There's been a few things going on with the forums recently that I could do without, and I thought, in regard with the return of Lord Tony and the resulting drama, I could take this opportunity to give my two cents.
I don't know how many of you have been in the clan discussion board recently, but it's probably
one of the least liked boards. Things like joke threads, trickshotting clans, and half-assed building/server hosting clans (guilty) are all over. This may not seem like a big problem, but poorly crafted joke threads don't do stuff for the game, trickshotting clans are short-lasting hotbeds of elitism, and inactive clans just end up watering down active clans like [CS], [BLC], Cohort, and, yes, The Harvest.
Lord Tony's return and his clan, The Sacred Order of the Harvest, bring attention and activity to the game, but while
their maps may seem cool, and
their add-ons inspired, the clan is still plagued by their public blacklist, their dissmissive posts, and their immature leader.
As the good badspot said,
good deeds are not a currency that you can use to purchase bad deeds
And while the good deeds here, builds and add-ons, do help the game, we must remind ourselves to balance them with things like fun and open servers, forum image, and our standards of clan quality before letting Lord Tony get away with these things.
So why is having a blacklist so bad? It's their clan and server--why shouldn't they be allowed to regulate who goes in and out of it? Well for one thing, it's unprofessional. People should know why you banned them, and having an entire open list of people, perma-banned for reasons god may not even know doesn't only give the game a bad rap, but also gives potentially cool people on the blacklist a bad rap. It's fine to ban trolls and richards from your server, but banning good people who only want to help your clan, and not even telling them why, is undoubtably closed-minded, and completly immature.
In fact, Lord Tony has been acting so immature lately that when he argues with 12 year olds*1, we have to ask the 12 year old to be the mature one*2. That's right, I said it. Lord Tony is 25 years old--he's not some obstinate troll baby. If a simple executive order got him to stop loving harping on ponies, then we should at least be able to stop him from picking on literal children. Seriously,
Espio called me out for being an idiot when I was acting immature towards people my own age, why are his supposed friends like bisjac and mod-man letting Tony get away with this stuff? I mean seriously, Lord Tony's clan is cool, but Lord Tony has to step up, stop giving people reasons to hate his clan, and start acting like a clan leader because his clan could be so much more than just another sideshow.
*1
The Harvest is invite only and I never sent you an invite. Your logic would only be plausible if I sent you said invite and then you rejected it.
He's those kind of people that wouldn't show up to a party anyways but would get mad he didn't get the invite.
But you keep showing up to the party.
*2
can you stop
Blockchip, STOP
BLOCKCHIP MOTHER loving STOP.
