I'm just going to start off by saying I don't really see why this is even a thread. There is no other reason to create this other than to start drama or call out staff. Do you know how frustrating it is to try your best and get called out for it every day? It's not like we're trying to do a bad job or upset you. I don't know what you think we do all day. I know what I do all day and if I'm not busy with my life outside the server, I'm trying my damn hardest to improve the staff team to please the community. I don't know why I bother though, because no one is ever happy with the hard work any staff puts in. xHypurr, I was really expecting more from you.
To begin with, staff have absolutely nothing to do with updates and release dates. This is purely up to the owner, developers and builders if it's dependent on a map. Why are you upset at us for something that is not even our fault. Besides, we have three owners right now who are in charge of the updates, release dates and everything else. Three. It's not like we have an army and yeah, sometimes they get it wrong but they are trying their hardest too. They don't just think "Hey, what would annoy everybody the most? I know! (Insert idea here)." It's their server too and I can tell you right now that they wouldn't do something to it if they thought it would ruin it or the community for anybody. Also, mistakes happen. Maybe you think you'll be finished something by a certain time but then draw-backs and unexpected bugs appear and the release date is extended. Do you think that's intended to happen? Do you think we try to make that happen? We don't. It's life. Things don't go as expected.
If the staff didn't care about the playerbase, why would we even be here? For the fancy tag that apparently means nothing? We put time and effort in to help you. I sure as hell wouldn't have wasted 2 years of my life for a fancy tag. I'm here for you. However, posts like these make me feel like I just wasted my time because the work that I put in clearly isn't appreciated. Last week I took a night off for my boyfriend's 18th Birthday and I come back to the server the next day to get told that I'm inactive and I don't do anything. Well, I just might be the worst person in the world for wanting to celebrate a big moment with my boyfriend. I apologize for that. Also, I've personally been called the absolute worst of names and I've been emotionally attacked and harassed by players on here simply because I do my job. I've been told that I look like I have down-syndrome. Do you think I would apply and stay here for 2 years, taking those sorts of comments and criticism just for a fancy tag?
You know what else? We get told that our decisions are stupid. You know what I find stupid? We give a staff member who has literally broken the rules 5+ chances and warnings to improve, yet when they don't, get worse and we decide to demote them - we've apparently made the worst decision in the world. However, when a staff member doesn't even break the rules, makes a mistake and corrects, yet we still give them a formal warning - we've made another horrible decision and should have demoted them. I don't know what you want or expect from us. People think we are biased with our demotions so we literally put a demotion system in place so that everyone knew what was going on, and when we follow it we're still biased. I don't get it. It's honestly never enough.
You want us to be transparent? As far as I'm concerned, I don't know why you would need to know demotion reasons. If you wanted an answer, ask the ex-staff in question. You might not receive the honest answer as it's human-nature to protect yourself, but it's the best you'll get because no matter how much trouble an ex-staff has caused, we won't release their demotion reason to protect their privacy. If you made a mistake that upset a lot of people, would you like it broadcasted everywhere and everyone to judge you for it? I sure wouldn't. I think that's reasonable. Other than that, I don't know what else we're not exactly transparent about. We don't try and hide things from you.
You think we're not trustworthy? Show me how we've shown that to you. Is this because you think we're biased? If so, message me who you think is and any evidence you have and I'll take a look. If you can't do that, then I don't know how we're not trustworthy. if this is in regards to a staff member griefing players, then I understand that you might not trust that staff. However, they were formally warned and we've made it a point to ensure it won't happen again with any staff in the future. I also want to point out that if you see staff not doing their jobs and don't report them, how do you expect us to fix that? They didn't get in trouble so they will continue to do it and we didn't see it so we won't know they aren't doing their jobs.
I can only speak for myself but I never stop searching for ways to improve the staff team. I have a list right now that I've been working through since I received the admin position to improve the staff team. I remember even coming to you in particular asking for opinions and suggestions on how to improve the staff team. I can also say that I'm not biased towards my team because I don't even have a team, and how exactly do I avoid the answer and never help with problems if I go directly to you for answers and ways to help the problems?
Schedule? What kind of schedule do you even mean? I don't even have a schedule in my life because nothing ever goes as expected. How would that even work? Also, imagine being accepted as a new Helper. "Welcome to the team. Now you must be active through the hours from 3PM-8PM every Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday. On Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays, you need to extend those hours to 10PM." Does that sound right to you? I don't think so. Our schedule is moderate when you can and for as long as you can. That's fair. We are only volunteers after all. We give up our free time to moderate the server, so we shouldn't be expected to have to follow some kind of schedule of hours.
No new additions? I'm not sure if you mean updatewise or staff-wise. One would think you mean staff-wise as this is a thread explaining why you hate staff. Although, then one would think that there are no new staff additions when that's false. In the past month we've recruited four new Helpers. If you mean no update additions, please refer to my second paragraph.
I do apologize for this big rant but on every other thread bagging staff for being horrible, I simply take the criticisms and put them into improving the staff team. I'm still going to try to do that, but I just thought I should finally put my opinion on these types of threads out there. I also don't really care if you ignore me because I am simply writing this so that I can finally put my opinions and feelings out there for people to read how it feels to get these kinds of threads all the time from a staff's perspective. I also want to apologize if this is poorly structured, uses bad grammar or anything like that. I am just venting my thoughts on this thread as they are coming and I couldn't be bothered wasting more of my time on silly hate threads like this. This is simply a hate thread and now that I've put my opinion on it, I'm not going to waste my time replying to it again. I'm 100% willing to take on ideas and suggestions to improve the staff team and maybe if you hadn't had titled this "Why We Hate Staff." you would have received a more accepting and understanding response like I post on all threads that give us suggestions to improve on. Last thing, I know I used "I" a lot through out this post as I can only speak for myself, but I also know that a lot of other staff put in as much hard work as I do into improving the staff team and they don't deserve to have to read why we suck constantly either. So, my thread speaks for them as well. If you have any serious suggestions or reports, I'm happy to hear them. Thanks.
I'm just going to start off by saying I don't really see why this is even a thread. There is no other reason to create this other than to start drama or call out staff. Do you know how frustrating it is to try your best and get called out for it every day? It's not like we're trying to do a bad job or upset you. I don't know what you think we do all day. I know what I do all day and if I'm not busy with my life outside the server, I'm trying my damn hardest to improve the staff team to please the community. I don't know why I bother though, because no one is ever happy with the hard work any staff puts in. xHypurr, I was really expecting more from you.
To begin with, staff have absolutely nothing to do with updates and release dates. This is purely up to the owner, developers and builders if it's dependent on a map. Why are you upset at us for something that is not even our fault. Besides, we have three owners right now who are in charge of the updates, release dates and everything else. Three. It's not like we have an army and yeah, sometimes they get it wrong but they are trying their hardest too. They don't just think "Hey, what would annoy everybody the most? I know! (Insert idea here)." It's their server too and I can tell you right now that they wouldn't do something to it if they thought it would ruin it or the community for anybody. Also, mistakes happen. Maybe you think you'll be finished something by a certain time but then draw-backs and unexpected bugs appear and the release date is extended. Do you think that's intended to happen? Do you think we try to make that happen? We don't. It's life. Things don't go as expected.
If the staff didn't care about the playerbase, why would we even be here? For the fancy tag that apparently means nothing? We put time and effort in to help you. I sure as hell wouldn't have wasted 2 years of my life for a fancy tag. I'm here for you. However, posts like these make me feel like I just wasted my time because the work that I put in clearly isn't appreciated. Last week I took a night off for my boyfriend's 18th Birthday and I come back to the server the next day to get told that I'm inactive and I don't do anything. Well, I just might be the worst person in the world for wanting to celebrate a big moment with my boyfriend. I apologize for that. Also, I've personally been called the absolute worst of names and I've been emotionally attacked and harassed by players on here simply because I do my job. I've been told that I look like I have down-syndrome. Do you think I would apply and stay here for 2 years, taking those sorts of comments and criticism just for a fancy tag?
You know what else? We get told that our decisions are stupid. You know what I find stupid? We give a staff member who has literally broken the rules 5+ chances and warnings to improve, yet when they don't, get worse and we decide to demote them - we've apparently made the worst decision in the world. However, when a staff member doesn't even break the rules, makes a mistake and corrects, yet we still give them a formal warning - we've made another horrible decision and should have demoted them. I don't know what you want or expect from us. People think we are biased with our demotions so we literally put a demotion system in place so that everyone knew what was going on, and when we follow it we're still biased. I don't get it. It's honestly never enough.
You want us to be transparent? As far as I'm concerned, I don't know why you would need to know demotion reasons. If you wanted an answer, ask the ex-staff in question. You might not receive the honest answer as it's human-nature to protect yourself, but it's the best you'll get because no matter how much trouble an ex-staff has caused, we won't release their demotion reason to protect their privacy. If you made a mistake that upset a lot of people, would you like it broadcasted everywhere and everyone to judge you for it? I sure wouldn't. I think that's reasonable. Other than that, I don't know what else we're not exactly transparent about. We don't try and hide things from you.
You think we're not trustworthy? Show me how we've shown that to you. Is this because you think we're biased? If so, message me who you think is and any evidence you have and I'll take a look. If you can't do that, then I don't know how we're not trustworthy. if this is in regards to a staff member griefing players, then I understand that you might not trust that staff. However, they were formally warned and we've made it a point to ensure it won't happen again with any staff in the future. I also want to point out that if you see staff not doing their jobs and don't report them, how do you expect us to fix that? They didn't get in trouble so they will continue to do it and we didn't see it so we won't know they aren't doing their jobs.
I can only speak for myself but I never stop searching for ways to improve the staff team. I have a list right now that I've been working through since I received the admin position to improve the staff team. I remember even coming to you in particular asking for opinions and suggestions on how to improve the staff team. I can also say that I'm not biased towards my team because I don't even have a team, and how exactly do I avoid the answer and never help with problems if I go directly to you for answers and ways to help the problems?
Schedule? What kind of schedule do you even mean? I don't even have a schedule in my life because nothing ever goes as expected. How would that even work? Also, imagine being accepted as a new Helper. "Welcome to the team. Now you must be active through the hours from 3PM-8PM every Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday. On Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays, you need to extend those hours to 10PM." Does that sound right to you? I don't think so. Our schedule is moderate when you can and for as long as you can. That's fair. We are only volunteers after all. We give up our free time to moderate the server, so we shouldn't be expected to have to follow some kind of schedule of hours.
No new additions? I'm not sure if you mean updatewise or staff-wise. One would think you mean staff-wise as this is a thread explaining why you hate staff. Although, then one would think that there are no new staff additions when that's false. In the past month we've recruited four new Helpers. If you mean no update additions, please refer to my second paragraph.
I do apologize for this big rant but on every other thread bagging staff for being horrible, I simply take the criticisms and put them into improving the staff team. I'm still going to try to do that, but I just thought I should finally put my opinion on these types of threads out there. I also don't really care if you ignore me because I am simply writing this so that I can finally put my opinions and feelings out there for people to read how it feels to get these kinds of threads all the time from a staff's perspective. I also want to apologize if this is poorly structured, uses bad grammar or anything like that. I am just venting my thoughts on this thread as they are coming and I couldn't be bothered wasting more of my time on silly hate threads like this. This is simply a hate thread and now that I've put my opinion on it, I'm not going to waste my time replying to it again. I'm 100% willing to take on ideas and suggestions to improve the staff team and maybe if you hadn't had titled this "Why We Hate Staff." you would have received a more accepting and understanding response like I post on all threads that give us suggestions to improve on. Last thing, I know I used "I" a lot through out this post as I can only speak for myself, but I also know that a lot of other staff put in as much hard work as I do into improving the staff team and they don't deserve to have to read why we suck constantly either. So, my thread speaks for them as well. If you have any serious suggestions or reports, I'm happy to hear them. Thanks.
"xhypurr, I was really expecting more from you"
Yeah, I expected more from the staff when Mythical was added instead of something decent. I expected updates with some sort of timescale on them, bug fixes without delay.
There is no <cohesion> if what you're saying is true. If you can't say, "hey. how about we work on *this, this, and this*", then what is the purpose of being in the staff team? Why is it so far delayed that a thread was made over A MONTH AFTER the bugs were found? Staff not reporting it, or ignorance?
The point of the release date is to say, "well, we'll probably be done by sometime here, but most likely here", instead of just throwing it and hoping that one works, and THEN pushing it back two weeks at a time when you realize you haven't finished half the bugs.
I want demotion reasons so I can be unbiased in the first place. Simply
1) Ask the player in question if it's okay to give reason
2) Create a thread before everyone starts raging
3) Explain <with evidence> as to what happened.
The players really are left in a situation where we're forced to trust you, and many don't.
With all due respect, it's not my job to find people not doing their jobs. If I'm watching someone play video games instead of doing their job, I doubt I'd report them. The employer should be able to.
This leads me to another point— staff inspections. You may or may not do this— and I don't know HOW you would do this– but it would be significantly easier to say "well, you're not doing your job well at all".
Besides, if I had used my alt in the report, it would have certainly gotten perm muted.
This post doesn't "bag" staff. This is literally the thoughts of a good deal of players. I've talked to a few of my personal friends who play TMD, and many of them agree with this post's contents. These are the reasons more and more are quitting, but nobody can see this. For some reason, we added skyblock instead.
Regarding schedule, I just mean "we're doing this at this time", or "make sure you check X out on Y time, we're unveiling something new".
With all due respect, if you feel bad because a few kids on the internet say you look like a 'downy', I really don't know how to help you. If you gotta get home at night and cry yourself to sleep because someone said you sucked at your job, I really don't know what's wrong there.
My main point which really, really made me lose hope was Mythical. It was a *pure* cashgrab. I would say that 90% of people who bought ultimate packs got mythical, and they were $30-60 too. The issue is that it was significantly better than Titan, and it costed much less.
"Oh, are you getting 4v1ed and your teammate is tagged? Just hide and /sz so you can run away with 4 more sets of scooped jugg!
"Drop your spas in a fight? Hide and /shop, now you have 35!"
"Have any low dura jugg? Not anymore! (Economy? What's that?)
I'm not going to bother mentioning the absolute boatloads of things that were supposedly going to be added (but of course nobody tested it before saying anything).
Go ahead. Don't reply to my "hate thread" (or anything that has on opinion, whoops). I don't care. The staff shot itself in the foot and it's not my job to bandage it. So don't. Let it bleed out and the playerbase with it. Have fun with that.
