- Sat Mar 01, 2014 11:10 am
#185337
First off, I've no reason to lie over something like that.
I was informed out of game that my tower was covered in lava. Stopping everything I was previously doing irl I go in game, and not intending to obviously fall into the lava I hadn't put my stuff away. It obviously was a dangerous thing that should be taken down right away. The lava itself was a very easy fix and usually jokes between Intelli and I. I know many people have witnessed him and I having fort fights, but this of course wasn't intended to be a fort lol.
In my attempt to remove a lava situation that was placed by one staff, I went to check the logs to correctly roll it back and was knocked into the lava by a different staff. Completely unbeknownst to me of course, since we weren't even talking. On my screen, lagging about, I tried to get out and failed, respawned back in and had none of my items. So after seeing no players where I had just died (in the lava) I automatically assumed my items to have been long gone. And stated whoever to have illegally pvp'd me into the lava was going to be banned. This wasn't horseplay, or fun, or joking between us.
If you take out the fact that he was a staff member, this is a player who killed me illegally causing me to lose all of my stuff. Who apparently thought it was comical to have broken the rules, at spawn, in front of everyone, expecting no consequences. Adding the fact that he was a staff member in my opinion only makes it more serious just by the fact that he knows the rules, and is one of the ones expected to enforce them.
I didn't ban him immediately, however, as fragile situations like these need to be talked through by the other staff members. (In fact, I didn't ban him at all.) And though in his mind maybe he was joking, he still broke the rules, and to me that's no excuse. People shouldn't just knock off whatever happened because we're both staff, because to you it somehow twists things around. If I had been a normal player around the lava, and he had been another normal player, what would have happened? Is it still harmless? Better yet, what if I hypothetically wasn't a staff, and he was? Would that somehow be more serious? Or would it still be "horseplay" merely because it's a staff member involved? Because I'm sure that most of you, having lost hours/weeks/months worth of hard earned items would feel the same sense of frustration I felt, despite by who's hands it was brought. If we're set in a way of thinking that staff can break the rules because they're staff, or because they're joking, then something obviously needs to be done.
*I want people to know that this is all speculation and explanation, not an attack of any form towards anyone involved.
G-Tus wrote:-snip-So since not many people except the ones at spawn know the story (And apparently not even the one's at spawn, eh?) I figure why not explain it.
First off, I've no reason to lie over something like that.

In my attempt to remove a lava situation that was placed by one staff, I went to check the logs to correctly roll it back and was knocked into the lava by a different staff. Completely unbeknownst to me of course, since we weren't even talking. On my screen, lagging about, I tried to get out and failed, respawned back in and had none of my items. So after seeing no players where I had just died (in the lava) I automatically assumed my items to have been long gone. And stated whoever to have illegally pvp'd me into the lava was going to be banned. This wasn't horseplay, or fun, or joking between us.
If you take out the fact that he was a staff member, this is a player who killed me illegally causing me to lose all of my stuff. Who apparently thought it was comical to have broken the rules, at spawn, in front of everyone, expecting no consequences. Adding the fact that he was a staff member in my opinion only makes it more serious just by the fact that he knows the rules, and is one of the ones expected to enforce them.
I didn't ban him immediately, however, as fragile situations like these need to be talked through by the other staff members. (In fact, I didn't ban him at all.) And though in his mind maybe he was joking, he still broke the rules, and to me that's no excuse. People shouldn't just knock off whatever happened because we're both staff, because to you it somehow twists things around. If I had been a normal player around the lava, and he had been another normal player, what would have happened? Is it still harmless? Better yet, what if I hypothetically wasn't a staff, and he was? Would that somehow be more serious? Or would it still be "horseplay" merely because it's a staff member involved? Because I'm sure that most of you, having lost hours/weeks/months worth of hard earned items would feel the same sense of frustration I felt, despite by who's hands it was brought. If we're set in a way of thinking that staff can break the rules because they're staff, or because they're joking, then something obviously needs to be done.
*I want people to know that this is all speculation and explanation, not an attack of any form towards anyone involved.

