Mr.God wrote:Dear Aquinas,
Im gonna make myself clear. And we have had this conversation before. Your tone towards me, the other mods and sometimes the GRC is condescending and i wont stand for it. I acknowledge the fact that i made a mistake and should have posted my cultural approval in the afformentioned thread. What i however wont do is stand here and be scrutinized.
We, the mods, have pointed it out day in day out towards you and others that we volunteer to do this job. I have a kid, wife and fulltime job and while i try to do my job as moderator as effectively and correctly as possible i make mistakes. Same goes for Luis and CM who both have school and other activites to attend to.
We are not like you, we are not like the other mods. Why you keep trying to refer to how "you" would have done it or how "its always been done" is something i simply cannot have sympathy for.
Moderation is dedicating the time it has in ensuring a comfortable experience for all players. WE make the decisions that we are required to make, not you or others.
While i appreciate you thinking with us on many situations we do not appreciate the condescending tone, agressive and provocative nature of your messages.
As Wouter stated in September with a post this is not a democracy. You can make requests, ofcourse you can, but you cant expect us to blindly follow those requests. You can ask for change, but shouldnt expect us to change something if we deem it unecessary.
To come to your 3 points.
Point 1. Yes, we can assure we will follow the right procedures in the future
Point 2. This is a fresh moderation team. We will not investigate previous mods on whether or not they have had similar incidents like this but will take a look at ourselves if any other instances occured
Point 3. Cildania will be put on culturally open for now but a new CP will not be put up for a vote. Instead the CP that was recently passed will be put up in the thread it is supposed to be so it goes through the process it didnt go through before
I hope to have answered you sufficiently
It comes as a relief that Moderation has now come to the right decision on this, although it is disappointing to note that before we could get to this stage, I had to raise the issue not once, but twice, and that when the climb-down came, it was accompanied by a series of aggressive comments towards and unpleasant misrepresentations about me personally. I feel very much that Moderation is yet again taking against me for caring enough to invest personal time and effort into drawing attention to a legitimate issue that is relevant to the efficient and fair administration of the game.
There has been nothing untoward about any of my posts on this thread. What has been demonstrated, sadly, is an unhealthy attitude on the part of Moderators towards reasonable feedback.
I appreciate Moderators may sometimes find feedback embarrassing or uncomfortable, particularly when errors are pointed out. However, please understand this does not necessarily mean the feedback is offensive or otherwise illegitimate.
Nobody, least of all myself, believes Particracy is or ought to be a democracy. What most of us do expect, or at least hope for, is that Moderation will follow its own rules, engage with players on feedback, and make itself reasonably accessible and accountable to the community. Regrettably, in this respect, things have not always been working out as they should.
Also, whilst I fully appreciate Moderators do not have limitless time and energy, I do believe Moderators need to respect the fact that the
same applies to other members of this community. This means that when community members invest their time and effort in constructively raising legitimate issues, that should be acknowledged and respected, not
repeatedly ignored or treated with resentment. Similarly, when a situation has arisen where community members are
repeatedly having to raise the same issue (eg. the Cultural Protocol Index not being updated), Moderators should reflect carefully on what they could do to try to reduce the frequency with which that situation arises in the future (ie. either be more careful in handling CP changes in future, or reform the system to make the administration side simpler). I completely agree with valuing Moderator's time, but
we do please need to value everybody else's time as well.
Obviously, there is an apparent discrepancy between the account Mr.God gave about the other Moderators colluding with him to disregard the rules and approve his Cultural Protocol proposal internally, and the account Luis gave to me about him and CM being unaware of any change having been made to Cildania's cultural status. For the sake of transparency and in the community interest, I would like to invite Moderation to please provide an explanation for this.
A further outstanding issue is that despite Cildania now being declared Culturally Open, there is a
Cultural Protocol reference bill in Cildania misleading players otherwise. This should be removed. Cildania should not have a Cultural Protocol reference bill unless and until a Cultural Protocol is legitimately established there.