The sign of a good writer ;pTural wrote:You really can't appoint unknown, do-nothing staff members on such a large site. They need those qualities.
On top of that, staff isn't the make-or-break point for the community's attitude. Say you removed me and Veegie from the staff. That wouldn't change anything. We'd still post exactly the same, we'd still have the same personality. The non-staff community is more ruthless than the staff is. The only thing you would gain out of changing staff is that you'd have less rules being enforced. You'd have bad staff, but good people. I'm a good staff member, it is not my position you dislike, it is my personality. I enforce the rules well, and go about the staff duties well. That is not your issue, and a lot of people get confused in how they talk about it. Your problem is not with the staff, it is with the personalities, which would not change, regardless of position.
The whole issue, as I see it, is size. Halomods is huge. There are hundreds of new members every month, some of them idiots, some of them will become good, upstanding members later on, some will ask a question, get an answer, and never come back because they don't care. In small communities, take this site or Yayap for example, you have very little need for any rules at all. The people who visit them are already established when they get there, and can converse freely without the interruption of the lessers and whatnot. A small community will always be superior in attitude to a large one, because there is less need for discipline from staff, as the members there already know how to behave and get along. On a site like Halomods, most of the rule-breakers are new members, members nobody knows. Occasionally you get the higher-up member being a douche for whatever reason, but for the most part, they go about their business without issue. If you take the best, the known members, and place them elsewhere, such as this site, they will always be more productive and more friendly than when they have to deal with the annoyances of the ten thousand other members in their way. It's so much easier to manage. On the flip side, take a site where the worst go. The people who get banned from Halomods on their first day because they show up and post a 3ds keygen while simultaneously telling you to fellate their genitals end up at places like Seven Sins. Seven Sins has a terrible community. It's full of idiots, cheaters, and douchebags. Are they good people there? Absolutely. I'm not stating they are bad, I am stating that that's the kind of place you end up with when you take the worst members. If any site takes the top members and maintains a small size, it will always be able to look down on the larger site as a whole, because it truly is better relatively. It's mostly common sense. Good + Good = Great. Good + Terrible = Meh.
The point is, HM is being looked down upon because it is larger, and the people there are not simply those who have proven themselves to be good, the majority is people who couldn't care less and will do whatever they want because they like to be dicks.
I think I could have summed that all up in one or two sentences, but I started on a stream of consciousness and got lost somewhere.
Your right in most ways of course: but your wrong/or my view is jaded/ because everyone at halomods rewally gets on my case whenever I put a toe out of line. That post where I berated that user for his terrible, and purposeful mis-use of grammar and spelling--everyone jumped down my throat because of my allusion to remnant...
Same with that graphics post, for DEEHunters avatar; Got jumped on because I uploaded it to halomods...
