Firstly, I love the current changes the admin team has done. You're understaffed and stressed, but have done amazing work and are possibly the best team combo in disco history from my subjective perspective. You've handled everything well recently, and whilst I might occasionally seem over-questioning, it's usually to provide my HC with information due to my 1ic role.
This came just after a really good fight between both Harmony, Seperatist Indies and a few UN ships, so people were feeling reasonably good. I didn't want to send this in as a report as I think the admin involved was just a little tense or stressed at the time.
Just after the fight, I sent a PM to Skorak's H|SNS-Harmony unique ship to ask if they could help me with a lost ships request (that St Dennis recently saved us from). I thanked them over fight quality just after changing ships to a Rheinland LWB pirate fighter from a Bering-based Roc bomber.
[11.11.2018 10:48:30] UN|Harvest.Moon{LWB: // Thank you for calling off the third guardian.
[11.11.2018 10:48:45] H|-SNS-Harmony: //shut up
[11.11.2018 10:49:01] UN|Harvest.Moon{LWB: // I'm thanking you
[11.11.2018 10:49:17] H|-SNS-Harmony: Sorry I wanted to reply to the first pm
[11.11.2018 10:49:18] H|-SNS-Harmony: np
[11.11.2018 10:49:33] UN|Harvest.Moon{LWB: // was it one of my guys? (here I get confused, I want to make sure none of my guys sent anything to H).
[11.11.2018 10:49:41] H|-SNS-Harmony: yes.
[11.11.2018 10:49:51] UN|Harvest.Moon{LWB: // *what did they say?
[11.11.2018 10:50:01] H|-SNS-Harmony: //Annoying me with admin stuff. Which is why I will not do it now.
[11.11.2018 10:50:22] UN|Harvest.Moon{LWB: // Oh, that one is me. And I'm 'annoying you' because UN can't pay owed credits. (Due to the loss of the UN|Bank).
[11.11.2018 10:50:32] H|-SNS-Harmony: //Tough luck. Bye.
[11.11.2018 10:50:49] UN|Harvest.Moon{LWB: // Trolling on your SRP, as an admin?
[11.11.2018 10:50:53] UN|Harvest.Moon{LWB: // You like to live dangerously.
[11.11.2018 10:51:01] H|-SNS-Harmony: //PM someone else.
[11.11.2018 10:51:06] UN|Harvest.Moon{LWB: // I remember when I could get a civil conversation out of you. (I get a little heated here due to the response).
[11.11.2018 10:51:14] H|-SNS-Harmony: //PM someone else
[11.11.2018 10:51:31] UN|Harvest.Moon{LWB: // I do
[11.11.2018 10:51:43] UN|Harvest.Moon{LWB: // not have a reason to carry on this conversation.
[11.11.2018 10:51:48] UN|Harvest.Moon{LWB: // Respond to your forum RP.
[11.11.2018 10:51:53] H|-SNS-Harmony: No
[11.11.2018 10:52:03] UN|Harvest.Moon{LWB: // Are you drunk? Take a sandwich.
[11.11.2018 10:52:15] H|-SNS-Harmony: // You're annoying that's all.
For refference, here's the "annoying with admin stuff" message I sent:
[11.11.2018 10:45:11] UN|Warhawk-1: // Now can I have my bank and all my fighters back? (As I'd sent in an account recovery request)
I probably could have worded that better by putting the "Now" at the end of the sentence, but I wasn't trying to do anything than ask if a request could be fulfilled whilst an Admin is online.
I'm not unsympathetic. I like Skorak and Admin work, especially dealing with us OFLs, is difficult. I get that we are pushy and don't always appreciate the internal processes. I get that different people do different things, and that StDennis handled my request really quickly.
If Skorak had said "I'm busy" or "I can't do that right now, ask someone else" (as they eventually did), instead of leading with "[11.11.2018 10:50:01] H|-SNS-Harmony: //Annoying me with admin stuff. Which is why I will not do it now" followed by "You're annoying" , could easily be interpreted as Oorp bias, or not doing admin work because the idea of doing admin work, for someone who is annoying, annoys them.
If I didn't know Skorak pretty well I would have assumed that they were behaving capriciously. The community needs to be aware that Admins don't discriminate between who is "annoying" and who isn't. Not everyone can please everyone. But everyone can understand "I'm busy", or "I'm busy and I can't do that right now, I'll pass your message along".
I reckon Skorak was more annoyed at something unrelated and I got the brunt of it. I just want to remind the staff that: 1.2 Flaming, insulting, trolling and harassing other players applies to us all. I went away and cooked some lunch and did some light after that encounter, waited till I had a clear head, and wrote this.
"Sorry, I'm busy right now, ask another staff member" takes a second to write, and is much less stressful (and yes, also less "annoying") than an exchange like the above.
Food for thought. Thank you again to the admin team at large, including Skorak, who are usually exemplary.
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