I noticed that yesterday, he answered a open ticket. Thats old news.
Now announce me as staff so we can begin the glorious reign of Delta.
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Staying awake late hours into the night, resolving tickets with all the same issues because people too stupid to read FAQ.
One of the highest suicide rates in this job, you sure you want this?
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Believe me, I wish we could, but cg thinks we're being too harsh on the idiots as is.
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'the idiots' - That's part of the problem as well you know. You shouldn't want to encourage or engage in the talking down of users. It's wrong no matter who's doing it. One thing I've noticed is that whether you repeat positive or negative behavior, others repeat it the same. So give people good things to repeat, especially with the influence you have. ^^
I'm a proponent of keeping the atmosphere positive as well as helping the newbies learn the ropes. Even if they should have read things beforehand. Even if it's tiring and redundant. Even if it's been 100 years of the same thing. It's important to keep it all fresh, all friendly, and deferring tasks to others if it gets frustrating. You'll still have suspensions and all of that, but it will be without the bad vibes. At least from this old hare's experience. :)
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There's a difference between the new guys and idiots. I have no problem helping the new guys. I think this thread should have recieved a permanent ban. And that's just the first one on the top of my head. There's a lot worse, both threads and comments and yet the mods are powerless to do anything about it. Only two of us can delete comments, none of us can edit them, so if something goes up, we're pretty stuck. There's a lot of absolute idiots on this forum. Calling them anything less than what they are won't solve the problem. Getting rid of them? That would solve the problem because there wouldn't be any idiots left to talk about. The attitude also comes from not having enough support and certainly not enough powers to handle things. Did you know we still can't see private giveaways without asking for the link? It makes us have to guess half the time, look incompetent all the time. Our power situation is ridiculously filled with holes and doesn't look to be improving in the near future.
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You don't have the power to ban people?
Not sure what so wrong with that post though. But that is the problem with the internet, you cannot tell skin colour so were I see someone potentially singing their favourite rap song, you can also see red-neck white supremacist being racist.
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I have the power to ban people. My issue is that may as well be it and that still gets overturned by cg at times. Official practice is that permanent bans aren't so permanent as long as you go above support and cry directly to cg really nicely about how the mods are being mean to you because "I only had four accounts!"
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That condescending attitude should not be allowed from support. Despise users and trying to negate them the possibility for appeal (Because not all the bans are fair, and we both know it) it's not exactly the way I would choose to keep a community friendly.
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If you willfully try to exploit the site and other people's generosity for your own greed, damn right you sacrifice your right to appeal. It's 2013. People are held accountable for their actions nowadays.
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You don't sacrifice your rights by doing anything. You are entitled to them, murders are still entitled to a fair trial and appeals and being treated humanely.
One thing is being held accountable for your actions and answering for them and the other is being bullied by agressive support members.
I do know this is a private site with a private management and that things are run in a way, but you personally said that the owner is not happy with the course of action some support members are taking, that you are too harsh, didn't you?
Also you should try to judge in base of facts and not personal opinions and value judgements.
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Except, you just pointed it out. This is a private site. You have no rights here. Only priviledges. If you have a lesser offence, sure, go ahead, appeal all you like, we'll give you plenty of chances. But why, give me one good reason, why should we allow people who use alternate accounts or cheat the feedback system so they get more chances of winning games, which they usually just trade on anyway, yet more chances to do the same? People are held accountable for their actions. You are not entitled to anything here. And your unless your appeal says something we completely missed, your period as a user was your trial, your suspension was the outcome of your trial and your punishment is dealt with. We do judge based on facts. We act on them too.
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I believe in reinsertion. I believe there's no evil people, no twisted people but they are pressed into that by external influences. I believe in education. That's why.
And I know this is a private site, but if the head is saying you are being too strict maybe you should listen to him. And I know no one is entitled to anything here but consistent and fair moderation more often than not determine the sucess of a site. Having said that, though, this one has the advantage of providing with free things thus that can be easily ignored.
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You're right. No-one's born evil, but they can become so. But that's hardly relevant to what this is talking about. We're talking about greed and the seeking to satisfy that insatiable urge hurting other people's chances unless they actively do the same just to be on equal footing. Ignorance of the rules is not an excuse and even if it was, these people knew exactly what they did when they started to cheat. There is no sympathy for them, there is only the just rewards they earned through their own efforts.
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It is. And I stated why. Also I do not think what the ignorance of rules has to do with my point at all. And my answer might not be relevant because you seem to be unable to connect my point to the possibility of redemption.
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Ah, agreed on the people that should know better and still cause problems. Those are indeed idiots. :p My gripe is when people do that to the newbies. Gotta treat em right. :>
And I actually heard of some issue in the past of being able to view group and/or private giveaways, so I was not aware of that. The support one I did know of though and I think that there are many people wanting/willing to fill that. It's just a matter of getting the qualified ones in.
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Except the qualified ones are not actually being added. This post really should be welcoming two people. Instead we're not told anything, we weren't even told Shobo was going to be added. We've been waiting on chronic for months now.
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(after reading your above and this post) - Oh, so it's like you're all mods with 1 admin at the head. Hmm...that's a little trickier then. I'm not sure why cg would want that much workload on himself. If someone wanted to do work/management for me... Hell yeah! Go for it. More Dota time. xP
I appreciate you sharing these things. It's actually more difficult than I thought it was, but they're problems that I've experienced or know how to resolve. So hopefully you know what to do to get those before the end of the year (chronic + other helpful changes). ^^
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chronic is on step to becoming support? Oh boy. I'm quite sure he would be the most ban happy one out of everyone.
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I concur. I think that the amount of bans will rise exponentially in no time. I've suffered his ways.
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You broke the rules, you were chat banned. That's how things work.
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Not exactly, IIRC I broke no rule. Unless seeking for knowledge and for having a mature discussion has been forbidden at some point.
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I hate to continue to discuss this months old topic, but I think you were being a bit disruptive. I can see maybe a temporary suspension from chat, but perma ban just for that definitely doesn't reflect well on what chronic might do as a full sg mod. It seems like he would be banning people he doesn't agree with left and right for "inappropriate behavior"
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Except, there's no such thing as a permanent chat ban unless you've been incredibly disruptive or you've done this repeatedly. All that needs to happen is to make an appeal. Which, if I recall, has been mentioned repeatedly. Which means there's just a mountain out of a molehill here.
If I'm recalling the right topic, Castiglia, you've had this explained repeatedly. That was not the time. The place? Maybe. The time? No. You were told to knock it off, you refused to.
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I'm not appealing. I'll wait until it's realised there's been wrong done and I'm offered an apology. Also if I appealed there would be nothing for me to complain about.
I was not told I was insulted, depised and mocked.
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So you're stirring shit up just so you can stir shit up because you don't understand there is a time and place for things. Got it..
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I'm not. As a member of support shouldn't you stick to facts and stop making value judgements as I suggested before?
I understand there's a place and time for things, I fail to see why that wasn't.
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Well, they told you to stop discussing it, for one....
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"I'm not appealing." = Fact
"I'll wait until it's realised there's been wrong done and I'm offered an apology." = Value judgement
"Also if I appealed there would be nothing for me to complain about." = Fact = stirring shit up
"I was not told I was insulted, depised and mocked." = value judgement
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I am not a support member nor a visible head of a community thus I am not judged by the same standards.
And the latter is not a value judgement. If you want I might be able to retrieve the log and we could both check how that went.
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Okay. You go do that. In Support. As part of an appeal. Because nobody actually cares here nor will anything happen as a result of anything happening here.
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"I'll wait until it's realised there's been wrong done and I'm offered an apology."
It's not like we're always looking at the 1500+ chat bans to make sure every one is valid and deserved. When someone is chat banned, they're chat banned and we forget about it... unless they make an appeal. An appeal isn't an admission of guilt, all you have to do is send in a ticket and say "hey guys, can I be unbanned?" and we'll look into it. Our response depends on the situation and how you approach the appeal. Obviously an acknowledgement of what you did wrong goes a long way to help your case, but if you don't feel that's the case, that's fine. Sometimes our reply just might be "hey I've unbanned you, please don't do that again".
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It's fine bobo. Thanks for taking the time to answer me. I might reconsider the appeal thingie. To be honest I do think I might be streching the rope too far.
Also I've already commended you but public acknowledgement goes a long way. If it was on my hand it's your kind of people I would like to be on charge. I know it's difficult to keep the façade sometimes (I've worked retail) but I still hold that a nice answer and a fair treatment goes a long way, no matter the offense. Thanks
Cheers.
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If you need to make an appeal, it's the same as a permanent ban on SG, is it not? You said so above, your "permanent" bans get overturned by cg or appealed in some cases. I'm just using that definition.
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No, appeals are used for anything really. You can appeal against a two day suspension. We just have so many people in and out of chat that we don't really have the time to check who got banned for what, when, if they should be unbanned and how many bans they've had before. If they actually care, they go to SG support, make a ticket requesting an unban and we pretty much do so immediately, as there's now a record of it all easily kept.
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So essentially there are technically no "temporary bans" - ones that lift automatically within a couple of days. Everything is "permanent" until an appeal is filed.
At any rate, I can retract some of my previous statement now that I know how the chat bans work. I still don't like chronic though :P
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Yeah, Steam's entire chat and moderation system needs a huge overhaul, but that's unlikely to happen, unfortunately, so we stick to what we can get. If there were temporary bans, that'd be great, as once you get X number of people in your chat, it becomes impossible to manually maintain without them.
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iirc, no rules were broken, he was just being annoying after chronic told him to stop the discussion.
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Staying awake late hours into the night
I already do.
resolving tickets with all the same issues because people too stupid to read FAQ
I've been Support on another site where users went for help with DS flash carts. I know the power of copy / paste and a list with the answers to the most common problems.
One of the highest suicide rates in this job
I can deal with my family, this is nothing.
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"I can deal with my family, this is nothing." Amen brother xD
I can totally agree
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You're not supposed to so publicly lobby for yourself, Kanye.
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EL PRESIDENTTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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He's a rebel. He doesn't care about anything so much, he needs you to know it. He's deeply concerned that you may not know his opinion.
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Humour must be funny to be, well, humourous. That was just being an unfunny douche.
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Maybe different people have different approaches to what constitutes humour and what doesn't. Trying to apply universally your concept of humour is not too humble, isn't it?
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Congrats ShoboCop :D
Someday you will win an Anal giveaway :O
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Some of you may have already noticed, but we have a new member of Steamgifts Support. They've been a chat mod for over a year now and banned more fools than you can shake a stick at, even going so far as granting us the power of the Shobot, a tool to chatban people without them actually being in chat. Please welcome Shobo!
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