darth

So you had to go out of your way to be objective? After the first thing you wrote was ripped apart by the post below it, you went out of your way to edit it and find something else to get on me about. Re-read the post I made. You obviously did not read it through the first time. Whether or not he put money into nerd wasn't the point - me asking if he did was to see if I could try and find where this sort of "overlord" mentality comes from. Read some of his posts from earlier in this thread. Essentially it's: "This is how I like things, this won't ever change, oh well." We're losing active, caring members of this community. I didn't need to "Fact Check" that, because I've been watching it happen first hand for years. Yes people get older and move on i understand that, but usually there's people to replace them in some capacity. Eventually we're just gonna be a stagnant husk of what we once were, and I - and obviously at least a FEW others in this thread - don't want to see this happen. I'll quote you here from an earlier post you made on this forum: "Get over yourself."

Sapphric, did you at any time, donate to nerd? It's obviously not a question i really need an answer to, but I ask because doing that and being in the position you're in now would certainly be some of the ingredients that would create situation that breeds entitlement. As in, "I've spent my time and my money on this and have assumed a leadership role, so it's going to be ran based around my ideals" (read: "one man's derp house is another man's palace"). Here's the issue with that: You don't have any entitlement to rule. you aren't the iron-fisted ruler of the PVE server. You were chosen, not hired.\ This is a community and you acting like you ARE the iron-fisted ruler of the PVE server is - plainly and simply - toxic. In Fact, ANY leader of a COMMUNITY (this isn't a COMPANY) acting in a stubborn and/or unresponsive manner is toxic. Toxic - in this case- to the direction some leaders are trying to steer Nerd. This community is going to die. It's been dying since John Adams had her unofficial "Head admins and friends" group and ran everyone off the road and locked everything down and bans were made on personal grounds (IE: really really dumb reasons because someone spoke badly of her or something along those lines if I remember correctly). You were either in with the program, or treated like garbage should you try to speak up. I'm really getting that vibe again here. maybe because A LOT of you were in power then. I've been the one to start these conversations twice with other "Gaming communities": once back in 2008, and once a couple years ago with the Junction reboot. I was laughed at, torn down, lied to, ridiculed - similar to the way some of the leadership in this community would seem to be handling this thread. Both communities died less than a year later Partly due to leadership doing nothing but sitting on their thrones while their metaphorical kingdoms and castles burned to the ground and the inhabitants of both left with no actual effort to bring more in. In this case, it's leadership metaphorically locking down a half-burnt, partially abandoned tract of land, making it unappealing to long-timers such as ourselves. The issue of the derp house of Mr. Stone was perpetuated as long as it was because it was also meant to shine light on a very important thing: the issues with Nerd leadership. you all threw a fit over an 81 block, over three month old, abandoned building. could we of not built in the area? yes, we never even actually intended to - we just kinda started doing so. Could you just of moved the build? YES, and you DIDN'T because you were trying to make a point. "THIS is how it is. TOO BAD." what? really? Okay, yeah, acting like that is certainly conducive to the community. I love this community as a whole, but frankly some of you make me almost physically ill. I know some of you are in work leadership roles IRL too, and the fact people who act like this are actually in charge of others and money is heavily involved makes me sick. this kind of leadership in a donation-driven community is not professionalism - it's powerlust.

Redwall was trolling, vykoden. No comment on your reply, but when I see three posts from admins whose posts only pertain to the "jab" you snuck in and weren't otherwise constructive, I could tell you didn't get it. Chill man, it's all good. although, I noticed no admin backing up Redwall mentioned that an admin made a "trolling" post in a serious thread with a well thought out and well-written post and caused a slight derail- c'mon. Also if I recall, there were instances in the past where a mod or someone like that made a large land claim in a PVE rev before the revision even fully started - don't remember when that was specifically though. What about large landclaims with a weekish long timer on them maybe? and obviously there would have to be a limit. and only during a certain time after rev start? that would give town members that can't get on immediately a saved spot for any town changes, time to build a fence around boundaries (with large, irrelevant, and empty spaces getting cut out when the time was up- ignoring fence lines if need be. it would kinda be like "we saved a seat for ya!" except you know, instead of a seat it would be a potato store or something on the edge of town.