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thessalian) wrote2006-11-26 08:14 pm
thessalian) wrote2006-11-26 08:14 pm
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Raaaaaaaaagh!
...I'm going to be bitchy now.
Okay, so the Charleston by Night crew basically decided to change everything. New setting, new characters, new staff (cos most of the old ones quit and more and more I start to see why), everything. Fine. So the Charleston by Night crew start discussing new setting. Great, because some interesting ideas came up and I don't know about some of the other players, but I was personally well chuffed to see that the players were feeling like they could have more of a say.
Then came Ryan. I have received the impression from a couple of sources now that Ryan can be problematic to the staff. So when he turned around, basically derided the decision to open a forum to discuss city choice and told the remaining Admin to just make up his mind already and dump an arbitrary decision on the players, I got a wee bit peeved. Of course, the dittomonkeying of this sentiment by those players who hadn't spoken up about feeling like they had no voice in where the board was going didn't make me feel any better either, so I did my usual thing of verbally bitch-slapping the predominant offending party and then wondering why the hell I bothered.
Then came Rck. Oh, that was lovely. That wasn't just "DB, make a decision already". That was, "DB, if you can't make a decision already, step down in favour of someone who can". So ... let me get this right: this seems to be saying that, if the remaining Admin won't take the steps that these players want, he should no longer serve as Admin. Yeah; brilliant strategy. The one person who's still willing to run anything for this bunch of ingrates and they're trying to drive him out. Bra-fucking-vo. I mean, I know it's frustrating - I offered to staff Mage ages ago and still haven't heard a damn thing - but I don't think he should have to take this kind of crap just because he's not moving fast enough to suit a bunch of people who apparently need their RP fix so badly that they're willing to be obnoxious ingrates to get some play. This instead of maybe finding another damn board.
I'm very close now to just saying "Fuck this whole thing" and walking away from that board. I still talk to the people I'm friendly with from it, and I still run for them in an abbreviated fashion. I'm setting up the London board so that I can have a whole new board to play on, preferably without some of this utter bullshit. I don't see why the hell I'm sticking around to see if I might get a staff position on a board where the most active people seem to be the ones who make a career out of pushing the staff around and being obnoxious at them. Some of the behind-the-scenes stuff I'm hearing now seriously enrages me, and I have this itch to find Ryan and repeatedly smack him upside the head.
It's not so hard, is it? Patience and understanding for the people who have been so good as to give their time, creative energies and in some cases cash to provide free entertainment. I will repeat this until I'm blue - the staff deserve better than this. And yet this is what they get, because some people seem to feel like the world owes them a RP; because they're being a bunch of little entitlement bitches who don't seem to understand the concept of being polite to the people who have worked so hard with no reward to make sure a lot of people have a good time. It just infuriates me.
Please find me someone to throttle...
Okay, so the Charleston by Night crew basically decided to change everything. New setting, new characters, new staff (cos most of the old ones quit and more and more I start to see why), everything. Fine. So the Charleston by Night crew start discussing new setting. Great, because some interesting ideas came up and I don't know about some of the other players, but I was personally well chuffed to see that the players were feeling like they could have more of a say.
Then came Ryan. I have received the impression from a couple of sources now that Ryan can be problematic to the staff. So when he turned around, basically derided the decision to open a forum to discuss city choice and told the remaining Admin to just make up his mind already and dump an arbitrary decision on the players, I got a wee bit peeved. Of course, the dittomonkeying of this sentiment by those players who hadn't spoken up about feeling like they had no voice in where the board was going didn't make me feel any better either, so I did my usual thing of verbally bitch-slapping the predominant offending party and then wondering why the hell I bothered.
Then came Rck. Oh, that was lovely. That wasn't just "DB, make a decision already". That was, "DB, if you can't make a decision already, step down in favour of someone who can". So ... let me get this right: this seems to be saying that, if the remaining Admin won't take the steps that these players want, he should no longer serve as Admin. Yeah; brilliant strategy. The one person who's still willing to run anything for this bunch of ingrates and they're trying to drive him out. Bra-fucking-vo. I mean, I know it's frustrating - I offered to staff Mage ages ago and still haven't heard a damn thing - but I don't think he should have to take this kind of crap just because he's not moving fast enough to suit a bunch of people who apparently need their RP fix so badly that they're willing to be obnoxious ingrates to get some play. This instead of maybe finding another damn board.
I'm very close now to just saying "Fuck this whole thing" and walking away from that board. I still talk to the people I'm friendly with from it, and I still run for them in an abbreviated fashion. I'm setting up the London board so that I can have a whole new board to play on, preferably without some of this utter bullshit. I don't see why the hell I'm sticking around to see if I might get a staff position on a board where the most active people seem to be the ones who make a career out of pushing the staff around and being obnoxious at them. Some of the behind-the-scenes stuff I'm hearing now seriously enrages me, and I have this itch to find Ryan and repeatedly smack him upside the head.
It's not so hard, is it? Patience and understanding for the people who have been so good as to give their time, creative energies and in some cases cash to provide free entertainment. I will repeat this until I'm blue - the staff deserve better than this. And yet this is what they get, because some people seem to feel like the world owes them a RP; because they're being a bunch of little entitlement bitches who don't seem to understand the concept of being polite to the people who have worked so hard with no reward to make sure a lot of people have a good time. It just infuriates me.
Please find me someone to throttle...
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Actually, no, fuck it; what I really want is to go Spider Jerusalem on people. But suggestions always welcome. Now I think I'll go read some Transmetropolitan for inspiration.
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