Re: Resource Changes Implemented - Please Read
Harlee;340677 said:
Well I for one am very excited! It's a beginning and we are seeing things happen and it shows me that better things are coming.
I want to thank the staff and Ryan for their work!
I'm telling those of you who complain and whine constantly.... go elsewhere if you don't like it here. You have no right to complain when it's free! If you were paying for something then you would have a right to complain if you weren't getting what you paid for, but not in this case.
Furthermore, when someone feels unappreciated for their work and gets nothing but complaints that person will not try so hard! A person who is appreciated will work twice as hard.
Actually, not to be too much of a fuss but I know that according to my Psych. book that a misuse of rewards(Giving praise for the inkling of change) is bad. Page 260 of
Psychology Ninth ed. claims that: "for rewards to be effective the rewards must be tied to the behaivor you are trying to increase. When rewards are dispensed indescriminately, wihtout being earned, they become meaningless because they no longer reinforce desired behavior; all that teachers(in the context of students getting lavish praise) get is minimal effort and mediocre work. . . In the case of the child who turned in a poorly written paper, the teacher could praise its strengths but also give feedback on the paper's weaknesses and show the child how to correct them."
But the problem arises that whenever someone does offer critisicm it is met with much anger. I do not know about you but when I use ConnectUO it says that UO: Demise is "The closest thing to OSI, other than OSI." To some people, they feel like that is false advertisement. Change that, and then a lot of people do not have their peddistal to stand on.
I like playing Demise. I enjoy how it has a very active community. . . but the more I think about it the more I am floored by how people act. They say that the GMs and admins care but when people complain they tell them to F* off and go somewhere else. When they talk about somewhere else in an attempt to spark change they are said to F* off, you have NO right to tell people about other places. It is free, but everyone has a vested interest into the future of this shard. We all have put in many hours into it.
Ban me, Im sure you will. The key part to any successful regiem is the spreading of propiganda(Demise being about = to OSI) and the silencing(banning) to all opposition.
I love Demise, but I hate how any form of criticism is met with so much hate. Its really childish. Some people are out of hand with how they pick on Demise, but nothing else gets listened to.
