Complaint Polite complaint suggested by a friend

[JORJ949]

that sort of thing is why i spent quite more than 5 minutes writing out an announcement for pre-games (adding another step to the process) saying "don't do that"

this thing you're doing here is something i'm very familiar with (because i do it all the time, too): it's called a parting shot. "I think it was stupid, but I'm not going to argue" -- that is arguing it right there, and then trying to shut down the argument by saying you're not actually arguing it. "I don't think what I did was that bad."

you had to wait 5 minutes before you could go back to what you were doing.
i had to wait an hour for the next round.

idk. i find it hard to feel anything for this post beyond "play stupid games, win stupid prizes". it was five minutes. literally get out of your chair and walk around the house.

As someone who was there in call (mute during round, talk about it after the round ends) explaining the pregame show to them watching that message be sent (Before you or I had explained WHAT the pregame show was) and knowing what was about to happen because of how I know your pregame show has been abused. I am the recommendation mentioned in the title of the post and I feel like you have completely missed the mark with what they had to say with the following key points:

>They didn't mind the ban, and went off to go to bed, something they were about to do anyway, like you suggested they do in your response.
>They felt like an admin PM would have been much better as it wouldn't have interrupted the show and would have told them why they shouldn't have done this.
>They felt their attempts to apologize were completely ignored and brushed off.

I recommended this feedback because they said they felt they couldn't make a report about it and I didn't want new players to get scared off by what might seem to someone unaware like a "harsh" admin, something that was immediately mentioned by a TG player who joined the conversation while I was telling them to make this feedback. There is another player with a similar feedback made recently in a similar scenario, apologizing for what they said after being unaware.

I greatly appreciate the pregame show and so do many people and I hate to see it interrupted because someone made a joke they didn't know the connotations around, I think the solution this feedback was seeking has mostly been found in a "Do not boo the pregame show" message.

I would also like to say personally that I think you are assuming exactly what kind of person they are with your responses being treating them like someone who cant stop playing games and never gets out the house and I would like to say this is completely incorrect. Zedorfska is the most "life-having" person I know that plays SS13.