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**Stabwound** · 09-17-2003, 09:42 PM

Is that the same Liquid Blue from X-Sages? :/

**Dim** · 09-18-2003, 03:18 AM

Re: Re: TW staff.

Originally posted by Bluedandy
Ahem. (not that I did it often, it was very stressful, and people were too impatient because they did not realize I had to type each question from a card, and they were annoyed that they hadn't memorized the answers, like the questions TrivBot asks, everyone knows, and it's just a typing contest)

IRRELEVANT FACT:

I HAVE AN IQ OF 139

**Eeks** · 09-18-2003, 05:49 AM

According to internet IQ tests? Those things lie.

**Verthanthi** · 09-18-2003, 12:04 PM

I took an internet test that said I was Extroverted.

**Dim** · 09-18-2003, 12:26 PM

Originally posted by Eeks
According to internet IQ tests? Those things lie.

I am really clever really!

<head enlarges>

**Jeansi** · 09-18-2003, 12:45 PM

I don't like the tasks zh, er and mod + further up have now
In my opinion:
zh - answer help and cheater calls, practise hosting, warn teamkillers
er - host, start bots, *shutup people, scorereset and lock some arena if someone wants to duel (as da farmer is friendly enough to do, probably many else as well), disconnect troublemakers
mod and above - help zh and er and all kinds of other things that need to be done. Deal with continuous teamkillers and ban them

I personally don't think it is a good idea to make mod a better position than er. Now all or almost all ers want to be mods. Once they have proved that they do their job, I think some of them should get modpowers but keep the er tag and keep hosting games. Too many good ers stopped hosting after getting moderator status cus "it's not our job to host".
Right now mods are spending too much time answering newbish questions.

And those list do not of course cover all tasks as I do not know what they are.

**Galleleo** · 09-18-2003, 04:32 PM

All I gotta say is axe Ice storm.. I dont even know why he got staff.

He gets here, spams the forums, then goes on being really annoying in the game and he gets staff.

**Xog** · 09-18-2003, 05:10 PM

Originally posted by Adman
19 of the events mentioned are hosted by bots or ZHs. And starting a bot isn't work, if that's your argument. Nad i'm pretty sure a lot of the other events like cloaks all the hosts have to do is prize etc. Basing/Ghoulgames/Rabbit and other related events are a lot harder than typing /deaths 10 or whatever And /!lagout 0 0 0. I don't remember commands exactly.

Radio is hosted by a bot.. but we do the work O.o.. just a little thing i wanted to say.. >goes back to his little stuff<

**Ara** · 09-18-2003, 05:31 PM

Metallica's words:

Fortune, fame
Mirror vain
Gone insane
But the memory remains

Heavy rings on fingers wave
Another star denies the grave
See the nowhere crowd
Cry the nowhere cheers of honor

Like twisted vines that grow
Hide and swallow mansions whole
In light of an already
Faded prima donna

Fortune, fame
Mirror vain
Gone insane...
Fortune, fame
Mirror vain
Gone insane...
But the memory remains

Long live TW staff.

**Jason** · 09-18-2003, 05:55 PM

Someone please tell me I'm only imagining that Ara posted the lyrics to a Metallica song in an attempt to quantify what it means to be a staffer. That's just too fucking insanely idiotic for me to believe.

**kthx** · 09-18-2003, 07:01 PM

felt the need to post again

Well it seems to me, that for the most-party everyone agrees that staff is falling apart, its like your picking newbies out of the bottem of the barrel because all the fresh top layers are gone, still ocassionally you get a ripe pick. Now the question is.. what will staff do about this, deny it? ignore it... or perhaps change something and let the TW players vote count in something imporatnt (the right thing to do)

WarkWark - The mission tank creator, and the guy who hosted Risk in ?go tournament

**Jerome Scuggs** · 09-18-2003, 07:23 PM

Re: felt the need to post again

Originally posted by wark <ZH>
let the TW players vote count in something imporatnt (the right thing to do)

well, that would be AMAZING if they ever did this, but a few problems

-like arenas, this woukld be a big hit in the beginiing, then over time fade away.

-how would it be done? website? bot? web-bot integration? forum poll?

it really should be done like that though.

Also, I think there needs to be a player-to-staff input on WHO gets picked. Staff seems to be picking suck-ups or just plain looking in the wrong places -- I know people who play TW who have been expereinced staff in other zones but quit due to lack of orginization (i.e. cant host elim cause not enough pop etc). But if it were up to the players to vote, we wouldnt see an ACTUAL good staff in another thousand years. (no offense to you more "popular" players out there).

Personally, I think Icey's hiring was a good thing. Hes a good staffer overall, if you overlook his problems -- we all had them. He shows that the TW Staff can and will indeed will be willing to hire a mod whos fairly new, and have stood through megabytes of flames to get him off of staff.

So though the polling system -- SS Democracy? -- is a good idea, there is alot more that will need serious discussion and the course of each decision will have to be predictively analyzed and the impacts weighed.

Blegh. sorry for the fancy terminology. 3 years of debating is getting to my head.

**ConcreteSchlyrd** · 09-18-2003, 07:44 PM

If you let TW players vote on staff, you'd most likely end up with a big bunch of jackasses.

(Premonition: Yes, even bigger jackasses than what you feel we have now.)

**Jerome Scuggs** · 09-18-2003, 07:46 PM

But let the staff choose who they vote for and well slim the jackass problem by 100%

edit: nm, icey

**Troll King** · 09-18-2003, 09:13 PM

In the end it'll still be a popularity contest. I don't know about you folks, but I don't rank being well known very highly on what I would want from a good staffer, and with a public vote, that would be one of the top factors.

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