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by **Leehar** on Wed Jun 02, 2010 11:30 am

porkenbeans wrote:Welcome aboard matey.
I would make a suggestion that you play under a different name. That way, you can eliminate all of the ass-kissing, and get straight to uncovering CC's problem areas.

It would be kinda weird if the new admin started his career by breaking the first rule of CC...

by **porkenbeans** on Wed Jun 02, 2010 2:30 pm

Leehar wrote:
porkenbeans wrote:Welcome aboard matey.
I would make a suggestion that you play under a different name. That way, you can eliminate all of the ass-kissing, and get straight to uncovering CC's problem areas.

It would be kinda weird if the new admin started his career by breaking the first rule of CC...

HaHa, The CC gamers career is one thing, and the developers career is another. Do not mistake the difference. The developer is not here to advance his rank or win medals. He is here to help make CC a more professional, and smoother running site.

Lack and crew have created a great site here, and they have done it with unpaid volunteers. Which is pretty amazing =D>

, but face it, not that professional. When you have mods that are also players, you end up with, well lets just say, a conflict of interests. Also, by using non-professionals to run the site, you can not expect to build a truly above board, clean and honest site. Not that the volunteers are not trying to do their best, it's just that they are not professionally trained in the field of customer relations, mediation, policing, and all of the various skills, that are necessary to operate a professional gaming site.

I have been a member here for almost three years, and I have seen countless threads that can be studied by the new developer, that would help him to acclimate and understand better, just what the main issues are.

My suggestion is that the community post links to these threads here. I think that it would help him from having to wade through miles of text, to find out the lay of the land. Then he could just wade through the most important, and relevant text here.

I have always lobbied for anything, that would go to make CC more professional. And have on more than one occasion, been on the front lines of various battles, on these issues.

I am very happy, and consider this move as a WIN. I predict that we will see a few changes around here, and I predict that not all of the changes will be well received by everyone. But I also predict that in the end, CC will be greatly improved. Otherwise, lack would have wasted his money.

I for one, will be happy to help our new sheriff, in anyway that I can.

PS. if you do post links as I have suggested, please just give the link, and NOT a mile of dialog that argues the issue. ...Put that in the respective thread.

by **AndyDufresne** on Wed Jun 02, 2010 3:16 pm

Newtonboy has been getting briefed and up-to-speed by the Admin Team. In time, he'll know CC's ins and outs.

--Andy

by **natty dread** on Wed Jun 02, 2010 3:24 pm

When you have mods that are also players, you end up with, well lets just say, a conflict of interests.

Sounds like you're accusing mods of abusing their powers.

Also, by using non-professionals to run the site, you can not expect to build a truly above board

Can you think of a better site? Volunteers running the site is what makes CC great. All the mods & other Team CC members are players who initially came to this site to play the game, just like everyone else, they're part of the community. They do it for the love of the game, love of the site. You want to replace that with some bussiness suit geeks who only look forward to their next paycheck? Why?

clean and honest site.

CC has no more problems with cheaters than any other online gaming site I've been on. You think some paid worker could keep people from cheating? Dream on. People will always find ways to cheat. At least the CC staff does an awesome job busting these cheaters. All I can say on the matter is, you only see the tip of the iceberg when it comes to busted cheaters & multies.

by **porkenbeans** on Wed Jun 02, 2010 9:10 pm

AndyDufresne wrote:Newtonboy has been getting briefed and up-to-speed by the Admin Team. In time, he'll know CC's ins and outs.

--Andy

I am sure that he is.

All that I am saying, is that sooner or later, he will naturally start having to wade through some issues that have been batted around for years. I thought that it would be a benefit to Newtonboy, if he had a list that contained the most hottest, and debated issues. I know that if I were him I would like to have available that list of threads.

natty,
I already stated that I am not advocating for any debates to be argued here. My suggestion clearly explains that I am only offering the suggestion, that this would be a great place for members to post links to the threads, that they feel are the most relevant, and useful, to our new Web Developer.

by **Night Strike** on Thu Jun 03, 2010 12:42 am

porkenbeans wrote:All that I am saying, is that sooner or later, he will naturally start having to wade through some issues that have been batted around for years. I thought that it would be a benefit to Newtonboy, if he had a list that contained the most hottest, and debated issues. I know that if I were him I would like to have available that list of threads.

Not necessarily. He could just be the workhorse who codes whatever lack tells him to code. Lack and the other admins could do the deciding and sifting through community comments and relay those factors to newton as he plans and implements his code.

by **natty dread** on Thu Jun 03, 2010 11:50 am

Yeah, it sounds like porkenbeans is confusing "web developer" with "business consult"... I hope you're not placing too much expectations on the poor guy. I got the impression he's just here to do programming, not redesigning the whole concept of CC... So let's just wait and see what comes, and if people have suggestions they want implemented, they can post them on the suggestions forum as always.

by **porkenbeans** on Thu Jun 03, 2010 1:56 pm

I am not confusing the two natty. My understanding is that a "Web Developer" describes someone that builds the framework for a web site. He may do all of the coding, or he may hire code writers, to help him with the grunt work.

I suspect that you are probably right about this new guys duties. He is most likely being payed, to help with the grunt work, of coding the enormous back-load of updates and improvements, that have already been approved of, by our overworked leader.

This makes more sense as I think about it more. Although, with the recent muscle flexing by Hasbro, He could very well be here for other reasons. Something that requires a Web Developer, and requires more, than just a simple code writing task.

by **MrBenn** on Thu Jun 03, 2010 5:31 pm

The web developer is here to assist with the development of the website. Community management is (I suspect) not part of his remit

by **killerpit4e** on Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:18 am

Welcome to the team

by **TeeGee** on Sat Jul 10, 2010 3:12 am

whatever happened to newtonboy

and who is this new admin sw0rdf!sh

??

by **Dako** on Sat Jul 10, 2010 3:15 am

Yikes, you were not supposed to notice it!

by **TeeGee** on Sat Jul 10, 2010 3:26 am

Dako wrote:Yikes, you were not supposed to notice it!

I see nothing :-$

by **caymanmew** on Sat Jul 10, 2010 9:21 am

Dako wrote:Yikes, you were not supposed to notice it!

i saw it like weeks ago

by **jrh_cardinal** on Sat Jul 10, 2010 7:50 pm

this is like a soap opera.

What is this group? The normal Global Moderators group is here.
Actually, it won't even let me link to the weird group :shock:

. Go to sw0rdf!sh's profile and click on the Global Moderators Usergroup, it is not the same as the normal Global Moderators Usergroup which is linked at the end of the first sentence.

The fake Global Moderators Group is the Administrators (including sw0rdf!sh). Here is the normal Administrators page, as I said it's the same as the fake Global Moderators in all but the name.

So for whatever reason those guys need two groups, fine, doesn't really matter. Worse is that the admins clearly allowed newtonboy to create a new account (sw0rdf!sh). newtonboy's last login was approximately 2 hours after the sw0rdf!sh account was created, and they're both from the Philippines, there are only 18 active players from the Philippines.

Apparently the newtonboy account was being hounded too much by the community. So you're response is to break all of your own rules, and think you're going to get away with it by not coloring sw0rdf!sh's name or giving him a banner on his profile page, then not even granting a response (other than "you aren't supposed to know") when someone figures it out :roll: