After all the trouble we've been through in the last years administrators and
moderators sat together and talked about the situation of obsrv.org. We
identified some problems:
- none of the admins or mods has enough time for the project
- troublemakers keep coming back on several ways no matter what we do
- Complaints handling was not successful
- Mediations aren't accepted very well
All in all you can say that the team is tired, exhausted and lost interest in
the project. So we worked out a solution that might sound extreme (or at least
very experimental):
For the second time in the history of the project we delete every single ban!
Additionally every banned user is given full moderation rights automatically.
This way we can multiply the amount of moderators by 3 or 4 and have to
moderate/ban less at the same time.
As for administration privileges we are still in the process of searching two
or more candidates to overtake the complete server project. The team came to
the conclusion that it is time to lower the risk of loosing the Outbreak server
forever. The reason is a revolutionary game project that will most likely eat
up all time from the_fog and some other people from the staff.
We are aware that these look like extreme actions but please take the time to
think about it for a moment and try to see it from our perspective. You might
realize then that it's not such a bad solution. At least this way we can asure
to keep up the Outbreak project forever.
staff of obsrv.org