MercyOnly
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- Dec 5, 2014
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After 4 months of trying, I give up.
But first, let me tell you a story :
I've played on #6 for a very long time, spending approx. 900 hours on the hightower MAP alone. I've played on #6 specifically, since August of 2014. The amount of admins constantly visiting it was so low it became bothersome. Solid was the -only- one i could reliably call upon to deal with a rulebreaker or hacker. Of course, nobody liked how Solid operated, so I applied for admin because I wanted to have a friendly environment where I would enjoy my TF2 gameplay without being constantly harassed or destroyed by hackers.
After I became a trial, my mentors, atleast, one of them, which was violet, highly agreed that I was competent enough to be promoted during my first month. After that talk, violet resigned and left me to be mentored by Falcon, who completely does not give a shit about TF2 anymore and he was useful for replacing my bans with permanent ones and explaining a few commands. Evo, on the other hand, was the one who gave me the admin guide during my trial period which extremely helped me out, so I'm extremely thankful to him for being the true mentor I wanted during my trial period.
I became more active on the forums and finally joined Mumble as well. I've heard of lots of gossip and complaints about how things were run here and how things need organizing. I befriended the group of admins that left on April 28 and I still do not regret being friends with them since they are lovely people who just got fed up with being constantly ignored.
Got promoted to full admin - huzzah, now I'm a big boy in a lonely world. Soon after, the group I befriended completely left Panda, so I had no one to discuss anything with. The more time I spent alone, watching as people left and protested, the more I realised how right they were.
A week had passed after my promotion to full admin and boom - I'm suddenly a senior admin by default due to how they were chosen. Immediately, I tried to do what I had always wanted to do when I applied and that is to change how things were run.
Now I'm here, in my chair, looking at all the time I had wasted trying to change something that cannot be changed due to how everything is run. The admin application system is completely shit due to votes being counted off of "+1 friendly" and "+1 uses calladmin"
Kevin, although I respect you for what you've done for us, you need to get rid of your trust issues and share with us what's going on, else your fake image of change drops pretty quickly.
No one is in touch with you to know what's going on, we cannot give -INPUT- as a community to make acceptable changes that would be for the benefit of us all.
The Senior Admin rank should have never been created. Right now it's simply used by the majority of seniors as a warm seat for the people who think they'll be life-time chancellors. If you really think you deserve the rank, do something instead of wasting the precious time this community has to fix itself.
This is all I have to say. I've tried, I failed, many will disagree, few might agree, but the problem with how things are run and the barrier between the people and the leader is way too big to retain any stability. As long as it keeps going like this, people will continue resigning because they're simply fed up.
I resign and I leave 2 trusted people in my Hightower admin position. Regardless of who you assign, I'll privately mentor them until they get promoted to full. I know I chose right when vouching for them, so I leave them as the 2 competent people in my place.
I'll still be on the forums (if I don't get forumbanned for speaking my mind) and watch over how things go, just as Evo does these days, but I'm quitting this bad drug before I cause more mental pain to myself.
I thank the few fellow admins I've had the pleasure of working with as I intended to and the ones that I didn't - you can figure out the reason yourselves.
PS: Quit with your shitty mentality of ass-licking and not hurting people's feelings. It's a cruel world and people who shouldn't be accepted as admin -SHOULD NOT BE-.
But first, let me tell you a story :
I've played on #6 for a very long time, spending approx. 900 hours on the hightower MAP alone. I've played on #6 specifically, since August of 2014. The amount of admins constantly visiting it was so low it became bothersome. Solid was the -only- one i could reliably call upon to deal with a rulebreaker or hacker. Of course, nobody liked how Solid operated, so I applied for admin because I wanted to have a friendly environment where I would enjoy my TF2 gameplay without being constantly harassed or destroyed by hackers.
After I became a trial, my mentors, atleast, one of them, which was violet, highly agreed that I was competent enough to be promoted during my first month. After that talk, violet resigned and left me to be mentored by Falcon, who completely does not give a shit about TF2 anymore and he was useful for replacing my bans with permanent ones and explaining a few commands. Evo, on the other hand, was the one who gave me the admin guide during my trial period which extremely helped me out, so I'm extremely thankful to him for being the true mentor I wanted during my trial period.
I became more active on the forums and finally joined Mumble as well. I've heard of lots of gossip and complaints about how things were run here and how things need organizing. I befriended the group of admins that left on April 28 and I still do not regret being friends with them since they are lovely people who just got fed up with being constantly ignored.
Got promoted to full admin - huzzah, now I'm a big boy in a lonely world. Soon after, the group I befriended completely left Panda, so I had no one to discuss anything with. The more time I spent alone, watching as people left and protested, the more I realised how right they were.
A week had passed after my promotion to full admin and boom - I'm suddenly a senior admin by default due to how they were chosen. Immediately, I tried to do what I had always wanted to do when I applied and that is to change how things were run.
Now I'm here, in my chair, looking at all the time I had wasted trying to change something that cannot be changed due to how everything is run. The admin application system is completely shit due to votes being counted off of "+1 friendly" and "+1 uses calladmin"
Kevin, although I respect you for what you've done for us, you need to get rid of your trust issues and share with us what's going on, else your fake image of change drops pretty quickly.
No one is in touch with you to know what's going on, we cannot give -INPUT- as a community to make acceptable changes that would be for the benefit of us all.
The Senior Admin rank should have never been created. Right now it's simply used by the majority of seniors as a warm seat for the people who think they'll be life-time chancellors. If you really think you deserve the rank, do something instead of wasting the precious time this community has to fix itself.
This is all I have to say. I've tried, I failed, many will disagree, few might agree, but the problem with how things are run and the barrier between the people and the leader is way too big to retain any stability. As long as it keeps going like this, people will continue resigning because they're simply fed up.
I resign and I leave 2 trusted people in my Hightower admin position. Regardless of who you assign, I'll privately mentor them until they get promoted to full. I know I chose right when vouching for them, so I leave them as the 2 competent people in my place.
I'll still be on the forums (if I don't get forumbanned for speaking my mind) and watch over how things go, just as Evo does these days, but I'm quitting this bad drug before I cause more mental pain to myself.
I thank the few fellow admins I've had the pleasure of working with as I intended to and the ones that I didn't - you can figure out the reason yourselves.
PS: Quit with your shitty mentality of ass-licking and not hurting people's feelings. It's a cruel world and people who shouldn't be accepted as admin -SHOULD NOT BE-.
