Originally Posted by
McFarbo
This is is very true. Plenty of staff begin to develop a complex thinking they are better than everyone else and everyone around them feels it, turning people away. I can easily list a few right here but I don't want to get banned lol.
Staff have also been very biased against me personally many times, this is the most recent thing, i'll give a quick run down
I dueled Apricity 300k vs 20$ to 3 wins (his USD), he scams me, I report him, the report gets closed within hours and nobody gets banned because USD scams aren't supported (even though Apricity is / was bos, zt)
(for backround info natejas scammed me out of a clockwork8 head first)
So I dueled my TC vs Natejas USD, he won and I scammed him since USD duels aren't supported, but guess what? I get perma banned on my main. I get it, I shouldn't have scammed, but how are you going to tell me a duel isn't valid and close my report but turn around and ban me for the same exact thing?
Yeah man, as a lurker in the staff complaint thread, I've seen countless times where staff are in the wrong or they try to be right in a shady situation where there's no real right.
Of course staff are just busy people and they make mistakes too, and I respect those that admit to it.
and obviously a lot of players complain and they are wrong, whatever but there's been many times where it seems staff are right cause they have the say, lately though seeing a staff trial being denied due to flaming is actually somewhat good to see, since also seeing that staff will almost take another staff's side (cough Kyure cough).
They even made a long post trying to defend kyure, when most new staff don't even get this much of leeway.
there has been repercussion, he's been reprimanded several times (at least once per handled staff complaint involving him, probably more) and he's been working on improving more every time he is reprimanded. what blows my mind is that you assume that making mistakes is not natural for a new staff member. sure, maybe he's had the most attention and maybe he's made more mistakes than the rest, but there's been worse in the past; it's all a process of ironing out the kinks and working with said staff member to help better them as a staff member. he is not the only one to make mistakes after the recruitment drive, we literally added 11 new smods to the team - there is clearly going to be a lot of room for mistakes and the best thing to do is work through them and make sure that whenever one of them makes a mistake that they understand what went wrong and how to fix said problem in the future. in regards to 'any shitlord on toribash could dedicate to become a moderator' - yes, anyone can become a moderator, we're not going to introduce bias into our system because a minority of close-minded band-wagoners are upset about members like kyure becoming smod. if we're talking about someone such as tbashboii who is known for literally hacking the forums and is currently on a zero tolerance list, no, they will never have a chance at becoming a staff member because it imposes security risks and etc., but that's just how it is. kyure has made mistakes, sure, but for the majority (looking at the recent work he's done in reports and the like), he's been doing good work.
going to ignore your example because you provided 0 evidence of said case (great staff complaint!)
if he's abusing his powers in private servers, then what is stopping people like you from taking screenshots and sending them to me or any other admin or higher up? the few cases we've seen regarding this have already been handled, not sure what your complaint is here.
to answer your question, yes, we've probably scolded him the most out of any other staff member. no, we do not think about it and then say fuck it and let it happen over and over again. yes, i'm answering these questions seriously.
there is little difference between gm msquad clan mod and smod, these are all positions of power that include moderation - but i'll accept that you're ignorant to said fact and explain the situation. out of the 11 smods we recruited in the drive, we were looking mainly at fresh faces, meaning people who haven't had much contact with staff or people like lazors who was a lmod at the time and wanted to work his way up. smod is not that high of a position (i think you look at it as like an administrative role, if i were making these mistakes, then you'd be correct), and mistakes are more than expected for the first few months. no one is perfect, people are always going to make mistakes, and to expect otherwise is inane - please remember that all positions on the forums are voluntary. if kyure is consistently making the same mistakes after working with him on not making said mistakes, then yes, more severe actions will be taken, but as it stands he hasn't made the same mistakes that he's been reprimanded for.
regardless of all of the above, i could have completely ignored your complaint because you didn't even bother to provide evidence or anything relating to the kyure case. if you wish to complain about members of staff like this without evidence, PM the staff member's higher-up. next time i see something like this you will be infracted.
Just checking out page 6 and up, you'll see how much he was defended.
Hopefully that never happens again, was fun to see it unravel tho.
Last edited by Lucy; Jun 2, 2018 at 07:28 AM.