...the point of view of Current XE Staff Members. Honestly, I see some hope for a collaboration between you and aki, but the way things have gone by, I feel they have been totally disrespectful and displeasing to the current XE staff members to say the least.
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The current staff members feel completely ripped off for they have proven their worth in the past and earned their places into the staff via election system (I can assure you that not even single one of them were appointed directly by the management and on top of that they went through a evaluation under my and krys' management wherein the inactive and non caring people were totally demoted)
Let's be clear, the 'current active' staff we are talking about are: George, Aki, White, Nilz, Riders, Razor, Fercho, Zatch and Honor.
I trust and like almost all of these people, and as I said before:
I'd be more than happy to give Aki or anyone from the old staff team a chance,
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Any of the old staff can apply, and they will be welcomed in.
But, and there is a but, there are other factors to consider. You seem like an intelligent guy Blurry, and Krystiano is too, but I don't really know either of you that well. I've seen in the past how Krystiano can be very hot-headed, he can go crazy, and so I'm apprehensive to trust his judgement 100%. I don't know whether to trust yours either, and unless White has had a brain transplant, I'm fairly sure that I can't trust his. So I am open to collaboration and conversation, but I do have my limits. And they're not arbitrary limits related to personal preference, they're limits I impose based on what I see as a necessary challenge to the current system.
Furthermore, I feel they must remain a part of staff in future automatically not just because of the things I stated above but also because of their enthusiasm and interest in this whole thing. It has been a year since XE went completely dysfunctional and yet they show the same amount of enthusiasm as earlier into reviving XE, that in itself is commendable.
That is commendable, but the reality is, in your year of trying, neither they nor you have successfully revived XE. You may be very nice people with good intentions, but you have failed, and are continuing to fail. I say this not as an insult, but as a matter of fact.
they feel since the apps were made on VU forums it makes zero sense to them.
I would think this makes obvious sense, but let me explain why it was this way. 1) The VU forums is much more active, its exposure to the community is much higher than the XE forums these days, and so it is possible to reach out to more people. 2) If I went into the XE forum and started acting like I have, my posts would be deleted and I would be banned. I can't go into a forum where I have no administrative rights, and there is already an admin applications board, and then open a new staff application thread, can I? 3) I opened up this thread and gave people a chance to air their opinions on this matter a full 10 days before I opened up the staff applications. The reception was positive. If the 'current' staff are so active and opposed, then they have no excuse for not taking the opportunity to voice their opinions and object. I cannot be blamed for their inactivity or lack of will to engage. Again, this is not an insult, it is just a fact: the current staff are not really that active, they are not engaging in conversation.
Edit:- that last sentence is not fair, actually. Zatch, Honor and Fercho have posted, but they all seem to have appeared quite neutral - neither positive nor negative. Honor especially should be thanked for his input into this conversation. But where are the others?
but I request you to lock the apps. thread and declare all selections made as "invalid" immediately otherwise in my opinion I think there's very little chance that the talks for collaboration will ever take place.
You will notice that I haven't accepted or denied any apps since I paused development. However, I am keeping the thread open so that people who are interested can show their interest, and their apps can be decided on at a later date. There have been more people in that thread alone trying to help the server than there have been on the XE forum for months, and the more there are, the better.
Keeping that thread open is giving the community a voice, and what they're saying is that they're ready for this and that they're sick of waiting.