What its like to be me…

What its like to be me… lets see. I moderate one of the bigger SRO servers discord and let me tell you there IS such a thing as burn out.

I’ve had the unique experience of being around for every staff members first and last days (some of those last days I made happen myself). We’ve had some good staff and some bad staff but I respect every one of them for trying. Support is NOT an ideal role for anyone.

Some staff members would exit the role of support peacefully and some others would not however it is a unique experience. For the most part of Sailor it was me who hired and fired staff. I suppose it is still me but now I have other voices to listen to. It was easier alone because if they failed the fault would lie on my shoulders. Now it doesn’t matter who hired the supporter the blame still falls to my shoulders.

We are a short step from mandatory classes for supporters. As it is now I have created documents on google docs which the supporters have to read to get the info they need for the exams I give. The sad part about it is I see others thinking its a joke.

Sure we don’t get paid but does that mean that the customer (any user) shouldn’t get the support they need? Fine question there huh? I say no matter the pay (whatever it is) there are certain people who do support for the heck of doing it in the first place. These are the people we want to recruit into Sailor.

I don’t know what got me on this tangent but I will just end it here by saying good supporters do it for the lost blind or idiotic.

On to other news. I asked a question in my last blog post here and I got one response from Nicolete. He said he lives in Egypt and it has one of the highest poverty rate in the world. He also mentioned that there is no middle class. Its the rich versus the poor.

I’d like to think even this has nothing to go with government but doesn’t it always? Why does this go on in the world now a days?

Anyway please feel free to comment about any of my posts here which will be the temporary place for comments till I get comments working here.

I will be looking for topics to discuss soon and you guys can get at me if you have a topic you want me to discuss or anything. I’m doing this for the people who asked me to do it.

<3

-E

p.s. I didnt really talk about being a moderator or being a manager but I will in my next blog posting.