Let's all take a deep breath and calm down. Ok?
Not always we will agree with what the staff does, and I say this because not long ago I was just a user, but now seeing from the behind the scenes I know how things work, I know how much everyone works and how much effort we all have to put here to keep things working the best way we can. Our best may not seem to you good enough, and we are aware of it, but again we're only humans we don't have super powers, we can't predict the futture, nor change the past.
Reading all those words I can feel your anger and frustration about the past. But is it really that important to hold grudges for that long? Is it really goning to be that good for anyone? My answer is
NO! While we are all screming from opposite sides, solutions will never be found, problems will never be solved. And that's what I am trying to do. It's like we're all going to war or something, but it's a chat room, and not a battlefield.
Before I adress the issue, that in my opinion was the only thing that started this thread, I'll talk about the block button. The infamous block button that people complain about when it comes to the abusers but you seem to do it all too well when it comens to blocking the staff...... When that doesn't work and you user are on the right side, trust me we will do our jobs and mute/ban if rules are being broken. Something I have learned is that we're on a sex chat room, some people will come in already telling you to spread your legs, show pussy, opan bobs and so on. Others will chat normally, do some innocent flirting and they might get the luck of having a pm with that girl, who knows. The begging is always stopped whe it reaches a point of too much, and that can't be argued. Everything just seems to be getting to the personal lane way too much lately. People come to sex chat room expecting to see boobs, some girls expect to see some dicks, that's life so if you don't like it if it bugs you too much, block, if it doesn't work then you inform the staff we will act on it, cause although you may think that we don't care, we do care and we're here to best assist all of you in the best way we can.
Now I'm going to address the thing that started all this Sophie being banned by VT (still can't type that other mod name). Anyway here's what I gotta say about it:
VT is well aware as much as I am that he and I don't always agree on everything, and till I knew everything that went down I wasn't completely on his side. But this changed today. I know what is like to have a user block you and complain about you, and say that you're not doing your job. Our ability to act fair is taken from us. We can't see things clearly and so to say make a decision that will actually be the right one. I have said this before. If you want our help you have to let us help you, we don't need to love each other, dance around holding hands like in a 50's movie where everything is just so goddamn perfect, or just sit around a bonfire and sing Kumbaya. It's not what we want or what we expect either. So let's act with a little bit of maturity here, and do some thinking? If Sophie blocked VT how can he help her? The block button keeps us from seeing anything and everything the user says in main room, they can't pm us and we can't pm them. So it seems that what's being asked of us now is to see through the block button like some super heros. She kept him from doing his job, and sisnce she doesn't want his help or his interference why should he even bother???? I know what is like to be there blindsided, so on this matter
I am on his side, and thank you
@VestigiaTerre and
@Aphrodite for letting me know everything.
Today I've come to the conclusion that no matter what we do, there'll be someone bitching about it, complaining it's not good, that chat sucks, that the staff is ignorant to what happens, that we're blinded, that we don't act fair and blah blah blah...... I've heard this before and I am sure it won't be the last. But I've made my peace with it. Back to the Sophie issue, she has a long history of being banned and causing trouble, and same happened again this time, and as Rose said, VT went to her so he could know how to act best, he didn't have any power trip, he wasn't feeding his ego and banning just cause he can, there was more to the story. My advice on any future complain/report is that we all try to find out what trully happened before we jump on to conclusions and start a war over nothing. She broke the rules by attacking a staff member, she was pusnished as she should have been, (and believe me if I were there when it happened it would have been a double ba) and formally warned that as long as she has VT blocked he won't be able to protect her, which doesn't mean the other staff members won't if the time comes and we need to ban and mute the abusers. I think that that's what most people understood from the post, so let's make that clear now.
And as for the comment about the posting on forum thing, I'll clear that as well since I'm admin on forum too, when users come with complaints even about staff members Zeus either ask them to e-mail him about it or to post it on forum with the screenshots proving it, on this very thread so the forum staff (Zeus, Aphrodite, Insonmaniac, Bacon and myself) can read it and be aware of what happens in chat room and also here on forum. Let's keep in mind that the forum is a free place for everyone that comes in looking for help, that wants to joke around or whatever. So we're prepared to take the either good or bad feedback from users, and we all have different ways of responding to it. Let's just avoid turning something so little into something big.
So now we have all facts, from all sides and we can clearly see who was right and who was wrong. So let's all start acting our ages and instead of going with rant after rant, based on past issues and grudges,
LET'S ALL MOVE FROWARD! Nothing was done out of the pure intent of banning a user, there was no unfairness.
THE STAFF ACTED THE WAY IT SHOULD HAVE ACTED. THERE WAS NO ABUSE COMING FROM VT'S SIDE.
Now that everything has been cleared, let's all be the grownups we are and move on.
Thank you.