Re: [MUD-Dev] Community Relations

[SkeptAck#antisocial,com (Dundee)]

Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> Mmmh, but if I got it right, you didn't cause the real problem 

Not really.  Something you wrote in an earlier message about the weight of
anything an admin says being magnified by about 100, just because they are
admins:  I think, not realizing that (or ignoring it), I caused the whole
mess by being hostile and sarcastic.

> which was that banning was used in the heat of the moment by a person 
> that (as far as I can tell) probably shouldn't have held those powers in the first
> place?

I think when we were running without any posted guidelines (or much of
anything else), an invitation-only, private club sort of thing, we didn't
have admins so much as we had bouncers.  She bounced.  'Did a pretty good
job, too.

It's only now that we're trying to ... ah... run things differently.

> I think perhaps only one calm person should have access to such
> functionality, and that you need policies for how to deal with such
> situations before they happen?

I agree.

> So how does your experiences as an admin compare to your or your
> friends' experiences with "bad admins"/"clueless designers" on UO?  What
> does the other side of the fence look like, so to speak?

I don't think the situations are similar enough to compare.  They aren't
paying us so they don't have the same sense of entitlement, they're afraid to
give me the kind of heat they gave to OSI (and not just afraid of admin
retribution, but afraid of being ostracized by the other players), we're a
*much* smaller group with the game itself being cooperative rather than
competitive, and we have a much higher player-admin ratio so there's just
less to complain about.

One fellow, quite a while back, took the aggressive "You're clueless, this is
stupid" approach to expressing himself.   The players banned him:  No one
would play with him or talk to him (other than to flood his mailbox with
flames).  He finally just got lonely enough to quit playing.  I think he went
back to OSI servers where he can call the admins names and the other players
giggle and attaboy him.

Anyway, when I'm not being a chump, the players defend me pretty
aggressively.

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