Hi, this will be my reply to this as I'm someone who is very vocal about my thoughts regarding this community since I've been in it since day 1.
Staff Team
The staff team has always had flaws, you're going to have people complain about things all the time since it isn't something that can be perfect as they're all human beings and it's something that can never be perfect as it wouldn't be progressing which would be terrible.
I do not agree with your point regarding the reports anymore I definitely used to however the last couple of reports I have made I've gotten a lot of help and very quickly.
The staff team is being worked on and is one of the key parts of the community, Bolli and his senior administration team obviously know this; thus the update regarding it yesterday was released which is totally fair and I think we're moving in the right direction.
I can speak up about staff meetings as this is something that has always been close to my heart and I was always pushing for it, the reason why they don't happen is because lack of discussions in there, simply because people are pussies. If I was an administrator now I would hold a community meeting to let the community speak their minds and have them explain what they think the staff team could do to improve the server.
Censorship
Firstly, this is not a controversial topic, I don't know about the rating stuff thus I will not comment on it.
However I will talk about something that I have been very vocal about during my times as a staff member and that is something you and I have had our disagreements on and till this day I do not like people using these certain words even if it's banter. We already know the word(S) is/are "nigga"
It's the silliest thing and the most ridiculous word to use even if there's no bad intent with it.
Roleplay
This is something serious and has to be worked on a lot, I do agree with a lot of your points here since this has been an issue for a long time. The problem with this issue is that the people who are the main issue in this are also a part of the people who complain a bunch about it, they all cry about it yet a lot of them are just general retards who don't know how to roleplay, all they do is just run around and get in shootouts and when you sort them out for it they cry about the game being boring; simply because they don't belong in a roleplaying enviroment. I do agree that staff should crack down on this, a lot.
Community
I think that the community toxicity is something that is being worked on heavily, from what I've understood as my short period of time as a helper the server is going to crack down on the toxicity a shit ton and sort players out for their idiotic behaviour, I will try my best to sort people out for being absolutely retarded to other players. The problem I see with forum reports is that you have no way of communicating with the person who's dealing with your forum report and it often gets closed without any communication between the staff member and the person who reports it.
I think that the reason why events don't happen is simply because of the fact that people beg for them at random times which results in some higher up administrators hosting them at random times meaning they have no special feel to them, which really sucks. However I think this is something that's going to change since we now have a community manager and I think it's important that this role works hard with bringing the community together.
I also think that the helper rank will do a ton for the forums while the moderators and such can focus on the server and the main issues on there we as helpers can work very closely with the staff team and sort this platform out which will result in them not having to care about it as much.
I myself will be staying in contact with the senior staff team and give suggestions on how we can improve the community as a whole.
Ban appeals for example will have to be dealt within 48 hours, if they're not I believe that the player should just be unbanned and the appeal to be automatically accepted. Thus I will be doing everything I can to enforce this.
Staff Team
The staff team has always had flaws, you're going to have people complain about things all the time since it isn't something that can be perfect as they're all human beings and it's something that can never be perfect as it wouldn't be progressing which would be terrible.
I do not agree with your point regarding the reports anymore I definitely used to however the last couple of reports I have made I've gotten a lot of help and very quickly.
The staff team is being worked on and is one of the key parts of the community, Bolli and his senior administration team obviously know this; thus the update regarding it yesterday was released which is totally fair and I think we're moving in the right direction.
I can speak up about staff meetings as this is something that has always been close to my heart and I was always pushing for it, the reason why they don't happen is because lack of discussions in there, simply because people are pussies. If I was an administrator now I would hold a community meeting to let the community speak their minds and have them explain what they think the staff team could do to improve the server.
Censorship
Firstly, this is not a controversial topic, I don't know about the rating stuff thus I will not comment on it.
However I will talk about something that I have been very vocal about during my times as a staff member and that is something you and I have had our disagreements on and till this day I do not like people using these certain words even if it's banter. We already know the word(S) is/are "nigga"
It's the silliest thing and the most ridiculous word to use even if there's no bad intent with it.
Roleplay
This is something serious and has to be worked on a lot, I do agree with a lot of your points here since this has been an issue for a long time. The problem with this issue is that the people who are the main issue in this are also a part of the people who complain a bunch about it, they all cry about it yet a lot of them are just general retards who don't know how to roleplay, all they do is just run around and get in shootouts and when you sort them out for it they cry about the game being boring; simply because they don't belong in a roleplaying enviroment. I do agree that staff should crack down on this, a lot.
Community
I think that the community toxicity is something that is being worked on heavily, from what I've understood as my short period of time as a helper the server is going to crack down on the toxicity a shit ton and sort players out for their idiotic behaviour, I will try my best to sort people out for being absolutely retarded to other players. The problem I see with forum reports is that you have no way of communicating with the person who's dealing with your forum report and it often gets closed without any communication between the staff member and the person who reports it.
I think that the reason why events don't happen is simply because of the fact that people beg for them at random times which results in some higher up administrators hosting them at random times meaning they have no special feel to them, which really sucks. However I think this is something that's going to change since we now have a community manager and I think it's important that this role works hard with bringing the community together.
I also think that the helper rank will do a ton for the forums while the moderators and such can focus on the server and the main issues on there we as helpers can work very closely with the staff team and sort this platform out which will result in them not having to care about it as much.
I myself will be staying in contact with the senior staff team and give suggestions on how we can improve the community as a whole.
Ban appeals for example will have to be dealt within 48 hours, if they're not I believe that the player should just be unbanned and the appeal to be automatically accepted. Thus I will be doing everything I can to enforce this.
