Best Red Name - Page 2

Pink Poodle · 10-20-2009, 04:47 PM

Re-voting for:

Rothgar because he actually posts and responds to stuff, sometimes at really odd hours, but he does post good stuff.

Kiara because of the Rick Astley thing. Old meme but that was completely unexpected.

Voting for these instead:

Imago-Quem due to graphics stuff.

Autenil for obvious reasons, I think he does work on another SOE game now (unsure) but he did a lot of good.

Runner-ups: Olihin for trolling PVPers, Cronyn for being into what he does.

Ajeco · 10-20-2009, 04:52 PM

Frizz and Glip! 'Cause gnomes are great for punting.

Deson · 10-20-2009, 05:29 PM

Rothgar, Domino,Imago-Quem and Autenil should be self explanatory( even though Autenil doesn't post nearly as much) but I do wish I could vote for near everyone on that list as the team does great work. I do however want to make mention of Kiara becuase she does an actually good job despite the crap way SOE (dis)empowers it's CM's.

Instead of being like a genuine public affairs group that presents a face for the respective games, they all too often seem like conscripted cheerleaders-- conscripted because even though they volunteered for the job, they seem forced into the compromised and all too often ridiculous situations. Kiara deserves credit for bringing us back from the brink of the "excessive negativity" days while still trying to keep the forums useful and open. Does she err? yes but she's nowhere near as bad as people keep trying to say and certainly not as bad as her predecessor. The big problem comes from events like the LoN cards where the CM's seem to be nearly as surprised as we are even if they had a modest warning. It seems as though the CM teams are an afterthought instead of actively involved and then dumped alone on the frontlines when things go sour with occasional "friendly fire" from peers and bosses. No one should ever be in that position, and it shows a stunning failure on the part of whoever is in charge of the overall CM concept.It's a shame when decent people are setup for failure because of a poor management structure. At the very least CM's should be empowered by being informed enough to respond to routine matters like class issues lists and special cases like RA's and LoN loot cards.Kiara deserves credit for handling matters as well as she does because given what I've seen over the last near decade of SOE communications (minus the highlight of Moorgard/Blackguard) it's as well as anyone can.

Niber · 10-20-2009, 05:49 PM

Zoltaroth needs more love for implementing the best spam prevention in MMO history.

Anyone know what happened to Archonix? I assume (like Autenil) he was moved to another Sony product.

Xalmat · 10-20-2009, 06:29 PM

Domino: Best tradeskill dev, ever. Of all time. On every MMO that's ever existed.

Imago-Quem: Knows his shit.

Rothgar: Because he's a bad ass.

Timetravelling: Good all round guy.

Runners up: Autenil (for reasons cited above), Kander.

Milambers · 10-20-2009, 08:23 PM

Rothgar/Timetravelling.

I seriously lol'd at Ohilin the PvP dev having 0 votes. It's sad really, he does try, he's just stupid.

Gaige · 10-20-2009, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Niber

Anyone know what happened to Archonix?

He went to Scott's startup, not sure if he is still there since Scott left or not though.

curuw · 10-20-2009, 08:52 PM

its beyond me how anyone can vote for kiara

Gaige · 10-20-2009, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by curuw

its beyond me how anyone can vote for kiara

Its easy if you've lived through all the CMs. While she isn't perfect, the forums are far better under her than they were under Grimwell, Raijinn or anyone else since MG/BG left.

Its also easy to realize how handcuffed she is by the management at SOE. CMs get screwed over bad, like MG taking the rap for the Froglok fiasco.

She is the only CM to suspend me from the official forums (twice!) and I'd still take her 100x over Grimwell, Gnobrin or Raijinn.

Deson · 10-20-2009, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Gage

Its easy if you've lived through all the CMs. While she isn't perfect, the forums are far better under her than they were under Grimwell, Raijinn or anyone else since MG/BG left.

Its also easy to realize how handcuffed she is by the management at SOE. CMs get screwed over bad, like MG taking the rap for the Froglok fiasco.

She is the only CM to suspend me from the official forums (twice!) and I'd still take her 100x over Grimwell, Gnobrin or Raijinn.

This.