You've made a lot of good points Reaper, as well as Omni. However the sad truth is that any amount of these threads isn't going to change anything, that's on the admins and whether or not they actually care enough to start listening to what people (and their own staff) have been saying for months.
Right, so now I may as well add my two cents to the thread. I'm going to speak from my personal experience and give my completely honest opinion formed through 7+ months on staff. I know this opinion is also shared by many others, and not too many of them have the balls to say what I'm about to out of fear of being banned when it's all just the honest truth.
So I've tried to type it all out to make it as short as possible while still keeping my main points, hopefully it will be a good read for some of you.
I have been site banned and SB banned plenty of times for speaking my mind, and it may have seemed negative at the time, but now I'm going to type it all out, as well as my reasoning behind what I say. So hopefully this makes things a little more sensible for the people who think I'm nothing but an "Ex-Staff Troll"
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For one, I'm pretty sure slim to none of the admins actually get along. They are always trying to catch other admins slipping up and they all try and belittle each other, I've seen it with the newer and older / retired admins, they all want to make it known that they are more needed as admin than (insert name here). Obviously that doesn't help getting anything productive accomplished, when the top management on the site can't work together as an actual team. You would expect this kind of thing with lower level staff "competing for the top spot" but when you get there, is it really necessary to hold retarded grudges like they are now? I mean you've got unlimited power to help the site, use it for something good instead of bickering back and forth.
ENZO seems to have forgotten that he was just promoted to code things, not to try and be a community admin. Seriously what is with him trying to turn the entire forum hierarchy into some shitty call of duty-esque model. "brb private premium v10 but this time it will work because It's my version" :dumb: Thank god we finally got rid of these worthless rep prestiges. They
may have actually been a good idea if he thought about the amount of time it takes to gain enough rep to prestige and adjusted it accordingly, but that wasn't the case.
I do believe that Outsider has good intentions but is focusing his efforts on the wrong things when he actually is online. Yeah he may say he's trying to get more users to join, and increase activity; but it's hypocritical to say that, start something like NGS and only post 1 (intro) video, especially when most of the hype for the channel was based on the fact that HE would be active on it. Instead we've got Media Team v2.0 flooding NGS with their monotone, bland commentaries which struggle to get over 1,000 views even after being plastered on the index page for weeks. There is a reason why they aren't getting views, and it's not because of a small community or a lack of caring members. Quality > Quantity, and NGS has had neither since the AskACapper video, and this has been months.
Another upsetting thing is that admins don't even do anything (even small stuff) until getting approval from Outsider. I thought the point of being promoted to admin was because Outsider felt they were trustworthy and could make clear decisions on their own? Apparently that is not the case.
I seriously hope someone who is an admin is reading this, because nothing will ever change until one of you decide to take action, and this brings me to my final point on the Reputation issue.
As far as I can remember, rep was disabled one day when NP got on and raged over a SBPM of someone crying about being -repped. Ever since it returned, each admin has tried to tamper with it, as you've seen with the rep prestiges and various rep caps over the last year or so, And I've made this argument before and I am still going with it:
The reason the community feels less active is because everyone is treated equally in terms of rep.
This makes people who have worked their asses off feel limited and worthless because now Joe the Scammer has just as much rep power and influence on here as they do. On top of this, having negative rep removed is painful, because there is no way to punish the people who make retarded posts or get on everyone's nerves. Now they either prosper or ultimately get banned (unlikely). It almost feels out of balance, everyone can post the most retarded shit and not have any repercussion, and
THIS IS WHY WE SEE SPIKES IN IMMATURE USERS IN THE SHOUTBOX.
Seriously I don't get how none of you admins have understood this, It's very simple, and could be fixed, meanwhile nothing is happening and NGU just goes on day by day becoming more unattractive to committed members. You have to be braindead if you can't see this by now, there have been some GREAT moderators leave recently due to everything I've stated, and I left because of it also. There comes a point where It's not even worth trying to fight, this is why people are just giving up on the staff here.
Speaking of staff, they need to be smacked into shape. I'm still not sure what "Gaming Squad" is, but I constantly see different Event Staff saying very immature things in the shoutbox and setting an awful example for newer members.
Originally posted by Ownage
I have to agree though, I don't see the point in unbanning scammers.
There is no point, I don't get what goes through Outsider's head when he decided to ban them, but at the end of the day there's nothing you can do. I know that when Outsider started pulling shit like that it pissed off a bunch of other supers and mods. It made a bunch of people want to retire, because what's the point in wasting time and effort trying to moderate disputes and infracting scammers if it's just all going to be undone when they message him on facebook a month later and he lets them back on? Scammers are scammers and they will never change. I guess he thinks that they bring some sort of "value" if they come back and are active again, when in reality they are still losers who make the site worse and prey on the loyal members, literally the lowest of the low users.