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Factual. Hope you're doing alright Liam. Wishing good health, fortune to you and your loved ones.

If anyone immerses themselves in a field to the point where they're intermediate at or where it was worth learning in the first place, you're going to find things that are deeply depressing to you however that doesn't mean it will make you clinically depressed. Whether or not we would categorize that as intelligence either is really up to personal choice. The IQ test can be studied for and many of the ways people find it to be inherent to a person are actually things made up by our environment. We could also confuse being misinformed for intelligence. I see a lot of serial social media users who have 1000 strongly held, wrong opinions that come from 0 evidence. I've also seen successful people, who are immersed in their field, who completely miss some of the things I believe an intermediate learner would pick up on. I believe intelligent people being depressed is a trope with some cases where the disability/mental illness/environmental situation bringing about their depression is actually what gives them a perceived edge in intelligence. As of recently it's been more common to use the terms neurodivergent or neurotypical. I think it's sad and inhumane but if you lived in someone's shoes you'd get to see more of a holistic approach to how someone is created and people don't like to consider environment because it's painful to empathize on that extreme of a level. It's also easier for people to associate what they're feeling at the time with something tangible rather than a lack of serotonin in their brain- even for our most intelligent and ego driven. My final answer is probably no significant correlation.

Don't tolerate bullying from people. If they know what they're doing is bothering you and continue then they don't give a fuck about you. Spend your time honing a craft and bettering yourself personally. You put yourself in a better spot to find quality friends. There's a difference between bullies and buddies. There's a difference between buddies and friends. There's a difference between friends and family. Matters what people do, not what they say/post on socials same reason why despite all of the loud noise surrounding racism, it persists because there's a lot of that energy that is not as genuine as we'd like it to be (and everyone doesn't agree)… Figure out how to harness nuclear fusion. Rewrite a world where every country didn't grief their economy in the early 2000's. then I will enjoy as close to utopia as we're getting before extinction.

I was wrong in ITT. Have had more experience and education since then. People should stay away from weed when: young(prolly younger than 25). when dealing with mental illness. operating vehicles/heavy machinery. if they have bad reaction(paranoia) or predisposition to addiction. Otherwise it's okay and people should have access to a safer more open-market with good quality control. People being exposed to under dosed, mislabeled shit from someone's basement is silly. SG would be a much nicer place to be around if we subsidized 10mg edibles and that's just a fact.

Good job Acer. Member of the Month for Gentoo is good but, shouldn't have been demoted... and should be a LG. He endured another perm ban in 2018 that was bs in hindsight.

If higher-staff members CA+ voted for the VP I don't think it would become such a popularity contest and it would protect from a lot of the type of abuse you're speaking of. Hypothetically I don't feel that my initial suggestion is anymore of a popularity contest or lacking in objectivism than the system that already exists... I can give one very relevant example. Dominic went from permed, to AO which had some pretty hefty permissions just given back to it, then straight to BD. I'm not shitting on him as a person or even saying this is a bad thing necessarily. He's done good work and SG is better for having him but clearly there is some level of subjectivism baked in at every level. I also think that in the context of the state of the community saying "no one in the community knows everything the BDs do behind the scenes" is kind of a cop out of a statement. It's also worth noting anytime the BD's tend to show their hand and what they're up to it isn't always received well and that happens quite often because A. Some pretty bad decisions have happened and B. You can't always please the people. Mainly A though, it is mainly personal responsibility and not the pickiness of the community. It's not just in big announcements either, its in a lot of the bans and other minutia that goes on. I think a quick yes to that question isn't really spending the proper time to think about what the situation currently is at SG especially with the context of what you've seen/dealt with here personally over the course of over half a decade. I really question the efficacy or need of a senior council role at all that isn't interested in the servers or base level of the community, which is what BD is for SG. It is not server manager plus and is not treated like it is when it should be. I also don't agree with equating VP with BD too much or trying to argue it is strictly ceremonial, though I get your point. In the context of my reply to Gentoo here it certainly is not a ceremonial position and carries real weight in that sense. Despite the fact that BD's are and have always been seen as a council of greybeards if you're someone down on the community level I feel like someone at some point you have been on the other end of BD's being too far away from what's actually going on and because of that the things that happen don't at all match the reality of the situation or the tone of what the community wants/needs. IE. look at the servers and the context of how they've gotten where they are. Staff effort has dissolved for the CS:GO servers and for any servers in general. Where staff in the past would step down or be removed that has not happened and I think that's super irresponsible. CA is supposed to advise the community but has always been a useless role IMO. It would be smart to address one of the communities most blatant flaws by elevating CA+ to a role that is not ceremonial and can actually decide who gets to be class president when Caution is off living a real life. Also, If we're going to call VP ceremonial then we need to start talking about replacing someone else. No?

@Gentoo To clarify something. This is a thread posted back in 2020 where SG was expanding to new GAME SERVERS written by Caution. Who by the way, I don't fault for being busy overseas I just don't understand what the plan is going forward. Here is Gator's server activity since then on some of the servers he has enjoyed in the past: Surf TTT Can we not, at the very least AFK these some or try to populate them if we're at the highest levels of the staff team? It's not just Gator by the way, I can go through and show the same for many other staff members who would swear to you up and down how hard they are trying or have tried to help the community. There's others who came in super ambitious on fixing everything but have the same activity or worse, at the highest levels of staff. If we don't care about these servers at all why retain rank on staff and what is the alternative plan? Why has not a single breathing human been logging JB time to help Dominic out? If people in higher ranks are so disinterested then it's not difficult to create a server for a game you are willing to play, speak up about what is making you feel dispassionate, or stepdown outright. I was joking in the OP but Dominic working JB and being a tyrant BD isn't going to be enough. You guys just got through BoM practically running shit and it seemed to me like him having that role alienated him from the community and put pressure on him personally. Dominic is still capable of being a moron sometimes and it doesn't seem like anyone is going to fight him on any of it. It is really running the same simulation from 2018 hoping Dominic's lack of virginity and experiences in English 201 have prepped him to carry the team.

Do you feel that the current system rewards and has rewarded people who do good work?

Hello fellow Steam-Gamers, You pay your taxes. You have rights. You deserve a say. With Dominic recently appointed to regional governor I would like to suggest a public referendum for the community to be able to vote on the 5 BD's who exist for the VP position every so often. Admin contests in the past have been hugely popular and brought lots of traffic to the forums. We can gather the candidates and have them "discuss" their ideas for the future of Steam-Gamers. VP's should not serve a life term in their seat!

Probably more of common problem then most would admit while also being a good meme.. Transitioning from being more of an antisocial person to more of an empath is something that comes with age, experience, knowledge, responsibility. There's some stuff from the way I grew up that exacerbated antisocial behavior and I managed to let it* invade every corner of my life because I embraced it as a quality. Trying to have an understanding of what others are going through and making well-informed decisions that don't compromise yourself is what I'd most attribute to being a good person. There's a healthy way to balance out the self-preservation that an antisocial person can benefit from while not being a ball of easily exploited emotion.

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Somehow I doubt that this lady is gonna be drafting up diet plans for someone’s dear old nan. Lmao.

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I was joking about this yesterday, but the idea that anyone would dedicate even a day or two server-time to helping get a server going is also unrealistic so it's not a bad suggestion in that regard. It reflects pretty badly when you could change that number to a few days and people would look at it all the same.

I’m on my phone so if this post isn’t up to snuff or someone wants to move it somewhere you can do that. I’ve read a little about this situation that happened recently, and without really derailing this thread from the get-go I wanted to open with this statement so that it can’t be mistaken. There are a lot of people who passively hang around, staff or not, who probably should be banned…. However: The rules aren’t lacking in all scenarios and while threads like the one BoM made, or even the more directed warnings from Caution today aren't without provocation, I need to also say this.. I don’t think going beyond the rules and creating these temporary announcements where you’re going to “handle” this mysterious, ever-changing group of “trouble makers” differently is ever a good way to handle it. I’ve seen it happen a dozen or more times. I don’t see any reason why people can’t be treated normally and be issued the same warnings anyone else would be. If someone does something so egregious then like anyone else it would make sense to just nuke them completely. Temporary extensions of the rules via abrasive threads or people making vast statements like SG is in martial law is in my opinion, a bad idea and I hope it stops happening. If the rules are lacking somehow they can be extended. When someone who’s removing my posts, telling me my opinion doesn’t matter, and locking my threads posts about how trouble makers are gonna be dealt with harshly it has a side effect of making me feel like the wrong kind of opinion has a permanent ban on the other end of it.

Gumline got next day delivery wtf

Gumline isn't even my biggest fan, we got some real followers here at SG I promise you. Gumline would at the very least take me out to a burger place before he starts inspecting my teeth for imperfections or telling me how my dog needs platinum level healthcare.

ZE shits all over JB in terms of success almost anyway you would cut it. JB was serially behind TTT and ZE for a lot of CS:GO era. JB did do well in CS:S but even then a lot of the older players had a long while where we played GMOD TTT, and that was a big draw for a lot of the people who joined around 2013-2015ish. I don't have the #'s but I was very obsessive about the servers #'s even when not running it or staff. I don't know why people wouldn't wanna know how they're stacking up, it was really exciting to watch JB go above rank 70 especially when a lot of the communities were literally trying to railroad us.

If you make 6 more words to the right red then we're on the same page based on what you said here: It wasn't the point I was making, but if people judged the staff or Caution for the community getting to this point I wouldn't think it's asinine at all. Leaders always are at fault, that's the burden you take. It's just not the battle I'd take personally quite yet. Eventually you might see me come here and tell them to pass the torch.

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We can agree to disagree beyond this response just for the sake of the thread but I don't consider Discord a viable alternative to having unique, replayable content such as servers or events. The people who used to come to SG used to only tolerate it's extremely abrasive community due to the servers. The hang out I have with my personal friends has more activity then what SG has and that's not a diss it's just a point that should be made. You can retro fit Discord servers and make them complimentary to something else, but it is never going to be a long-term solution. You are very genuine about SG being able to have success away from CS:GO, but the downfall of the servers is based in laziness, lack of leadership, and general failure. I'm also completely for and have always been for getting away from CS:GO when the community has the right people to do it. It's a smart thing to do and I wish it would have been done differently when the opportunity was there. Generally speaking a lot of the people who have ventured off to do stuff like that haven't done it for the most pure reasons or would have failed no matter what game they tried to make a server on. If I get specific you'll have a lot of angry old people in here yelling at me and demanding me be banned. @Greggy G That's good to hear, I obviously can't see everything from my end and want to clarify that I have no personal issue with these people. If they commit to this I have no doubt they could make it work.

Yes. Mediocrity is a cancer in these communities and should always be snuffed out. You really have posts where people blame the death of the community on CS:GO when the game tops a million players a day, it's a symptom. It's extremely obvious how inactive admins become inactive CA's and that inactive CA's become inactive AO's. People with zero bans, no activity, almost no measurable contributions just rise the ranks lol. All of the sudden they love sitting on Discord and doing nothing so much so that it's the direction the community should take in their fucked up mind. The community won't run properly unless it takes a 180 from caring very little about being results oriented to having a tight-knit group of people who care. You stop being able to gauge a communities value based on the amount of fun everyone is having when the community is completely dead. It took an extremely long time for people to stop coping about whether the community was dying & admit to the issues. I'm trying to point out this issue of being overly lenient. Having standards of your staff makes people who do good work not loathe the dumb motherfuckers who are ruining everything due to a lack of proper oversight.