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JihadJoe Wrote:Admin notice: Player kicked in the balls.

JihadJoe Wrote:Once every so often, someone appears who displays such an incomprehensibly attrocious attitude that it makes me want to vomit. You are that person.

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JihadJoe Wrote:chronic idiot

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Reverend_Del Wrote:Your engagement sucked

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JihadJoe Wrote:is more than stupid

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Alley Wrote:Comments: Fail.

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JihadJoe Wrote:irritating sod

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Gheis Wrote:Admin Notice: Player Castrated

After reading some sanction titles and then reading up on the most recent 3 pages of sanction notices (see quotes and links above), I would like to raise the following question:

Should admins/moderators be allowed to insult sanctioned players?

Personnally, I think they shouldn't, no matter what the players are getting sanctioned for.

To me the way some admins and mods (not all of them, many of them are actually very polite and "professional" in sanction notification threads) are behaving in those threads has the character of this situation:

The taller,stronger, more popuplar kid in class (maybe class president?), well... "kicks in the balls" (quote) in fornt of the class a defenseless kid who has been exposed to have done something that everyone agrees is wrong and who will get sanctioned for it. The kick in the balls serves no other purpose than to express contempt, dominance, and to gain popularity by humiliating him further and portraying himself as the righteous punisher.

I want to repeat that not all admins do this, nor do they generally adopt a rude and condescending tone. But some notices, or other interventions, appear like a welcome opportunity for certain people to insult players and grind them into the dirt, to show them and everyone who is "the better person".

A sanction notice should show the sanctioned player what he has done wrong and why it is not acceptable, if necessary punish him as an incentive to not do it again, and it should also show other players that admins are upholding rules fairly.

They should not, how ever, be a stage for admins/mods to vent their anger, insult, and willfully humiliate people. Nor should the admin position be the equivalent of a "I get to insult people" card.

Please voice your opinion.

Dusty was still better. They are just trying to copy him. Search for his sanctions, seriously.

You know that saying, people in charge makes the rules. Ye? Here you go.

And no, they, especially they, should not set such example and later prohibit others for being snarky. That is double standards and hypocrisy.

Well, I kinda have to agree, it's not so cool. Though, in some extreme cases (e.g., Suleman) it's fair, imo.

We don't ask folks not to be snarky.

It is my job to judge someone's RP. And that particular time it did suck, very very badly. So bad in fact it was sanctionable. You'll also notice that those sanctions are barely a handful of the total sanctions done by any of the people you're complaining about.

Though your complaint is noted.

To be fair to our lords, this is internet where everybody insults everybody.
I personally never expected admins to be any better than any other piece of player around here.

Spazzydragon Wrote:Dusty was still better. They are just trying to copy him. Search for his sanctions, seriously.

I didnt look so far back, what I quoted was just form the most recent 3 pages.

But you're right, I did a search and Dusty Lens was also an admin who used the sanction notices to humiliate people for his own an other people amusement. He didnt post outright insults in an aggressive way like the quotes I showed, but he certainly did everything he could to use it as a stage for himself and be as mean as possible to the players he sanctioned:

http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=47861
http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=47730
http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=47802

Is that why he isnt admin anymore?

It depends. Sometimes, certain things are done to add some light side to them. This is not a courtroom.

Insulting is something different, but I am not against certain funny comments.

Dusty's sanctions were funny. I never liked his posts but his sanctions were funny, I have to admit =).

' Wrote:I didnt look so far back, what I quoted was just form the most recent 3 pages.

But you're right, I did a search and Dusty Lens was also an admin who used the sanction notices to humiliate people for his own an other people amusement. He didnt post outright insults in an aggressive way like the quotes I showed, but he certainly did everything he could to use it as a stage for himself and be as mean as possible to the players he sanctioned:

http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=47861
http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=47730
http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=47802

Is that why he isnt admin anymore?

Well...I was actually referring to the fact that it was more funny.


Also, if you do not behave like a tosser, you won't get humiliated.

Sorry if I sound rude, but chill out. It's just a bit of humor they use to spark up a very dull task. They are not to be taken seriously at all, but just for pure amusement.