Just what is honesty? In my opinion honesty is saying what you feel, not holding back anything, and being true to yourself. You don't care what people think of you, and only thing that matters is how you view yourself at the end of the day. That said I do have some issues with this online community I am in. I am also having problems with the game.
The forums, for YoVille (the game I used to like to play)
• They are getting way too political
• The moderators aren't fair with handling the rules
• it always feels like a whole lot of us are walking on eggshells
• There seems to be a hidden policy of Don't Ask, Don't Tell
The game itself I have issues with
• It never really runs as smoothly as it once used to
• too many popups
• too many items costing "YoCash", virtual currency that is bought with real money
• No in game moderation
• Too many malicious players
The more the days pass, the more I am tempted to just gift away everything I have and uninstall the game. I am not happy with it. In fact, I have grown bored with it. A lot of my friends hardly play, they just jump in game to clock in, do coin runs, and log back out. That's about where I am now, Go in, accept free gifts, check messages, clock into work, do a couple of coin runs before the game starts to bog, then log out. There is a saying "Why fix what isn't broke" yet the stability of this game gets worse and worse, and more new features are added.
The forums are a whole 'nother story. Two new moderators are there, and the old ones are gone. I don't know why the change, since the previous ones were doing a fine job, or so I thought. I am guessing staff rotation. So far, trolls, cheaters, and brown nosers rule the forums.
Just recently they developed a new contest for Twitter users, where we tweet so many time, within rules to win YoCash. Sure, we thought, no problem. But as the contest rolled through, there were winners announced. Those winners tweeted more than five times per day, and one of them who is unliked for one reason or another, wins because he is there in the forums kissing moderator ass. This infuiorates people, and we post in the forums to let them know that isn't right. BOOM Threads are closed, and some get banned for the dumbest reasons. Granted these forums are ran privately, but shit.. if you're gonna change the fucking rules, let the damn community know beforehand. The one who was banned posted a link to her blog... no problem it was YoVille related. Obviously, the higher ups saw different.
So this twitter contest is going on, and we decide to share our links to Twitter so we can keep in touch with each other. So we post our links in our signatures. It's been done since there ever was a YoVille forum, so whatever right? Wrong! One of those mods comes in and tells each and every one of us to delete our links, because they "Provide personal information" Ok, how about name changes, and ban all links, that would make it fair. No more fan pages, no more fan forums, no more facebook fan pages, they all contain personal info. How about banning all links from being used in the forums... The rules from that moment on get vague and skewed... which piss a lot of users off. We read and reread the rules, but nothing there says anything about the ins and outs of what is considered personal info. I even suggested my name to be changed because it contains elements of personal info in it... my real first name. Do they change it? Fuck no! They instead changed 3 other people's name, and the rest of us were overlooked.
There is a reason why I wanted my name changed, but I will get into that later.
More hell breaks loose when the second day twitter winners are announced. More cheating, more brown nosers win, yet those of us who followed the rules are again overlooked.
My name gets smeared again from someone stating that I was slamming her on someone's fan page. First off, she knows where I stand with her and her posts. I don't like them because they are sexually provocative, and those types of sexual innuendos should be kept off the forums. Since people under 18 post and read those forums, those posts should not be allowed. She had made one post about someone looking like... an alien, Yoda, something, but wouldn't mention who. It was funny to her, yet everyone else didn't see the humor. A friend of mine posted a link to her fanpage, letting everyone know this chick had her ass handed to her by my friend, and I clicked on it. To me, it contained potentially insulting material for anyone who was reading those forums, ... basically flaming someone else. She posted that thread to bait others to see it, and she was flaming someone still is unnamed. I posted on her page, yeah great post, you had balls, I wish I was there to add my two cents. That was it. Nothing insulting, nothing derogatory.. that was it.
So after I put my three year old daughter to bed, I find this post waiting for me. Of course it was closed by forum moderators, but there was my name... she screamed my name to the masses accusing me of chasing her off the forums, and conjuring up a group to seek her out and attack her, and other posters, which of course is untrue.
I will say this. Even if this is an online matter, I hate being accused for something I did not do. I absolutely hate it. It's not for public image, but fuck, tell the truth! She posted a link to the page, but no one fell for her bait this time. Most of them instead told her that she was making a huge deal out of nothing.
What did make me sick was the "Please don't let the bullies win" bullshit.. These people don't know half the story. I am so far from being a fucking bully. I just speak my mind.
It really pisses me off that honesty can bite me in the ass. Ok.. I do admit sometimes I can be sarcastic. But most of the time I do say what is on my mind, without being rude and obnoxious to others. I guess I have learned the value of tact, where some can say "This post sucks" I can say... "This post lacks amusement value, it's inappropriate, it's downright wrong" I have never called anyone stupid, idiot, (except in a private group) or anything else degrading while anyone was watching. I am just tired of the bullshit.
I am still debating if I should leave this app, and it's adjoining forums behind, but I do have people begging me to stay. For what reason? This game is going down the toilet, someone please pull the flush handle. I am not happy in YoVille anymore. I won't abandon the wonderful friends I have met there, but the game itself is a crashing bore, and forums are turning into an online cesspool. I am so over it now.
