You're all honestly disillusion if you think that the promotion of
Mocha to Moderator did not lead to the entire EU community leaving US (
Nicozy,
_Arkant_ )etc, along with Noodle arms (
Karmaz ,
Slydurr, ezeron, @auggidin ) etc.) all leaving as well because of all the competition being killed, thats around 20+ twinks who all gave up around the same time, this lead to far less quality games, many members of these guilds have told me personally that it's the sole reason they bailed. Anyone with half a brain can see that..
please tell me how the two are not related, it all had a huge ripple effect and im sure im not the only one who saw this?
If Mocha wanted to do ANYTHING for the bracket he would step down, this would cause so many twink that i know to return...
Im sick of hiding behind a closed curtain, if Mocha wants to talk let him talk here.
inb4 a ban, does it really matter anymore?
Regardless of how anyone feels about anyone's moderating, how exactly does a single moderator in a third-party forum kill a bracket? If you don't like his style, just ignore him and go organize stuff on other forums or skype or etc. Or did I miss the history thread where Mocha was originally the GM of the guild containing all 19s in the world, and was universally loved until he turned to evil?
Even if that were the case, why would you even let a single person kill your own bracket? If someone tried to do that to my community, I wouldn't just say "well, guess we're screwed now." and give up.
Let me break it down for you.
The forums were a lovely place, people talked, argued, there was good banter and the competition flourished from it. We had an amazing mod named Sneaky (bless his soul) who was not only respected by many of the members of the community, was lenient and knew how to keep threads open, was never out right hated prior to or after becoming a mod, was adored by EU and US alike, actually played in warsong daily, did arena and was fully immersed in the community, accepted the community as it was never tried to force his own ideals upon it and let it grow organically.
When the tragic events of Sneakys death occurred there was a huge hole in the bracket, there was even a walking funeral of a full raid group and some in his honor.
At this point the forums got slightly out of hand, the bracket itself was fine and games were still competitive and very active as we had a ton of new European players making the games far more interesting and competitive than we had seen before.
Unfortunately most of the Euros did not know when to draw the line, Mocha would create large threads complaining about GY farming and the state of the bracket (even though only containment was occurring at this time not GY farming). Mocha continuously complained about this even, claiming it was detrimental to new players joining the bracket, even though it produced some of the most competitive games we have ever seen in pug history for 19s, as well as producing quality new members that were willing to adjust to the play style @cogbrew.
Rather than adapt Mocha is constantly making absurd posts regarding the need for an O and D, he could not grasp the mid strat concept in any way or maybe just flat out disliked it.
The Euros and the more competitive players in the US scene were very very sick of the crap he was spewing, as Mochas reluctance to change was very apparent from the start.
After awhile the forums got slightly out of hand, and Shane himself was in no mood to deal with it, Silin was around but her ability to moderate only stretched so far.
So Shane, sick and tired of the way the 19 community handled it self (competitive banter, trash talk and egos), appointed a mod that only a few months ago he had stated was "to volatile and man strating" to do his dirty work, as he knew that this Mod was not respected liked or considered positive in any way to anyone in community, and would be able to throw out bans willy nilly to the more higher ranking players in the bracket.
The volatile comment.
This promotion frustrated many of the competitive players in the bracket, and many of the European players (whos English skills were not the best) were banned for not only having "Poor english" but other tedious reasons like that. Around 10-20 Core US players (You have to understand these are people who que EVERYDAY) were also shocked that [MENTION=5141]Shane[/MENTION] could promote someone to mod purely out of spite for a bracket forum section.
With the EU players being kicked from the forums, and a ton of the core US members being very upset over a promotion merely to mandate control in a World of Warcraft forum, 19s took a heavy blow, as Tough Love and the guild Noodle arms both effectively folded from the bracket, moving to end game, 39, etc. From there on competition dropped, games became stagnant and packed with rogues.
Whether Mocha wants to admit it or not his promotion did have a highly detrimental effect on the bracket, and in no way did his promotion have any single positive impact.
Thats the story. Enjoy.
