Feb 26th 2011, 19:36:06
Originally posted by Rico:
Politics got Slag killed. Yes, his actions against an IMP member played a huge part of it, but that wasn't the only reason. Truth is I was not a big fan before then. As everyone knows IMP has an anti self-farming stance. Seeing his 500k acre country at the top of my screen just freaking ate at me.
But ultimately the real reason we went after Slag was because of his "My way or the highway" stance. I read one of his messages to Tit and he is all "Admins make the rules." If you read the self-farming threads it is all "self farming is not against the rules", and whenever Earth 2025 is brought up he is quick to state this isn't Earth 2025, it is new leadership and they make the rules on this server.
So going after him was our way of saying, "Yes, the Admins make the rules, but the player base self governs within those rules" Tit asking a couple allies to help kill a country in Primary was the player base self-governing. IMP going after Slag in FFA was the player base self-governing. If he wants to play on this server his admin status will not protect him, he is just another player to me. A player that can be killed at any moment... why? Because the player base self-governs.
But ultimately the real reason we went after Slag was because of his "My way or the highway" stance. I read one of his messages to Tit and he is all "Admins make the rules." If you read the self-farming threads it is all "self farming is not against the rules", and whenever Earth 2025 is brought up he is quick to state this isn't Earth 2025, it is new leadership and they make the rules on this server.
So going after him was our way of saying, "Yes, the Admins make the rules, but the player base self governs within those rules" Tit asking a couple allies to help kill a country in Primary was the player base self-governing. IMP going after Slag in FFA was the player base self-governing. If he wants to play on this server his admin status will not protect him, he is just another player to me. A player that can be killed at any moment... why? Because the player base self-governs.
no, you play our game so you subscribe to our rules.
I'm still debating what to do about IMP, and seeing posts like that don't help your cause much.
you don't make the rules; we do. when you attack a mod for his moderating on other servers you cross a line that has never been crossed before. it's absolutely inappropriate to target a mod for doing his job on another server -- and the bottom line is that this is what the issue is about.
KC made it seem like IMP was apologetic yesterday, but apparently that isn't the way they actually feel, and that is unfortunate.
I have had access to every piece of information on this subject, deleted posts, emails, ingame info, messages, everything. The way IMP reacted was absolute horsefluff, and this continues that reaction.
regardless of the Primary situation, IMP crossed a major line and to see this kind of "we did what was right, everyone support us. the admins suck." kind of attitude being thrown around here it makes me pretty angry.
we went out of our way to make this server for the FFA community and this is frankly a bunch of spitting in our face by people who just want to cause trouble.
if you wanted to solve this in the first place, a simple forum msg to me or qz would have resolved it. I've still only talked to one IMP'er, whose attitude apparently doesn't align with the rest of his clanmates.
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