I didnt say they should be spectators. If you werent allowed to play, i dont think ANYONE would be an admin. What i said was, i had assumed the donkey crew WERE the admins...and not Chaos.
With Chaos as admins, their pal Tydeus completely changed the game, not around balance, but around what his friends in Chaos liked to abuse, you have the Allers\Lemon situations where the MAJORITY of the player base strongly disagreed with the admins...but not one admin saw a problem? See, having a head admin, pick only his friends as other admins, leads to situations where, even if people disagree, they wont speak their mind, Shik used to tell us about the admin meetings...nothing but canary and his yes-men.
"while chaos\cannery are a large part of the reason behind NA being dead...idk if switching to a diff head admin is gonna change much.
when i first came to crpg, i had thought that the people making the bans would be the same people would made the rules by which players get banned for braking. i had assumed it would be the devs going around checking logs and handing out the bans.
when i heard that it was the players themselves...i just shook my head and laughed.
power corrupts, and there is not one single player out there, that would not abuse it, their friends would get nothing but warnings and light slaps, while people they dont like would get banned for nothing, harsh punishments for minor things.
and again, it should not be some player that is head admin and has the power to choose other admins, certainly he will choose only people that are his friends, or agree with his point of view. its a recipe for disaster."
And it was.