Valtteri wrote:That is what your issue goes down to, though. You complain that the mods/level judges aren't doing anything. You're not happy with our response that is "it doesn't concern you" which it doesn't but still. What I just posted is an alternate response.
It's actually this post is what the issue comes down to. Your dismissive attitude to issues being pointed out with the staff's poor performance or lack thereof. You don't just get to pick and choose what I want looked into. It's mostly you who is pushing this nonchalant dismissal by making decisions alone against outside opinions from not only regular users, but other Level Judges and staff. The Level Judges that are actually around to hold an opinion on how the Levels forum runs, do not all agree with you. The other staff that are online more than one minute per week, also do not all agree with you either. There is no consensus among the admins either on other issues as well. Is it not of their concern, or is that just something you say to avoid taking the time to write a normal reply as if you respected the person you were talking to. Hassling people in PMs is not acceptable behavior of an admin, nor is secretly talking about matters and waiting for threads to die off. Members, both staff and not, shouldn't have to worry about their thread or themselves facing consequences unless they break forum rules - next to none in this forum do, and their discussions are pushed off to continue elsewhere anyway while this forum dies off. If you haven't noticed, the forums that are the most moderated here are the worst ones. This forum has topics locked left and right, and if it isn't the thread dies with no action taken despite popularity. The Levels forum gets no attention because most of the Level Judges are gone or just don't do their jobs, and when topics are moved they die quickly after. I've said this all before, and you and the other staff refuse to defend it. I said this on the Discord, but with how slimy this whole thing is I'm waiting for the day when someone makes a thread going through all the problems of the site and after going at it that person is banned and as soon as people call bullshit you guys would immediately say "It's none of your concern who we ban." Joey said he wants staff to interact normally, yet it's set up like a private club to collude on how NOT to help these situations and plot when to go after certain users.
You act like you're this step above everyone else when you guys had Quill, who spammed the IRC with others and on more than one occasion, as admin. You also nearly had Blueoak - who I am quite fine with now, but this still happened - as a Global Moderator who helped delete the forum's global announcements, and the FF&R forum's topics. I bet if you guys were to ever get around to shaking up the staff team to consist of competent members, you wouldn't consider that there's users that have been phished here that haven't changed their password since and their passwords are logged for the moment when one of them happens to earn a promotion. You guys don't know what you're doing and look down your noses whenever the incompetence of the management of this forum is brought up. If anyone else were to treat members with as much contempt as the staff do, they would be warned and banned for breaking the first rule. It is beyond me how someone who's job is next to obsolete in most cases can talk down to anyone especially with a track record of mismanagement like that of the staff. I could understand making a wrong move here and there, but when people start getting banned for a perceived attitude and regular users are given the cold shoulder then that is a completely different situation. While I was still mod, I treated issues impartially despite my negative views of a user (Danny comes to mind back when he kept getting in trouble.) Now I hear that's not the case, and naturally things went downhill when the rest of the staff started adhering to the decisions of you and Joey. Ever since I've resigned a lot of inhibitions have been lifted, sure, but I still propose ideas to help the forum just as I did in the staff forum and some of which I still echo now. Since my resignation though, there has been a total shift in how I interact with staff. I'm talked to differently and negatively as if my contributions to this board didn't happen, and as if I'm acting maliciously and a problem to be dealt with. I mean I'm talked to as if I don't know exactly what's going on behind the scenes, and I don't know what I'm talking about. I can understand why a lot of the veteran users left if their experiences are anywhere close to mine.
Almost everything that is run by the staff here ends up at a dead end, dies out quickly, or just gets delayed for months and years. How's the community YouTube channel going? How about the community Facebook page? Is the wiki coming along well? Oh, they're all dead. Now how's the SMBX videos thread doing? Imagine that, decentralizing video uploads and incentivizing production ended up creating a bunch of free advertising for this place and got video output ramped up instead of being left to the hands of absent and careless staff. Perhaps the users do a better job and get more done when they're able to create as they please, and do so freely instead of being restrained by the usual SMBX forum formula that hasn't worked since the first one. When you guys are shooting ideas down, you're shooting yourselves in the foot. I can point to examples of the staff's failures, and the users' successes yet still proposals of turning over the Levels forum to be run by users like
every other forum here is brushed off and of course dismissed despite objection from a majority including staff. I mean you don't even seem to read threads anymore since I saw you just come in here and go off about how the staff are inactive and that's the end of it, just as Joey said Nein and I have a problem with Global Moderators not locking enough threads. The irony is that staff are not needed, yet people are kept around who do not do anything useful and for the stuff that does need to change it's completely ignored as if it's not an issue and therefor the mods are doing everything that needs to get done. The remaining inefficiencies and problems that are not taken care of are the
only thing that justify staff positions.
TL;DR Check yourself.