tbh

[NOBLE]

Originally Posted by Nicholas

I feel like you're zoning in on a minor point though with the designs. I posted a long post when we started this conversation outlining dozens of reasons. As I said in an earlier post for all I cared NOBLE could have designed the awards himself. I suggested that the awards system be taken advantage of more and that awards were proactively given out. NOBLE insisted that the awards system as it is now was working fine but said he wouldn't be opposed to adding in some more awards for meeting a certain number of posts '1000 posts' etc. Which I think actually got implemented in the end but my initial plans were far more extensive than that.

At a time when people wanted to decrease the amount of user titles, awards could of been used as an alternative and been made to have been seen as valuable to users. Instead we got what we have now, a few discrete awards that people still don't care about. This comes back to my question to NOBLE which was what has he done as an administrator since my absence. My ideas weren't seen as worthy so what was the alternative? What have we been given in their place....

First you suggest I'm responsible for the drop in activity because I wasn't supportive of competitions and got rid of incentives like titles, etc. Now you're saying people themselves at the time wanted to decrease the amount of titles and awards could have been use to replace them but....what? You're not making much sense fam, and you're contradicting yourself. People DID want to get rid of titles and I DID replace them with awards. Does anyone recall Mafia Winner and Forum Tourney Winner awards? Across the board, from Topicals to Exclusive and FVC, no one has added more awards than me in the last few years. I've been one of the biggest advocate of utilizing the award system more. Yes, I might have rejected some of your award ideas because I didn't feel the Exclusive Arena had been active enough at that point to merit the creation of as many awards as you wanted. But I did agree that we should create some and I did implement your idea of voting awards (which wasn't your idea alone as X-Calibur and others had suggested the same thing) and I let staff know that it was your idea when I put it across to them for consideration. You wanted and asked to hand out awards and be the awards mod which I rejected and said you should only hand out Exclusive awards since you are the Exclusive mod and other mods will handle the rest of the awards. Is that what you mean by "NOBLE insisted that the awards system as it is now was working fine?" This crying over not having your way is petty, and trying to blame the drop in activity on my not having adopted them to the letter is ridiculous. You're giving yourself way too much credit mate. Why don't you list all these miracle ideas of yours which would have averted ultimate calamity exactly as you presented them to me and let's all examine not only which ones I adopted and rejected but also how my not having adopted them to the letter has resulted in the drop in activity?