2 Years ago:
- Open SRPs
- 8 active admins
- Regular sanctions processing
- Trolling/Flaming on forums got deleted asap
- Faction right requests got looked at within a week of time
- Lost account IDs got a /movechar set on them & accidentally banned IPs got unbanned right away
Now:
- SRPs are closed
- A bunch of inactives listed as "admin"
- Nearly no violation reports get processed
- People troll/flame their asses off but get overlooked, instead 'less harmful' material gets removed
- FR5s take a month to get processed and seems admins have forgotten about repninja requests from factions
- People have to spend months with "Your IP is banned" message popping up every time they log in and those with lost accounts either need admin friends or a lot of luck to get their accs back
Which makes me wonder, what do admins do anyways? They're pretty much zeroed their "visible" workload and the only thing left is sanctions which don't get processed. And on the other hand, mods go around invising RP posts and +12yo signatures while there are waves of trolls running around the board spaming their bullcrap in each and every thread.
yeah, so here's the story in a nutshell: We gave being lenient a shot, but as per usual, when an inch is given, a mile is taken to the point of becoming a problem. So now, we have clamp down on the sigs again.
Sigs like korny's helped make it happen. So what's with all the piss & wind?
Want to be taken seriously? Then don't post angry & try again
Just a goddamn excuse, really. If you're too lazy, or don't have enough time to actually do mod-work, then sign off it, instead of making f-tard moves like removing signatures because of such dorky reasons.
Apparently, the admins work a lot on stuff, maybe thats not visible to the community, but I am sure they take their work seriously, just like the mods.
Problems is, that in the past 2 years this community grew immensly and not every single troll post can be processed, more obvious things like signatures are more visible to mods/admins and don't need hours of searching like the searching for every troll-post.
The key to a non-deleted sig or whatever ? Easy, don't even get close to swear words.
If you want to seriously critizise admin or mod work, why don't you do that via skype and talk to them directly ?
Does your signature and the censored expletive in it really matter that much to you? You're aware that swearing at nobody in particular ingame nets you a 7 day ban anyway, right?
Get a new one without swearing. There are plenty of other ways to describe not caring.
For the record, I also disagree with the suggestiveness of many signatures around here, but I ain't a moderator so it isn't my call.