The WoW community hase been in uproar about Tseric’s outburst this weekend: http://wow-en.curse-gaming.com/devtracker/1/en/details/1733/
Basically he snapped and showed some of the frustration CM’s must feel about all the trolls and flamers that are roaming the forum. It all starts with his second post saying “good luck with trying to get me fired”, and it’s later on in the thread he really shows how frustrating his job can be:
“Posting impassionately, they say you don’t care.
Posting nothing, they say you ignore.
Posting with passion, you incite trolls.
Posting fluff, you say nonsense.
Post with what facts you have, they whittle down with rationale.
There is no win.”
The discussion is now heated about the state of the forums and the responsibilities of the CM’s. Some people cheer Tseric on, saying it’s great that he shows that he’s a human and not a machine. Others think he’s highly unprofessional and should get fired.
Tseric is in my opinion often trolling and has a weird philosophical view of life which he unfortunately tries to share with the Off-Topic community on the US forum (sometimes I’m just like “lol wut?” when reading his OT posts). But some blue trolling is just nice imo, and I don’t really doubt that he is taking his other CM duties seriously.
I’m a bit ambiguous to this situation though – on one hand I totally understand that the amount of pure bullshit on the official WoW forums could make anyone insane, on the other I think he handles it a bit unprofessionally. Can’t he just go out and get drunk and whine about his job like normal people? (Maybe that’s what he did, only most other people don’t have the login info to a blue account… ;p)
Unprofessional or not, no job in the world involves taking insults as part of your job description. It’s amazing how most of the CM’s (especially Nethaera) manage to stay positive most of the times with all the bullshit they have to put up with.
It’s strange how people can excuse the rudest behaviour by saying “you get paid to take my shit!”. Do these posters actually think they will change something with the game by being rude? I know what I would do – totally ignore those posters and dismiss them as whiners.
