Goonhub
05-30-2021, 01:01 PM
The recent discussion to remove cool zone without even giving its denizens the courtesy of a heads-up tells me all I really need to know about the administration team's priorities.
When I started playing this game ten years ago, it had two major strengths: it Got Weird, and it had a community around it. Over time, the 'weird' has been not exactly discouraged, but not embraced to the degree it had been - any given content update is more likely to contain minor tweaks to existing things that elicit no more than a 'huh. cool' if they're noticed at all, and truly gloriously *weird* stuff like the grillnasium is a rare treat indeed. (Gee, I wonder why warc hasn't been working so much on that? Oh, because they can't stand the admin culture. Whoops.) The community has become something tolerated by the administration team instead of something seen as a vital need to the health of the game - anytime dealing with the community gets complicated, the usual response is to segregate it (cool zone being created), poke and taunt it until it explodes so you have an excuse to throw it away (kate, rats), or ignore it and use the very fact that you're ignoring it as an excuse to throw it away (cool zone).
I am having trouble properly putting into words how much it hurts to watch something you gave a decade of your time and effort to be neglected in this fashion. I trusted you all to make something better than wizards, and did everything I could to help that along. You didn't. I rejoined the administration team a few months ago to try and help when I saw severe cracks starting to form, and accomplished basically nothing. This was my last attempt to get you all collectively to *stop neglecting something you profess to love, and that i have loved longer than almost all of you have even known about*. Given that cool zone got deleted with no warning and Souricelle, one of the admin teams who was breaking The Precious Rules just the other day (oh but don't worry, 'we talked to them and they promised not to do it again so we consider the matter closed' is all the explanation and transparency you feel the community deserves, so that's fine then isn't it?) in General just now saying 'cool zone is gone and anyone posting like that in other places will be dealt with'. The message is clear.
I can't be part of this community anymore. I love it too much to sit around and watch you let it slide into ruin because building the infrastructure it needs to be healthy is too much work. It hurts too much, simply put. I would really rather not grow to hate some of you for allowing it to happen, so I'm just not going to.
I really hope I'm wrong and that all of this works out, but I don't think I am. I gave this community ten of my years, I am not going to watch you starve it to death.
Bye.
When I started playing this game ten years ago, it had two major strengths: it Got Weird, and it had a community around it. Over time, the 'weird' has been not exactly discouraged, but not embraced to the degree it had been - any given content update is more likely to contain minor tweaks to existing things that elicit no more than a 'huh. cool' if they're noticed at all, and truly gloriously *weird* stuff like the grillnasium is a rare treat indeed. (Gee, I wonder why warc hasn't been working so much on that? Oh, because they can't stand the admin culture. Whoops.) The community has become something tolerated by the administration team instead of something seen as a vital need to the health of the game - anytime dealing with the community gets complicated, the usual response is to segregate it (cool zone being created), poke and taunt it until it explodes so you have an excuse to throw it away (kate, rats), or ignore it and use the very fact that you're ignoring it as an excuse to throw it away (cool zone).
I am having trouble properly putting into words how much it hurts to watch something you gave a decade of your time and effort to be neglected in this fashion. I trusted you all to make something better than wizards, and did everything I could to help that along. You didn't. I rejoined the administration team a few months ago to try and help when I saw severe cracks starting to form, and accomplished basically nothing. This was my last attempt to get you all collectively to *stop neglecting something you profess to love, and that i have loved longer than almost all of you have even known about*. Given that cool zone got deleted with no warning and Souricelle, one of the admin teams who was breaking The Precious Rules just the other day (oh but don't worry, 'we talked to them and they promised not to do it again so we consider the matter closed' is all the explanation and transparency you feel the community deserves, so that's fine then isn't it?) in General just now saying 'cool zone is gone and anyone posting like that in other places will be dealt with'. The message is clear.
I can't be part of this community anymore. I love it too much to sit around and watch you let it slide into ruin because building the infrastructure it needs to be healthy is too much work. It hurts too much, simply put. I would really rather not grow to hate some of you for allowing it to happen, so I'm just not going to.
I really hope I'm wrong and that all of this works out, but I don't think I am. I gave this community ten of my years, I am not going to watch you starve it to death.
Bye.