RedDevil Wrote:Having stepped back and reiterated my actions, I sense that I was becoming the very type of asshole I have endeavored to prevent from fostering here in this club in my several years of volunteering my time as a Blitz staff member.
That has been pointed out to you numerous times. To the point of bringing a petition to the site to have your actions reviewed by the staff and to make a decision as to your modding of the CM forums.
Quote:Passion flows both ways here in the feuding between some members and myself and I feel that I have become your worst enemy instead of your go to man for resolving and fixing issues here at the club.
My desire to keep this club free of attention seeking braggadocios, cheaters and just plain unruly personae has been the driving force behind my endless hours here. Sadly, that drive is becoming a burden and the inexplicable turning of my own once reputable and trustworthy image into a dark and gloomy shadow of unworthiness has occurred within.
That's true. If it's not important people don't get passionate about it. There is nothing more valuable than free time. No matter whose it is. The officers of this site often point out how much free time they invest in this site but I don't ever see mentioned the free time that others put in. Without the members threads/postings/registering ladder games etc. the 6 or so officers here would have alot less to do.
Passion hasn't really been the problem from what I've seen. At times it goes way out beyond passionate.
Quote:It will be in the best interest of the club, that I submit my resignation as a staff member and pass the torch to someone worthy of the title Command Sgt Major.
As a staff member? Or just as a Super Moderator and Sergeant Major?
It's my understanding that some of the things you do behind the scenes are very beneficial to the club as a whole. Is there a conflict with your continuing to provide behind the scenes support?
Quote:I no long feel I am worthy of representing you, the members, or this Club in any unbiased and unpersonalized mannerisms at this point.
You haven't been unbiased since our very first email almost 2 years ago. You've had it pointed out to you dozens of times,, that you were way over the line where the club rules for the "average" member was. It was your choice alone to continue on your campaign to rid any, and all, members that questioned anything you do/did.
You have damaged the community as a whole with your campaign to rid the Blitz of anything YOU decided was not the way YOU wanted it.
Actually, I don't think you are all that much to blame, and have a great deal of credit coming to you to come forward, and offer to fix the problem. There are other staff officers here that should have reined in the type of comments, and posts, you were making long before the past 3 months. That of course is just my own opinion.
You were doing it, but you were allowed to do it, and often times supported in doing it by other staff officers, when brought to task about it, as well.
The problem long ago was identified as certain personalities in the CM forums. So you started a campaign to rid the Blitz of them. Then, when they were gone, you went after anybody that criticized you on another site. You got rid of them too. After that hunt was over, you came back briefly to defend POS for his cheating in a team game, which in very interesting, since you are the champion of those subjected to cheating here on the Bltiz by your own declaration.
Now we find that you are in the CS forums doing the same thing.
See a pattern here Randy? YOU attacking, and then banning members who have the audacity to disagree with YOU. Then when called on the carpet about it, doing an apology and offering your resignation. What's this make, the 4th time for that particular maneuver? Do the right thing and stop moderating the forums.
The common denominator as you have correctly identified is YOU.
The correct solution, as you have correctly identified is YOU.
The person the solution had to come from is YOU.
It takes a very big person to admit their mistakes. Kudo's to you for that. However, I don't think the Blitz needs to have you disappear. I hear you are/were a great CM player. Maybe working for the club behind the scenes and working to repair the ladder damage done would be feasible? Although, for those that were banned, I understand their records are gone forever. Another reason to not spend time putting a ladder record together IMO, but hey, you guys like it so knock yourselves out. Another genuine apology owed there as well.
Quote:It's been a long 9 years, I am grateful for and thank everyone of you that have made it a pleasure to be here and so endured the many rights and wrongs of my tenure with grace and forgiveness.
I only ask of it 1 last time today.
I haven't known you for 9 years. Just about 2. For most of those we were at odds. You had your opinion and I had mine. We still have those same opinions for the most part. I don't agree with the way you handle people and situations. HOWEVER, that doesn't take away from the technical expertise you support the Blitz with.
I hope that you will stay in a much reduces Mod position and a much needed support position.
Here's to the next 9 years.
Good Hunting.
MR
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