(09-18-2019, 11:31 AM)IsaStarcrossed Wrote:The failure comes in HO's lack of communication and overall instruction to people being given new abilities and roles. I've seen at least a half dozen players who have mod abilities say since last night that they either had no idea that their abilities showed IPs or that it would be against the rules to post a screenshot containing those IPs. Most of them said something along the lines of "thank god Butter did it before I made that mistake". And that is just those who have come out and said anything about it. Did Butters break a rule? Yes. Should it be a rule? Yes. Should the punishment be so harsh that it potentially pushes a player inactive when no one actually knows the rule even exists? Absolutely not.i mean, I find two major flaws in this line of reasoning. The first is that HO didn't hire Buttersquach, the RM head did. Why should we be responsible for "training" him? This is one of the biggest annoyances that I have with HO, if anything goes wrong it is hit as our problem. You dont have xbox live go down and think "man fuck Bill Gates". We hire job heads for the EXPRESS reason that we cant afford to micromanage every part of this league, I already sacrifice so much time that if i was to do what you mention, I would have no time to do anything other than this league, and would still probably fall short of the expectations you are laying out here.
The lack of any real training for these guys is every bit a failure on HO and stuff like this needs to be taught and mentioned when new, young players get these roles. There is no reason anyone should be making comments along the lines of "they gave me permissions and said good luck". That. That is failure on HO.
secondly, since im saying this is the job of the RM head: why? Job heads are there to tell people how to do their jobs, not to walk them through the rule books. To use as an example, let's say sweetwater hires a sim assistant, and says "hey i need you to sim this week because i'll be out of town" and walks him through how to do it. Then the sim assistant rigs the sim and gets caught. sim assistant comes out and says "oh man, no one told me i couldnt rig the sim!" Would that count as a failure of sweet as a simmer? I think that would be silly to assume.
HOs job is to make sure we have rules, not to make sure you read them. could we make the rulebooks nicer? yeah we could. but if something is in there, and you didnt know that, i mean, i cant do anything about that