need to express (for the poke heroes cooperation team)

[lthookey]

This is a message I sent after hearing about the poke heroes co-op team and after reading the thread "Definition and reason for hacked pokemon?" I hope a middle ground can be found.



Hi my name is John and I am a 24 year old video game fan. I am also a student at the University of Florida and I work as a Lieutenant Supervisor of security. I bring up the later for a point. I do not feel that the administrators moderate in a fair and even way. I am not here to defend the actions that others have taken. However, I feel that the actions taken are extreme in some situations. In my line of work, we enforce several policy's and rules, many of which may appear to be common sense. Often these rules are broken or bent. It is our job to make sure that everyone obeys these rules. Now with my job I can have several people detained for long lengths of time. I can even have the police arrest many more on misdemeanor charges, but I am not here to make my facility a gestapo camp or make our visitors feel as if they live under martial law in our facility. I feel that the administrators here are doing just that. For example, there was a thread created to discuss the legitimacy of hacked pokemon. This thread could be used by the administrators as a way of communicating the negative aspect of cheating and its affects on the value of the game and collecting, something other than a rule or a sticky note to advise that its taboo. However, the thread was closed, I feel, pre-maturely. When the discussion shifted about an earlier thread being closed, the administrator insulted the individual who was posting and closed the thread deeming it to be irrelevant. The fact is that it is relevant and the administrator was unfair. Let's say you go into a Wendy's and order a salad. If the person taking your order responded that you were an idiot because they don't carry salads, they carry side salads and that you should learn your fast food before you ordered. You would probably be upset and that individual would be disciplined. This entire community is about coming together for fun and it is the responsibility, not the policing duty, of the administrators to ensure that the forums are fair and fun. Enforce policy with ample and fair warnings. Mediate your concerns with problematic users before pulling the plug on there thread. Simple easy humane courtesies that our parents tried to instill in us. Something a 19 or 13 year old should know. With that I am submitting this message to as many administrators as possible, including a post for the community to read even though I do not believe it will be up long. additionally, I will not return to this forum as I do not agree with its practices and I feel that feeling may be mutual after this rant. Thank you for your time, John

 

[Psi Yamaneko]

I find it strange to post a rant about a place you have no intention of visiting but I'll just say something and be brief. I do not condone Admins insulting people. I haven't seen that happen here, but maybe it has, and I will agree that that needs to stop. Though some members do egg the mods on, too.

However, in regards to the closing of threads about hacked Pokes? Well, Pokecommunity is massive and it moves quickly. I've seen the Admins and Mods state time and again that hacked Pokemon are not allowed so it would be understandable if they shut the thread down with little warning as it can be incredibly vexing when large groups of people fail heed clearly written rules.

 

[Deleted member 12729]

One thing you should really understand is that we just don't allow hacked Pokémon. I stated in the very beginning of PokeHeroes that I would just not allow it. I don't make up the rules, but I'm here to enforce them.

I know that you're very upset about the closing of PokeHeroes but if you guys don't listen, then I'm just gonna have to tell you that you aren't. Besides, this thread's pretty pointless and we've all got the picture that we are just not allowing hacked/illegit guys getting traded over here at PC.

Psi Yameneko is right in her words as well, seeing as you are constantly shoved with the rules seeing as they're the top thread all the time. It's not too much of a hard job if you read them since it takes less than a minute to get through them all. We've written those rules to maintain order in here, not to make members feel stuck or imprisioned in a dictator-like world. I've said this millions of times already this week, but we just do not allow hacked Pokémon up for trades here. If you're so upset about this single fact, then that's your problem, because we don't have to deal with that.

Closed~