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 11 years
Guys maybe if you treath each other with respect and not by circle jerker and other words, MAYBE we can get to something,
i cant think of any kind of circlejerk clique aside from like me, slow, gira, and scubasteve, and the only thing we have in common is making fun of you
that was one of those good posts i keep hearing about, right?
deletedover 11 yearsedited
you may think you believe this on the outside, but you're just going with the hate arcbell flow. deep down you know you're just a circle jerker. people who aren't in this same group that im seeing disagree or attack arcbell in this thread say they feel sorry for you all or just stay away from the forum because you are all toxic. i thought that would tell you something about yourselves but hey, you all don't need anyone but each other.
you're right, i became a hypocrite because i realized this site isn't going to change or get help, so i became what this site is. people who talk crap to each other.i do it in games when people are dumb though because it is frustrating, i don't try and make myself feel better like that on the forums. i just defend my points here.
also, i don't complain about being bullied anymore, i used to then i stopped when i realized nothing was going to happen
you may think you believe this on the outside, but you're just going with the hate justrec flow. deep down you know you're just a circle jerker. people who aren't in this same group that im seeing disagree or attack me in this thread say they feel sorry for you all or just stay away from the forum because you are all toxic. i thought that would tell you something about yourselves but hey, you all don't need anyone but each other.
you're right, i became a hypocrite because i realized this site isn't going to change or get help, so i became what this site is. people who talk crap to each other.i do it in games when people are dumb though because it is frustrating, i don't try and make myself feel better like that on the forums. i just defend my points here.
also, i don't complain about being bullied anymore, i used to then i stopped when i realized nothing was going to happen
deletedover 11 years
arcbell has totalitarian ideals that were never realised because he forgot that his mods existed for a time which caused everyone to quit underneath him
