Rules for staff interaction / where to petition for different stuff (as of 3/12/2013)

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

8. GM decisions are not up for public review or debate, nor are they for you to make.. If you don't like our decisions then that's definitely your right, however you don't get the right to sit and criciticize staff decisions on the message boards and you definitely don't get to troll the staff.. we obviously reserve the right to lock and/or delete your threads if you break this rule.

Personally I think this right here is probably why there is so much crap to deal with. Just make the entire petition system open & transparent. The community here is small enough and people like drama enough that someone making ridiculous petitions or frequently spamming the petition box is going to be publicly shamed about it which will in turn hopefully get them to chill the hell out. It also immediately kills any and all ability for people to complain about GM favoritism.

Treating the whole GM<->community interaction like we're back in 1999 on live is just not a great thing to replicate. This community is vastly different and smaller than live was and clearly the system currently in place is not working great if guides are having to make threads like this.

Anyway I don't really expect this post to change any minds but it's something worth thinking about IMO. This community has a lot of toxicity in it that I think could get eliminated with a small amount of transparency.