Questioning GM Decisions

[Aadill]

Originally Posted by Barkingturtle [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Between the cheating, half-assed punishments, and disdain for dissenting opinions, well, new players should be scared of this server. And frankly, as a member of a community one has a responsibility to question the decisions of its leaders when those decisions are, for whatever reason, unpredictable and inconsistent.

Most of the dissent is taking place in this context. The "WIPE IT CLEAN" crowd, perhaps goes overboard but most people are discontent with the fact that the rule that everyone has followed when they "Agreed to the Project 1999 EULA" was null and void for this case due to an inconsistency in the very philosophy of the server staff at large.

As mentioned, previous instances in which players or entities were reprimanded for similar reasons resulted in public knowledge and ridicule well beyond what should have occurred, according to this thread. That was no healthier to the server than what is being exclaimed now, yet it went on for months via thread tags, posts, and in game. This is the same thing on a larger scale, affecting more people, and now it's no longer okay? The problem people have is that their friends, guildmates, groupmates, forum buddies, etc betrayed their trust. Sure it's over pixels but it's still unseeming of a server that promotes fairness to have a rampant problem that people wan to push under the rug.

I'm for quelling the loudmouths that are shouting WIPE IT CLEAN, but beyond that you should expect dissent. I don't see anything wrong with that whether the opinion is in the majority or minority. Transparency is important.

Actual edit: ONLY private discourse involving such a public matter would not promote transparency or trust, especially at this point. Due to the fact that the population at large is not getting a master list of everyone that was suspended, it should not come as a surprise that people are voicing disapproval and even saying they don't want to stick around because they're not sure whether their groupmmate is a cheater or not. As mentioned by some, this is a fairly huge deal as the covenant of trust was broken between the players who "Accepted the Terms of Agreement of the P99 EULA" and those that decided to ignore it.