What would you roleplay?

[Alexander Trafford]

Thank you for essentially representing exactly what I'm criticizing. League fights did not require previous fights to have been resolved. Any delay in getting a fight resolved has absolutely no impact in a person's ability to write another one.

And yet, people took that as a reason to not write. That's a conscious decision on their part (and one I still don't understand). The delay is blamed/scapegoated, and the Chubbs community spins on, blaming staff for the lack of activity.

It's patently absurd, and it happens over and over again.

I'm happy that I represent exactly what you're criticizing, I really, truly do. It doesn't matter that people could write again before the other fights were finished (even though most people didn't know that until the inactivity had already crushed the writing spirit, but let's forget that), most people wanted some sort of closure before they moved on to another fight. Especially in a competition that was entirely based on winning and losing. If I lost a fight, i didn't want to start one against the best person in the League, I'd want to build myself back up force, and if i had one, I would have wanted to take on the next highest on the latter, and so on and so forth. So to just say "you could have kept writing" is ignorant on so many levels - the game you designed and the mentality of the people who were involved in it made is so that many people wanted results before continuing. And it is 100% the moderators fault that things didn't get judged in time. It took people four times as long to read those posts then it took us to write them. It was so unbearably ridiculous. And the fact that you shrug off all responsibility just goes to show how absolutely lazy and pathetic the staff has become at this place (no offense to those who actually do their jobs, and those who do their jobs behind the scenes). I understand that you're volunteering, and no one is paying you to be staff here, but you accepted the position, and not only are you doing what you promised to do by accepting that position, but, whether you think it's your fault or not, you're crippling activity here among the members who are still here, and still have the potential to be active.