MadCamel wrote:Hey since I came in after the first move I can post here and speak my mind.
Plat, your policies have done nothing but foster fear, secracy, and general non-communication within the dev/gm community. You arranged things so there was a power structure with you at the top, and i think teamwork and comradarie (and humor!) are much more important in any community. working with tmw years ago was like working in stalin's russia. these days we have much less stress.
The poison of platyna was making everyone afraid to work together openly. Do you know how often people talk in tmw-private and go "oops this should be an open conversation" becaus of the environment your overlording fostered?
I personally think you're a raging thundercunt with no sense of humor and a god complex.
All that nasty stuff aside, I can still respect all you've done. Your intentions are pure and there's something to be said for that. I hope you stick around or come back in a few years with a better attitude.
Oh, and talk nerdy to me.
It seems to me that your past behaviour as a player here or as an admin on TAW does not make you eligible to give morality lessons to anyone including Platyna. Your past sense of humour on TAW was a very special one, I doubt that it was shared by many players there, I hope it is different now, but when I see words like those you use I fear you didn't.
To my knowledge, this is precisely because admins didn't fear to say their opinion and because no care was taken about it that they decided to move.
To my experience, the fear to do something on the server was not the origin of some latency in the decisions; real life priorities were: Platyna's studies, but also Bjorn's priority towards "Tiled", Freeyorp and Jaxad's life... Platyna took the right decision when she nomoinated Frost, then Jenalya as administrators, but she was too far from the game and it's development to notice the deep changes that occured as a whole. The range of each ones responsibilities had to be redefined... Anyway all this mess shows one thing: taking decisions with guts instead of brain never leads to nice results.
Finally Platyna made request in her first post of this thread, you could at least respect it.
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