Chester Pearson wrote:This is hilarious. I feel for Anders, being hosed over by a mod, as I have had a similar experience. Don't expect any kind of apology out of this though. Whilst I believe Fris was trying to do the right thing, it seems as though the proverbial ball was dropped pretty hard here....
(P.S. I am being nice here, and not going off on the rant that I have been saving up, for when moderation fucks up again....)
You could, you know, discuss this other precedent, and what you'd like to see occur, rather than just being negative, generalizing the mods as a mistake waiting to happen, and basically saying we should be happy you're not saying something worse. For example, you could say something like "an official ruling that agree with this ruling could lead to future messy situations where mods are forced to decide on who truly "owns" the nation, if say two friends who've shared it for a while fight and both claim ownership, and in my opinion only a few high-profile cases could ever be ruled upon, making it a potentially very unfair policy where only the actions done for political reasons in a political game go punished, and countless other cases never make it past a GHR." That's a polite was to express concern, man, or even just "I think the ruling was a poor one in light of the public ambiguity - even if the official ruling agrees, I think his warnings should be removed due to the fact that as far as the public could tell this was a legal action at the time" - all being nasty and attacking does is breed hostility right back, which no one wants. It's better not to separate them as some evil mod upper class - they're still players like us, and more importantly, people, like us. People make judgement calls, people make mistakes, but no one is out to hose anyone over, and they're not incompetent. For every one highly controversial possibly rash ruling, dozens upon dozens upon dozens of perfectly good ones go by - we just don;t pay attention to those, do we? You take a large enough sample, and a few mistakes happen. Some, like this, make a big impact. But at the end of the day, it was still someone trying to do their (volunteer) job to the best of their ability, and it's always that was, for every single ruling. If you go and generalize them as a nasty bunch, unfair, corrupt, and unlikely to ever offer an apology, they might just fall into the habit of generalizing you as a mean, mod-hating player that doesn't deserve one. If it was you,, if you'd made what might be a mistake, you wouldn't want people sitting there going "oh look, he fucked up again. watch me, I might blow up! They're never going to apologize for messing up..." would you?
