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Staff Conduct Policy
The staff of Shards of Dalaya is bound by strict policies that forbid favoritism, corruption, and abusing knowledge gained as a GM to further their player characters. The fact that we maintain a clean house also means that we do not enjoy having rumors spread about GMs by people in rivaling guilds or with personal grudges. If you have a problem with a staff member, take it up in private with an Administrator, so that we can investigate and take action if your allegations turn out correct. If you have a problem with an Administrator, take it up with a Woldo or Zoie directly. On the same token any attempts to solicit staff favors in any form are dealt with harshly. This applies both to a staff members staff character and player characters.
From mostly an outside observer's perspective I have to say in my brief time back I have heard a lot of talk about favoritism and corruption among the staff. I'm not posting here to accuse anyone of anything, again this is what it look likes to an old player who just came back after years away:
There is a problem with the staff.
If its a real problem or one of perception is yet to be seen. I think we can all agree that the staff and players of SoD have always had a rather large disconnect, just getting patch notes posted to an accessible place is a new development for this server so I wouldn't exactly describe the staff as open communicators, which is fine, until its not.
Now is a time when I think it's not. Again I'm not calling anyone on the staff corrupt but there is without a doubt a perception of corruption hanging over the server currently and it would take almost zero effort to clear the air IF there is in fact no corruption.
Exhibit A:
Banning(eternal jailing is the same thing lets be real... what was even the point of this soft severed ban? He either broke the rules and gets banned or didn't and can play, why this appeal every 6 months stuff? Is he appealing the ban on the ground of innocence or "I learned my lesson please let me play again"? All that did was make this whole thing very murky. Why is any of that a thing? that aside) a charter that breaks the rules and get's banned is fine, that's how it goes.
But now things get a little messy because our banished player was a guild leader that is maintaining his innocence. This put the guild and somewhat the server at large in contention with the staff, it raises the question: can my charter I've spent YEARS developing and playing be taken away from me for no real reason? Do you think newer players don't hear about this kind of stuff and decide maybe they would rather play on a server that wont arbitrarily ban people? Maybe he deserved it, but maybe he didn't...
So the question is what kind of staff do we have?
A uncorrupted staff with nothing to hide would opt for transparency. You made a post as an "explanation" and said you have proof. People want the proof, so post it. Put this whole issue to rest decisively and show everyone that rule 11 is being enforced just like every other rule(besides the naming policy).
Or ignore / delete this post. It doesn't prove you're corrupt or play favorites, but that is exactly what corruption looks like. Rule 11 says the staff doesn't like nasty rumors floating around and I agree, none of that is good for the server(and neither are those promo videos btw, those made me want to quit playing, those lazy fame grabbers should be deducted fame for driving people away, someone's UI alone was just... I'm getting distracted but shame on you, you know who you are) so why not clear up at least this issue? I think settling this cleanly would be good for the guild left behind and the server as a whole.
Staff Conduct Policy
The staff of Shards of Dalaya is bound by strict policies that forbid favoritism, corruption, and abusing knowledge gained as a GM to further their player characters. The fact that we maintain a clean house also means that we do not enjoy having rumors spread about GMs by people in rivaling guilds or with personal grudges. If you have a problem with a staff member, take it up in private with an Administrator, so that we can investigate and take action if your allegations turn out correct. If you have a problem with an Administrator, take it up with a Woldo or Zoie directly. On the same token any attempts to solicit staff favors in any form are dealt with harshly. This applies both to a staff members staff character and player characters.
From mostly an outside observer's perspective I have to say in my brief time back I have heard a lot of talk about favoritism and corruption among the staff. I'm not posting here to accuse anyone of anything, again this is what it look likes to an old player who just came back after years away:
There is a problem with the staff.
If its a real problem or one of perception is yet to be seen. I think we can all agree that the staff and players of SoD have always had a rather large disconnect, just getting patch notes posted to an accessible place is a new development for this server so I wouldn't exactly describe the staff as open communicators, which is fine, until its not.
Now is a time when I think it's not. Again I'm not calling anyone on the staff corrupt but there is without a doubt a perception of corruption hanging over the server currently and it would take almost zero effort to clear the air IF there is in fact no corruption.
Exhibit A:
Banning(eternal jailing is the same thing lets be real... what was even the point of this soft severed ban? He either broke the rules and gets banned or didn't and can play, why this appeal every 6 months stuff? Is he appealing the ban on the ground of innocence or "I learned my lesson please let me play again"? All that did was make this whole thing very murky. Why is any of that a thing? that aside) a charter that breaks the rules and get's banned is fine, that's how it goes.
But now things get a little messy because our banished player was a guild leader that is maintaining his innocence. This put the guild and somewhat the server at large in contention with the staff, it raises the question: can my charter I've spent YEARS developing and playing be taken away from me for no real reason? Do you think newer players don't hear about this kind of stuff and decide maybe they would rather play on a server that wont arbitrarily ban people? Maybe he deserved it, but maybe he didn't...
So the question is what kind of staff do we have?
A uncorrupted staff with nothing to hide would opt for transparency. You made a post as an "explanation" and said you have proof. People want the proof, so post it. Put this whole issue to rest decisively and show everyone that rule 11 is being enforced just like every other rule(besides the naming policy).
Or ignore / delete this post. It doesn't prove you're corrupt or play favorites, but that is exactly what corruption looks like. Rule 11 says the staff doesn't like nasty rumors floating around and I agree, none of that is good for the server(and neither are those promo videos btw, those made me want to quit playing, those lazy fame grabbers should be deducted fame for driving people away, someone's UI alone was just... I'm getting distracted but shame on you, you know who you are) so why not clear up at least this issue? I think settling this cleanly would be good for the guild left behind and the server as a whole.