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(10-19-2014, 11:05 AM)Cheffy Wrote: I'll be frank. I don't give a shit about fire emblem. Only reason why I joined up was because I was IRL pals with Falkyn and... lone wolf, or lone dragon wolf or whatever the guy's name was that played the dragon card before MT showed. Regardless, I stayed because people would bullshit with me in the spam forums. I left because of blatant power abuse and favoritism(the Leon and marcus fiasco), a complete lack of transparency if staff decisions and actions, and a general attitude of "I am right and you are dumb" from Sas/Zero, with nobody contesting them.

This was by far my biggest beef with the staff at the time, and was one of the main reasons why I was constantly bickering with the staff 6+ years ago. A ton of the staff had the "I'm right, you're wrong" attitude, and SaS/Zerxer took it to extremes. I was the only staff member that stood up to them about it. Yes, I've made some dumbass mistakes while as staff, and I was guilty of some of the things the staff was doing, but I never liked the general atmosphere they were imposing on the memberbase to begin with.

What happened, do you ask? I got booted off the staff. Eventually, I got banned because I got tired of their general circle-jerking so I started trolling the shit out of them. I consistantly watched over the site, still, and made an alt account as soon as I found out SaS and Zerxer flew the coop.

Since then, I've used my past experiences with this site's staff, as well as help from a friend of mine who owns a pretty big site, to use my own knowledge from my past mistakes, all on how NOT to be a staff member, and recreated the staff guidelines. You should pretty much expect the staff to be a lot more friendly to incoming new members from now on. We put the new members before us now.

Quote:I am not the model forum member you wish to attract or keep. I just like systems of rules, and the maintenance/use/interpretation thereof.

I could probably argue that I'm not much better, and look how I've reshaped the forum today. My point is, you're much better off than a lot of people nowadays, because as far as I know, you have your head in the right place, and you know when exactly a place has gone to shit. The only difference is, I was a lot more vocal about it, and I got brutally punished for it.

Quote:Afterthought: The sheer number of name changes that went on was another massive blow. I can't give a shit about the community when everyone constantly has some other name, and I'm left not knowing who anyone is on a week-to-week basis.

Oh god. Not those. NOT THOSE.

The name changes were the bane of my existance.

Yes, I know I was guilty of this 6+ years ago, and I've only recently stopped doing this about 2-3 years ago. But I'm definitely glad this has stopped being a thing. As far as I know, ever since moving to the new forum platform, I have not once received a single name change request, and honestly, this is a welcome change. Obviously, if you play FETO, you will still see the occasional name change, but it's nowhere near as bad as it was 6+ years ago. But that's because FETO is still being hosted on the old and outdated IPB software.

My biggest issue with the name changes are, is, the system is way too broken. And I'm not talking about just the name change system, I'm talking about the item shop system that hosts most of the name changes. I'm not shitting you when I say this, but... no. I'm not going to waste my time telling you how horrible the item shop system is. I'll let a single screenshot do all the talking.



Simply put, stupidly broken. You could name change a million times over the course of a single day. That's how bad the item system was.

If name changes are to be done on this forum, I'm only allowing 2, maybe 3 times a year. If you don't like it, I'm sorry, but we're not allowing IPBFEP to happen ever again. The only exception we'll make is if you spelled the name wrong, or something.