I'm sure you've heard the words "Choose your battles."
Well, this is me choosing mine. This thread is an example of everything this part of the forum was made to try and get rid of.
This area was designed to:
- Let our users post CONSTRUCTIVE ideas and suggestions, and upvote or downvote them to create a "To-Do" type list to QUICKLY provide staff a list to implement and deploy improvements.
- It gives people whose voices have been lost in exactly what this "suggestion, suggestion represents" which is a very small segment of SARP being loud, stomping their feet, and arguing every single arbitrary change that Wes wants for his website. This isn't the stomp your feet and overrides the site owner forum.
Yesterday, you argued with me over tables vs. bullets. You stomped your feet and argued not because you're looking to cause friction. You can claim that's not true, but I've been apart of Star Army a long time, in fact, and I'm not saying this to brag, because believe me it is not a thing to brag about. I helped run this site during a very turbulent time as co-admin, I've faced situations like this before where a small corner of the population has an interest in trying to get Wes to do what they want by stomping their feet and arguing every single point to the point they either get their way or they end up forcing people to leave.
Yesterday you were so venomously resistant, stubborn, and outright destructive in your method of delivering your thoughts that you made me feel unwelcome, unappreciated, and needed on this site. I'm going to be honest, you almost made me throw my hands up and walk away. I've spent every single day I have been back doing something to try and better this community. It hasn't been Andrew's working to improve "yam" (by the way, that's become an offensive slang around here), I spent hours going through product pages entering them into the struct, not because "it's my job" but because the site needed help. I've implemented edits on pages users have made regardless of what faction they play in - because I wanted to help.
Star Army as a community, we need solutions fast. We need new players and we need to grow. We need to recover from losing a chunk of our player base and our articles and we need to do that by coming together and implementing solutions and new ideas to make that happen quickly. This suggestion is just another arm of the continual stream of stubborn "We've never done it this way" resistance. We also need a way to bring the voices of our player base as a whole to the front, not just the ones that are the loudest and willing to do anything to cling to old ideas that if they were working would not be contributing to the loss of players and activity on the site.
There is a correlation between the people who are working against change and the same people who have started the baseless rumor that everything is Yamatai's fault - Yamatai is going to take us over, Yamatai is taking players. No really, what's really happening is the CCGs and front-line documents new users should be using to join your factions are unclear, out of date, and in a state of disarray, sorry facts vs. fiction.
So this idea, this suggestion is not really a suggestion. It is another protest to stop progress and therefore, I used my basic right as a player - not my staff hat...and I downvoted it.
Have a good day. If this post decides to get removed that's fine, but I've chosen my battle now and be the words be spoken publicly or not here it is. SARP will move forward with or without me, whatever is BEST for the community.