Yeah, after seeing these player mods sticky Havocide's RMC:Terminal thread for buddy keys, when there were only two keys available, I have to say I have had enough of this.
C'mon Mods. Every time you allow this kind of stuff, you just cause more discontent and make things harder. Stop giving this one player everything he asks for while you ignore requests made by other players. If you can't treat everyone the same, you can't treat the one any better.
And please note, I got no ill will against anyone. I just think it should stop because it's so obvious that it's embarrassing.
What's the solution? The solution is to immediately stop over-moderating these forums, stop playing favorites, and let people be people. It's just words. If those words aren't reported by the people who are offended by them, then who are you to censor those words? Naturally, we also need to reduce the number of player mods. Seriously, with only a hundred posts a day, why do we still need a half-dozen moderators?
I mean, why do you think there is less activity on these forums today than there was even three months ago?
The solution:
The only "mod" I've seen on here that should keep his status is TheJurymen. He's the type of guy that doesn't play MxO anymore but still moderates the forums on a daily basis because he likes the community. I haven't ever found him extremely biased, nor favortised and even though I disagree with some of his decisions he has to go by the book while not "interpreting" it in his own eyes like some of the mods here.
I think the Matrix Online has more player moderators than other SOE games when it's obvious we have the lowest player count of all. Why is that? I don't know, but we're at the point now where there's a Hierarchy system for the moderators. When will it end? The more and more moderators you place on the forums the more and more it's moderated. Soon, you get to the point where everything is so moderated it turns into a ogliarchy. I'm tired of these mods that go over the line and interpret the law in their own way and decide what's wrong and what's right.
We don't need more mods. We need mods that arn't actually stupid and power-hungry like Jurymen. So I guess if we had a cloning machine that'd be the solution but apparently not.
As for Raijinn? Screw him.
#1 He's not really that active. (He gets payed to do this btw)
#2 After he said, "No more custom ranks" Fansite Operator titles and Folder of the Month titles came out.
#3 After the Champagne Room scandal, he basically does the same thing again creating a private forum for Fansite Operators only. *rollseyes*
#4 His "moderator" application process is really just hear-say and recommendating from current moderators. "It's who you know, not what you know." (One of the previous moderators just told Raijinn that he thought there should be more moderators, answered three questions and was accepted. lulz)
#5 He's still yet to get a producer letter from Walrus.
#6 His week review letters are usually generic, unlike Walrus's. 1/2 of which is mainly just Rarebit doing it for him.
#7 He's the one who approved of this moderator hierarchy in the first place.
#8 He'll ban you over Harry Potter spoilers. (lmfao)
#9 Easily one to pick favorites.
#10 Finally, he's the type of person who will do things only so it benefits him. Whether it's to stop the whining or letting others do the work for him, he realizes that there are plenty of people out there that will kiss his *CENSORED* in order to get positions from him so he exploits that. Which in my opinion, is pretty smart but rather lazy and unprofessional.
Shi+Xin+Feng wrote:Yeah, after seeing these player mods sticky Havocide's RMC:Terminal thread for buddy keys, when there were only two keys available, I have to say I have had enough of this.Two keys? There's several hundred remaining. Never assume. Assumption is the mother of all *CENSORED* ups. Anyway carry on.
Yeah, okay, I went back to see that your "two" response was a joke.
Nevertheless, this isn't about you. This thread isn't about you. This whole topic isn't about you. In fact, I came here to add my voice to the dissenters who are calling for player moderation reform, instead of posting a message in your thread.
However, if you'd like it to be about you, I'm sure there are people on this forum who would oblige. Just keep trolling the posts that have your name in them.
Because, you see, I'll bet if I collected all the buddy keys from my faction mates and other friends on our faction site that I designed, and made a thread in the General Discussion forums offering those keys to people, it wouldn't have gotten stickied. But there are certain players (and I say this to avoid singling any one player out) on these boards who get nearly every thread they create stickied to the top of each forum.
As an example, I can use your "Where are you from?" threads. You started one in each of the World Discussion forums, and each one got stickied, before one of the senior mods came to his senses and said, "yeah, that's not going to fly." By contrast, some time ago, I posted a thread asking for support for a server merge in each of the World Discussion forums and each were promptly locked as spam.
Hmm. . .now I must wonder if that was a coincidence. As I recall, you were vehemently against my idea, weren't you Havocide?
Now perhaps you begin to see the kinds of problems player moderation can cause? The mere appearance of impropriety should be cause for reform.
Locked for flaming
*edit: comment removed at request of event organisers*
The concerns some payers have about the moderation system are valid points and they are free to express them.However when the posts become hostile and abuse is targeted at specific members of the comunity, you can not be surprised if a thread is locked or the offending posts are removed.
