DoughyA lot of people (not necessarily saying league/tftv staff think this way, just in general) view any criticism as being an asshole towards them. Is a very fine line. Also much constructive criticism is completely ignored, not even acknowledged, just ignored because of who it came from.
dude what can you expect after listening that your admin team are retards, incompetent, lazy as fuck (this was a very often "complaint" in Aoshi's direction) and many other things nobody would like to listen, especially people who actually do something for the general good
i have to admit that at some point our work isn't clearly visible like we would be in a next room divided by a wall of glass, because a lot of stuff we do is internal, like rule changes, server updates and many more, this may confuse people
this kind of "feedback" is definitely a majority, i get some constructive feedback very rarely (mostly from people who trust me) because idk people are somewhat afraid of us? this is basically why i played tf2center a lot and sometimes asked people about the opinion because unfortunately for some reasion there is a feeling that people in orgs like me as a league admin are like some fucking gods, while we're just ordinary people doing some additional tasks for the community because we want to let people have fun, that's it
we (at least in the ETF2L) don't get paid at all, so it would be kinda hard to get any other "payment method" for our work other than just a community appreciation
i understand aoshi's feeling about this because i guess this decision isn't hard for the community but for him especially, at some point left the staff earlier mostly because of the same reason but the difference between me and him is that he was a admin promoted to a head of the ETF2L for fucking 6 years, while i was an admin for less than a year, even for me it's kinda unimaginable how much shittalk he got in this amount of time
DoughyShooshBut Aoshi said hes leaving essentially because people are abusive for no reason
Whilst I agree people are overly abusive, there is a reason, the admin team makes many mistakes (personally I disagree with well over half the decisions they make) and they don't own their mistakes, they don't follow their own rules to a T, have very low understanding in player skill level, allow friends to sandbag relentlessly season after season, pussyfoot around to try to appease both teams instead of supporting the team in the right.
wrong. we do make mistakes, and we'll do it in the future because shit happens, we try our best to minimize that from happening as we do a lot of decisions together, so by having many points of view we can achieve the best solution for the community, but there are always cases which we cannot predict like for instance teams being higher/lower than expected in the tiers table
at some point sometimes our actions can be seen as bias for some people because these people very often look on their own point of view only while we do have a look on stuff from a more distanced point of view, i'm trying to explain our actions as much as possible and other admins do, but i'm unsure if we can do more with it
we own our mistakes as a team, because the staff is basically a team of people supporting each other in resolving issues between players/teams
DoughyThe admin team is there to be the faceless organisation that referees players matches. In a competitive game where one team will have to be viewed more favourably for every quarrel that occurs, you will annoy half the people playing. It is inevitable. That is a simple problem with the competitive nature in games. Happens in all sports everywhere.
this is basically an outcome from your perspective on our decisions in the past
at this point i have to admit that some decisions we made in the past could be bad if you look at it now, so i don't really want to make us look perfect
i personally admire aoshi for everything he's done for everyone on our platform, thanks