Jason Eden wrote:You all might have noticed that staff members can no longer perform their duties the way they did before...
Most of the current staff who are currently on the team have been on the team for five or more years, (albeit with a break or two in between) but with those years we have also progressed on with our lives in the real world and have pursued new things in life such as education, work, or just basically adulting. Not everyone has the same situation but they all have their own one, not all of us are trying to put in our hours into this game constantly, that would be unhealthy but I do agree that activity has dwindled.
Jason Eden wrote:Sometimes they are acting superior to regular users and sometimes they discuss prohibited topics in the chat (p*rn/dr*gs/etc. conversations).
If you feel that you are being mistreated by a staff member in some way or someone else is please report it to an administrator or Eric Gurt himself, same goes for the prohibited content in chat. Note: If you seriously take offence to be called a jerk, you need to evaluate yourself and see if you really deserve access to the internet because it only gets worse from there...
Jason Eden wrote:We, as a community, should be authorized to decide if we want them in the Staff team of PB3 or not.
This in itself does seem nice but is completely untrue, you should not be authorized to decide if you want people in the staff team or not, you could be asked to include your input, but you will never have the final say, that will always be reserved to Eric Gurt and the staff team.
Jason Eden wrote:Staff job is super easy. Anyone can learn all the necessary information regarding moderation in less than 1 hour. Don't use this "argument" in your defense... You had a lot of applicants. Just because your team did not accept anyone doesn't mean that it was a failed recruitment. You scuppered it...
Everything that @Phsc said for this I would agree with completely, do not assert yourself in the situation that we have to go through when you have not once dealt with it, not every situation is simply one repetitive procedure. We are not robots when it comes to this, we put in our judgment and continue without bias on the situations at hand and make sure everything is set out in a nice fluid way and that we get the situation resolved as best as we can, this will continue into the next part.
Jason Eden wrote:Your job is to make us follow the rules and this topic does not break any.
That is not our only job, you make it seem like we are only here to punish others if they break any rules, we are also here to regulate and make sure that people are having the best possible time they can on the site. This includes people who also breach the Code of Conduct in the event that they make an appeal.
Jason Eden wrote:But no wonder, Doomwrath is the same as you, Tempus visits PB2 like once in a month and Kiriakos just doesn't care.
As I have stated above some of us have our own lives to attend to, and you saying Kiriakos just doesn't care just shows how much you actually know about the situations... He is currently in the military for his country and does not have the time to apply time and this is not by choice, but the spare time he does have he devotes it to being on here if anything I would wholeheartedly say he is currently the best admin in my opinion at the moment.
I hate to say it but you are truly ignorant towards everything you're talking about in this situation even though I can tell you're trying to bring awareness to something and attempt to help the community which I do appreciate but you clearly lack the knowledge to even discuss it without coming off as misinforming those who read your replies. Yes, there is inactivity that much is known throughout the community, but everything you are trying to recommend and argue is just uneducated.
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When it comes to the Code of Conduct, I see that a few of you are saying that some of the rules, such as free posting and one word posting should be changed to make it more generalized and I agree it is kind of silly for people to be punished for this and so I think that we should enact some leniency when it comes to situations like that. We will be looking into amending the current Code of Conduct in the future. Note: Thanks to @ZapruderFilm and @Hikarikzae for pushing the idea more.
If you have any questions regarding the Code of Conduct or feel as if you have any ideas to help amend it please message a staff member such as myself.
If you have any feedback for any staff member (good or bad) you can send it to them directly or send it to an administrator, I will see about getting an anonymous messaging service back up in case people feel as if they want to give feedback but do not want to expose themselves.
And lastly when it comes to the staff team recruitment, maybe we can see about having some of the applicants be viewed by the public and have their feedback whether it is anonymous or not, I personally don't see a problem with it, I will bring it up whenever we decide we need to in the future. But remember that the final say will only be given to the staff team and Eric Gurt.