Karner said:
Jetty said:
Karner said:
Jetty said:
Karner said:
Another satisfaction form, queue up the promise in change and collective laughter towards the communities opinion
The only thing that the admin team collectively laughs at is your childish attempts at taking the piss out of us. It's a game, so stop trying to create so much drama like the 11 year-old girl you seem to enjoy acting like. Keep trying bb.
Heard it and seen it from both perspectives on more than one occasion, say what you wish Jet, nothing will get done no matter who's saying what or how much it's being said. I'm not taking a piss out of you, I have no need as you have literally just done it for me. I'm not trying to create drama; I'm stating a well established opinion with said experiences.
Heard it from those who love to slander the team, and seen it years ago when you were fired from the team. Please Ben, just drop this petty illusion that you actually know what's going on in the admin team right now. You are not affiliated with us anymore. Get. Over. It. Quit reveling in the past and get over it. You can't even bring yourself to just quit the server that you have literally nothing good to say about. You constantly attempt to belittle the team and badmouth the server, so why stay? You stick around and post your opinions solely to hurt other's and attempt to drain the community's faith in us as a team. It honestly doesn't make sense. Do you do it to feel like a big man at the end of it all? Like you're somehow all-knowing and better than any of the admins? Well congratulations if you do. It's rare to find someone with such an ego-trip over a video game. Kudos.
I have no intent of quitting; when I can I play the server. I made no claim to know what the administration team is up to and quite frankly it rarely makes a difference whether I know or not. You're right, I do bad mouth the server. The current state it is in is laughable at best in retrospect to the past; if it wasn't there'd be no need for comparison.
90% of what I hear is from high ranking members of the admin team as it is, so if they love to slander the admin team then that shows the integrity of it. I have no need to belittle the team as a collective; when individuals let the side down I let it be and reveal it to the correct channels unless a big deal needs to be made about it. For someone of your stature on the server to show aggression towards as you call it: "ill informed, poorly reprimanded and ego boosting statements" is quite belittling in it's own right.
I'm all for change; but when the community has filled out shy of a hundred customer satisfaction forms with an amount of changes countable on one hand you can't blame me for being skeptic.
Pointing out that I was fired from the admin team was quite an attempt at insulting me personally, I can see why. I was fired for being too brash, too harsh and too demanding when it came to making change and forcing actions in my time as an admin and I pissed the wrong people off. Nice try bb.
The thing is, you did in fact make a claim as to knowing what the administration team is like, and it all started with you claiming that the administrative team would simply gather these replies and then engage in "collective laughter towards the communities opinion", a clear attempt to badmouth us and make you look as if you have any sort of clue what's going on within the team. You may believe the current state is laughable, but that's not how others may see it. Was it better back in the day? Sure, it might have been for some. It all depends on what criteria you set as "better". We're doing our best to bring the server back up to that point, but it's harder today than it was years ago. And to sit there and repeatedly shit on any of our attempts to push the server forward is completely counterproductive and rude at that.
And yes, you probably very well did hear many things from "high ranking members" of the administration team that weren't so great. I myself had made some of those very comments to you a year ago. But the way I see it, is that they can express their opinion however way they want. It's not like these comments are a new or recent thing. Administrators here and there have had negative opinions regarding the server for years; whether the issue was script updates not coming in as often as they should, a depleted playerbase, or a plethora of bugs that made the server difficult to play. There is always something to complain about, and administrators are free to complain about it as well. So congratulations on having the honor of listening to the complaints of the other administrators. But the fact is they are still here; playing, administrating, and putting their best efforts toward the server. So they can talk all the smack they want about the server, but at the end of the day they haven't left or been fired. They still are trying.
And no, no where am I showing "aggression" towards you. I'm both trying to defend the authenticity of this satisfaction form and also figure out why you are constantly here only to spread negativity and hateful rumors. To attack your false claims against the administration team and then for you to say that that's "belittling" to my own reputation is completely ridiculous itself.
I'm all for change as well of course, but you're misunderstanding the purpose of these forms. These forms aren't a "pick who should remain an admin and pick who shouldn't" form that will result in some number of admins getting fired and replaced. It's an opinion-gathering tool. It's a way for us to review how the community perceives a particular administrator as well as give the community a chance to express that opinion anonymously without punishment. While we seek honest, well-developed answers, it's not uncommon for 20 to 30 percent of the replies to result in:
Or be completely blank. With those sort of replies, we can't possibly do anything to help. But, with the replies that we do receive, we go through them and take every answer into consideration. If an administrator gets a really low score or a lot of bad remarks, things will be done. While that doesn't necessarily mean that they'll get fired on the spot, they might be on a short leash for awhile while we watch over them and try and make them improve. But could they be fired? For sure. But there's never been so many negative opinions about a single administrator that action needed to be taken. One thing that everyone needs to understand is that while they and their friends might have a bad opinion about an administrator, others very well might think differently and put positive remarks on their forms. So yes, there aren't many observable changes at all, but I can assure you and everyone else that they are being looked at and discussed with the administrators themselves.
And no, it was not an attempt to personally insult you. The purpose of it being mentioned was from more of an argumentative standpoint; to reduce your credibility in the area of administrative experience by stating that you weren't necessarily a perfect administrator yourself.
Much love goes out to you sir.