Sancdar Posted:

From what I’ve heard, many of the moderators rely on reported posts to let them know when something needs their attention. I would too, reading everything on Flamebate would take excessive amounts of time and turn me suicidal. I also bumume that at least as many players as mods have the rules fairly nailed down even if just to know how to best get around them, so consulting the player base is not a bad idea.

It doesn’t surprise me in the least that the apprentice group and the task force have a lot of overlap. CZ was apparently looking for people who can express their opinions and carry on an intelligent discussion without excess trolling in both groups. I personally don’t know much about Bashy, but I can understand why someone who gets a lot of buildr submissions in would get picked as a person that understands the larger community and their humor, for example.

That’s the thing; it’s not that CZ picked top buildrs to be a part of this task force, it’s that intelligent, well-spoken, creative players typically tend to be good at ForumBuildr too. That’s the same reason the Apprentice team has a lot of faces in this rules committee too.

What I don’t really get is how anyone is complaining; in all honesty, I can’t remember ever being involved on a game/forum that directly let users help discuss and implement rules and onsite policies.

You guys are ****ing about “not being represented,” would you have preferred there be NO players and let the mods and admins “do all the representing?” Cuz that’s your other option. Personally, I think we’ve accomplished a good amount, from letting shock be postable in RP to this new community ban measure, so I don’t see why there’s so much bumhurt going on in this thread.

Maybe next time, CZ can just involve no players in their site policy discussions, and we can see how much better that works out.