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Regarding dramas and site/staff complaints.

1. Some are a bit disconnected from the community, but everyone in general is nice and know how to do their jobs.
2. Hmm, maybe the way they express themselves, sometimes. Can't think of anything else.
3. It should have me in.
No really, the staff is pretty good as it is right now, only the occacional problem I mentioned on point 2 is my complain. The staff is good.

Also Dipalon, we'd appretiate if you please showed a bit of maturity and stopped; you're doing exactly what we don't want anymore. If you get banned again don't come and wonder why you did,because that kind of posting is exactly what pisses everyone off. Joey summed it up perfectly.

(also please stop advertising your hack off topic; that will NOT make people play it.)
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Originally posted by Dipalon
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Dipalon, may you please stop your ranting about the quality of the site?

Dipalon. The reason why you had been banned for several times was caused by your sarcastic, cynical and unwelcome attitude; you're doing exactly what we don't want to happen anymore. As I understand that there's many room of improvement in your attitude. Just change your attitude, stop being a whining jerk, and try to be "nice, friendly" guy as long as your attitude didn't gone nut. I assume you can do it, right?

Just my two cents.
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@Dipalon: I understand it's not nice for you to be banned or jumped on by everyone else. However you must understand those posts you made in Hot of the Press had nothing to do with the topic in hand, and some of them were disrespectful towards certain people (i.e. dead people, pegasisters). HoTP is a serious forum, and you should keep a serious attitude there. Also, you need to get to the point in your posts, you spend too much time saying irrelevant things like "it's like having two guys delivering a pizza" and posting images instead of getting to what you want to say, and it isn't funny either.

@Riolu, what do you mean exactly with "robotic"? I generally try to be as flexible as I can and I try to approach the userbase, but maybe I could be giving the opposite impression? In either case, if you think I could improve in something I'd like you to elaborate more. If you want you can send me a PM instead of replying in this thread.
Originally posted by Dipalon
Those are the exact same thing. They even spelled the same words wrong, proving it to be a copy.

I mean, at least TRY to write individual PMs for everyone.

a) Why would they spend more time dealing with troublemakers than they need to?
b) I'd like to point you towards this, this, this and this.

I'm not sure if b) was your passive aggressive response to said ban messages or not, but either way you're either hypocritical or both hypocritical and trying too hard.


About that "too much staff" argument, how would decreasing it help?
Your pizza argument isn't very valid either, since it's not like multiple hack mods moderate the same hack, they just split the workload, resulting in many people delivering many pizzas faster than one guy could.
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Originally posted by Dipalon

Bottom line: Stop whining about drama and play Mario's Deadly Adventure instead.

Another reason people don't like you: advertising your hack everywhere you can even when it doesn't relate to the topic. Why not link it in your signature?
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Originally posted by Riolu180
1: They're quite nice!
2: aj, I think you're a bit too robotic here. I always get that impression from you, especially in that last drama thread. (italics not for emphasis)
3: I dunno. First off, you, aj. I'd make you less robotic. I don't think staff members being robotic is a very good idea, it makes you feel like you're just here for a job, instead of actually interacting with us and forming friendships and caring. That last part's the big thing; it kinda feels like you're uncaring towards people due to how you come off as robotic. I'd like to see that changed.

Second...I have a big complaint here. I've recently had a...negative experience with a staff member. I will not state their name, but you may send me a PM on IRC (if I'm active) for more information if you wish. This staff member recently kept calling me whiny on #minecraft because I was complaining about and disagreeing with their changes to the Minecraft FTB server we have set up. After doing this, I pointed out that, days earlier, this staff member made very similar complaints (to the point of being whinier than they claimed I was being!) about how the config files of the server were edited from default.

The complaint is not about their complaining, it is the attitude. ...If you wish to know more, please send me a PM on IRC and I'll give you the logs; I have a very good reason for not stating the identity or logs publicly.



1. Okay, using the word 'robotic' several times without clarifying what you mean does not help anyone, especially aj. Do you mean he's too unemotional? Too logical? Too rule-abiding? Because I'd have to disagree with you on all three of those possibilities after getting to know him a little better via Skype messages. Clarification would be great.

2. Regarding your little issue with the Minecraft stuff.....dude, grow up. Seriously. Everyone who says something even remotely negative about you is mean and hurtful and has a bad attitude, according to you. You're the same guy who said you had mother-son relationship issues because she didn't have time to take you to the post office to mail something into pokémon.com one day and/or to take you to Gamestop. Although I don't know the specifics about this Minecraft issue, what you have revealed tells me enough to know the staff member you're talking about, and I know for certain that said staff member does not accuse someone of being 'whiny' unless there is a good and obvious reason for it.

TL;DR - Before you level attitude-related accusations against the staff, clarify them and make sure you actually have something remotely valid to base your beliefs on.
But how does that relate to the staff at all?
Kieran complaining about whining (and hurting you with that) means there's an issue betweeen you two on a personal level, not on an SMWC staff level.

I do agree it was hypocritical though, since he did do exactly the same, albeit on a little smaller scale.


Originally posted by Camerin
Do you mean he's too unemotional? Too logical? Too rule-abiding? Because I'd have to disagree with you on all three of those possibilities after getting to know him a little better via Skype messages.

The problem is that he probably is very different on the forums and elsewhere, heck, he even changed from before he was on staff and now.
Not necessarily in his personality, but the way he speaks.

His way of speak/typing on the forums is much more distanced for most people's tastes and from what I've seen (I've seen) he rarely talks about anything subjective, he's always rather objective and to the point.
Neither of these traits are negative, especially for an admin, but they do make people seem "robotic".
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There is also a slight language barrier for AJ--maybe not being a native English speaker keeps him from being able to express his true feelings as clearly. I'd argue you sort of have the same problem. It's not an attitude problem as much as a simple language problem.

Also I did not mean Kieran when I was talking about the Minecraft thing...unless I misunderstood your post.

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Originally posted by Camerin
1. Okay, using the word 'robotic' several times without clarifying what you mean does not help anyone, especially aj. Do you mean he's too unemotional? Too logical? Too rule-abiding? Because I'd have to disagree with you on all three of those possibilities after getting to know him a little better via Skype messages. Clarification would be great.



Nothing a quick Google search can't do.
Robotic - (of a person) Mechanical, stiff, or unemotional.

Originally posted by MrDeePay
Originally posted by Camerin
1. Okay, using the word 'robotic' several times without clarifying what you mean does not help anyone, especially aj. Do you mean he's too unemotional? Too logical? Too rule-abiding? Because I'd have to disagree with you on all three of those possibilities after getting to know him a little better via Skype messages. Clarification would be great.



Nothing a quick Google search can't do.
Robotic - (of a person) Mechanical, stiff, or unemotional.



You clearly missed the point of Camerin's post. As those factors may define robotic, but Camerin's point is for Riolu180 to elaborate more specifically as personal expectations of what is robotic will vary.

Edit: Fixed my terrible spelling >.< .
Originally posted by p4plus2
You clearly missed the point of Camerin's post. As those factors may define robotic, but Camerin's point is for Riolu180 to elaborate more specifically as personal expectations of what is robotic will vary.

Edit: Fixed my terrible spelling >.< .

I already talked with aj, though, and I clarified to him and he understands and such. So, that's that. :)
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I actually like aj's way of posting. I find it nothing but appropriate for him to be objective, professional, and diplomatic, especially as an admin. I felt that his responses about certain issues are better than many responses I personally would have had.


(Also, I know I'm one of those staff who are rather distanced from the community.. That's my own issue that I had been trying to work on, but now I'm not so sure.. but that's a side-point that's only relevant to myself I guess.)

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I, for one, agree.

There has been too much drama lately.

I appreciate the staff's noble efforts to tone it down.

Thank you, staff. Thank you.
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omg, I don't even know how to respond to that.

Setting ban for 48 hour. You are completely derailing the thread, you have no clue how to use the tags and your layout is beyond broken. I am nuking your layout and will PM you the code. Please fix it before you ban is up. Hopefully by then your attempt to be a smart-ass will be cleaned out of your system.
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e to avoid ban: Alright, go ahead and Case this so we can point to this whenever someone wants a "serious" debate on drama. This thread is pointless by this point, Dipalon deserves a permaban, and we can all forget this ever happened.

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omg, I don't even know how to respond to that.

Setting ban for 48 hour. You are completely derailing the thread, you have no clue how to use the tags and your layout is beyond broken. I am nuking your layout and will PM you the code. Please fix it before you ban is up.

Originally posted by Egadd

You two are officially the best people ever.

Back on topic, I really have no real opinion regarding the staff. I just sit back and watch the site function. It seems the same to me as it was back in 2008, although the staff may have a little less tolerance than before. But given the rapid increase in size of the community, I wouldn't expect any different.
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Whoa. It really escalated quickly.

Also, won't respond anymore to any of Dipalon's points here because I will derail this thread as well, so, let's get back to the main purpose of this thread now.

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Originally posted by me
I just think that SMW hacking is slowly losing popularity.

I used to say this two years ago after I first realised it when Kieran's C3 expectations were not met. I was happy to learn this place was still going strong years later, so don't give up on it yet. :)


Yeah, you're probably right. Plus I must admit that I haven't been as active recently, so that could very well be a factor.

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Originally posted by Ultimaximus
I actually like aj's way of posting. I find it nothing but appropriate for him to be objective, professional, and diplomatic, especially as an admin.

I agree, I made that same point in my post, too, when I said that those aren't bad traits for an admin, but it does make it difficult to engage him on a personal level for most people.

And @Camerin
a) Yeah I meant Kieran, he's the one Riolu meant, I know this because I was there.
b) By now I don't think my posting style is the language barrier any more, I've just grown accustomed to posting like this on forums.
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Holy drama Batman! That surely must be the biggest post I have EVER seen on this site! #smw{O_O}

Anyway back to the topic being discussed. Here are my answers to the three questions aj asked in the first post:

1. I think the staff are doing great. I have no issues to mention with anyone.
2. No, there is nothing that I dislike about the staff.
3. I don't feel that anything about the staff needs changing.