I'd like to bring up a complaint with RebelINS'
moderating, starting with the following:
*DISCLAIMER* This is not an attack on RebelINS, or anything he may stand for. This is a criticism on his moderating technique.
1.
Criticism
-- If you choose to criticize a piece of art be sure to be constructive in doing so, 'You're art sucks/is awesome' doesn't count.
-- If you have nothing nice to say, give useful advice to the artist your criticizing so that he/she may improve, it helps with the constructive part of 'constructive criticism'
The criticisms given to Aptanor in the IRC were not following these guidelines at all. Granted, it was not in the art subforum, but I believe a moderator should follow his own word.
<RebelINS>: looks like ugly
<Aptanor>: Have anything to say besides "It's bad ololololol"?
<RebelINS>: no thats it
<RebelINS>: problem?
<Aptanor>: Well
<Aptanor>: That was rude.
<RebelINS>: yeah
<RebelINS>: for my eyes
<Aptanor>: Wow
2.
He just recently deleted a whole page of "drama." Sure it was drama and offtopic, but some of that was evidence and criticisms on his moderation. Where was the warning? There was a whole slew of unprofessional behavior in that thread.
3.
It's very unprofessional the way he talks down to everyone. Now yes, he likely is the best candidate for art mod, and does a decent job, but the condescending talk is very demeaning, and puts people off of the forums.
It's all pretty unprofessional how varied his moderation is. Certain threads are moderated heavily, with all spam and offtopic things crushed, where some threads are left untouched, even when there is a lot of dumb posts.
Example:
http://www.ganggarrison.com/forums/index.php?topic=18781.0Yeah, it's a little old, but Rebel warned the people twice about being offtopic, and did nothing to stop it. In fact, he added to it when he argued with Uberdeath. Now, this would be fine, but going back to Aptanor's thread, a page was deleted without any prior warning, or even a post saying "I deleted some offtopic stuff, that's your warning." Each thread posted here gets different treatment with his moderation, it seems.
4.
Taking things too personally. Now, after the whole Aptanor thing had passed, this was said in the IRC:
<RebelINS>: haha
<RebelINS>: why is aptanor a crybaby bitch?
This is extremely unprofessional. He is talking behind aptanor's back, about something that he didn't even give enough time to talk about. Adding insult to injury is the fact that this was in the public IRC, which many new players join to find out more about the game. This talk has nothing to do with Gang Garrison 2, and puts off a negative atmosphere.
I've taken the liberty of pm'ing this to Mr Fredman, MedO, Chris P. Bacon, Jebus_Chris, and cspotcode, in the event that something should happen to this post.