nothing annoys me more than mindless sheep. often i sit in fluorite watching them graze on the toes that of our beloved staff, giving them all the praise their cocky arses could ever dream of getting. I've been itching to make a thread, but it seems I don't have to, I'll just reply to yours. So thank you for this chance, doctor.
I'll go ahead and get this out of the way, I'll give the staff some credit. Yes, Razmirz is an amazing and awesome individual for keeping the server up and running for all of us to play while the game maker is off with his foot up his rear. Yes Red overworks his butt into the ground to do as much to keep this up as possible. Yes the mods who are meant to be here to enforce the rules and keep this a safe and free escape environment for all of us devote /so/ much time to a game they got a position on ONLY because they were here in lots of their free time anyway. Yes without them, we'd have no Feral Heart.
Oh but wait guys. This isn't always the case. In fact, its only a surface act this whole charade
In response to this quote that you bring to the table. And then how you say "Luckily for my own sake I held my tongue because I could have said something that probably will have hurt at that moment." But I'm done holding my tongue. I'm tired of being a pawn. Or a peasant. Or some user, like others, that can be stepped on and ignored just because we don't have the power to say anything back. I'm tired of watching these guys you all hold as idols ABUSE the power they have and then cover it up with their backasswards and flip-flop rules.
You want me to think about my distaste for this staff team? You want me to consider all that is done for us and praise them and bask in the radiant waves that come off these guys? I think not. I wouldn't be able to play the game and use the forum? Well damn, that'd just be a big ol' great shame wouldn't it? I don't care. I'm on this game for one sole purpose right now and it'd be just as easy to uproot it some where else. These words and these testimonies will probably get me banned. But you know, I'm sure they will. And I'm more than ready to be.
Why?
Because I don't like playing a game where I feel like I'm being fruckin' babysat. And not even for a good reason. But because these staff members are LOOKING for reasons to ban users, reasons to express the power they have. They're a bunch of power hungry idiots save a handful. They use trolling and spying accounts to follow users they KNOW to be troublesome and attempt to get them banned. Forcing these players to feel obligated to move to a private chat for casual conversation, because hell, who knows who could be listening?
I questioned using the names of the mods in questions who did these actions, however, I hardly see the point when they'll just be edited out or just end up more bashing. So I wont'. This isn't a point to call out individuals but as a WHOLE you guys need to really take an outside glance at YOURSELVES.
I once had a conversation with Red, about how the Feral Heart community could be viewed, while he asked mine, I never really got his. So Red, this is directed at you. From an outsiders standpoint, what does the staff team look like?
Well let's clear that up.
Suragaha stated that most users start bashing staff when they get banned. Yes. This is generally the case. Users get banned and they say "Ohman the mods suck!1!". Well as far as it goes, breaking rules WILL get you banned from the game, that's no big whoop. There shouldn't be any reason to stem from that.
However, there are cases where distaste can stem from nothing other than what Red described as "in-game drama". That put users in positions of being the flea bitten users who should be "watched".
Therefore you have the unjustified and justified distaste for the staff team from the inside.
Now, those who praise and believe the staff to be doing a good job..Obviously haven't had the problems of the "in-game drama".
The mods sit out in the plains, or wherever, with their followers of mini-modding cublets/puplets and keep the peace right? They're there to catch rule breakers, and chat and have fun with you. That's all well and good when they're actually doing that.
Which brings me off onto another tangent that may or may not upset the commonmini-modding user.
There has been countless countless posts of old about how the mods aren't doing their job, or how there aren't enough of them to do their job, or all this other crap that will be again and again recalled to defend points. But that isn't what this is about. Guys, if you want the mods to do their jobs, then by god LET them do their jobs.
It's gotten to a ridiculous point where in Fluorite, there are rule breakers, runnin' their yaps, and arguing with other users, because the mods are SITTING on the hill, afk or not, and there are USERS hammering into the offenders telling them to cease what they are doing.
There are entire spouts in general between certain unnamed users who take it upon themselves to DO the job of a mod they are sitting under. I'm all for tossing out a warning, but blatantly pushing yourself upon someone is idiotic, especially when you have no power to do so.
When we see rule breakers, what are we supposed to do? Screenshot, send to mod. Do you see hammer users into the ground with your mini-mod hammer ANYWHERE in the how-to section designated to this? I don't. But hell if it was in there I sure wouldn't be bringing this up.
I've been going to countless other games, just to see their take on these things. And guess what? Mini-modding. Frowned upon. Forbidden. It's not something the staff users encourage. In fact, they get pretty pissy when they see a user prancing about telling people to "stop talking in the general chat". I don't blame 'em. I think I'd be pretty pissed off too. This was heard through the great Feral-Heart vine of distastefulness, but a mod once told another user that one of the admins didn't like her. Why? Because she mini-modded out the butthole. And yet here we are with a user that mini-mods UP said butthole.
So why, why, why, is it even encouraged? Because the mods see it, as what can only been viewed from those who take notice, as a way to slack. They don't HAVE to get on to users, they don't HAVE to call people out. It's ridiculous. Only does it get to a point of where the mini-mods are getting their tails handed to them for BEING mini mods do the moderators step in and decide to put their pants on and tell everyone to shut their yaps.
That isn't to say all of them. But it's happened, and will continue to do so.
Hell, there are even moderators who don't agree with the way things are ran. Why? Because it's immature and unfair.
And not in the sense of "Oh we have to do it this way because we don't have Kov to help us improve the game". No, you know what, I'm so fruckin' tired of that excuse for things that dont apply.. Feral Heart, as it stands right now, could be handled. And it is being handled in the best of the ability to those who do so. Yes there are like five maps with over a 1000 users on at a given time. Yes the game isn't well enough to handle the traffic. But you know, I understand you guys are working with what you're given. I do, god knows I've heard it enough. I KNOW that users break rules and that theres really no way to traffic them. I KNOW that no additions can be made to the game. But it comes a point where it's just like, "Okay, what does that have to do with this?"
The fact is this place IS a mess. It's what we'd like to call organized chaos. It's pure idiocy in a wrap. Entropy. Everything that comes together will eventually fall apart. And while it may seem like everything is well handled it isn't always the case. There's about as much structure to the entire endeavor as there is to a bean thread. And NO. that isn't the entire fault of the staff in any way shape or form. I'm not SAYING that.
I'm saying, myself, like others, have a reason to dislike the staff.
I've been trolled by a staff member on a "spy" account. It was taken to a higher up. I didn't have enough proof. Understandable. To an extent. And then I get further trolled by a mod and a mini who come up demanding my side of the "in-game drama". I cursed. There were repercussions. Reprecussion wasn't what angered me. No, what angered me was this moderator exhibiting powers just to prove she could. Claiming she could kick us for no reason other than just because she could. Not only to myself, but to others. And I've seen the same mod give out a ban for no other reason than just because she could and because the user asked them to. As it goes. That is what is setting of this rant now. Not me. But other people. It'd be much mirrored to a police officer locking up your brother, and then you, in a fit of hysteria or anger, "Why don't you just lock me up too?" Well because that's against the law. There's no laws that say "Those who ask shall receive". And if there is, I sure as hell ain't seen it. So quit abusing what you're given. I hope no behavior goes unnoticed.
I've had a user who was friends with a staff member break a rule right in front of me, directed at me, while sitting right next to an admin and let it sit. And then this user has the apt to get on to someone about the same thing. Granted, this user is now a moderator.
But wait, wait, a second guys, where do I get off saying all this? What right do I have? What POINT am I trying to make? How am I in any way credible?
I don't know everything. I'm no saint. I don't have absolute knowledge of what goes on here. But I can make intelligent observations, I can say that I once held the staff in high regards as people who kept this game up for us. And to an extent, I still do. I do enjoy getting out and playing. But not to the point where I'm going to turn a blind eye to what's going on either.
I don't say this for ME. I am not posting this because I've been banned and I'm "angry". No, not in the least. I'm doing this for other people. Other people who feel the way things are being handled on the side of the staff users is not something that can be easily ignored or brushed under the rug. Other people who have been done wrong and are too scared to speak up because the staff wants to kick off anyone who disagrees or doesn't kiss their furry rumps.
So what does this mean coming from me? I have to apologize, I won't say names, but this is pretty much throwing you under the bus, pal. But you know what? You've pretty much threw me under one. Why should I any longer defend you with the knowledge I have now?
I was lined up as a "probable" moderator. Why? Because I was so "helpful", and knew about the rules, and liked about the community. As the little green thing over there shows. I was told that to be a mod, I'd have to be friends with all the other mods.
And then I just stopped and said, "So I have to kiss ass?" No thanks. I didn't want to go befriending people just for the point of doing so, to get a little power of a kicking or so. I still wouldn't and you couldn't pay me to, something of which isn't even offered here. You shouldn't HAVE to do that to get a position here. It shouldn't be that way. Trust or not, some things are just thrown out the window.
And by god, that's all I see people doing, and it makes me sick. Not because they want to be helpful and love this community that we're in, but because they're being friends with these guys who will only consider them if they're worth two bits.
So, I've thought and been over the reasons I dislike the staff users. And you know what? Not a damn thing has changed. I feel the exact same way. And It's something that I'm not only saying for myself, but for others who feel the same. We're not doing this because we hate ALL the staff, we're not doing this because we're all BAD. We're doing this and saying this through this, because we like the game. To an extent we like the community. And that's the basics of it. It needed to be said, and who better to say it then us.
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things others wanted added:
The fact that mods use their personal lives as an excuse for being arseholes
if they have a "bad day", they shouldn't come on FeralHeart at all, let alone abuse their powers.
Oh, and the fact that people are banned for being "self-centered", and yet we're still walking among mini-mods and godawful staff that think they're the reason the world goes around.
Possibly how staff are picked by so-called friendships and sucking up to mods.
The fact that people "friends" with mods are allowed to go around yelling "oh stop arguing before you make me angry.." "okay, let's change the subject now." in General whilst users grovel at their feet and mods sit back doing nothing.
