Occupy Main Street!
Hands off our Administrators!
Occupy Main Street (OMS/#OMS) is an IC and OOC movement, campaigning for Roflwaffle to abolish the absurd rules placed upon Admins, which effectively mean that anybody can provoke them into a simple swear word and suddenly, they will face demotion.
At a time where OCRP is reaching critical mass of minging with a lack of administration, two active admins were demoted in less than a week, one of whom plays 9 hours a day. Smithno and Crazyninja.
Smithno was demoted for telling a spammer to "Shut the fuck up". CrazyNinja was demoted for JOKING to a friend about a ban. This friend kept the screenshot as ammunition and gave it to the CG Owner TWO WEEKS LATER because CrazyNinja was ENFORCING THE RULES and would not allow said "friend" to mug a player in a public area.
Roflwaffle has stated his reasoning for this is to avoid harbouring "corrupt admins" and as a result, driving away new and regular players alike. But is telling a spammer to "shut the fuck up" really corrupt? Is a joke the epitome of corruption? Or perhaps, should we look at RTLK?
RTLK spent weeks sticking his fingers into everyone's business, making any decisions he liked and so forth. Despite constant complaints, was he demoted? Like hell he was! Eventually half the damn community threatened and protested until he left. A good 5-10 players left because of his actions. But he was not demoted, no. He took it upon himself to eventually stand down.
Yet these two admins have been fired for that? Surely something is wrong here.
This is where the Occupy Main Street Movement began. Disgruntled by these decisions, working class Hero DeathByKittens took to the streets of Evocity in protest! A hardy band followed him and soon the city was adorned with signs and pickets, each of them protesting the plight of Catalyst-Gaming's administrators. They set up a camp in the BP, with the Mayor's grace, speaking their message to all who would listen. They kept within the laws and supported the mayor and economy by purchasing a steady stream of drinks. Finally, as they prepared for a proper demonstration on Main Street, the camp was forced to close.
And that is why I'm here.
Catalyst-Gaming is a community.
Noun:
A group of people living together in one place, esp. one practicing common ownership: "a community of nuns".
Community. We are not a dictatorship. When the people want something, the people get something. We don't all bow down to Dear Leader Roflwaffle and line his pockets with dollars for letting us be here. When we play here, we play for fun. This isn't some sort of job or forced labour. Now, we have in place an administration team. We trust these people to deal with mingery and rule-breaking.
So how can these great people be tasked with the tedious task of protecting us FOR ABSOLUTELY NO PAYMENT OR COMPENSATION, ONLY THE GOOD OF THEIR HEARTS and yet, Roflwaffle can toss them aside for such mild offences? These aren't highly-trained, highly-professional operatives from some mercenary company, these are fucking bored teenagers, juggling this with whatever other concerns they have.
There is literally no one in this playerbase who would rather Staff were fired rather than a couple of retards sworn at.
I've been here since the first day of OCRP on Orange Cosmos. I've seen it all. I've played more than 99% of this community. I'm not doing this to be a dick. I'm not doing this because Crazy is a good friend. I'm doing this because I goddamn care about the community and the gamemode and the players. I care about the future of OCRP. I can't stand-by and let it all be destroyed. And I will be especially furious if someone decides not to heed my word and the community's concern because they have a superiority complex and like to be right.
The fact of the matter is that we've had 2 of 4 active OCRP admins go down over bullshit. That's not good enough, Roflwaffle, it really isn't. Swearing and joking is not fucking corruption. RTLK is corruption.
So this is why I organised OMS. We players want to organise an IC protest because that's where people will see it. We're not disrupting roleplay and the only drama on OOC is from admins asking us to stop. The benefits of this are:
- We've started an interesting IC event (Referring to the "plight of Evocity Administrators being fired over unfair terms")
- We've given people something to get together behind, essential in a "community".
- We've given people on OCRP something to do other than grow weed and bait cops. You need more of it.
- We've kept within the rules and avoided trying to make trouble for anyone.
We want permission to continue the movement in-game for it's IC reasons. We need a way to make it clear to Roflwaffle that change is needed and why not do it with a fun-for-everyone IC event?
We are the 99%, RoflWaffle, and we demand that you give us the change we want.
General => General Discussion => Topic started by: DeathByKittens on December 28, 2011, 04:48:03 PM