I was a mod for a major mmo at one point in time, so i shared some of your feelings over the admin's directives vs your own instincts. So even though I don't quite know what exactly happened, I can imagine what you're going through (feeling of betrayal). I hope after all this blows over, forgiveness will come around and resolve all the animosities.

Perhapse if you had apologized, corrected your mistakes and admitted that you were wrong, they might have seen a quality in you that would be difficult to replace.

...obviously you did none of these things.

stilldamom wrote:Perhapse if you had apologized, corrected your mistakes and admitted that you were wrong, they might have seen a quality in you that would be difficult to replace.

...obviously you did none of these things.

And not, you know, brought the drama *public* after they asked you to exercise discretion, ever the better part of valor.

Cannot speak for how things work or what you were or were not told.. However, based on the post (and I do remember that post) I would say them removing you as a SporeMaster was warranted.

I would say honestly, best to just post what you know to be fact and let whomever your moderating for etc.. deal with anything you may be unsure of.

Mainly, since you would be representing Maxis / EA when posting as a SporeMaster, the community in most cases will take what your telling them as fact.

I can understand where they are coming from, things like that can cause a PR nightmare (as if they do not already have enough problems to sort right now).

Anyhow, GL to you, would not take it badly, take it as a learning experience.

primadog wrote:

I was a mod for a major mmo at one point in time, so i shared some of your feelings over the admin's directives vs your own instincts. So even though I don't quite know what exactly happened, I can imagine what you're going through (feeling of betrayal). I hope after all this blows over, forgiveness will come around and resolve all the animosities.

Thank you for posting in here. Now I get to discover your wonderful creations and, if you don't mind, add you as a buddy so that I may see them "in person".

Cheers.

Oh and for the thread, yes, OP you should have just gone quietly, as others have said. Good luck to you.

I beleive that when you encounter such trails as this in the future, you go about it in a better manner... such as re-reading EVERYTHING you type on the fourms, and to deligate to yourself whether Maxis/EA as a corperiation would stand behind your position or not.


Being a Moderator can be very difficult, and stressful at times, but you have to remember that we (as Sporiums) will take what ever has been said, and take it apart bit by bit and analyze it..

Saying for example "If you post something we dont want you to post will possibly have you buy a new copy of spore" is essential saying "We, Maxis/EA, hereby announce that if you post something we do not like, you will be forced to buy a new copy of Spore"

Though that may not been your intentions, that is what occured, with major backlashes.


Understand that Maxis/EA had to disband your position as moderator, or their would be continued negative from the community about what you said.

I am the X SporeMasterRob who you are talking about. I only did what the Maxis team told me in response to DRM threads and the like. Now they get negative feedback they remove me and put the blame on me.

Looks like EA screwed me over big time and I am one person not the Evil Empire!

They even are making my name dirt over at http://kotaku.com/5054372/ea-responds-to-spore-forum-banning-concerns

Signing off

X SporeMasterRob

mysporepage wrote:I am the X SporeMasterRob who you are talking about. I only did what the Maxis team told me in response to DRM threads and the like.

I seriously doubt they told you to say stop posting about DRM or you'll be banned... Your behavior here is making me even less inclined to believe it, too.

Screenshot or it didn't happen.

mysporepage wrote:I am the X SporeMasterRob who you are talking about. I only did what the Maxis team told me in response to DRM threads and the like. Now they get negative feedback they remove me and put the blame on me.

Looks like EA screwed me over big time and I am one person not the Evil Empire!

They even are making my name dirt over at http://kotaku.com/5054372/ea-responds-to-spore-forum-banning-concerns

Signing off

X SporeMasterRob

Maxis told you to say to Sporiums "Please do not continue to post theses thread or you account may be at risk of banning which in some cases would mean you would need to buy a new copy to play Spore".

I dont think so. You screwed yourself, and thats the end of that.

Also, that artical is proof that they had to kick you from being a SporeMaster, your bad press. Your not worth the time.

Wow, OP went way over the line.

But Maxis, you have to admit that part of the problem is that your actions made what he said sound perfectly plausible. I never doubted what he said about account revocations for a moment.

Can a person be banned from this forums?
If they are, can they still play online on that account?

As your spore CD becomes permanently linked to the account you first use, if banning someone from the forum means they cannot play online on that account, and if Maxis/EA ever suggested discussing DRM in their forum could get your forum account banned, then Sporemaster Rob was quite correct.

I'm keeping an open mind on this, as it wouldn't be the first time someone was kicked out for telling the truth.

While I am glad to see this guy go. And that's exactly what should be done when someone steps over the lines, I find it rather funny that the comment in question is still visible on the forums. Wouldn't it make more sense now to remove that edit so that anyone who reads that thread in future is not confused by the conflicting points mentioned within it?

[quote=bansama]While I am glad to see this guy go. And that's exactly what should be done when someone steps over the lines, I find it rather funny that the comment in question is still visible on the forums. Wouldn't it make more sense now to remove that edit so that anyone who reads that thread in future is not confused by the conflicting points mentioned within it?[/quote]

If it was removed, it would be simply reposted by EVERYONE. Maxis would then be called out, with people saying "they are trying to hide what they did".

I honestly think leaving it up, and showing that they are attempting to fix the issue at hand, the best course of action.

Note: (for some reason quotes are not working properly, none of the code is actually leading to my multiple edits)

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While I am glad to see this guy go. And that's exactly what should be done when someone steps over the lines, I find it rather funny that the comment in question is still visible on the forums. Wouldn't it make more sense now to remove that edit so that anyone who reads that thread in future is not confused by the conflicting points mentioned within it?
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As the person previous to me mentioned, they added an official explanation and statement at the end of the locked thread. There should be no further confusion about it.

That was probably a much better move than deleting, the best thing they could do really. The reason being because by that time, though I did not know it, the post had already been linked to dozens of gaming news sites. Deletion of it would have led to an exponential increase in the backlash. Most of the news sites have now appended the explanation to their articles.

In any case, I think there has been enough burning at the stake... so I'd ask that in the interest of being humane, let it go and move on. Yeah it wasn't tactful to bring it here, but I sometimes human emotion gets the better of our sensibility - especially when frustrated and feeling set up for failure. For all we know he could be young, and picking on a youth would hardly be noble... picking on anyone for that matter.

Hopefully the indignation and hurt will pass, and it will have been a learning experience. I think it's been a learning experience for EA/Maxis as well, partial blame lays with an obvious lack of instruction from all appearances. It's just a shame it happened, hopefully it will be avoided in the future as a result.