In response to Moderators hanging out in chat for funzies.

[Vythica]

Originally Posted by Anpu

And why is that a problem for you? You want all kids for yourself or?

I dont understand, his presence on realm chat brings benefit to realm.
You have someone willing to invest part of his free time to help new players by answering questions, talk with older players and possible share some news he got (as he is a staff from NGD). And plus, he will sure try his the best to make realm chat more pleasant place, eliminating trolls/other kind of bad users.

My point is not to negate you, but I m failing to see good reason for such a "complain".

What are you his spokesman? You sound like you're reciting a resumé for the guy. My point is this; not only does it appear big-brother-ish, but he's not exactly a "righteous" user, I've seen him swear in realm chat ON a mod account... And here you talk about cleaning up the chat and setting a good example...my only problem with that isn't that he swore it's that it said "[Mod]" next his name.

Look, I'm not trying to troll, I'm simply saying that these things could be avoided by simply hanging out in chat as a "Regular user". If you need to do "mod duties" then log into that account. Historically RO hasn't needed official policing, we do that pretty well on our own. We also help the noobies. On our own. We don't need a frackin' hall monitor.

[Myxir]

Originally Posted by Vythica

What are you his spokesman? You sound like you're reciting a resumé for the guy. My point is this; not only does it appear big-brother-ish, but he's not exactly a "righteous" user, I've seen him swear in realm chat ON a mod account... And here you talk about cleaning up the chat and setting a good example...my only problem with that isn't that he swore it's that it said "[Mod]" next his name.

Look, I'm not trying to troll, I'm simply saying that these things could be avoided by simply hanging out in chat as a "Regular user". If you need to do "mod duties" then log into that account. Historically RO hasn't needed official policing, we do that pretty well on our own. We also help the noobies. On our own. We don't need a frackin' hall monitor.

Have you ever been to other Regnum servers with gamemasters?
There is 1 at least online all the time.

[Immune]

Originally Posted by Vythica

My point is this; not only does it appear big-brother-ish...

How is this even a problem...

Originally Posted by Vythica

...he's not exactly a "righteous" user, I've seen him swear in realm chat ON a mod account... And here you talk about cleaning up the chat and setting a good example...my only problem with that isn't that he swore it's that it said "[Mod]" next his name...

If you don't have a problem with swearing, it shouldn't matter who said it or what it said next to their name.

Originally Posted by Vythica

...Look, I'm not trying to troll, I'm simply saying that these things could be avoided by simply hanging out in chat as a "Regular user". If you need to do "mod duties" then log into that account. Historically RO hasn't needed official policing, we do that pretty well on our own. We also help the noobies. On our own. We don't need a frackin' hall monitor.

"These things" just seem like excuses to complain to me. He's done nothing wrong and you're making a big deal out of nothing. If you have to, ignore him and move on. No one else seems to have a problem with it, leave him be.

[Vythica]

See that's where you and I agree. He's done nothing wrong (except for one occasion of swearing that I've personally seen) but other than that nothing. But there is a perception that's being put out. And it's a bad one. I have a feeling if anyone else had brought this up it would have been taken more seriously, but because I'm me, this is a chance for some of you to disagree to disagree.

[DkySven]

I said 'shit' once, why are you making such a deal out of it?

[Vythica]

Because when you're on your mod account you represent NGD, not yourself.

[Vythica]

I've had posts removed and "infractions" (whatever those are) by you. For much less than the word which I won't say because if violates terms of use. I'm just saying if you live in a glass house, don't throw bricks. It's one thing to pop on and handle something if it gets out of hand, it's another to breathe down the community's neck 24/7/365.

[Gideon_Slack]

Keep up the good work Dky.

I will say as a Moderator you just can't win. For some strange reason, many MMO players regards game publishers and moderators as "the man" -- who are always trying to screw them somehow. It's almost paranoid.

I've seen this is in realm chat. Someone will ask Dky a question in a polite and respecful manner. Immediately someone will chime to say "stop sucking up to the moderator." Apparently the only proper attitude towards a mod is one of conflict and abuse. See OP.

[Angel_de_Combate]

Isn't it funny..hilarious even that no one else shares your view. Vythica