See, although the msg board was always plenty visible, referenced and promoted, few would take the time to come here and actually engage in meaningful debate about why the roster should be changed, how, based on what solid arguments and with what principles in mind in order to improve CEONSS. If I had to guess, that'd be because shooting a few, quick ingame gripes was the most some folks cared to put into their effort as long as they'd get something out of it down the road from Heinz. Eventually, all this tiresome back n' forth, all the constant fidgeting with the roster to the appeasement and appreciation of almost nobody lead to admin fatigue (never mind the guy's personal wishes and expectations of the server, those are a whole other story...) and pretty much where we are now: trying to come up with and put in place some late, preventative measures to stop more systemic cracks from happening. Yes, part of the problem has been addressed with the generous help of our 2 deputies for the immediate future regarding the grinding aspect of everyday peacekeeping, but that still leaves this long outstanding, structural issue I described above: concluding on a collection of good ONS content for the community.
I, too, have my own views on what content makes for the best ONS - some of which I've elaborated on here - that some other members probably won't care for; this pretty much goes for everyone. What I can tell you with 100% certainty, though, is that by not pressing people to reveal the thought process behind their appraisals, by not starting to hound them to back up their claims of good/poor quality - even a bit, by simply collecting one-liner messages from ingame sessions and trying to base roster-altering decisions just on those we're never gonna get unstuck and moving towards a better server. Instead, we're only liable to continue pulling toward our various, favourite playstyle directions until we hit a breaking point and the community starts getting torn apart. I do not want that and that's why I've decided to start pressing more for answers here and no longer let ppl just "get away" with hollow, self-serving commentary on the CEONSS maplist or individual maps - esp. not when I know them to be wrong. In my mind, doing anything less at this point would be contributing to a downward spiral and I simply won't accept that for this server. I hope you see now why this is nothing personal, Rotten, but still very necessary all the same. Btw, plz note that I'm not talking about simple statements of personal taste here, like "I like this map" or "that vec is the worst for me!" either - those are entirely fair game and everyone's entitled to their own; my peeve has to do with ppl who assert their opinions as fact ("this is a bad map") but never back them up.
Nobody would have to write up multi-paragraph treatises to present their views (ahem
), but I think coming over to offer us even a few lines of justification on why you do/don't want something in the roster or what should be fixed is not too much to ask. It would greatly help an admin to sift through the various opinions and make informed decisions from the commentary to improve the server in ways the community wants and that's pretty much the purpose of the msg board. I've said it before and I'll say it again: we have over a quarter of our community lurking around with 0 posts. This could use some changing. Being part of the silent majority doesn't help; come over here, get other players to follow too, and speak up 
!Okay, rant over for now. I'll be back to cover the MasterBath specifics next post.
