Admin Feedback Thread (Archived)

[Moberg]

As usual, you seem woefully unaware of the actual situation at hand. Dane did hit the nail on the head when he said this is a symptom, not the disease. I have no interest in sniping at anyone, and my post actually was written with an extremely level head. People are allowed to be shocked, repulsed, and object to a statement. That is what I did, and I made a concerted effort to explain why I was.

That portion was not directed at you, by the way.

Admins - I don't think I made myself clear. When I talked about elimination, I meant the community voting in admins and the losers of the vote being eliminated by a cut off point, a requirement that a certain number of votes be reached. I do believe some of the current administrators do need to take a hike, but any system for the removal of an admin needs to have a great deal of thought put into it.

Again, this has the same problems that community elected admins have, as plenty others have pointed out before me.

Generally speaking, you don't need to fly with somebody to notice via evidence when individuals go out of their way to make the game horrible for others. If that's true for the players you mentioned is not something I know. I would appreciate if the admins talk with these individuals about that behaviour before a thing like a permaban. Then again, that may not always be necessary depending on the individual background of everyone. If somebody has repeatedly shown that change is impossible, then that's that.

As far as I can see, the administration is regularly recruiting new mods who can eventually rise to admin status. There was a thread where players could vote on who they'd like to see as mods, though it's important to note that popularity does not automatically qualify you to bear that responsibility.