I'm writing this thread because I've returned briefly. I returned after several DMs from Video telling me about various things that have happened, in particular;
- MarioKartWii was indefinitely banned due to posting a copypasta, where an executive unilaterally made a ban unappealable without proper reasoning. The ban was only rescinded when I rejoined.
- There was a massive debate regarding furries and stupid shit like that
- By the time I joined, there was a massive on going debate about NSFW and other shit in relation to this
- By the time I joined, there were two Discord staff and even then one had only been there a week. The server was created in August
Now I've been observing a fair few things, started off mainly out of interest until I realized just how fundamentally broken some shit on here is. Please keep in mind (apart from the sections where I directly say a name) I am not referring to one individual here, the failures I'm going to mention is not solely one persons fault. I would also like to mention from my observation that, at the very least, Taahanis, Fleek and Telesphoreo are not as much at fault here, from my experience they were the most responsive. Please also do not take anything I say personally, I mean no disrespect at an individual level
So to begin with, the server doesn't seem to have a general direction. The leadership is comprised of Taahanis, Video, Alco, Telesphoreo, Fleek and Steven. Taahanis is the "face", Telesphoreo is the "dev", Alco is in charge of bans, Fleek is more in a general position (i've seen him help on the dev side of things), and Steven from what I can see is (as he was before) in more of an advisory position. This is just what I observed, please correct me if I'm wrong. We then have Video. I have no idea what role Video serves, he's only done really minor things (i.e. reverse the ban on TOS violations??) but then complains about how things should be despite being an executive who can change it? Then the changes actually made are incredibly specific, he was telling me about the TOS violation change he made when, on the old TF, I can recall about 3 people who the ban actually affected, and their bans were justified given it could have got our entire server nuked>
So there's been various updates, which is pretty good considering the state of TFM when the old TF died, but again there is no seemingly general direction. There is so many changes that need to be done, there is so much discrepancies between the team that it's really difficult to tell what the old goal is, which makes me think that a big issue within the executive team is communication. There have been times where a change has been made and the executives, instead of internal discussion, decide to expose each other? The only screenshot I can find is the one I linked, but another example would be Alco inexplicably indefinitely banning somebody for posting the fucking Vaporeon copypasta, which is an incredibly fucking stupid decision, but what makes it worse is that when Video tried to communicate to find out what the fuck happened, from what I was told nobody responded nor commented and the entire situation was just left until I told Video "I'm going to unban them from the Discord", at which point the entire thing was reversed. Alco still has not given an apology nor made any indication as to why they'd lump someone who did a meme in with literal pedophiles.
It may not seem as a big issue but what we've got right now is a really weird dynamic - under Ryan the executives basically had the power of the owner, therefore Ryan left them to take accountability for their own department, i.e. Erin was accountable for the admin team and was responsible for handling anything related to that, any failures went on Erin and she had all the power that Ryan did. I'm not going to say this system was better or worse, that isn't the point I'm making here. The point I'm making here is that the system right now is a weird blend, the admins have little to no direction on what to do but they do not have the power to use their own discretion because that power lies solely with the executives, leading to a confused mess where issues surrounding things like NSFW is incredibly vague, what is acceptable to one admin is not acceptable to another, a good example being when Alco removed furry map art.
The team (admins and executives) need to be united. The rules desperately need reform, and something needs to be done. My rules on Discord are still quite vague, but the difference between my rules and the current ones is that my rules make really clear the admin has the final say and that their discretion is what is used.
Overall something needs doing. No new players are joining, the current playerbase are becoming really frustrated and alienated, and ultimately something needs doing to ensure the shit that killed the old TF will never happen again. If this continues the server is just going to die a really slow death, until eventually there's no point in keeping it up.
Executives, it's up to y'all to discuss this, please make sure I'm not wasting my time by saying this.
- MarioKartWii was indefinitely banned due to posting a copypasta, where an executive unilaterally made a ban unappealable without proper reasoning. The ban was only rescinded when I rejoined.
- There was a massive debate regarding furries and stupid shit like that
- By the time I joined, there was a massive on going debate about NSFW and other shit in relation to this
- By the time I joined, there were two Discord staff and even then one had only been there a week. The server was created in August
Now I've been observing a fair few things, started off mainly out of interest until I realized just how fundamentally broken some shit on here is. Please keep in mind (apart from the sections where I directly say a name) I am not referring to one individual here, the failures I'm going to mention is not solely one persons fault. I would also like to mention from my observation that, at the very least, Taahanis, Fleek and Telesphoreo are not as much at fault here, from my experience they were the most responsive. Please also do not take anything I say personally, I mean no disrespect at an individual level
So to begin with, the server doesn't seem to have a general direction. The leadership is comprised of Taahanis, Video, Alco, Telesphoreo, Fleek and Steven. Taahanis is the "face", Telesphoreo is the "dev", Alco is in charge of bans, Fleek is more in a general position (i've seen him help on the dev side of things), and Steven from what I can see is (as he was before) in more of an advisory position. This is just what I observed, please correct me if I'm wrong. We then have Video. I have no idea what role Video serves, he's only done really minor things (i.e. reverse the ban on TOS violations??) but then complains about how things should be despite being an executive who can change it? Then the changes actually made are incredibly specific, he was telling me about the TOS violation change he made when, on the old TF, I can recall about 3 people who the ban actually affected, and their bans were justified given it could have got our entire server nuked>
So there's been various updates, which is pretty good considering the state of TFM when the old TF died, but again there is no seemingly general direction. There is so many changes that need to be done, there is so much discrepancies between the team that it's really difficult to tell what the old goal is, which makes me think that a big issue within the executive team is communication. There have been times where a change has been made and the executives, instead of internal discussion, decide to expose each other? The only screenshot I can find is the one I linked, but another example would be Alco inexplicably indefinitely banning somebody for posting the fucking Vaporeon copypasta, which is an incredibly fucking stupid decision, but what makes it worse is that when Video tried to communicate to find out what the fuck happened, from what I was told nobody responded nor commented and the entire situation was just left until I told Video "I'm going to unban them from the Discord", at which point the entire thing was reversed. Alco still has not given an apology nor made any indication as to why they'd lump someone who did a meme in with literal pedophiles.
It may not seem as a big issue but what we've got right now is a really weird dynamic - under Ryan the executives basically had the power of the owner, therefore Ryan left them to take accountability for their own department, i.e. Erin was accountable for the admin team and was responsible for handling anything related to that, any failures went on Erin and she had all the power that Ryan did. I'm not going to say this system was better or worse, that isn't the point I'm making here. The point I'm making here is that the system right now is a weird blend, the admins have little to no direction on what to do but they do not have the power to use their own discretion because that power lies solely with the executives, leading to a confused mess where issues surrounding things like NSFW is incredibly vague, what is acceptable to one admin is not acceptable to another, a good example being when Alco removed furry map art.
The team (admins and executives) need to be united. The rules desperately need reform, and something needs to be done. My rules on Discord are still quite vague, but the difference between my rules and the current ones is that my rules make really clear the admin has the final say and that their discretion is what is used.
Overall something needs doing. No new players are joining, the current playerbase are becoming really frustrated and alienated, and ultimately something needs doing to ensure the shit that killed the old TF will never happen again. If this continues the server is just going to die a really slow death, until eventually there's no point in keeping it up.
Executives, it's up to y'all to discuss this, please make sure I'm not wasting my time by saying this.
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