Oh no, the White Trolls won again.
The "White Trolls" have taken over this forum. It's been that way for a while unfortunately...and it's definitely to the determent of the community here.
Oh no, the White Trolls won again.
I'm not going to get drawn into a conversation about how you interpreted the post, and derail Drew's thread in the process. But I will say the badge being permanently on is a side effect of the new forum, and one which the moderators would change if we were able.
You could create another account and use the mod one to act in a professional way if you're unable to control yourself. Or maybe give the job to somebody else.
You just can't expect people sometimes to ignore the tag and sometimes to take it serious. This is not how humans work.
On the other side, we and the company you're doing work for should be able to expect from you to behave and that means that you just don't always say what you may think especially if it leads to situations like that.
I mean seriously, we're talking about a mod who joined a witch hunt adding his own conspiracy theory.This is what a mod should moderate not initiate.
Agreed.Just to cool things off a bit before it gets nasty. As Ozric said, the mods themselves would love the option to post "off duty", but the forum software doesn't allow that. Just like forum policy doesn't allow multiple accounts I assume. Yes, it can lead to some unpleasant situations, but it's not their fault either.
I'd also like to mention that it's all voluntarily. Sure, to a certain degree they represent the developers, but they don't work for them.
And I hope you used 'you' in a general sense because especially Ozric always seems level-headed and fair and doesn't get himself into heated discussions. I personally can't think of a single post from him where he didn't display exemplary behaviour.
Just to cool things off a bit before it gets nasty. As Ozric said, the mods themselves would love the option to post "off duty", but the forum software doesn't allow that. Just like forum policy doesn't allow multiple accounts I assume.
Yes, it can lead to some unpleasant situations, but it's not their fault either.
I'd also like to mention that it's all voluntarily. Sure, to a certain degree they represent the developers, but they don't work for them.
I personally can't think of a single post from him where he didn't display exemplary behaviour.
Did you though?Why did you write this? Did you even look? I did and I haven't found anything saying that you can't have multiple accounts. It would be quite tragic since it's bound to your Frontier Account and many people have multiple accounts...
(Info provision here)Why did you write this? Did you even look? I did and I haven't found anything saying that you can't have multiple accounts. It would be quite tragic since it's bound to your Frontier Account and many people have multiple accounts...
It's an easy solution and I can imagine only one reason why someone would not do it: because he needs his reputation to be recognized if they post and this is exactly what happened here and why it is a problem.
Whose fault is it supposed to be then?
Seriously, what do you mean? It's not like somebody forced him to formulate a conspiracy and fuel the hate against Drew.
He also didn't have to do it. As far as I could see he's not the voluntary lawyer here.
The "represent" part was what I've been talking about.
Besides that, they do work for Frontier.
Just because they're not being paid doesn't make anything related to this topic less relevant.
I'm not sure if you didn't understand what I wrote, this is not my native language but I assumed the issue to be pretty easy to understand:
ergo:
- people have a label of "authority"
- people say something
- what they say is said by "authority"
If some other user would have come in there and accused Drew to crap on the game to make some money out of it, it wouldn't be even close to relevant.
Especially not in this thread where many trolls fell upon a serious critique of existing issues in this game.
Well, I can think of at least one.
And yes of course it was a general sense. No mod should behave in this highly unprofessional way. However good they did they work before.
Just to sum this up: nothing you wrote here cooled anything. You just either repeated what has been said already, ignored what I wrote or made something up. How do you expect such a comment to cool something off?
For my own clarification, this rule is specifically about the act of moderation itself, correct? We can still dispute anything a moderator says about the game or other players IIRC, especially if the moderator posts "off-duty" and not in an official capacity.Discussion of moderation actions isn't permitted, any issues that any user may have over action taken by the moderation team can be addressed to the Community Managment team who will investigate the complaint and take action as they deem necessary.
For my own clarification, this rule is specifically about the act of moderation itself, correct? We can still dispute anything a moderator says about the game or other players IIRC, especially if the moderator posts "off-duty" and not in an official capacity.
but seems Drew's thread has already been thoroughly derailed by the fact that he won't be posting anymore ever again.I'm not going to get drawn into a conversation about how you interpreted the post, and derail Drew's thread in the process. But I will say the badge being permanently on is a side effect of the new forum, and one which the moderators would change if we were able.
Reasons for quitting forums. Thanks for cementing that, now flagged as Avoid at All Costs.And thats all folks. Back to the topic please.
Encouraged to get back on topic, some people seem upset that Drew made some money for contributing to the Lore of this game. I'd just like to remind everyone that the GAME ITSELF makes way more money than Drew ever did for his contributions. Before hating on Drew, consider how much $$$ you've thrown at useless cosmetics. Now had Drew gotten a bright red "PREMONITION" icon installed as part of the station menu, then people might have something to be upset about.Folks,
I wrote a couple of official books in the ED universe a while back, which meant a reasonable knowledge of the background lore.
If anyone has questions about in-game lore stuff from the dawn of time until now post below and I'll do my best to answer.![]()