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rgl32

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Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

I get that some people think that they (the now moderators) are kind of useless, but if you actually look at it, they are important. Not every admin can do everything, which is why they made this to define their roles. You can't honestly expect all of them to be able to handle the reports they get, coding in the game, graphics, and every other things to make the game better such as bug fixes and such, they would burn out fast if that happened. This is exactly where the moderators come in, I don't think people realize how many reports come in (probably a lot false reports) and how much mediating needs to happen. it is important to keep good moderation in the game, which is what moderators are supposed to do, you can't just say one person is going to moderate things, mainly because with moderation comes a big grey area, some people agree with things, others don't, which is why they have a group of people making those decisions and all those people to be equal amongst each other to balance out the rules they have set. They may not be doing coding or anything that some people may deem important, but just because they aren't doing something that you can't see doesn't mean they aren't important.

den3107

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Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

Kudos to you, Admins and Moderators.
The game started great, then went in an ever accelerating downwards spiral before you came in for the rescue.
Let's hope you guys can keep up the good work, I know it's hard to make new content when you already have a ton.

Aaro54

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Joined: 2015-02-21

Posts: 163

Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

Am I the only who thinks that 1/2 of the staff is useless?

NO YOU ARE NOT. Finally someone with common sense..

They must abolish the guardian establishment.

The guardians (or moderators now) are the ones who mostly deal with the reports and moderation.  I guess it could be so that they have no people dealing with those, but I'm not sure if that would make people happy.

BuzzerBee

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From: Texas, U.S.A.

Joined: 2015-02-15

Posts: 4,575

Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

Why do you guys get mad about the guardians/new moderators? They were all hand picked and if they weren't doing anything beneficial to the game they would be dismissed from their position.

You've already seen it, UltraBass is no longer a moderator and JaWapa was placed in the position of moderator because the team felt like that's where he could serve best.

It's no use to complain about the staff without proof that they did something wrong... Saying that "they don't do anything" is useless because as You said, they do a lot. Besides handling reports and such they all actively participate in discussing what needs to be changed in the game and contribute ideas as well as give feedback on ideas from other members.

Sure, at the time there probably were some better people for the job but now there really couldn't be a better staff because it seems like they've become a family. I always hear them complaining about each other but that's how you know they spend so much time together trying to improve the game that they've gotten on each others nerves.

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BEE

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Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

I get that some people think that they (the now moderators) are kind of useless, but if you actually look at it, they are important. Not every admin can do everything, which is why they made this to define their roles. You can't honestly expect all of them to be able to handle the reports they get, coding in the game, graphics, and every other things to make the game better such as bug fixes and such, they would burn out fast if that happened. This is exactly where the moderators come in, I don't think people realize how many reports come in (probably a lot false reports) and how much mediating needs to happen. it is important to keep good moderation in the game, which is what moderators are supposed to do, you can't just say one person is going to moderate things, mainly because with moderation comes a big grey area, some people agree with things, others don't, which is why they have a group of people making those decisions and all those people to be equal amongst each other to balance out the rules they have set. They may not be doing coding or anything that some people may deem important, but just because they aren't doing something that you can't see doesn't mean they aren't important.

Also, moderators are useful in other ways. They are the crowd control and the communication filters. If I have a concern about something, I can mention it to a moderator and they can either alleviate my concern or pass it along. Having a level between admin and community is an important aspect to any game. They are the ones that clarify questions that would take up too much time from admin. They are still a part of the community and can get the feedback from people to pass along. Think of it this way, there's no need to bother the principal of a school with your homework question.

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Ben

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Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

Am I the only who thinks that 1/2 of the staff is useless?

NO YOU ARE NOT. Finally someone with common sense..

They must abolish the guardian establishment.

The guardians (or moderators now) are the ones who mostly deal with the reports and moderation.  I guess it could be so that they have no people dealing with those, but I'm not sure if that would make people happy.

When I played EE regularly, I used to send many reports, yet nothing ever seemed to change. People keep being d*cks to each other, bullying still occurs and violation of the rules is a recurring issue. I don't see how reporting is useful, given that most of the time they are read days if not hours after the event happened..

Kirby

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Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

Am I the only who thinks that 1/2 of the staff is useless?

NO YOU ARE NOT. Finally someone with common sense..

They must abolish the guardian establishment.

The guardians (or moderators now) are the ones who mostly deal with the reports and moderation.  I guess it could be so that they have no people dealing with those, but I'm not sure if that would make people happy.

When I played EE regularly, I used to send many reports, yet nothing ever seemed to change. People keep being d*cks to each other, bullying still occurs and violation of the rules is a recurring issue. I don't see how reporting is useful, given that most of the time they are read days if not hours after the event happened..

I don't think you realize what they are doing here

They get hundreds of reports, and a chat log to go with it. EE isn't their job, are they really going to read these 24/7?

If you have any better suggestion for filtering violence and such, please, don't hesitate to suggest it.

mrjawapa

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Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

Jawapa's 16? Hm, suddenly the racism doesn't seem all that surprising. I'd think he'd grow out of it, but his ilk typically don't.

Please, go read the thread again.  Nothing in the topic was racist.

Seems people throw scream "racist" every time someone questions the actions of a specific group of people.

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0176

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Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

Am I the only who thinks that 1/2 of the staff is useless?

NO YOU ARE NOT. Finally someone with common sense..

They must abolish the guardian establishment.

The guardians (or moderators now) are the ones who mostly deal with the reports and moderation.  I guess it could be so that they have no people dealing with those, but I'm not sure if that would make people happy.

When I played EE regularly, I used to send many reports, yet nothing ever seemed to change. People keep being d*cks to each other, bullying still occurs and violation of the rules is a recurring issue.

"People keep being sued, investigated, thrown into prison, sentenced to life and yet there are still criminals on the street and illegal wrongdoings in the news all day! How is that possible?"

mrjawapa

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Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

@Tomkazaz - Well we have a new staff now.  People who handle the legitimate reports.  If you're reporting someone who trolled your art world, there's nothing we can do.  But if they are being violent, harassing you, flaming you, etc. then we can do something; and we will.

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Ben

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Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

From now on, I want to see every report of a ban or a warning that took place in the game. Publish them here, we have the freedom of information. It's time that the mods prove they actually do all the crap they talk about.

mrjawapa

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Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

From now on, I want to see every report of a ban or a warning that took place in the game. Publish them here, we have the freedom of information. It's time that the mods prove they actually do all the crap they talk about.

And I want to see you actually read all of it.  You wouldn't get through it all.

Besides:

Mutings, kicks, bans, and warnings will not be discussed with a third party. All situations as such are to remain private at the issued user's discretion.

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Ben

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Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

Of course... I should have known you would make a rule preventing you from posting bans. That's pretty convenient now that I'm asking you to prove you actually do anything in this game, isn't it?

rgl32

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Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

there are numerous reasons why they don't share their kick/ban logs, I'm just naming one thing out of many, but that very easily could cause witch hunts, which are never a good thing.

BEE

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Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

Tom, I don't mean to butt in, but it would be extremely unusual for an online game to post publicly about bans and warnings and everything. I am all about transparency, but I also believe strongly in privacy. While lack of transparency in this department does give ambiguity to the players that are not being warned or banned, if they were posted publicly I can see the game devolving into a terrible mess. I mean, you don't have a public list of published reports for the students that get suspended at your school.

If you are extremely concerned about it, you might want to suggest an impartial review board instead, but posting bans publicly would not have the desired effect, imo.

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Ben

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Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

Fine, then I have no legitimate reason to believe them about actually doing stuff, mostly because I sometimes do questionable things that never get me in trouble.

Ben

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Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

Shoutout to all the mods who wanna pick on me because I said that

Aaro54

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Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

Fine, then I have no legitimate reason to believe them about actually doing stuff, mostly because I sometimes do questionable things that never get me in trouble.

Maybe no one has just reported you?

Ben

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Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

I highly doubt that..

Or maybe the whole reporting system is malfunctioning. If a player, for instance, cursed someone badly and got reported, by the time the mods read the report both players involved will have forgotten about the event. Same accounts for other violent actions, that's just how nature goes.

Different55

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Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

So the obvious answer to that is to get rid of half the staff who handle reports so that even more time passes before reports are dealt with. Makes sense.

Seriously though I can't tell what you actually want here. Earlier you were complaining about half the staff being useless and now you're complaining about something that can most easily be solved by adding more mods.

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0176

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Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

Seriously though I can't tell what you actually want here. Earlier you were complaining about half the staff being useless and now you're complaining about something that can most easily be solved by adding more mods.

Well, every forum needs its chaos factor.

Ben

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Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

So the obvious answer to that is to get rid of half the staff who handle reports so that even more time passes before reports are dealt with. Makes sense.

Seriously though I can't tell what you actually want here. Earlier you were complaining about half the staff being useless and now you're complaining about something that can most easily be solved by adding more mods.

I admit it was a little bit ambiguous.. My point is, there will always be reports to handle, and you can't add an infinite amount of mods. But apart from that, we can't actually know how or if the reports are handled. The mods do this job in their free time, which means that they have no reason to feel obligated to this task. I'm saying the problem can be solved by offering more freedom and less moderation.

Bobithan

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Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

Thank you for this thread, it was much needed. It's great to see the game going in the direction it is today. Hopefully this means that Everybody Edits will soon feature double jumping

And stop feeding Tom, none of his points hold any sort of meaning. You're just making this thread worse by giving him attention...

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Ben

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Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

And stop feeding Tom, none of his points hold any sort of meaning. You're just making this thread worse by giving him attention...

I have the right to express my opinions, and they asked for feedback and criticism. I'm just addressing issues that I believe they should consider solving..

Shadow

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Re: The EE staff, their roles, their vision.

Finally i know what is the job of admins and mods .. nice job on posting it .