Jeshin
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Post by Jeshin on Apr 29, 2015 18:26:27 GMT -5
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Post by Jeshin on Apr 29, 2015 18:25:05 GMT -5
Technically freedom of speech doesn't cover illegal activities. That is why holding up a sign saying tell me where you buy drugs can lead to an officer arresting you. But sure okay, a greater degree of freedom and a lesser degree of moderation leads to better discussion on topics not related to illegal activities and other things that may fall in the not allowed on a free forum board.
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Jeshin
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Post by Jeshin on Apr 29, 2015 18:09:35 GMT -5
The cost of freedom of speech is that anyone can say anything. The value of freedom of speech is that no one can stop you from saying anything. You take the good with the bad and if you're interested in the opinions of a few on this board I think there is a follow feature? I don't use it personally, but I've seen others profiles have them marked as following this or that person.
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Post by Jeshin on Apr 29, 2015 18:07:02 GMT -5
Bump, connect to LabMUD and make your character today... My character has a pompadour!
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Post by Jeshin on Apr 29, 2015 17:55:48 GMT -5
Quick tangent
I have all the respect in the world for Jcarter's approach to this forum. It'd have been easy to start this up as a side board to discuss things and eventually go crazy with censorship against people who insulted him or people who keep posting topics or individual posts that make the site look bad. To my knowledge he's moderated like 3 times. The cesspool, the racism, and one other thing I forget.
Now maybe he's just apathetic and he does it that way because he doesn't want the work load. He's said that a couple of times. But still the corner stone of any relevant discussion is the firm knowledge that anything you say will be left untouched and unmoderated.
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Post by Jeshin on Apr 29, 2015 17:10:56 GMT -5
Malken is not a staffer account, I can verify that as I know him and have played with him in the past. He just honestly has a different opinion than the rest of us.
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Jeshin
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Post by Jeshin on Apr 29, 2015 16:48:15 GMT -5
#3 - I meant that the person animating may not have known that Ty was linked to Jeshin. It depends how the wish displays information and whether the animating staffer had any way to quickly find out which account owned Ty.
As for who approved me, I do not know, they just said they made a minor fix to my mdesc and welcome me back. No name given and the acceptance e-mail no longer lists them.
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Jeshin
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Post by Jeshin on Apr 29, 2015 13:46:07 GMT -5
My only commentary is that while an official staff apology for XYZ things would be nice a more reasonable expectation would be for them to post an official announcement about wanting to focus on player relations and improving the game going forward and that they are committed to open dialogue and respectful communication with players via request tools and the GDB. Bingo bango done.
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Post by Jeshin on Apr 29, 2015 12:29:29 GMT -5
Since this seems to be of some interest to people once I posted a 72 hour old log of the Tuluki RPT as experience by myself.
1. I have stated multiple times on this board that no action has ever been taken against me for posting here. Not even my log dump of request tool conversations I had with staff both productive and negative.
2. I forgot my password and e-mailed the staff to ask them if I could have it reset. It was done within 24 hours and when I sent in my character app from my Jeshin account the staffer who approved it said welcome back to the game. This is all with my main account which is called Jeshin and which I have confirmed repeatedly is me on this board.
3. As you can see from my wishing up for animation I was not singled out or mistreated or immediately forcestored. The staff did a good job with the animation and I felt like I had a good time. If anything they focused on the newb more than me and that's fine. It's also safe to assume that they didn't know who I was at the time too so it could have meant nothing.
4. At another point with this most recent throwaway character I walked into a Kadian clan room in Morin's. The entry wasn't secured by a gate or door guard but once you got inside there was a door guard to prevent exiting. I wished up and in about 15 minutes I was transferred out and a staffer was ontop of fixing it so it didn't happen again.
5. I have not been contacted, harassed, banned, or in any way punished for posting that log at the time of this posting. Nor was I harassed or contacted related to creating a new GDB account Jeshin OR to ask the staff about that autospam craft thingy from another thread.
I have had a relatively pleasant brief return to ARM and I will acknowledge that in recent times the staff appear to be trying to turn the corner on their questionable reputation. I think that if they got a PR staffer for the forums and specifically to handle player complaints and staff complaints it might benefit them. A fair majority of ARMs problems could be solved if someone was around to treat the players like the adults that almost all of them are. That won't fix glass ceilings or clan caps or anything but it would at least create a better staff and player relationship which can lead to better days overall.
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Post by Jeshin on Apr 29, 2015 11:52:05 GMT -5
To be fair, to my knowledge this forum doesn't have an official name? I call it anti-GDB or shadowboard myself.
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Post by Jeshin on Apr 29, 2015 9:24:22 GMT -5
Posted up the log to my file dump. Kudos to that newbie Tecla for being a good sport.
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Post by Jeshin on Apr 29, 2015 9:10:39 GMT -5
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Post by Jeshin on Apr 29, 2015 7:43:01 GMT -5
maybe some other wife got the right e-mail and got force stored and some other husband was like wtf?
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Post by Jeshin on Apr 29, 2015 7:35:34 GMT -5
Since I played devil's advocate for what I guessed a staff response might be, here is something I picked out. If Jazet and his wife both played ARM at the time and both had accounts. Why was Jazet being informed of his wife's punishment? Shouldn't they have both received separate e-mails because staff don't discuss request tool & punishments for one player with another?
Okay I think that's all I have for this thread until someone posts another log.
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Post by Jeshin on Apr 29, 2015 3:19:10 GMT -5
Yeah I don't think the 2 likely official responses are particularly good, I was just playing them out. I'm not willing to do the dance of devils advocate for this situation further than saying this is what I expect you should expect and why.
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