Before I begin my post, I just wanted to thank everybody who took the time to join the website that I linked to in one of my previous blog entries. I won the contest, but I got about 40 referrals from WH members alone. I couldn't have done it without you, so thank-you all! <3
My first week of moderating has been great! I can't believe that it's been that long already. I received the blue name on May 4th, but I didn't do any actual moderating for the website until it went back up. It's been great working with the staff so far. I believe that the moderating team currently consists of Kovaro, Corina, Jekyll, and myself. I don't recall CheshireAlley receiving his powers yet, though I could be totally wrong; I only say that because he didn't have them on the day that v1.2 was released. That doesn't mean that he was kicked from the staff team, I suppose; Karl said that he wanted to make sure that everybody was into their own accounts before he handed out any powers. One account has already been hacked. Unfortunately, the said hacker wasn't as smart this time around, because they hacked an account of somebody who lived in a different continent, and when the hacker used the account, the account's IP changed. IP banned, hacker gone.
A lot of people have been asking me how my job has been so far. I'm enjoying it very much, actually! I haven't had to mute anybody yet, and I've only banned one person who requested to be banned. It also warms my heart to log on WH everyday and be reminded that Karl trusts me enough to give me the ability to ban anybody and know what choices to make. Not having the power, but knowing that somebody trusts me with the power, is enough to make me happy.
Plus, it's already helped me in the real world. I'm taking a mediation class, and I can apply the concepts in both places. Did I mention that it's made me a happier person in general? This is similar to an event that happened over the past week:
Person: Your make-up is ugly.
Me: *mutters while walking away* Yeah? Well, I'm a WH Moderator, so idgaf what you think about my make-up. :B
Now, let's discuss today's topic. I'll just flat-ou say it: leaving Wolf-Haven is becoming a trend. Not exactly the best trend, either. It's mostly the people who have been here the longest, too, which is a shame.
The main problem that I have with people leaving is the drama that arises. If you're going to leave WH, you don't need to state why and list all of the reasons that you hate it. Just put a small note on your profile that says, "Leaving Wolf-Haven for personal reasons. You can contact me at ______ if you'd like to." You don't need to cause drama. You don't need to create a forum topic about it, either. Just PM your close friends.
Now I have no problems with people leaving, but the reasons given are completely absurd! People are leaving because of v1.2 and because Stormgaze was banned. Seriously, you're going to quit your favourite website because one person got banned and you don't like the way something works? If that's enough to get you to leave, you probably shouldn't have been here in the first place because you don't care about WH.
Some people are leaving because of the new Premium Users feature that will be added later. I really have nothing to say in regards to this... if you're going to leave a website just because other people will get more DP storage (which all of the people who left claim to be useless, anyways) and a little title under your forum posts, why did you bother wasting your time here for the past year? If you're going to quit something because you dislike one little thing about it, you're going to quit everything in life. As I've stated multiple times in the past, as the end of the day, Wolf-Haven becomes a business. Businesses make money. They use money to pay for their resources, and the rest becomes profit. That's how it works in the real world, and that's how it works on WH. You're not actually required to buy a Premium Account, either, so why are you complaining when you could simply keep yourself out of it?
In my opinion, if you're going to leave Wolf-Haven, just do it. If you plan on taking everybody along with you, it's not going to work, and nobody needs the drama that's created due to this. Most of WH really doesn't care, anyways... again, just PM your friends. I doubt that a random forum reader cares to hear that you're leaving WH because you don't like v1.2.
Do you actually UNDERSTAND what Karl puts into Wolf-Haven to make it successful? I doubt that you do. Perhaps this isn't your type of website, but for God's sake, don't bash the website or Karl because you don't like one little thing.
All I can say is if you don't like Wolf-Haven, just go. Then, you'll look back and see that the other 12,000+ users are still there.
IP ban? As if... I bet the hacker was using a proxy, and had no personal effects. It's not that simple, is it?
ReplyDeleteThey're probably leaving from the random injustice of Storm being banned, not the actual event. If the staff will ban anyone who's at all honest, it's not worth staying.
The premium user idea is a valid complaint, because it shows that Karl's word is useless... Let's face it... Next we'll all need to pay $100 a month to play.
Based on my research, Karl spends a little over $100-200 a year on the site. That means he's getting a large amount of profit. People tend to feel ripped off when they realize their donations aren't helping them at all. Sure, they're motivation for Karl to code, but it's nice to see something tangible once in a while... v1.2 could have been that, but it was too rushed.
As for the 12,000+ comment, that's total bs. How many users do you talk to on a daily basis? (Probably a lot, as you are a bearer of the blue name) How many are leaving? How many sides does each have? Calculate the percentage of active users leaving, then change your numbers.
"Do you actually UNDERSTAND what Karl puts into Wolf-Haven to make it successful?"
Do you?
(This turned out longer than expected)
Actually, I do understand what Karl goes through. I've become a lot closer to him over the last two weeks. It's a lot.
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