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Why do you think you got banned?: @Dave Deviluke dont like me being ironic so he found a rule saying that being toxic isnt allowed.
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What GM banned you (optional): Dave

 

Here let me give you some background to the reasoning to why I am being ironic. I could say 'staff' when saying what I said, but that just wouldn't be the truth since, the staff team (meaning GMs and Admins) is doing their job. So saying staff as a collective group and using criticism just wouldn't be right to me. This is about our Server Owner, who is after all, overall responsible for the progress of this server.

My comment "Thank you for the bug fixes" was about the fact that barely anything is being done to improve the server what so ever. Countless of members have commented "good faith criticism" for years, and we are sick of pretty much nothing being done in terms of bug fixing and content we actually want. Hence why, irony is used nowadays. My comment was about the direction (or rather lack of direction) of the server since barely no bugs is being fixed. The staff (Im explicitly pointing out our Server Owner since he, again, is overall responsible for the server and because the rest of the GMs and Admins is doing their part afaik) keep over promising and under delivering. Would it be better if I said "Aw, no bug fixes this time either"?

Our Server Owner has been online twice in like what, 6-7 weeks, both of which to fix the server when it went down. Most likely he wouldn't have been online at all if it wasnt because of the crashes. Hence why the "can go back to sleep". Would it been better if I said "go back to your real life duties"?

This awesome community and dedicated members grind, donate and hope year in and year out to get something they actually want like class balance, PB and bug fixes. Yet our Server Owner decides for example, after Zancks leaving to add a skill balancer who has been online 2(?) times this year, probably never done VL, and doesnt comment the feedback section, atleast not within a year.

I have friends who applied for developers to help with bug fixing, yet no one has replied to their applications for months. Not even a simple no.

These are only some of examples, I can give you 20 more examples if you want to make you understand why I've been using sarcasm instead of banging my head against a wall trying to provide "good faith criticism".

Yes I know this is a private server and we (me) can simply leave if we don't like it. But as I've said countless of times before, I do actually like this community. I rather try to get our Server Owner to realise that the community isnt satisfied with nothing but the hopes and prayers that sometime, probably around 2035, we will get something we actually hoped for (am I still allowed to use sarcasm?).

Hope this clarifies why I was using sarcasm when mentioning a staff member in my totally none harmful comment.

Edit: Merry Christmas!

 

Mockery? The simple fact is that our server owner wasn’t online on the forums at all for 6-7 weeks (and those are only the weeks I checked; it was probably the same even before that). Me pointing out that fact isn’t about speculating on someone’s real-life availability as the numbers speak for themselves. I’m just highlighting it.

If it were literally anyone else, I wouldn’t care at all. But we’re talking about the one person who can change the pace, direction, and quality of what comes next for this server and its community. Literally no one has a say unless he approves it. And you’re saying we can’t criticize that one person? That’s pure dictatorship to me. Because, as I said, I don’t think the staff as a whole does a bad job at all, or that they’re lazy, quite the opposite.

Furthermore, if I had said “go back to bed” to anyone else (even mentioning their name) who hadn’t been online for, say, two weeks, I’m 99.99% sure I wouldn’t have been banned for that. That’s been done several times on the forums and nothing happened. This is simply about the fact that you don’t like the way I act and that you dislike me criticizing our server owner.

@Dave Deviluke, are you for real? Is this kindergarden?

This is the number one problem with this server. There’s barely any transparency whatsoever when it comes to ongoing projects, and that’s the way the “staff” team has always liked it, for a number of reasons. These questions have been asked throughout my 11-year history on this server and have never gotten a proper answer, and most likely never will.

Do you actually think we would get an answer as to why Zancks finished suggestions for skill balance changes haven’t been implemented, even though he provided them to Matt and the devs in late 2023?

I wasn't speculating in anyones personal life. The only thing I did was to say "Thanks for the new bug fixes and that you may now go back to sleep.", which was merely an highlighting the fact that our Server Owner barely been online for a month and a half (and probably more inactivity before that). That's not speculating in his personal life, that was me using sarcasm about the fact that nothing was fixed and no new content such as PB was released.

If it were true, I’d take it on the chin and reflect on it, then change if I felt that public criticism was justified. If it wasn’t true, I’d still accept the consequences of being criticized. That’s part of putting yourself out there as a Server Owner/CEO/Chairman.

Yes, I’m aware of the history of power abuse by some ex-staff. And what was the main reason behind what they did? Transparency, or rather, the lack of it.

Also, thanks for pointing that out. Because in a company, if a CEO or Chairman of the Board goes missing for more than a month and a half, there would definitely be questions asked, both internally and externally. I've asked members of the staff if they knew anything about our Server Owner or why events were delayed and they hadn't heard anything.

And no, I don’t agree with you. Even with jobs I’ve applied for, I’ve always at least received an automatic reply saying something like, “We’ve decided to move forward with other applicants, thank you bla bla bla…” A simple no would be sufficient. If they ask more questions, then you ignore them. If they don't even reply with automatic an reply, that simply says how little they care about you.

Since you brought it up, @Heidi, why do Royals even have an application section if they only hire people they “know very well”? That just makes it feel like a façade meant to look good.

EDIT: And how do you guys think anything will change in the future when you have a near impossible time to hire new Devs based on what Heidi said. Doesn't matter how many essays Donn1e (or anyone else for that matter) puts up in the bug section if there's no one who fixes them.