Admins & Badges

Benny · February 02, 2009, 10:32:36 PM

Just for me to keep track...

Anyone has any arguments, please shout. Assuming the admins accept obviously, and assuming no contentious issues I'll dole out the badges tomorrow.

Admins
Sn00ks
OB
Liberator

Players - Based on current attendance and attitudes, these guys pretty much cover it so far. We've had a few settling pains, but I think we are there.

FrEnZy,
Penfold
Dr Sadako
Doorman,
Ninja_Freak
DarkAngel
DuVeL
GhostMjr
RizZy
KKND
Toxteth
sulky_uk
Bastet
Othbarty
Soon Jung
Jewelz^,
Snokio,
BabyBlueBall
EarlHaz
no peanuts
b00n
Whitey
JAS
Stryker
ZooToxin
Smilodon
Browne
TentSalesman (Tutonic)
Morbo
Whitey
Luminance
Target
Gaara

Please shout if I've missed someone to date.

From here on I'll add trial type things and look for feedback.

Sn00ks · February 02, 2009, 10:43:07 PM

Yes :devil: and yes that seems to cover the frequent attendees.

Liberator · February 02, 2009, 11:14:56 PM

You've missed Snokio I think.

There were a few new faces on the server tonight as well and the post by Garra about the cheap key purchase will bring them rolling in. I saw it mentioned in another post of his and told him to stick it in the bargains section in it's own thread.

Benny · February 03, 2009, 07:16:08 AM

Snokio added. Lib, you want a job as admin?

Anonymous · February 03, 2009, 09:30:16 AM

You have DA listed twice - which is one too many

You have Frenzy listed once - same reason :devil:

OldBloke · February 03, 2009, 09:39:01 AM

Quote from: Sn00ks;261623Yes :devil: and yes that seems to cover the frequent attendees.

Just a reminder ...

The badge is not just for turning up. It denotes a player who fully understands the rules, guidelines and ethos of the game concerned and consistantly demonstrates those principles whilst playing.

Liberator · February 03, 2009, 10:29:16 AM

Quote from: Benny;261635Snokio added. Lib, you want a job as admin?

Yeah, happy to, already installed the menu thingy and corrected the spelling mistake on the airport start.

l4d_airport01_greehouse to l4d_airport01_greenhouse

Benny · February 03, 2009, 11:21:19 AM

Quote from: OldBloke;261644Just a reminder ...

The badge is not just for turning up. It denotes a player who fully understands the rules, guidelines and ethos of the game concerned and consistantly demonstrates those principles whilst playing.

Yup, which is why I mentioned the teething issues. I think they've all been sorted and I've not seen any reason why any of them couldn't wear them.

That said I posted the list so y'll could argue if you felt otherwise.

Sn00ks · February 03, 2009, 02:49:38 PM

We are all still learning, to some extent, and some of those listed do tend to wander. But with a few well chosen comments could be bought into line and they're not strangers to the dMw ethos.

I have notice a tendency for some people to swear when things go pants.
Maybe they think this doesn't matter as it is a small private server? Something to keep on top of I think. I also understand the occasional frustration, Tank within 30 seconds of leaving the safe room springs to mind, that might trigger an expletive. They just need to learn a more acceptable one, pants or gusset spring to mind.

If we have them as triallists we can always weed out the chaff.
What is the default trial period or is it an indefinite term?

Benny · February 03, 2009, 03:06:31 PM

The swearing is a tough one. I'll try to prevent (and stop myself), but it's worth noting the game is an '18' and contains swearing.

That said, it's easy enough not to. I tend to go by the 9/10 watershed.

On the tags, I'll dish out the normals and amend the message to say

'blah blah', stay with your team, etc etc can be revoked, 'yada yada'

Anonymous · February 03, 2009, 03:14:37 PM

Quote from: Sn00ks;261683If we have them as triallists we can always weed out the chaff. What is the default trial period or is it an indefinite term?

The other games, I think, have 6 months as a trial (or is it 3 months?)

Penfold · February 03, 2009, 04:14:31 PM

Quote from: Benny;261685The swearing is a tough one. I'll try to prevent (and stop myself), but it's worth noting the game is an '18' and contains swearing.

That said, it's easy enough not to. I tend to go by the 9/10 watershed.

On the tags, I'll dish out the normals and amend the message to say

'blah blah', stay with your team, etc etc can be revoked, 'yada yada'

This is a hard one. As a Community we do not endorse our encourage swearing. That said, any attendee to the LAN knows that we all do swear (myself included).

The fact that it has a 18+ rating should be enough but I think we should discourage it only for the sake of conformity across all our games. In CS / COD someone would get kicked for it.

Not saying that you should kick people for it but I guess we should actively discourage it so every game is dealt with an even hand. Whilst it's a private server it's less of a problem (I know MH on a Friday can get fruity). When/if it goes public then it really does need to be enforced for the good of the Community as a whole.

(Please note, I'm not taking the moral high ground here, I'm as bad as anyone.)

Doorman · February 03, 2009, 05:09:55 PM

It's like everything in this world. it's about excess. Up until a little while ago I had to be reminded by my good lady, the present Mrs Doorman, that I was swearing to excess. Sometimes though, nothing else will do. :norty: We're all big boys and ought to be able to stifle ourselves sometimes. But let's not get too PC eh? :sideways:

Benny · March 01, 2009, 10:28:27 AM

List updated.

From here on I'll post suggested badgee's here and if anyone has any comment we can discuss then.

Ta.

cue some jokes about budgies.

Snokio · March 01, 2009, 05:37:13 PM

Just to make someone aware, Stryker seems to have 2 green L4D badges: