State of Trench Wars Staff

[Vatican Assassin]

well now that this is settled who are we going to lynch next? or should we just play the game and not bring up race 10 times a day

[Demonic]

I am not 100% satisfied with this decision but if he really has to talk to another mod before making any rash decisions than I guess I can't really complain too much as this would probably solve a majority of the problems with him banning people shortly after warning without giving them time to cooperate.

The real issue is however this is now the second time that staff has "come down" on trancetunes for the same behavior and I have read from numerous mods that Trancetunes has done nothing wrong, or that this is a witch hunt. How about on top of this we have some accountability from the people who are supposed to be leaders in this zone to not blindly protect one of their own and tell people if they don't like it to log off, but instead to agree that there is or might be a problem that needs to be addressed and they will look into it. I don't think that the sole responsibility of being the voice of reason for staff should fall on you're shoulders HMS. Would it really have been that hard for MM to maybe offer some forum correspondence to some of the people complaining including the_paul instead of suggesting that he should log in and talk to him when it seems obvious that he isn't on at the same times. A simple ?find the_paul when you wake up and log in at 6am and seeing he went to bed around 5 hours before and is obviously still sleeping would have been easy enough.

The players don't just want staffers who are seen as problematic to the zone either removed from staff or lose the ability to issue out unwarranted bans, especially bans that have comments calling the player a "prick" because it seems like the rules were purposefully broken in a way to get rid of a player that the staffer obviously has emotional ties to. It is the reason there are rules regarding a staffer on a squad not taking a cheater call in a match his squad is involved in. Really the root cause here needs to be fixed otherwise in a month and a half we are back here again on square one arguing on the forums about this guy abusing.

unwarranted bans is my department kthx, and something im keeping an eye on, not just with tt but all staff. Obviously it may take awhile to make some of the changes we need, but it is progressing forward steadily. If i compare last month to 3 months prior for example, there was a 48% reduction in bans.
There will always be unhappy people, i cant change that, but we can try to minimise it as much as possible, and something hms, myself and all other upper staff are committed to doing.

[Summa]

We have also brought back the 'head trainer' position and have placed Hurricane as the SMod in charge of this department. He will be working with deans and I on how to incorporate professionalism and proper knowledge into his department.

Lol I am glad I just retired. This is quite surely the end of this game incarnate. I foresee ph following me into the darkness soon enough.

Thank you for the laugh. I needed it amongst all of the endless paper writing I have been doing.

[the_paul]

Ephemeral get out of here, I can summarize your posts without reading them. "So and so did or not expressly violate rule 3 section 3 clause 6.7 when he did and this so this is unwarranted", honestly just shut up already. The level of predictability in your posts has reached Vash level. You accuse us of making things appear worse than they are, yet you pick the TT thread that had one of the lowest volume of interest due to repeated instances and cite that as the norm. No, absolutely not, you're doing the same thing you've accused us of doing. What's worse is that I can definitively remember Renzi summarizing most of the recent events in one posts. You know it's sad when off the top of my head I'd surely miss at least one of the "questionable" calls that tt has had. Case in point of this paragraph is just fuck off out of my thread, I can assume your answer before you even write it because you're that one dimensional. Post '..' and we'll be able to fill in the blanks probably close to word for word on what you would have said. I'm not even going to bother to dignify the rest of your post with a response because I've wasted enough time on Vash Jr. here


HMS, while that not be the ideal punishment I had in mind, I think it's awesome that you guys listened to us, had a discussion, and came to a decision. Whether or not that would have happened later on or at all had these threads not been made is something other people (eph) can argue about. Thank you for the update and the transparency, well done HMS. +1

[Vatican Assassin]

HMS has some some nice stratagem here, 6 months ago he was most hated guy in TW, the angry mob was searching for the quality assurance mod and they wanted blood, but HMS first offered up Ara, then he deflected attention to TT, now he come in to "save" us all. Expect HMS to declare himself emperor soon.

[Turban]

lol hurricane got promoted. rip trench wars. time to sign my resignation letter for staff.

naw, i kid. grats man, hope you'll work hard or i'll start writing angry letters to your house.

[Vys]

Why don't you guys remove his banG powers and just let him host and answer help calls, maybe this might be the best way to solve this?

[Vatican Assassin]

summa has retired which means you stop playing the game, log onto forums and tell everyone else to stop playing the game too

[Vys]

Goodluck in twlb Vatican, I hope you guys win it

[Dexter]

this thread is funny
i can laugh reading it

+ nothing against hurricane, wish him good luck, will be a pain in the ass taking care of others.

[the_paul]

Why don't you guys remove his banG powers and just let him host and answer help calls, maybe this might be the best way to solve this?

Regardless of what you may have against the guy saying it, this is a perfectly acceptable solution

[Vys]

From all the threads what have been made about trancetunes, it's quite obvious that he's quick to ban, but you guys don't want to get rid of him because he answers alot of calls. So why not just remove the bang powers and don't let him answer ?cheater calls.
If he wants to help the zone that much, he can still help the zone by answering ?helps calls and hosting events and leaving the ?cheater calls to more lenient moderators

[Twenty Four]

I guess that would be a reasonable solution next week *cough* jokes . It seems H.M.S. has already come up w/ a solution and we'll see how it goes. They are definately right about TT, he's got his heart in the right place and wants to do good for the zone, but a little fast and strict w/ his punishments.

I think HMS's solution will work though, for sure.

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[Vys]

I guess that would be a reasonable solution next week *cough* jokes . It seems H.M.S. has already come up w/ a solution and we'll see how it goes. They are definately right about TT, he's got his heart in the right place and wants to do good for the zone, but a little fast and strict w/ his punishments.

I think HMS's solution will work though, for sure.

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But I think my solution will work 100% because he won't have the powers to ban anyone but he'll be able to help everyone

[Vatican Assassin]

Goodluck in twlb Vatican, I hope you guys win it

ty for this