Banned & Column Removed
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3 Mar 2008, 11:43
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Seems someone didn't like the column I wrote which was reason enough to simply delete half an hour of my writing and to permanently ban me from Crossfire stating that I "was only there for three hours" (which is wrong). All I wanted to do was start a productive discussion since I clearly stated that none of the admins was to be blamed and it was about the general format, and that's how it's dealt with here. Thank you.
FDJ
FDJ
4 games is a but much in 3 days, espescialy if you have 30 CoD teams. And maybe a larger spot, I was way to small for such an event. Imo every player should fit in the lan center at the same time, otherwise the center is too small :D
The lan center has to be the center of the fun, and the meeting place for people. Not only the spot where you play your games and then have to search a place to chill out.
ET deserves a seperate event anyway, since it is by far the most popular game and the actual reason crossfire and CDC exist.
Though ET makes up the active community on the website, I highly doubt the majority of sponsorship money coming in, is because of ET. CoD has been with ET since CPC1. Discrediting it is somewhat harsh!
If you truly had suggestions or complaints that you wanted addressed you wouldnt have written a column you would have written an email to me or waited until I saw you next weekend in Cologne. If you truly wanted the event to succeed, you maybe would have waited to make the post so that admins that just worked 16 hour days for this community werent being attacked just moments after the tournament was over. And if you wanted to write an informed column, either you would have been there yourself or you would have taken the opinion from places elsewhere than just the German ETQW community.
I know that in your heart you wanted the best for the event, and because you are sick (hense why you went home) we looked out for you, because you're clearly not thinking straight.
b) The question mark in the title was not unintentional. I wrote this to have a place where those who went could discuss this topic since I didn't assume what I thought was the ultimate truth.
c) I made it very clear that I respect the admins' work very much and that this is not about them.
d) I was there for eight hours on Friday and for a short time on Saturday, I followed the tournament from home on Sunday. I clearly didn't leave for any reasons other than that I was too sick too stay.
e) It is unfair to say I only took opinions from the ETQW community. What I wrote about was influenced by what I saw at the event, not what anyone told me.
Banning me and patronising me like that is just something I can't understand. I vomitted my insides out but I'm not mentally handicapped. Also that column is gone and so is a lot of work as I have no backup.
But the reality is, if you really wanted changes or just wanted to express your opinion and werent whining for the sake of being whiningdj you would just mail me.
it's true he could better wait until the end of the event with posting it though.
if you can't take criticism you shouldn't be hosting such events.
But after all I still had fun @ CDC4 (for the 4 hours I've been there). I think the event was succesfull for most of the players attending but making it better can't do any harm, does it?
His column was not to incite change because if he had an idea he'd mail me, at least thats what I'd do rather than specifically chosing the very best time to piss someone off, he chose a very 'user friendly' subject in his column "Hey there wasnt enough priority on ET" which 75% of users of this site will agree with regardless of any circumstances and has been proven by numerous ignorant replies in this journal.
hopefully KKC can poen CDC5 :P cu there
leads to the opinion DJ has a brain bug :x
MEGAROFLED. xD
(Just going by what FDJ wrote here about his column, after all it's the only thing I can go by, because the column itself is deleted.)
A column is all about an opinion. So, what stops you from responding to his column and saying where you think he is wrong (or whatever), essentially starting a discussion? Instead you delete the column, ban the 'offender' and now personally attack him.
Why mail? What's wrong with having a 'public' discussion about the issue, so you can see how other people, more precisely attendees of the LAN, feel about it?
Something that is such a senseless attack I chose to delete and I couldnt give a flying fuck whether people dont like that fact after the weekend this team just gave the community such a mindless attack on them and their work should be deleted. Everyone of the admin team that read it were pissed off by it, so I got rid of it. When you work for the community for 5 days in a row from 7am to 4am you earn the right to save yourself from being pissed off.
Lame, I know =<
I don't think you had to be there to write about it (he was even there)...as people who participated hadn't the same criticism.
constructive critisism is surely a thing not to be discouraged.
And the column was really not full of wrongs, but with good points, which should be discussed. So I have really no understanding that it got deleted and especially that he did get banned.
You can get the feeling that there is someone too often surrounded by asscrawling "yes-men" so that he lost the track of the reality.
He chose a subject that someone like you would buy into and hop onboard the whine train. There was no thought process of bettering the event behind his column.
I also can imagine that it hurts and annoys to read some critical feedback, after a shitload of hours of voluntary work, but still there are another lan events incoming and you should be interested in well described and explained negative criticism to improve the event the next time and not only in the nothing saying asscrawl "I love you Tosspot" comments.
If the content of fdj was so wrong, then the text had get fucked up by the users in the comments anyway, but deleting content and banning someone, because the content is not matching with his own opinion is pretty lame.
That's not true. When you have published the first signup stats, at the begin of the period, the amount of the cod4 teams was high and the rest low.
So I told that you shouldn't force every planned game and should focus on cod4, if the amount of signups stay so low, but in the same sentence I have written that I am pretty sure the ET sign ups will increase hardly. All I whined about later was, that it shouldn't be a problem to have 4 more slots for the game that made crossfire what it is. Having 36 cod4 slots and 16 et slots still means to focus on cod4, so no conflict at all.
Please unban him...
theres an championship which admin can spread the most bans in 2008!!!
As you can read in my journal, I didnt enjoy CDC4 as much as I wanted and I guess it was mostly the CoD4 progaming vs ET fungaming, two scenes who couldnt be more different.
LAN: serious business!
The story of the boy who cried wolf sums it up best, if someone who doesnt whine often comes up and makes a complaint then it carries far more weight than someone like yourself or flyingdj. FlyingDJ for an example did not earn the nickname WhiningDJ for no reason.