- Invitation Status
- Posting Speed
- 1-3 posts per day
- One post per day
- 1-3 posts per week
- Online Availability
- This changes too frequently to give anything reliable.
- Writing Levels
- Intermediate
- Adept
- Preferred Character Gender
- Male
- Genres
- Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Adventure.
Well shit... :/
Swearing =/= Angry. I swear all the time when I'm completely calm. :P
Also, everything Kaga said was right even if her wording came off as hostile.
The fact of the matter is, Mahz left the Guild and everyone on it to rot for a year.
Not a week, or a month cause of family issues or something, but a whole entire year.
If something requires you to bow out for that amount of time, you are supposed to relegate responsibilities to others. Which Mahz never did, instead he would vanish from existence, and put stress on the other admins and moderators to play defense and cover for him. Because it was all they could do, they had no power to fix the site, but they were the ones also constantly being given all the shit and complaints because Mahz was never around to complain to.
To put this situation in other examples:
1. Like the RP one given by Neo above. Imagine of a GM just up and vanished for a year. No word or reason given as to why. The RP for all intents and purposes was left to rot. But the players cared enough about it to salvage what they could together and keep it going. Then imagine the GM suddenly logs in one day and goes "Hey guys! I'm back and I have a ton of ideas for this RP!". Would you honestly let them back in, and trust them with the RP?
2. Or if you'd rather look at it more as a caretaker route, where the site was the child/baby. Imagine your mother or father just getting up and leaving one day. They left the house with no word or clue, and they don't even pay child support to now support your now single parent. You get by a whole year without them, scraping together what you can to get by. Then one day they come back claiming they missed you, and want to come back. But the only reason you ever got for them being gone was your other parent going "He has other things to do! How dare you question them!".
Mahz has a bad track record, he abandoned everyone for the longest time.
He quite simply does not have the trustworthiness/credibility to be playing host for a site where communities and long lasting RP's are meant to be getting hosted on.
And I say this as someone who defended Mahz fiercely (to the point I made several enemies, and the Mods had to come in and hold me back) when the Old Guild was shut down. I liked Mahz, I loved the Guild, and I hated people who acted entitled/owed things out of the site. But this situation is quite basically Mahz having failed the very basics of running a site for far too long.
I get that you miss the Guild and want us all to go back. But it simply is not in the best interest of the group or the RP. And getting about it to the point you're storming off furious over it, and leaving others hurt and concerned about you is not helping anyone or anything.
Humans are emotional creatures.
Anger, frustration and arguments can happen even if all the points made were logical and rationale.
Even if people try to clarify their intent because sometimes they instantly adopt a defensive stance of "I'm being questioned! I must defend myself rather than hear criticism and other people's opinions!".
And sometime's it's unavoidable, I knew when I picked up on the angry tones that even if it was fixed an argument could still happen. But I pointed it out in the hopes one could be avoided, but this case turned out to be one where an argument was simply bound to happen. There's no one to blame, it's just a stressful and messed up situation for everyone.
