@magee101 said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:
Thus to me, it looks very bad that three people are individuals and not a TEAM. With 3 people there should be no varying facets shown from the mods, you 3 should be united especially in situations like this or SIMPLY do not comment because as people are pointing out, it is confusing the fuck out of us and making us even more worried.
Perhaps I'm in the wrong here - it wouldn't be the first time - but I don't value conformity very much when it comes to administrating MSB. Consistency yes, absolutely, and each time we had to actually act we made sure we agreed beforehand whether it was to decide on whether someone had stepped over the line, or to introduce a new forum or whatever else.
I just took a look at some stats for this past month, and there have been 4717 posts made in that time. Other than like 5 of the ones Lain's assorted accounts made that got deleted the fraction of the rest we even considered acting on (let alone actually did anything with) is tiny. Miniscule.
Sometimes things get blown way out of proportion and this is one of those cases. We're not trying to resolve an epidemic here but to discuss with our users how to improve. We've been working on keeping toxicity outside of the Hog Pit, and we want to do a better job at it, so instead of conferring internally to make a decision solely on our end we brought it to you guys to see what you thought.
In the process of doing so we - as members of this community - also presented our individual thoughts. Which differ, since we're not a hive mind. I don't view this as a problem, especially since moderating a forum is different than staffing a MU* which requires the regular (everyday, in fact) exercise of authority, having a united front, clear separation between what one does as staff and what they do as a player, etc.
So I disagree with you here. I do think though the messaging itself should have been clearer when I started asking for input, which is solely on me. So my bad there.