[Discuss] Rudeness from superiors.

[Anthony Cerqueira]

On 5/16/07, Samuel Knowlton <sam at iamsam.org> wrote:
>
> << The way I unerstand it, the reason we are not pacifying Skezard is
> > because that would bring Sirion up to 20 regions.
>
> I don't really want to come out guns a-blazin' against Tom, here, but
> unless
> there is more to this message than what has been posted, it is a bit much.
>
> BM is full of mysterious rules and conventions. People think they know
> them
> and don't. I've heard several in the last few days:
>
> - Archers shoot better in a line formation than they do in Box formation
> - Archers shoot just as well regardless of their formation
> - You can CTO an enemy capital
> - You can't CTO an enemy capital
> - Looting shrines or temples doesn't count as looting (you can do it if
> looting is illegal)
> - Looting is looting
>
> I have no idea which of the above is true and the only way to find out is
> either see for yourself or ask someone else. People will often venture a
> guess based on their (often limited) experience. "The way I understand it,
> it works like this" is certainly not "lying!" My goodness, I hope James
> never sits on my jury. People guess at this stuff all the time.
>
> And that's not a bad thing. It seems to me (see, here I go) that Tom
> purposefully doesn't always reveal to us exactly how things work, because
> if
> we knew exactly how things work, it'd be easier to metagame. This is a
> natural, and harmless consequence of that, and the d-list exists to dispel
> such myths.
>
> In my personal estimation, it would not kill Tom (or any of us who are
> ever
> in an authority position) to be a little nicer about it. That said, this
> is
> his house and he can pretty much talk as he pleases. All things
> considered,
> it could be a lot worse than this, so it's a small price to pay for a
> service like BM.
>
You raise some good points indeed and what you say is true. I think there's
a difference however in what you point out and what Tom was angry about. In
your cases there's is a feature of the game a person is not sure about (ie:
you) and you are curious. Someone else will answer as best they can because
that's what happens when people are asked questions and they want to help
you out. What they say could be completely wrong, but either way it's their
best shot.

However this
person who Tom is specifically angry about was asked and the reason he
came up with was that Tom liked or disliked something and that he
would personally punish a realm that dared to do the deed. In my
wildest dreams I wouldn't invent such a reason, since it is directly
insulting to Tom and doesn't make any sense. I mean think about the
differences, "Do archers work better in lines? I do/don't
think so, because I saw it last fight/read the flight of a bird/stayed
at a holiday inn express last night" compaired to "Why don't we take
Skezard? Because then Tom will hate us and kill us all."


And of course there is one other point, Tom has to listen to every complaint
and doesn't even get to play his own game (under his name) Now me, that'd
make me a bit angry when people say "Don't do that or Anthony will kill us!"
when they have nothing indicating it's true.
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