I don't care who banned him but reason should be displayed on that thread. You are suggesting I send personal message to every admin: "Did you ban Mekkil and why if you did? And why is it not displayed on thread?" when no admin ever replied to me.
You do realize that only 1 member of the mod staff can ban right?(duuring) and i said it wasn't a member of the mod staff. That leaves you with 2 possibilities, and i will let you use some deductive reasoning to figure out who it was. Mikkel is a friend of the devs, and the devs do what they do. They don't need to tell you why they banned their friend. Nor why they unban him if they do. I already told you he broke forum rules several times, and if you were on the forums the several days he did it, you couldn't have missed it.(spam) It was their way of handling it.
Well I cannot see post history updates like you can so I didn't know. And ofc he can't be CR if he is banned.
Yes you can. You cant see deleted posts or posts in boards you don't have access to, but you can see past regular posts.
So there is no law that you can breathe so stop breathing?
what a bad analogy.
I do not dislike 63e or Munj, I dislike Karth for his abusive behavior and rest off the admin/mod team that allowed him to do that and support him. It is obvious that he is power hungry and wants 63e global hegemony. It makes sense that you added rule against EU/NA running for NA/EU CR, but combined with Mekkil's mysterious ban makes it a bit suspicious.
you, as have many others, have made it clear you don't like the 63e.(especially others) It is just not a dislike of karth. If you don't like them, that is fine, that is your opinion. If you don't like something he did with regards to moderation, then contact duuring or the CR with evidence. Unlike the server side of the administration, i am not involved when it comes to dealing with complaints. I am just a regular forum mod.
I believe he will do his job like every other CR before him, achieving nothing because nobody from admin/mod team gives a fuck what CR says.
funny, seeing as they have gotten stuff done and their opinion has mattered. i will give you one very clear example.(before you move the goal post)
June as CR made a poll where people were interested in a Pub LB. I decided after a lot of pondering with a lot of doubt to its success to approve it.(after doing other checks) Now, he didn't do too much with regards helping set it up or admining it(he has been an admin for a long time). Various admins chimed in on the rules and how things should be enforced. I eventually made a set of rules that after a few tweaks made it into the event thread. I never wanted the event to be my event. It was meant to be an event for the community hosted by the admin staff. but it eventually turned into my event and i had to do most of the work.(never hosted an event before this) This is not even counting the maps and scripts i made to help the server/event. The event went fairly well imo and that is in part thanks to not only the regular admin staff, but the lb admins and the regs attending. It could of gone better, but it was still good.
There was never a rule stating that NA could run for an EU spot. We all know that if some EU member came in applying for the NA spot, they would be told off by a lot of people.(not to mention the point of having reps from their respective parts of the world)
Now here is the only thing I am a tad displeased about.
I have nothing against Munj, don't even know the guy, so I really don't care about all of that.
However
You had candidates apply, well within the rules (I checked the whole election process, no rules against it), and a rule was created specifically to bar them. The logic of this rule is "The community would just tell them off anyway", which is honestly quite infuriating. The whole point of the Community Representative position is to serve as a point in communication between the community and the mods. A huge part of this is the community being able to tell the mods what they want. It has been quite clear from recent posts that the EUs wanted to at least have a choice, and a few are rightfully infuriated at the fact that a choice has been denied to them because the mods made a rule under the assumption that they wouldn't want an NA candidate. Democracy should have handled that, not the mods. Also if they REALLY wanted to vote for him, I think Mekkil should have been a valid candidate still. Most of my communication between the mods and the community as a CR was through Steam anyhow, so a passable job could still be done. (BTW this is aimed more at Duuring than you, Thunder)
you and i talked about this before. I see your tone changed from not caring too much to now you care.
the part in parentheses is the key reason imo, not because people would start a fight about having a EU run for an NA spot. You know as well as i do that would make a lot of people unhappy, and if we allowed it, it would make a lot of people really unhappy. and if i had to guess, you would be right up there supporting the unhappy people in regards to why we would even allow it.
The question would be asked why do we even have NA and EU reps if we allow one side to run for the other. That it would ruin the point of having someone from their respective part of the world. Someone who is knowledgeable or can easily become knowledgeable about the issues on their side. Someone who is available at the time of day when their community is awake and active. Someone who actually knows the members well on their side. and this isn't even getting into the fact that the members themselves know who their rep is.(i don't just mean forum name, but the actual person. and i don't mean just knowing them for being a memer) I could go on by i digress. There are very few who can do the above if at all. Especially if they are across the pond. Maybe if it was someone who lived on both sides of the pond long enough and proven to know both sides really well, there could be an exception for them.(would have to be discussed) Jackie and savs are just 2 names that come to mind that fit that.
The EU members had months to decide if they wanted to run. They had 5 days to apply. Only 2 did. 1 was removed twice as mentioned above. Others(EU) didn't even care until after apps were closed. Reopening apps after they were closed is not fair to those who applied on time. Democracy can still happen, even if someone doesn't have a challenger. If other EU members wanted to make a non troll app before apps were closed, they would of been added and a vote between them would of happened. They didn't. They spoke by not having someone else run. You cant blame the mods, we didn't bar EU members from running.(as long as they didn't break forum rules in their app or make a troll app which i made clear would not be accepted) You are arguing for the removal of NA and Eu differentiation, and instead just having 2 reps. If that is what you wanted, then you should of pushed for this change when you were CR.
You are assuming that the few that posted here represent all of the EU members or even a majority. Unless you can back that up, don't bother speaking for all of them. Too many times someone has spoken on "behalf of the people" when they really only spoke for a few.(usually a vocal few) Even if someone is elected by the majority, it doesn't mean a majority share the same view on a subject. I haven't seen the last or new rep speak on this.
There are quite a few things that you need the forum for. You know this. Just being on steam is not enough. especially if people cant talk to you on steam.
anyways the above is my opinion. CR thing is Duuring's thing. He can make whatever changes he wants to it. in this case, the change is not unreasonable, even if you disagree with it. in under a day, we will know who won the NA election, and you can talk to them about what changes you want or would like.
this will be my last response on this for a while so don't expect a response right away.
