Harakoni 729 / 12,354 Report Post Posted January 19, 2019 Edited January 19, 2019 by Harakoni Well this may come as an surprise to some, and others not, I believe it's my time to stand down as one of the 3 Team Leader's of moderation. I'd like to start off this with a few honest, and not watered down, points about what's happening and what's happened within GFL revolving around me, from past and present to choices being made for the future. A good place to start i guess, as i've rattled on about for months and months, what i've repeatedly tagged Directors, former Council member's, Team Leaders, and my own fellow moderators for again and again; a lack of transparency. So many negative situations, much backlash and much annoyance could have been simply avoided with some forewarning of plans or events. It might be old news by now, but the Discord purge was a prime example of this, where the Directors on a whim without consulting the users, did a full blown purge of all channels, blocked any use of slurs, AND split the mod team down the middle. Again, a similar situation happened when the directors "snapped", and purged council without warning, but don't get me wrong, i support this move to remove the "chaff" in-the-way ranks, what i was not a fan of, was the way in which it was done, the sudden un-warned mass purge of council was not a necessary action. It could have taken it's time and it would've gone much, MUCH more smoothly, but instead they were ousted while half of the members were offline - But this isn't the reason i'm resigning, something much worse came to my attention that really irks me. Here's a direct quote from Roy himself, shortly after the purge; I just want to make something clear. I trust the Directors with whatever they want to do with the front-end & teams. Personally, I'd like them simplified down. If it were up to me, I would just go (Founder?) -> Director -> Division Leader -> Server Manager -> Server Admin -> VIP -> Supporter -> Member. And that's it. If that were the case, when we need media-related stuff or dev-related stuff, we can make a global thread. Whoever does the work will be given recognition (e.g. it'd be cool to have a GFL-specific system built for that). Or just badges. For advertising and so on, make a referral system and give recognition to users who recruit others into the community (either direct recruit or advertising). Whatever... Anyways, that's not what I'm focusing on. So I'm leaving it up to the others. All I care about from now on are the divisions and game servers. VirusKing did A LOT with the game servers and divisions. That's why we've been seeing a lot of success. Our Rust server reached 70+ players today. Our CS:GO division is seeing a lot of success. WE ARE SEEING A LOT OF SUCCESS. But people are acting like GFL's at the end of its life because of stupid bullshit that happens between team members and shit (seriously? lmao). To add onto the first paragraph, start banning toxic people in this community. A lot of them are the cause to people wanting to leave to begin with including myself. So get rid of them. A lot of the big names who cause toxicity would have been permanently banned by now if this were <mid-2016. Pay attention to the end of the second paragraph, for those with TL:DR syndrome, it states the following - "Ban all toxic people". This was the final straw, i wasn't considering a resignation until i saw this. The directors, sick with a dissenting opinion who are unfortunately championed by those they deem "Toxic", have created an impromptu reason to remove any opposition. Yes, you heard me, they want to ban people for disagreeing with them, and by looking at back and forth chatter of how people have talked about in internal over weeks and weeks, there are a LOT of possible targets for this. However, to not outright slander by cherry-picking, i will give credit to Roy and the other Directors for attempting this push, even if it wasn't the best implementation or process to do so. Included within this is a shift of attention to a more serverside approach, which is how it should be, and to quote what a numerable amount of people have said, the "player-base is our backbone" Now that my main reason is out of the way, i'll talk about less important reasons why I no longer wish to be a Moderation Team leader.Firstly, the return of @Kite9867, alongside the continued support @Ben Roy and @Liloz01, although Ben Roy is now a Director, gives me faith in the future of the moderation team and how it will be pushed forward. I feel like i am no longer needed in a sense to fulfill my role as is, and that these blokes can handle anything fired their way.Secondly, @eueuq's constant peer pressure and actions have made me reconsider the value of being in the higher up positions of GFL, although he may be rash and unruly at times, he has both ascended, and descended the ranks for his goals, which were honorable intentions of bringing more attention to the lower echelons and getting the Directors thumbs out of their asses and start talking to the user/player-base. As of his actions I no longer see fulfillment in the role, in addition to the push of a more user based approach from the Directors as of very recently.Thirdly, surprisingly least important of my lesser reasons are exams Now for an obligatory mention list.Leader Gang;@Ben Roy Thanks for being a great Team leader for so long, as well as not demoting me in my shaky periods lol@Kite9867 As above, although a little more activity would've been nice ; ) @Liloz01 Keep up the good work or whatever you do, you're more deserving of the rank than me so good luck.Director Gang;@Roy Thanks for making this community and sticking with it, even in recent times, (oh p.s don't ban 1/4 of the userbase lol )@Ralsei One of the most talkative directors outwith of the "inner circle" I've never really had anything against you but, as above^@X2D The most active director convening with us lesser ones, sorry for the constant back and forth in the feedback channel, did occasionally get out of hand@Rick "Purge when?"Moderation Lords;@Korowa One of the better mods imo, just stop going AWOL every few weeks lol@eueuq Did you actually do anything as mod in the first place lmao?@WigglesWorth At first wasn't a fan. I mean my first impression was being called a faggot , Nonetheless, keep up that abuse work in the Gmod Discord@motorsteak There have been disagreements, agreements, quarrels and civil wars where we were joined and opposite, and if i'm too be honest, you've got a solid head on your shoulders - for a TTT admin >:) Oh also, stop shittalking peeps all the time lmao, insulting people doesn't exactly work.@RockRoyce Mister innocent mod, keep up that semi active state ❤️ @Pyros Similarly with motorstreak you have a solid head on your shoulders, except you don't insult everyone you don't like ; )@flyingjoe32 Kite Wannabe pfp looking assInternal "VirusKing's Reason" Cunts@Syntax Tone down on calling people retarded all the time lol, but keep doing what you're doing events wise. I look forward to participating in Kareoke as a puny member.@eueuq and the award for the most tagged goes too Was fun bashing Synny boy and Council lords in internal for a while, thanks for being there i guess@Worgee "CrItIciSm Is nOt HArAssMenT" Jokes aside, you did relatively alright as a TL for PR, and securing partnerships, although sometimes mocked for. Good luck with what you do, and you didn't deserve that sudden demotion without warning.@Joel As above with Worgee, your plans were good but i don't think telling people to "Be Nice" really works @Liloz01 Bully Syntax hoursSpecial Mentions@eueuq Thanks for almost everything, you're the reason i pushed to change mod team, you've done so much for the discord that'll be undoubtedly forgotten and washed away, and probably one the ten people who actually cared about what happened to the discord users. Not to sound too soppy but, I consider you a friend i would've been lost without. Really, thanks, Weeb Leader (Add me on steam grr)@Liloz01 pseudo-mod-then-actual-mod-after-promotion-looking-ass. Keep up what you're doing and try not to destroy half the discord @Eucalyptus imagine being named after a tree, this post was made by eat my massive haggis pp gang.@Zexired lmao, made you look@rapperdan please stop messaging me lmao, and you being ignored isn't the reason everything was "falling apart" (it isn't) behind the scenesDiscord Gang;@Toni Bamanaboni You dare stand against my superior German Kruppstahl? Doomkopf!@Aurelien Auroojean Aurelion Aurelia Aurel Aureljil@harry restrain your woman@Amelie restrain your man@Chewie2k Kepp trying your advances with @Kite9867, they'll work someday @Jat @A Lost Puppy where's your forum profile smh@JerryBomb CSS > CS:GO ; )@Finnick epic@Soviet epic weeb time@Bigtime388 oh oh oh-oh oooooooooooohGmod Discord Gang;@Pancake Jenkins Here ya go pp head, all alone because i couldn't find the one other persons forum account lmaO@Zer0 Imagine being named after a number, this post was made by not named after a number gang That's pretty much all i wanted to say, so peace out higher ups. Also i'll still be in the discord and shit i ain't leaving (For clarification i am resigning from moderator completely) Edited January 19, 2019 by Harakoni v-1.mp4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zexired 215 / 5,602 Report Post Posted January 19, 2019 First Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royce 201 / 4,813 Report Post Posted January 19, 2019 Sad to see you go, Konich; you’ve been a great friend through the Discord times. I’ll miss you, but I hope we can still keep in touch. Thanks for everything you’ve done for the moderation team. ❤️ -Semi-active boi Yours Sincerely, Royce Public Relations | GFL Moderator Profile | Twitter | GameTracker | Steam | Email Former CS:GO JB Admin/EC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VilhjalmrF 2,099 / 30,674 Report Post Posted January 19, 2019 11 minutes ago, Harakoni said: @Kite9867 As above, although a little more activity would've been nice ; ) IM DYING MAN and yea I'll work on it buddy. Good luck! Average HL2RP Enjoyer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options... Achievements
Rena 2,779 / 33,507 Report Post Posted January 19, 2019 Edited January 19, 2019 by Korowa This is both surprising and not surprising to me. I was expecting this, but didn't think you'd do it. I know we've had our disagreements (plenty of them, I must add) but we got to know each other better with time. You're a good friend and were one of my favourite moderation colleagues. As for why you're stepping down, I can certainly agree that a lot of stuff in GFL just aren't going well, and the constant drama is off-putting. It is tiresome that decisions aren't firm or coordinated between higher-ups and that only inflicts a bad view upon higher-ups on the userbase. I hope we stay in touch. Au revoir, mon ami. PS: Not going on AWOL often is difficult. Edited January 19, 2019 by Korowa Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options... Achievements
Liloz01 1,256 / 19,750 Report Post Posted January 19, 2019 Edited January 19, 2019 by Liloz01 stop giving me so much clout, people actually expect me to do something now! jk, i love you and i'm glad you're gonna hang around just without the team leader role thanks for being a good mod boy Edited January 19, 2019 by Liloz01 Contact me here or on Discord @Liloz01#9857 For help with anything Forum related: https://gflclan.com/contact/ or https://gflclan.com/forum/18-support/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben 2,378 / 31,826 Report Post Posted January 19, 2019 Thanks for everything you've done as a Moderator and Moderator Leader. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
King_Wailord 965 / 15,547 Report Post Posted January 19, 2019 hope you keep meming in discord with me. you were probably the most laid-back discord mod there is lul. cya around kidd0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options... Achievements
Finnick 2,355 / 32,328 Report Post Posted January 19, 2019 epic Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options... Achievements
Pyros 1,796 / 30,750 Report Post Posted January 19, 2019 @Liloz01 His resignation didnt mess the whole "6 on each team right"? if so, damm you koni. @Harakoni have fun with life and good luck with your exams @Ash-'s opinion on gmod: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toni Bamanaboni 211 / 4,778 Report Post Posted January 19, 2019 NIgga ill snap your Kruppstahl with my lil finger. Better keep sending gun lolis in the discord or ill shoot you with a M41! Former CS:GO Surf RPG Deathmatch EU/US Admin. _________________________________ My Steam Profile Feel free to add me on Steam if you need to ask me something. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGuary55 707 / 14,712 Report Post Posted January 19, 2019 Edited January 19, 2019 by JGuary551 I’m mod 😦😔 Jokes aside I’m sorry to see you go we really didn’t talk but when we did it was cool and it’s fun to watching you in shoutbox Edited January 19, 2019 by JGuary551 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheJitFace 699 / 18,157 Report Post Posted January 19, 2019 see ya mannnnnn *cough* I mean woman legit tho it's sad to see you go except I didn't know you that well jitticus Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winter 1,707 / 25,777 Report Post Posted January 19, 2019 excuse me what the fuck Aspiring OWL Player Official Fat Cunt of GFL Former GFL Council Member Former Deathrun Server Manager Former Murder Server Manager (2x) Former Forum/Discord/TS Moderator Former Member Acceptor Former Prop Hunt Admin Former Breach Admin Former Ragdoll Combat Admin Former Hide and Seek Admin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trigger 155 / 4,994 Report Post Posted January 19, 2019 Sad to see more people resign every day. Wish you well! ֍ Trigger ֍ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options... Achievements
Ambassador Spock 47 / 4,279 Report Post Posted January 19, 2019 Oi @Harakoni wut bout me bruh! Have Questions? Message me on here, steam, or discord! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
positive 210 / 4,553 Report Post Posted January 19, 2019 Edited January 19, 2019 by positive Leadership: Team members are now staff despite being autistic drama kids Team members: *create a lot of retarded teenage drama* Leadership: Yeah you're not staff anymore Team members: Honestly, grow up. Edited January 19, 2019 by positive Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jat 476 / 11,373 Report Post Posted January 19, 2019 Edited January 19, 2019 by Jat - Edit Reason: I hate spoilers oof In honor of your resignation: act dab (I even used your version) Good thing you're still with HnS. I probably would have died if you left again. Edited January 19, 2019 by Jat I hate spoilers Made By @Lynx Made By @Charmayy Made By @Gary Made By @Xy -Jat Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshy 4,363 / 44,847 Report Post Posted January 19, 2019 I thought you were a goof when I spoke to you on Discord, but as I read through this... "Okay, I agree with that... okay, that's a good point. Oh wow, did they read my mind?" You're spot on, and now I feel like the goof. I'm really glad you said it all. Thanks! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RivalRevival 986 / 13,666 Report Post Posted January 19, 2019 You're gonna make me sad, faggot ❤ Do what's best for you, because I know I did and may do again, love you husband Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options... Achievements