Staff/CDT using their feelings instead of rules to make decisions

It's fine dude but I have decided to brush off the 'have to be professional' thing because in the circumstance why do I? It isn't legitimate feedback and I am simply a community member trying to help in anyway I can. Kmt negative ninnies

 

Let me asks you this: what do you prefer, honest feedback in a section where it's allowed to post discriminatory remarks and flame each other or in some section which will get the same amount of attention however all the replies would be censored and moderated on vulgarity/flaming/discriminatory remarks etc?

 

No point in even trying anymore boys, does anything ever happen? Let the entitled kids keep beating this dead horse. Most of the CDT should go apply at Jagex though, they're great at ruining nice things.

 

Spam forum is the spam forum and not to be taken seriously so it doesn't fit there. Keep it here and remove the trolling/flaming, it seems to only be from the members who want this thread to be moved. People are giving negative feedback here and the majority seems to be fine per sythe rules.

 

These members circlejerk on Skype about how they take advantage of this section to make drama for the CDT

 

I wasn't on Skype at the time but it's clear to see they are trollbaiting us and it isn't valid feedback. Open your eyes and change the fucking rules, none of these cunts care about the community they are just circlejerking >.<

 

Thus the thread belongs in the spam forum?

 

We were talking in a private skype chat, what relevance does that have here, and from the pictures you showed all that I can see is people's distaste for your actions. Please stop trying to change this thread into something that should be in the spam forum. Accept criticism scotty.

 

Retard

 

It's not surprising that some people want you out from your actions? Yes I'm anti sonia from her actions which if you care to read can be seen in my previous posts on this thread. Members like @Blade really care about this community and when they see toxic members who are meant to be a positive influence act like you they are bound to be frustrated. Not to sure what the community development team actually stands for now tbh lol. Glad to see you took it on the chin and left the cdt thought.

 

Looks like sythe needs a new team

A team that cares about the community
A team that takes peoples feedback very seriously
A team that behaves professional
A team that doesn't keep secrets from the community, but keeps everything in the open
A team that doesn't let their feelings or personal opinion affect their decisions

 

+ censoring comments/posts that are purely just banter and flame.

Using spicy words doesn't automatically render feedback useless; in fact, in most cases it gives it more meaning it by allowing the poster to convey their true feelings without any censorship.

 

What happened to this site?

 

shitty people come
shitty people go
it all really depends on the time of the year

 

I know it's out of context, but if people find out that you ask for votes, you will get disqualified. I hope you didn't do that with SOTM too. Anyways, if you did, I strongly suggest not to do it again, since that could get you in trouble.

Also, I usually don't take part of "drama", but I must say that the way you're acting is kinda disappointing, man. Even if these people troll you all the time, you should still be an example, respect the other members, and be professional.

I know it's hard sometimes to accept comments like this, but please understand that this is a friendly feedback, and that I have nothing against you. I just want you to have an honest opinion.

Matt

 

I've already been removed buddy

 

@Blade & to others that shared the same concerns.

Spoke to you about your concerns, hopefully in future we can try and ensure all entries are made public, polled etc. It was not in our aims to diminish the communities feelings by not adding entries to the poll, it seems clearly that has been the case, and hopefully the CDT will learn from this. As I've already stated I don't appreciate feedback being moved else where, feedback is still feedback albeit even if it was from the Spam Forum: Tell the CDT what to do 2.0 So don't be disheartened too much if your feedback is moved around, just know the CDT and I do take it seriously. Hopefully @Astro just infract people and remove posts or even temp ban rather than moving elsewhere?

As you should already be aware, yes I did tell Scotty specifically not to behave in the way that he did on this thread and the previous thread. After the Maze event it was discussed in CDT about the way we behave in regards to other Dev teams, on the forums, discord & feedback. As a result of his lack of proper behaviour, that of which we in CDT expect of our members/leaders, he has been removed from the team.

You questioned what Scotty had done in the team; since recently joining attempts at making discord more community thriving, memeworthy place via emojis, seeking for members sythe achivements for the Sythe quarterly coming up, & help with discussions, with regards to event creating organising and rewards for the halloween events. As well as attempts to discuss with another forum about future collaborative events.

Spoiler: meeting discussion

Professionalism & Other Teams.​

You are apart of the CDT, you have responsibilities to do and create things within CDT for the members of the community and yourselves. We as CDT are apart of development teams to develop the forums; where staff (or as Richard would like it, should not or cannot). If you want to read what I mean; see Spam Forum thread here.

What I want all of us (myself included) is to remember that the other teams, are on the same mentality as us. We all have the common goal. That is to better the site.

Yes there are and have been issues with the Maze event, but we should move forward from this. Mistakes made, lessons to be learned. Communications with TC/PR should be worked upon.
If in future we decide to collab an event, when you want someones attention; i.e. contacting a TC member, you PM them directly.
Do not tag them in the dev discord chat, as not all other team members are as actively responsive.
If you want to discuss the relevant event, do so in the thread provided within CDT or the other team sections.
Our behaviour towards the Dev Teams in public should remain professional.
That means no attacking other teams, if you feel your behaviour is troll-worthy do not post it unless it is in Spam Forum.
You should know when your behaviour should become/remain professional.
I believe we all need to learn from this.
Remember that the discord is somewhat a Spam Forum place - and most of us are effected by what occurs in discord; but once in Dev chat you should remain professional.
If you cannot act responsibly when organising events or collaborations with other dev teams, then take a step back and think about how you are behaving, the impact it will be on the community and what you are as a member.
If there is feedback which is not what you like to see, or hear, do not respond negatively if at all.
Remember that the CDT is here for the community. We want to make these forums thrive.
I personally believe we are not here to sit on ranks and do nothing to make the community feel welcome and relevant in all that we create and do.
Our professionalism must be in good standards as people look up to us as role models and developers of the forums.
When we are in the forums we should behave in a way that is respectful.

@Jack

Issues regarding minecraft, I discussed somewhat in this thread:
CDT, TC, PR with horror maze
If you read above in the spoiler about what attempts are being made to try and correct what mistakes have been made.

The scavenger hunt was made first-to-find-all as the event was rather difficult it gave a prize to the individual who could find them all first. If the event had been cash prizes towards different amount of people, we could not be sure whether a member may work together to find the creatures. I understand that you felt the event disincentive individuals from trying, although multiple rewards were available as well. Can you explain why you believe the clues were poor? It is tedious to have riddles for clues, although they were worked on for hours, repeated many times of where the creatures were etc.

Like I mentioned in the previous thread, we should make individuals aware if stories are going to be pre-reviewed for the polls. As I had told Blade I did not believe his entry or others would not be ok; they were entered as participants even though looking over the team felt some stories did not meet the requirements. Hopefully we shall in future if/for an event including entries or polls we shall try ensure all stories are made public/polled and if not we make sure participants are aware that they may not be.

Members are pimping out their stories? I assume you mean people are telling others to vote, etc. @DesireX was disqualified as he had been doing this, as well as telling akama to vote for a specific set of stories, their votes were not counted. It was made obvious to desirex that this is not something we allow; the fact that you stated it in the discord, but had an implication where other members were following your lead is why you were disqualified from the votes.

Understandable about the timings, it is difficult to work with time-zones. Although majority of events were given at least a week if not more; unless polls, for individuals to enter, a lot of awareness was given for each event also. In future hopefully we can ensure events are released at the earliest opportunity rather than over the month.

Thanks for raising your concerns.

 

Other members had clearly been doing the same thing in discord, such as scotty where he was pming members to vote for his story. Pretty disheartening that even though his story made it to the second round he wasn't disqualified for doing such things. Evidence was posted here before but my post was removed by a mod. Please amend the rules when making events to make it clear what is and isn't acceptable. Other members were pming and spamming of how there story should be "read", but you seemed to have made the decision to disqualify me on the spot, without actually making a rule that would be worthy of a disqualification.

 

In future we'll make sure rules are specified, that doing so will not be allowed and can earn disqualification of votes; or as entry. If you want you can send me the proof... the entire chat. I've not noticed anyone else trying to pimp their stories or specific stories. I can't exactly read or be aware of what happens in peoples pms. The re-poll hopefully has set a new start on the poll overall, whereby if you wanted to change your vote from before you can do now, but you can't change your vote constantly again as you could before.