I had your green status removed, not because Mr. HeyJudd requested, but because of the following structured reasons:
- Your behavior noted in this thread - http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/sho...t=37219&page=2
- Your server was down for several months straight - which does not constitute for what has been generally defined as requirements for maintaining Green Server Status - This really should have been done months ago - Same with Scars of Amerous
- Another of which those requirements are is keeping a good standing in the community - which you have essentially done the most stupid thing you could possible to retract that requirement alone (IE: EQTitan hasn't been green for other community standing reasons, even with their 'population', doesn't mean they couldn't ever be candidate)
- Being green is not a right, it's a privilege, and the only green you've been lately is green with envy
Could you earn the green title back? Sure, I'm not out to get anyone and either is anyone else, but for the reasons mentioned, it makes it quite simple to justify this movement. You can't apologize your way out of such behavior.
Am I happy with your actions? No.
Am I exiling you? No, you're continually doing it to yourself.
A) I specifically raised MAKING you Green in the first place, for which it is one of the many things I've chosen to help you out with because of your passion, including the many other things - no one should discriminate that alone. Otherwise, you being Green would not have happened, not even after posts asking for it. This further contradicts me being threatened by your server - it needs to be understood that I am not here to compete with a community that is built upon open source; in which the shared values are of being there for each other, not for spite and childness. It is literally written everywhere around here that I am not for myself - that is ridiculous. Without the superiors that have guided me during my journey here on EQEmu, I would not be anything - for them I am thankful.
B) Yes, I've gotten like 10 text messages from you, several PM's. While I don't need to respond to several messages that simply further the message of erratic behavior, how am I supposed to really honestly believe
WORDS after the ACTIONS that have been witnessed. Those sorts of things much more time to patch than some messages plastered on the forums.
- And not that it is any excuse, I myself have been sick, and still working an intense schedule, so I've either been resting or taking care of work matters or touching base with my server. If you can list out your priorities in life, if an EQEmu server is at the top, you really need to fix that.
What you do on that personal front of course is up to you but you really should take some time out, not because of any EQEmu reason, but for your own sanity. Burnout is not fixed with more activity that caused the burnout to begin with. Your sick family member probably needs you rather than to try and continue to obsess over an EQEmu server.
So here's some other things that I want to happen:
I/we will be enforcing a rule on the forums which will mean that only major server updates can be made, not minuscule posts/updates and conversations that should be handled on a communication medium that is specific to the server (IE Forums). This is something I know other moderators agree with and honestly has been an unwritten guideline for quite some time so really to some it will be no different. Spamming the EQEmu forums in general and more specifically in your situation is going to leave you open for trolling on the EQEmu forums. As we frown upon trolling and often clean up threads regarding, how am I doing you any good when you are the one who is the source of the trolling. You could be openly criticized for what you do in any regard, how you handle it is another; which further dictates how people will react to your publicity.
If you want to bump and make those aware of a particular event, that is fine - however 3-4 posts a day on minor things is something that I have gotten several complaints about and honestly it doesn't belong on the EQEmu forums within reason.
Please stop dragging this on, as I recognize and admire your admittance to your behavior, it will not justify your actions - only time will and even then it is hard to get that back. Not just with me, but with everyone else.