Posted by Godzilla

well your from era this is more on iclassic. basically this guy sent in his application, and it was rejected despite all his qualifications

That's not for you to decide. Classic probably has a lot of applications to go through. There's many qualified people who send in their applications, they can't hire everyone.  

Posted by Yephenpeace

That's not for you to decide. Classic probably has a lot of applications to go through. There's many qualified people who send in their applications, they can't hire everyone.

Seems like they hire a lot of people who aren't nearly as qualified. Yeah they can't hire everyone. Yet they hire their friends instead of people who would actually be good.  

^that  

apparently knowing someone already makes them more qualified than a highly skilled person who you need to get to know because thats part of the job as a staff hirer,

you need to get to know the applicants, not just hire the ones you are friends with and already know.  

That's not what's happening though. They are hiring their friends, and their friends aren't well qualified at all.

The crap I hear about the staff on iPhone servers doesn't give the impression that the people hired were the right choice.  

i think we should take all the iphone gps and send the to iclassic where skyzer, thor, racil, and others will teach a lesson on how to be a good staff member. of course they probably wouldnt want to do this so theyd charge 5 bucks a head to get in.  

Well Skyzer, until you've witnessed anything remotely close to what your claiming, these are just rumours. Might I also add that it makes complete sense that they would hire their friends? Friendships require trust, and they would obviously want to hire someone they trust. They would also know the person's personality and see first hand how they react to people. Regardless, they don't just hire their friends. There are many people recently hired that prove this to not be true. I honestly get really irritated when the people in this game think it makes them cool to complain about the staff. It's a game so play it, the staff team aren't doing anything to hinder your gameplay experience.  

Of course it makes sense they'd hire there friends, but it doesn't mean they're qualified by any means.  

Ugh this goes on and on like a broken record...

Feedback is for: suggestions/criticism about the game. Do not expect a response. Asking for an admin to contact you, asking for a hat or generally just being an idiot will get you banned from feedback and it's unlikely you will ever be unbanned.

Report: To report other players you feel are doing something wrong or have offended you. try to make it informative and constructive like, "He is making sexual remarks", "harassing other players" or "Racist remarks". Reports like, "he is mean" or "he was rude" are far less helpful and take more time to investigate and potentially resolve. The amount of fake reports is incredible and it's just hurting the players more than anything.

For everything else? [email protected] ! Make sure your email is well formatted and clear and concise. Don't needlessly waffle on!

Now, Skyld has demonstrated the sheer amount of junk PMs admins generally get while on. Not to lol on Skyld but he isn't nearly as popular as some of the more well known GPs who get spammed not only by people who see them but also people who have them friended for additional spamming capabilities.

Wading through gallons of mud to find a single diamond is a very tricky job and things can be missed. Further more, if you send a single PM amonst a thousand spam messages and they log off / reconnect? That message is gone. For these reasons: do not send any important requests via a PM because it is not guaranteed delivery and most certainly not a guaranteed response.

I honestly don't know why players keep going on about, "it's the admins responsibility to answer PMs! I know because I am right!". The admins responsibility, in my opinion, is to patrol for public inappropriate displays and respond to reports. If players could stop sending junk messages, maybe the system would work but it just doesn't happen. Maybe...just maybe this is why no-other game has a direct chatline to the staff outside the support center because it is just not practical and just prone to abuse. (if you could see the messages players think they would get away with when they respond to an announcement/event message....it's disgraceful).

If players could do the right thing and use the report feature properly, things would be great! Maybe less reporting the same guy 100 times in 20 seconds because, "omg he said butt BAN HIM NAOW!!!! OMG WHY U NOT BANNED YET"

In summary for the moron trolls who will do a stupid tl;dr then continue bitching:

• Feedback = feedback with no response
• Report = report to be followed by an investigation
• Email = Delayed help with a response

 

I want to see Skyzer as classiciphone dev. That would be amazing. Way to stir the pot.  

Admin friends:
For some reason, players get it through their mind that players who are friends should not ever become admins because it's unfair! How stupid! Classic admins are all friends and if you cannot be our friend, it's never going to work out.

You might say friends go through an extended interview process and if they are thought to be worthy, we will ask them. Doesn't quite work the other way around if they ask/beg and more than anything, will lessen the chance in the future. Is this unfair? I don't think so as I've already mentioned the necessity of being able to be our friend.

Now, we could go solely off words in an email but it's highly inefficient. First off: it's not a true representation of the players as most will elevate themselves to godhood in their responses. It's only really good for weeding out the completely inappropriate but this isn't much at all. Generic answers and limited knowledge about the person behind it makes for a slow, tedious process.

If we cannot think of a candidate who could be appropriate for a situation, we can go to the applications. But why not try someone who we know and think is quite capable for the position? The time saved by doing this is incredible!

This isn't an uncommon practice: it happens in the workplace. Employers asking employees to recommend suitable new recruits saves a lot of energy.

So guys, instead of crying about the processes: work towards becoming a better member of the community. Crying gets you nowhere. Constructive criticism and ideas gets you noticed. Rallying behind Higbey gets you nowhere except on our wall of shame which we walk past and laugh. (sort of joking?)

So yeah, start being constructive! Just throwing the same message back and forth between each other in thread after thread is doing nothing

Potential ideas:

• Write a detailed post about an event you would like, "saying omg more events" is not a suggestion.
• Suggest a PR system which could help our GPs work more efficiently (tiered GPs, trusted players with priority reporting? who knows!)
• Developer? Make a level Az could look at or a script I can peruse that demonstrates your idea and it will work wonders for you!

And most importantly: don't be a ****! We don't like dicks. We remember those who have been dicks. We will know if you bag us out in the community constantly.  

Posted by Yephenpeace

Well Skyzer, until you've witnessed anything remotely close to what your claiming, these are just rumours. Might I also add that it makes complete sense that they would hire their friends? Friendships require trust, and they would obviously want to hire someone they trust. They would also know the person's personality and see first hand how they react to people. Regardless, they don't just hire their friends. There are many people recently hired that prove this to not be true. I honestly get really irritated when the people in this game think it makes them cool to complain about the staff. It's a game so play it, the staff team aren't doing anything to hinder your gameplay experience.

I have a screenshots of two admins dragging players onto trees on my Facebook.  

Skyzer would be a awesome iPhone dev  

Posted by Skyzer

I have a screenshots of two admins dragging players onto trees on my Facebook.

Most likely to ban them, and what one staff member does shouldn't reflect all of them as a team.

Posted by Maxy

Skyzer would be a awesome iPhone dev

Lol! You're funny but no he wouldn't. He hates iClassic and feels the need to inform everyone of this. He's quite the superb individual!  

Id like to point out many people who have "rallied" with me are now on the staff team, and some of us aren't so different.

Maybe we could get more scripters if players were shown scripting is the only way to get hired, instead of being friends.

Secondly, the all being friends is bull.
I've seen the chats, seen the arguments, you sell eachother out, it's funny how suddenly those "friends" drop from your favor when fired. The idea that so many different people could be "one big family "
Is ridiculous.

Third of all, in most jobs you need to work with people you don't like, if you put working with people you like before people with skill then your just being selfish and hurting the players.

It's not if you get along well, it's how it affects the server.