When new members on the forum seek for help they tend to post on a staff members profile for help because they don't know how to navigate the forums yet. You could easily come up with many other methods of contact considering you've been on the forum for a while but a new player doesn't have the same mindset. All I've seen in this thread is 'why should we leave our profiles open?', but I haven't seen a reason as to why not? The only thing I've gathered is that mods can be harassed, which is a whole different issue about mods needing to grow a pair. Can anyone give me a valid reason?
Honestly, I see no problem with profiles being locked as long as players are able to PM the mod. If both are locked, then I see your point, but usually if our profiles are locked, you guys are still allowed to private message us. As Adrian said, if something needs to be reported, that is why we have a report section. If it is a question that the whole community can talk about or answer, we have a help section for that. If it is just a small question, I'm sure a PM is the smartest choice in all of this. Edit: Also I'm sure not every staff member has their profile locked. If someone is determined to write on a staff members profile, then we have a large number for you guys to choose from.
I wasn't sure if you were joking when you said that you couldn't see a problem with them being locked? Ease of access. Mods are supposed to be as easily accessed as possible in as many forms as possible. New players; elaborated by TimePlaysGames The fact that staff are the role models of the server. They shouldn't be closed off if they're here, taking on the position of leadership. Allowing the ability for players to gage staff performance; I know this sounds strange, but a perfect example of this is staff reports. Urgent instances that need tending to. It's completely circumstantial as to when a mod may be needed, or more or less which mod may be needed. It is ignorant to say that people could 'create a report' or contact another mod. Mods shouldn't have anything to hide, or specifically 'lock' in this instance, especially if they expect the community to respect the fact that the mods are essentially there to tell the community how things are.. I'm sure there is numerous other reasons as to why profiles shouldn't be locked due to the fact that this subject is so circumstantial. The point is that there are many for's, yet little to or no valid against's. The only reasons I have seen so far are the following; -'Harassment' which is taken completely out of context and has in no way been thought about considering that we are talking about MODS here. -'Contact other mods or create a report', as stated, circumstantial and subjective. -The fact that profile posts is annoying and that the community shouldn't have the right to view a mods profile? I was hoping this too was a joke but sadly I don't think it was.. That's probably the most pathetic one of the lot. You don't apply to help the community, be granted the privilege of being a mod and then throw it back into the community's face by calling their profile posts 'annoying'? So what if you choose to delete it? Smh. -'Messaging is enough', I think this post clears that up quite well. Enough said or?..
i haven't rated threads in a while... o-o feels weird to click on every post i see now.. either way, i was gonna make a thread on this because i find it extremely irritating. they're a mod, they can ban players if they're getting harassed. kbyei'mout
All In-game moderators are automatically promoted on the forums and are expected to help. In-game moderators all have a speical [Mod] prefix which tells you who is a mod and who's not. .. I honestly got confused by what you wrote, but I hope I answered your question?
I agree with what you are saying, actually. I have had multiple incidents where a player doesn't know how to make a private conversation, and it can get irritating for the player and the mod. However, when you See, your attitude says otherwise. Every single thing you find "wrong" about the staff team, you say it in a way that isn't constructive.
I don't feel like this is a real constructive topic just more straight up. You can be constructive to teach people certain things. This is something that is just enabled or disabled. How do you be constructive on that?
It's more of how you say it rather than what you say. For example, if I would say, "Wow, these staff members are completely unaware of the things that go on and lock their profiles for NO absolute reason," that would sound worse than this: "I feel like the staff members should unlock their profiles and allow players to contact them both ways. It will be more effective for the player and the mod."
I state my reasons, that's my constructive criticism. Take it as you wish, doesn't mean I'm out to specifically get staff. It's ignorant to think that I am out to get staff in general. I have had many problems with the staff on here, yes, but I couldn't care less what they thought of me on here. I try to be a voice of reason on here. If you didn't notice, I started the thread with the question "is there a reason why staff profiles are locked?" And staff didn't like that? I questioned the same thing on MV. It's nothing to do with attacking them, it's a logical point.
Staff leave profiles unlocked. Staff are corrupt. Staff leave profiles LOCKED Staff are corrupt. Really? -_-
This thread shouldn't need 5 pages of players bringing up points. Look if you're a mod, all forms of communication need to be open. You can't assume people know how to create PMs, or how to create a thread, or even post on a profile. But they need to have that option to do any of the following.
