Posts by RedEastWood

  • Admin Application - characterslimits

    once i reinstate and get my rank back, ill think more seriously about taking you under my wing. i like quite a few things about you, but there are glaring negatives that need ironing out.

  • Admin Application - characterslimits

    Quote from characterslimits

    However, I believe that if we want to grow as a server, we need to make very drastic changes, we need to completely change the standards here, we need to completely change the precedent we have set.

    The drastic changes you are claiming to represent in this quote are missing from your examples of changes you support. You have referenced menial changes that are either already being implemented, or are so grossly misinformed that they become laughable. Your suggestions for deleting the Plots Server and publicising the senior voting debates show how illiterate you are on how TF works and the culture of this community.


    A second (and somewhat personal) point against you is that I take offence to your attitude that you should be the person to initiate such change. You are relatively new here, and as already established do not know the community as well as you think you do. This is server has been around for twelve years, and within that time an organic and strong community has grown. Whatever is working for the community should be what we take forward, not the views of one individual because “its 2022”.


    Quote from characterslimits

    We should rethink every single thing, every single feature, every single standard, every single precedent. From the very start of the server to right here present day, even if it means making very drastic changes for stuff we have done since 11 years ago.

    Instead of this, we should employ the political concept of “collective wisdom”. Your attitude and message here is overtly revolutionary, and we prefer to make gradual change over time. The fact that you think that we would consider rethinking every single thing illustrates your lack of understanding on our community.


    Quote from characterslimits

    My opinions may be unpopular, but it shouldn't prevent me from becoming admin.

    Your opinions aren’t the cause of objection. Its your lack of understanding of the kind of community we are, your white-knight complex in which you seem to want to ‘save’ TF by modernising it, and the fact that we don’t believe you’ll get along well with other admins.

  • Nuclear war

    Quote from erin

    40+ year cold war, where, especially at the start of which, both the US and USSR were flooding tons of money into developing nuclear warheads they never actually fired at anyone in a war that never technically had any fatalities.

    this is because the war was fought via proxy, and there were indeed many fatalities (malayan emergency, korean war, nam).


    i don’t think its fair to compare the cold war (a proxy war situation) to the present climate (active battle).


    i don’t really think that Putin will ever use a nuke, but I am almost positive that he will launch various missiles if Ukraine ends up joining NATO and/or resisting Russian control.


    Quote from SuperRyn

    zelensky wants nato to do preemptive strikes

    this will never happen; NATO doesn’t want to get physically involved in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. if push comes to shove i have no doubt that they will let Putin take what he wants from Ukraine (although this raises questions about how China will respond in relation to Taiwan).


    Quote from videogamesm12

    in an attempt to make yet another Soviet Union.

    this isn’t why Putin is doing what he’s doing.


    Quote from lyicx

    putins got a fuckin nostalgia boner for pre 1991

    putin has more of a boner for the security of Russia; although I do accept that his execution was incredibly flawed and has started a humanitarian crisis

  • Temporary admin removals

    Quote from wild1145

    Activity checks were being abused when they were refuarly being done so they are intended to be randomly ran.

    oh okay fair enough then. i think it’s better to have slightly more regular checks to invoke a discipline in admins (even if it means that they are being forced to play when they don’t want to), it just reduces chances of a large portion of admins being wiped out because they know that by a certain point in time they need to have a good amount of activity. but i’m not eao so that’s all good

  • Temporary admin removals

    Quote from Luke

    i get ‘if you were involved why dont you help’ i tried but got mainly ignored

    j to add on this luke did genuinely offer to help after video asked for help, and then video aired him for ages.


    i think this document is just a vessel being used to vent frustration with the EAO team. applications being left for fucking months, missing the senior app window, not doing inactivity checks for months (then wiping half the team as a result of inconsistent checks that set a standard to maintain), and finally this document that i genuinely believe can be finished within a day if you actually dedicate time to it.


    that is my little rant and it will probably get deleted for violating some forum guidelines but it needed to be said