As we've all witnessed, communication between community and game admins is not going quite well lately. I know many of you don't even care to say the least, but the point is that something has to change if we want to see the bright future for our loving mod.
Reading through numerous unban requsts here and on Taleworlds forum I've noticed that many players didn't even know the real reason for being banned. And while we can argue that some just act innocent and others were banned for good reasons regardless, this clearly shows that there is a complete lack of communication from admins' part before executing the harshest penalty on the players. Reading some of the arguments from admins here was also discouraging. As I can recall in one case recently questioning admin's decision for a kick with a stupid and childish response "U mad?" resulted in an instant ban. This is not a way to treat your community that helps keeping this mod running with donations.
Given these cicrumstances I think it is fair to assume that some admins don't truly understand responsibilities that come with privileges of being a game admin. This is a just a small part of what can be found in the link I ran into (link provided in the spoiler section).
Game Admins must:
* be honest and a desire to apply the rules to all players evenly
* have a good sense of the game
* have good knowledge of the decalogue and how it is to be interpreted
* possess the ability to weigh the facts of a given situation and to make a decision accordingly
* be able to conduct themselves in a professional manner when communicating with players
* no longer be active player on the server they admin
http://wiki.the-reincarnation.org/index.php/Game_Admins
What our admins need is a similar guidline that will help them enforce the rules in a mature and consistent manner. There will always be those that will try to harm the gameplay experience of others for one reason or the other so, your community relies on your adminstrative skills to prevent this from happening, but right now it seems you often do the opposite. If this doesn't motivate you enough at least do it for the love of this mod.
Thanks in advance.
Ha! The resistance strikes again! Well done brother AssPunisher, this thread will further undermine the admins. You can tell by their posts that they're already mildly concerned.
Soon all the admins will be gone. At the very latest by 2012 (there's a prophecy about it).
How strange...
On a serious note, I think AssPunisher should be made a special admin, with no ban/remove ban powers, and no kicks etc, but only the ability/responsibility to sit all day in spectate mode and screenshot misbehaviour. To help this along, you can delete his character and make him a permanent level 1 peasant, so he can concentrate on spectating.
Ha! The resistance strikes again! Well done brother AssPunisher, this thread will further undermine the admins. You can tell by their posts that they're already mildly concerned.
Soon all the admins will be gone. At the very latest by 2012 (there's a prophecy about it).
On a serious note, I think AssPunisher should be made a special admin, with no ban/remove ban powers, and no kicks etc, but only the ability/responsibility to sit all day in spectate mode and screenshot misbehaviour. To help this along, you can delete his character and make him a permanent level 1 peasant, so he can concentrate on spectating.
I don't know what came into me while opening this thread, our admins are great!
They are going down brother! :twisted: