(07-30-2015, 09:16 AM)Robbie Bourbon Said: Basically, he went off about how Game Girl is also a GM, and seemed to decry the idea that people become friendly with one another OOC because it was of his opinion it led to preferential treatment. I already see it as a role playing game, and in my experience with tabletops, they're usually way better with a group of friends who can relate and understand one another, or at least are willing to bridge any gaps in communication to come to a better understanding with each other, creating an enjoyable experience while still maintaining the fact we were congregating for a challenge.

I already knew GG was an admin, though. It is not an issue, nor can it even be considered one.

Essentually, though, prior to my whole everything going bye bye, in the pet peeve thread it was behavior exemplary of what I could gripe about; he wanted everybody who busted their ass to deliver characters in a muted fashion to match him rather than try to bring a character turned up to 11 to help establish a world turned up to 11 while dealing with an opponent doing their best to turn it up to 11 themselves, all because he thought 7 or 8 was as loud as it should get.

I've always been kind of torn on that whole competition vs friends environment when it comes to e-fedding. We did have a major problem with that back when I took over the XWF because there were very obvious patterns of past staff arguing with other staff about why their friend deserves the win, even when it was obvious to others they should not. There was also the whole trend of the XWF being too much of an OOC hang out, including a large group of people who didn't even RP but thought they had the right to criticize and dictate XWF operations, as well as troll members who they weren't friends with. The XWF isn't intended to be a place to make friends in real life, but if it happens and can be kept on a respectable level, that's fine. Above all else, it is a place to compete and a place to showcase work you are proud of. A year or two back there was an unfortunate trend here where the reps system was used by people to continuously fluff the rep scores of the people they were obviously close with OOC and it almost blew up into a bigger fiasco, but then I limited how often or in what methods you could give the same person multiple plus reps. We all do have to remember that this isn't a social gathering website, and we should be here to compete above all else.

It sounds like you and he exchanged quite a few messages. He actually told you he wants people to dumb down their work or something to that effect? Or what do you mean by the 11's, 7's and 8's? If you still have those messages, please PM them to me privately because that has me curious as well. If they aren't in your inbox, there is a chance some would still be in your sent folder.