@Ganymede said in What Would it Take to Repair the Community?:
It was decided pretty much unilaterally that MSB would be something it never had been in any of its past incarnations. I've been here for all of them going back tot he original WORA before Nymeria got Tasteless Descs shut down.
As you know, I've been here that long as well.
If by "unilaterally," you mean "without consulting the rest of the community," then that would be an accurate conclusion.
And just to be clear. This is something I supported, and still do.
Just because MSB was ran a specific way by me that doesn't make it the 'right' way. There is no 'right' way to administrate a forum any more than there is to run a game. During my time at the helm folks had plenty of concerns about the Hog Pit, its rules (or lack thereof) and the way personal attacks were permitted to happen.
There is nothing wrong with changing that. I picked my poison. Gany picked another.
@Derp said in What Would it Take to Repair the Community?:
This point has been made many times, here and on the new board, and there's always an underlying thread that people gloss over:
we are not a community.
Or, more precisely, not one community. There are several different communities, philosophies, and ideologies lumped in that 'community', and frankly, some of them are incompatible in rather volatile ways.
On that though we need to firmly disagree.
Of course there are different points of view and philosophies. I don't think they are nearly as incompatible as you make them out to be - otherwise MSB would have imploded years ago.
Creating (or changing) policies creates friction. That should be expected, accounted for and some more patience and understanding would have gone a long way.
In my opinion it behooves anyone in an administrative position to be at least willing to account for the fact they could have handled something differently, to see things from someone else's point of view even if they are prepared to stand their ground, and to be patient when a plan doesn't go well.
However what concerns me here, and I'll be honest, is that you don't seem to think the plan went wrong.