GM's hate him! Community "troll" exposes abuse

[Euan]

Is there really a risk? The worst thing I could do is go on some rant and the most that can happen in that situation is I get perma banned. Honestly at first i was mad in this thread but now I feel relief. I'm going to do my best *which doesn't take a lot* to act respectful toward other players/staff and post things in a constructive manner. It'll help with getting my point across and there might be more willingness to take me serious and listen.

Would love if you decided to do something this sensible before you posted this thread. Considering it took you half a day and literally one hundred posts in this topic to realise a better course of action is somewhat charming, but also worrisome.

I assure you there is nothing to be worried about. I'm going to do what I said before and hopefully my actions will change your opinion of me. I will hope you guys are able to see I'm coming from a positive place. I've always appreciated your responses, Ryan. Thanks.

[magicthighs]

So you banned me for just telling a GM the player was perfectly right to post what he posted, he didn't do anything bad at all and it wasn't even something serious because you have a problem with me? You think that makes it better? That doesnt' seem fair to me.

You were never banned for replying on that thread. The only action I took was to delete your post.

Please stop lying about actions taken by GMs.

[Euan]

So you banned me for just telling a GM the player was perfectly right to post what he posted, he didn't do anything bad at all and it wasn't even something serious because you have a problem with me? You think that makes it better? That doesnt' seem fair to me.

You were never banned for replying on that thread. The only action I took was to delete your post.

Please stop lying about actions taken by GMs.

I'm sorry I thought I made it perfectly clear that I have no idea when or why I was recently banned. I just assumed it was for that post and worded it wrong. That was more meant to be a question. What actions have I lied about?

[greenstoned]

This is why this topic and others like it aren't locked / deleted when they appear.

Well, if we are going for staff criticisms, i will say that that topics are locked way too fast around here sometimes and some gms like to play the "post it on the forums" card then lock it before any conversation can happen in them.

Most of the time occurs when a GM has to make a judgement fast and most people disagree with it, the only way to talk about it is a thread that gets locked asap and then we get told to take it to some gm, we are the ones who have to jump through hops and wait for people to "look it up". Most of the time that means no one is going to bother doing so.

An example of it: http://www.returnofreckoning.com/forum/ ... =8&t=11900

Trying to not make the forums a whine fest is fine, making the appeal process similar to the bureocracy building in Asterix and the 13 tests is not.

Also a lot of the decisions seem to be up to whoever is active at the time and their view upon it, instances like people getting kicked out of the server for killing people outside Orvr zones come to mind, something really odd if you come from a PvP server in Retail or the strange afk policy where the rules seem to be that you can automate your gameplay as long as you can also automate your replies.

But this is not something really good anyway, just things that annoy me a bit.

love that movie, used to watch it every year during the xmas holidays when its up on tv ;p

[rmpl]

Drama, drama.

Is there actually any reason why this hasn't been locked/erased already except mebbe pseudo-sado-masochism...?!

Not everything needs to stay on the internet or be public, really, seriously...

Don't read it then, simple as that.

[Shibirian]

I'm sorry I thought I made it perfectly clear that I have no idea when or why I was recently banned. I just assumed it was for that post and worded it wrong. That was more meant to be a question. What actions have I lied about?

You're really good, man. I mean with what you do. But I guess you already know that.



Am off to play the game again

This will probably go on for another fifty or so pages. (You're all getting trolled by him - and he even made it clear in the thread-title, too, lo.)

[Tklees]

Transparency only hurts the person in the wrong. Be it dev/GM or player being banned. There is no harm in this in my opinion. Hell I'd be on the public list for a flame on Ivan when I first came to the server over a year ago and took is lack of response as him botting but he just couldn't be bothered to respond to me because I was being an ass, something that I do from time to time.

[sn3jk]

Illuminati confirmed

[FreddyNoNose]

I using /advice for chat wrong? Seems like it.

[Gobtar]

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

A fear that is not new, I think Az has been incredibly just given the drama that started this thread. I know some people actively have a fear of being banned for "angering the gods". I hope that transparency and oversight desired here will help avoid the perceived notion that the GMs are draconian rulers, as well as eliminate any possibility that these fears are justified.

P.S: The click-bait title is worthy of Buzzfeed.