was someone who came before them that publicly bears the brunt of these conflicts, even if others are privately to blame.  I hope that makes a little sense.

he can't say no for them again, they might likely have to say it themselves.