8th Official FFR Tournament - Final Round!

[ryuyasha]

Originally Posted by RagedBerserker

Poop.. tourney during the school year = no bueno. Heres to hoping there will still be one in the summer.

Originally Posted by popsicle_3000

Well, I was going to play for a bit tonight, but site just went down... so no go for me anymore. Med school taking up too much time! 10th place is pretty awesome, although i'd have liked the badge

Ugh, yeah. Tuesday night I was literally choosing between studying for an exam in discrete mathematics the next morning or improving my tournament score. I am so glad the 9-16 second chance contest for vROFL is going to happen.

Originally Posted by psychoangel691

I've played the nice game while people are being rude and guess what? It makes no difference. I'm just at a point where I don't care to sit there and sugar coat it to someone who thinks it's okay to talk to people that way. He's also had a constant attitude the majority of the tournament. This is part of why I've left staff and am leaving the site once this is over. After so long of people talking down to me I eventually get fed up with it.

Thank you to the others as well that actually supported the decision and understood. (I know I saw a few other posts)

Originally Posted by Micah_

I am sorry that this has caused you so much grief and you feel that you have to leave. I do commend you for sticking around and dealing with everyone's complaints/bad attitudes and what not. For what it's worth, I think you are doing a great job and dealing with the situation as best as anyone else could and I for one will be sad to see you go.

This, so much. I feel you made the best decision how to handle the issues with the site affecting the tournament.

I will be sad to see you go, for sure. You always hosted lots of cool events and helped me love FFR as much more than just a DDR/SM clone. I have long wished I could match the time, creativity, and effort you put into this site. Sadly, in any leader position it is going to be almost universally impossible to please everyone. Further, it is the ones who speak the rudest and most ignorantly who also speak the loudest and tend to drown out the ones who appreciate and have positive things to say.

I speak for myself and others I know who appreciate what you do, as well as those who may be unknown either for being naturally quiet or simply concerned how those who speak out against you would feel about it. I would urge you to continue contributing to the site in every way you can.

And hey, perhaps we should enforce a policy of being respectful to admins, mods, and everyone on the site. I think that would really help the community.
'Oh, you mouthed off to someone about a chart/song choice/moderator decision/et cetera using rude language? First offense? 1-week forum ban. Second offense? 1-month forum ban. Third offense? permaban and scorewipe because you obviously do not care and refuse to learn or change.'
Granted, that is a specific example that is just what I thought off the top of my head, which could probably be much improved. But if we enforced things like that then I think people would be a lot more respectful, which would make it a lot easier for people to feel like contributing, which would in turn lead more people to contribute, further taking some of the load off of those who already contribute.
/rant

tl;dr: Kayla is awesome and you all need to show respect for the effort she puts into this site and comunity, even when you may disagree with her decisions.

Edit: People can think what they want about that, but it is my opinion and I am not ashamed to share it. And if you have any complaits about it, feel free to take them to the Garbage Bin, where they will be burned in a heap.