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Originally Posted by Polo
I wasn't aware that being Manager was a popularity contest. I though it was about managing the server and trying to push things fowards. Seriously, given past events I fully expect players to hold me in a negative light. I just accept that as part of the position. It's more important for me to use actions to change Classic for the better right now that to worry about my own reputation.
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Generally, when you push a server forward, you get a positive light, not a negative. Managers should NOT be loathed by their community. On successful servers I see some managers are ADORED by their community because of what THEY have done for THEM. It isn't part of the position to be hated by the players. If you're hated by the players as a manager, you're doing a bad job. The only admin/staff I expect to be hated by the players are GPs.
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Originally Posted by Polo
There are few people on Classic with the mindset or server knowledge to work with player requests and work them into a tangible idea. As I've said before it's easy to take one players complaint and resolve it. being able to take comments from everyone and evaluate them in a non-biased way is what it takes to be a manager, and plenty of people simply cannot do that. The are probably equally as few people with the patience to consider every little change to the server and how it will affect things, trying to balance what players appear to want against what will actually be good for the server.
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There are plenty of people on the server that could take and evaluate complaints better than you. Probably because you don't seem to act on those complaints, just listen to them. Hell, for the past few years, any time someone would GIVE you a complaint, you would PM back "hmm". That became your slogan.
As for changes for the server, there are many people who have successfully considered changes, implemented them, and had a positive result. Unfortunately, you aren't on that list of people.
Don't make your job out to be so diffcult to where it makes you the only viable candidate. It isn't and you're doing an awful job as it is anyway.
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Originally Posted by Polo
My level of activity has nothing to do with any threats or pressure I am under. It has more to do with real life issues. You point to a few minor things that apparently show my 'spark' is already dwindling.
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You are trying to tell us that it is a coincidence that you became this new 'Storm 2.0', who is going to right all his 4 years of wrongs just at the same time Bell started giving you ultimatums? Don't lie to us, its insulting.
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Originally Posted by Polo
[list][*]My activity was down on last week. It happens. I can't be expected to increase this every single week. Things will naturally fluctuate depending on various circumstances. I detailed my intended minimum activity earlier in the thread, and this is something I intend to stick to.
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2 hours a day of basically what I've seen
Sitting on the bank answering dumb questions and playing ultra GP, gagging oni for 5 minutes for saying the b-word, and telling people not to swear, while trying to give people the runaround with words on their complaints?
Nice management work.
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Originally Posted by Polo
[*]The code base for Onslaught is small and/or has not been modified for a week. Onslaught and the event systems are not the only code I've been working on, nor is my primary job even a development one. If I'm busy with other management tasks, I have to prioritise accordingly. There is work that has been done on the Event systems that has not yet translated into actual code.
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Your staff activity logs say besides onslaught, you've made one small 35 line NPCW. Other than that, nothing, not one thing. Why keep adding to the 20% done clutter of scripts this server has if you're not going to follow through?
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Originally Posted by Polo
[*]I did not tell Moonie to make you a moderator. You asked me for moderator rights so that you could make a locked thread for releases. Whilst I approve of the idea, giving full blown moderator rights is excessive for such a small task. I'm fairly sure I can't hand out hundreds of moderator positions, so I've been looking at ways to avoid giving moderator positions for this task, and also trying to determine who all should get moderator if this is required.
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You approved of my idea, and said you were going to look into it, then when I badgered you about it, you gave me EXCUSES on why there shouldnt be mod rights given here. I didn't ask for ONE HUNDRED mod positions, I asked for 3, one for me, one for WhiteDragon, and one for Thor, so we could document updates more streamlined, noone reads NPC server messages. When you started making excuses, I just asked for THOR, and you kept making excuses.
That's what you generally do when you're asked to act, you make an excuse, thats why I've said, you're turning back into the 4 year stagnant storm we all know. You told me yourself, talking alone isn't going to save classic, thats your reasoning for not even posting on your own servers forums. Yet, thats all you do in the game, talk and make excuses.
03-04-2009, 11:47 PM
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