Some people here net to get their moral compass straight again very badly. Really.
Admins are there to HELP the community. They are far more thn just more or less reliable guys who press kick- and ban-buttons if needed. They are meant to be authorities, and in such a small community like cRPG one important aspect of their work is to make as many players feel comfortable as possible, to help keeping the community as big as possible.
This is bull. This is the way any good merchant makes money: buying low, selling high.
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It's only natural, because it's the only way you can make money here by simply buying and selling.
Are you fucking serious?
Who says that being a good merchant is something good? A good merchant MUST be a cut-purse, which always means someone gets pranked. It's like saying "firing 30.000 employees to maximize the profit is okay, it's the way of being a good manager" or "demanding 21% interest is good, it's the way of being a good credit shark".
All those things require misfortune of others, which makes such "successful" professionals not much of "good".
Sure, in our world everyone has to get along somehow, as good as he can and the way he thinks it's best.
BUT:
1. There is no need to act in cRPG like in the real world (small community and so on, come on, you are amongst friends!)
2. Being an admin shows that you are a highly social person, caring for others, and thus you should act this way in everything you do.
There is absolutely no reason why someone, who got admin rights to help the community, should be allowed to be a "good merchant", benefitting from the misfortune of the subjects he is meant to protect and help. Why the fuck has poophammer to make money this way, when he is admin?
The first and most important requirement for a job as admin is the proper character. Poophammer has shown that his character is not that suitable, and he got treated accordingly.
What I admit is, that the behaviour of kinngrimm and Wolves_Wintersturm was... weird, at the best, but if they didn't lie (and Poophammer did not deny it happened that way), and if he answered their PM really with "sorry, I already sold it." instead of "sorry, I already sold it, but you are right, that was not okay from me, here are another 900.000 gold." he deserved it.
And I doubt it was the poll that initiated the admin rights removal, it was the entire discussion about that gross behaviour.
Some people here really think that being an admin is some kind of privilege, but the only way this works is when being an admint represents a burden. Everything else attracts the wrong people.
Unless you show how taking advantage of the misfortune of people who you are meant to help and protect is okay as admin, there is no need to further discuss if Poophammers fate was deserved or not. It was.
