Board Thread:News and Events/@comment-10337166-20161001015833/@comment-24296957-20161001142021

Vote for demotion.

As an admin, no matter what stance we take, there's always going to be someone that's unhappy or pointing fingers at the admin body. I want to make it clear that this is a decision completely up to the community, and that I have nothing but respect for Jord because he's letting the site decide, not staff. Let's get to it.

As for the lack of activity on the chat, I get that other things take place IRL. So the lack of activity there is understandable. However, not stating you'll be 'AFK, ping me if you need me', is a point all in itself. It's also one thing to be a regular user and do this. It's another if you're a CM. Not to mention abusing that power and bullying the chat on multiple occassions (oh yes, I remember), is not a good way to maintain that privildge - which is exactly what Staff is - a privildge, not a right.

Which let me make it clear, NO reviewer should have CM powers. The only two who are supposed to have that ability are Admins and the CMs themselves. By giving that to reviewers, you are essentially removing the need for CMs in the first place, and basically making them admins without the power of the admin dashboard. I'll open a thread for discussion later.

As for the reviewing...oh boy. Look, I'll start of by saying I need to brush up on my skills as well. Am I blameless? Hell no. I was inactive for different reasons, so perhaps i'm not totally privy to this next part. But as an admin and a fellow member of this community, I sure as hell am.

To be blunt, his reviewing style is hostile and full of sarcasm. Reviewers are there to HELP the creator along the path of making an acceptable OC, not call there works 'garbage' or chastise them for not agreeing with the OC. Don't insert blatant disregard for the OC in your reviewing comment - not to mention seeping sarcasm - when the reviewing proccess is supposed to be done  100% UNBIASED . Any sort of comment is to be done UNDER the final verdict if it does not pertain to te review at hand. I've had plenty of OCs that I thought were cringey/edgy/mary-sue esque, but were all within canon and balanced enough, and I accepted them even though I didn't like them. I thought you had potential, Alex, and at first, you were fine. I don't know what happened.

Now let's talk about how he's bitching that, 'Oh, well I never have time to review', or 'I'm too tired, I worked today. So no, i'm not going to do my job'. Listen here, Alex. I worked retail for the better part of 14 months, I get how hard it is mentally. But don't even start with this. I work 40+ hours a week as a mechanic, yet I still find the time to come on here and do something.

If you're so stressed and don't have the time, then why the actual hell do you still have a position on Staff?