Epicmafia

A word

deletedover 10 years

I'm going to try and summarize the thoughts that have been swirling in my head for the past couple of months.

The mods are treated in the most disrespectful and toxic way that is completely unjustified. It amazes me how often I feel that the people who willingly take care of complaints and try (i say this heavily) to manage 60 reports on a normal basis somehow find the time and energy to put up with someone cussing them out or demanded they be demodded over a trivial matter such as a report outcome. I'm not saying that criticism isn't valid or that you shouldn't question some decisions, but the least you can do is be courteous. There was a reason laexio was so admired and it was that he made sure that the needs of the mods came before the needs of the players, because in reality, the mods are the backbone of the community. I can't make anyone agree with me, but understand how unsatisfying, how frustrating and how unnerving it can be to simply log onto epicmafia knowing that the community will always be against you. It is why the pool of mods is so staggeringly low.

The forums do not need to be moderated heavily, they serve a niche and are irrelevant to more than a quarter of the playerbase. The IC rule is broken and stupid. Google, or lucid for that matter, does not care about a couple of asteriks on the screen. They're a complete non-issue and it baffles me in the times I've been just a player that I've seen unneeded measures taken to control 'chaos' going on in the forums. The best solution is to let things die out because people get bored of hearing themselves talk, or posting badly for that matter.

The report system is abused and is inherently flawed. There is no reason for mods have to deal with 70-80 reports in a day. That is not a problem with the mods, that's a problem with the community. I've never been on a site where I've seen such a staggeringly high number of complaints in a single day. It sucks that things will always stay like this, but I bring this back to my original paragraph to the mods, and that you really do not give them the credit they deserve.

I want to condense this all and say this is my formal and public resignation from modding. These couple past months as a mod have been pure hell and I have lost all motivation and desire to go further. I enjoyed helping the community and doing my best to see to it that I did what I felt was right, but the strain is not worth it and I feel that all that effort I am putting into epicmafia modding could be put to better use. I had a goal of one day possibly being admin, but I don't think that is what I want or need to do for that matter.

later

deletedover 10 years

haha retti's a loser

Steven

over 10 years

If we are talking about admired within the mod team then so was every admin barring arcbell probably, but the forum people never liked laexii

Steven

over 10 years

>Laexio

>gay exio

> so admired

Wait what

Jill

over 10 years

.....did u post this when u were waiting at the airport

deletedover 10 years

I think that's a little harsh. But given he's simultaneously pining for the "good old days" and complaining about mod hate which was so much worse in those "good old days" before IC castrated much of it, it's just a bit of rose-tinted goggles. Laexio was admired by his mods, but his habit of randomly forum suspending people who disagreed with him made him a long way from being admired by the forums, lol.

deletedover 10 years

Pretty much what I said. Retti is complaining that he wasn't popular.

deletedover 10 years

Smorlicious says

This is such bullcrap

I don't hate the mods. I admire what they do, and how they volunteer and take time out of their day to manage the site for free. I'm friends with mods, they're people just anyone else, and they're usually exceptional mafia players. The only people who really hate mods (in my opinion) are the ones who really don't understand the game/rules/or reason.

That said, retti, HANDLING 70-80 REPORTS IS PART OF THE JOB. No one ever said that being a Mod would be easy. No one ever said you would be popular as a moderator. That's not their JOB. THE JOB isn't to be liked, or to just lay back and do rarely anything, it is to keep order on a GAMING WEBSITE. And if you really think other gaming sites, populated with gamers, isn't as emotional/heavily involved with the game as the EM population is, then you are naive.

I don't know what your expectations were, but you knew how the mods were viewed by the a lot of the community before accepting the position, or how many reports there were, so you knew what you were getting into. It should not have been any surprise.

And quite frankly, I do not respect you as a mod because last game I played in with you, you GRS, and so someone in a leadership position who abuses the system really isn't someone who should be respected/liked anyway. I don't/didn't respect you as a mod, nor as a player.

As for the rest of the mods, you do a great and sometimes under appreciated service to EM, and just know there are those who don't hate you, and even respect you.

~Smor,

TL;DR Version: Retti, you knew what you were getting into. The role of a mod isn't to be liked but to manage a website. You really aren't mod material.

deletedover 10 years

Given that there were 1500 reports per week at the start of this year, before I made the rule changes to end refund-scrounging that dropped them to circa 600, I don't think there's much room to complain on that front. The only reason some mods have to do too many is that other mods don't do enough. Don't blame the community for that.

And tbh, the community is friendlier now since the IC rule came in that it has been at any other point. Wanting people to stop cussing the mode and wanting people to be able to swear again are kinda incompatible.

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deletedover 10 years

Aww retti!! I'm very sorry that the mod situation is so terrible, and I hope people at least will appreciate everything you've done as a mod :c

Sidekick

over 10 years

imagine caring about anything
ever

deletedover 10 years

This is such bullcrap

I don't hate the mods. I admire what they do, and how they volunteer and take time out of their day to manage the site for free. I'm friends with mods, they're people just anyone else, and they're usually exceptional mafia players. The only people who really hate mods (in my opinion) are the ones who really don't understand the game/rules/or reason.

That said, retti, HANDLING 70-80 REPORTS IS PART OF THE JOB. No one ever said that being a Mod would be easy. No one ever said you would be popular as a moderator. That's not their JOB. THE JOB isn't to be liked, or to just lay back and do rarely anything, it is to keep order on a GAMING WEBSITE. And if you really think other gaming sites, populated with gamers, isn't as emotional/heavily involved with the game as the EM population is, then you are naive.

I don't know what your expectations were, but you knew how the mods were viewed by the a lot of the community before accepting the position, or how many reports there were, so you knew what you were getting into. It should not have been any surprise.

And quite frankly, I do not respect you as a mod because last game I played in with you, you GRS, and so someone in a leadership position who abuses the system really isn't someone who should be respected/liked anyway. I don't/didn't respect you as a mod, nor as a player.

As for the rest of the mods, you do a great and sometimes under appreciated service to EM, and just know there are those who don't hate you, and even respect you.

~Smor,

TL;DR Version: Retti, you knew what you were getting into. The role of a mod isn't to be liked but to manage a website. You really aren't mod material.

xela

over 10 years

Chaika says

Chaika!

You're my favorite epicmafia account.

xela

over 10 years

Sims says

darker than black has too many episodes

Watch the first episode and you'll wish for more.

Sims

over 10 years

darker than black has too many episodes

Orly

over 10 years

one i watched recently that i found surprisingly underrated was

Shiki

vampire genre, but very well done, though it takes some liberties imo

Chaika

over 10 years

Chaika!

xela

over 10 years

BUt seriously watch darker than black britch.

BlackBattler

over 10 years

AsbelLhant says

Watch senyu

I like this post

xela

over 10 years

Terraformarssssssssss

Orly

over 10 years

trigun, cowboy bebop, full metal alchemist: brotherhood, attack on titan, psycho pass (s1), ghost in the shell stand alone complex, mobile suit gundam 00, basilisk, tengen toppa gurren lagann

^ action

if ur not into action genre name the genre u want to watch