yep air is clear.

The past few weeks have been a trying and volatile time for WebDip and its members and staff. We've had silencing, banning, exiles, and dissent. We've had new rules, new mods, new fights, and more.

I think when it all comes down to it, this all started as a simple issue - more moderation, or not? In the end the more moderation side, backed by the majority (if not all) of the staff, and 75%+ of members won out. Several of us on the other side (and even some on the former side) have felt unable to have any influence over where things have gone.

Some, like SYnapse and Maniac and myself, felt that leaving, or at least vastly scaling back involvement, was the right thing to do. Others were a bit more extreme.

I can't speak for anyone else, but for myself, my biggest concern are:

1. Limiting of open discussion on the forum
2. Staff members being hostile to dissenting opinions

#1 I think will sort itself out. The new rules were different, but I think cooler heads will prevail and the good discussion we're used to will stay, but in a less hostile way, which is probably a good thing.

#2 is a bit different. I just want the mods/admins/owners to listen. If I've been agitated, it's because I care. If I've been bitter, it's because I disagreed with the new rules. If I've been unruly, it's because I don't want to be ruled.

I have (and will) respect the rules of the site. In return I ask that the staff and other members just take a deep breath, and move forward, and put all this nasty business behind us.

Some apologies:

To zultar; Sorry for being an ass. I get you're under a lot of pressure and I was a big part of that.

To jmo: Sorry for being argumentative. You know I have big respect for what you guys do.

To other mods: Sorry for bugging you so much about it.

I would like to point out that i harmed no mod in the banning of half of this site.

We need some cool heads running this site, it's like anarchy at the moment.
I propose I take control forthwith and bring some sanity back to the situation. My campaign slogan will be 'NigeeBaby - The Voice of Reason'

You have to until 12 midnight BST to accept my unconditional offer .... otherwise hell hath no fury and I will unleash the dogs of war

oooooooooh

I think moderators should be limited to the games and extreme cases of spam or excessive insulting. Moderators need to be a voice of calm and not another opinion in the mess of threads. HOWEVER, things like outside alliances and multi accounting the moderators have been doing well against. An increased number of moderators wouldn't be too bad

More Moderators .... are you sure, we're having enough trouble with the current lot, you're starting to make me panicYanik

Love the rhyme I haven't heard that a million times. I'm not pro more moderators but I really wouldn't care if they changed it. NigeeBaby, you being dictator of all whom you survey would be fun to see though

How can I be a dictator, my web searches are in google, Notinyahoo ....

"I have (and will) respect the rules of the site. In return I ask that the staff and other members just take a deep breath, and move forward, and put all this nasty business behind us."

lmao "lets just forget how I made a big scene and stormed out and was a total drama queen please take me back :) "

Chairman, are you Welsh, forgive me for asking?
It's just that I once knew someone from Wales and he was a Chairman .... it's a long shot I know.

nope

I didn't storm off, Chairman. I announced I would be leaving when all my games were finished. That has not happened yet, as I have about 15 ongoing games.

Chaqa, forget chairman doo doo, i matters not what he thinks

Why announce it?

oh, so you're still just posting multi-paragraph threads about yourself thinking anyone cares. Cool cool

You matters not, thats for sure.

This post isn't about myself. It's about moving past all the shit that has happened.

Why are you so antagonistic toward people?

the best way to move past stuff is to no drudge it up again. You are one of the few people who continually try to make your own feelings a big thing. The same sentiment of this thread could have been done through PMs.

Oh, putty, me loves a good poo fling with you....

Why should he listen to you, chairman doo doo ? Who made you king. Uh, Putin did...I get it now. Boo foo 1and 2

do you have some kind of scat fetish or are you just 12?

I know youre a breeder but do you have to go around chanting doo doo and poo poo? Has watching Barney rotted your brain?

Me loves this. It's doo doo and poo poo together.

Hey, reel it in fellas, no need for this.

Chaqa, thanks for the apology, and I appreciate your concerns. I hope you'll be able to stay an active member of the forum and the site. I think you'll find that in the end, the place won't look significantly different from how it was before.

Isn't it grand that, two of the biggest trolls on this site, have deplorable diplomacy records. Chairman doo doo barely plays this game,hmmmm, and Putin has 81 cd's. Neither of these two care about the real site, just here to spew their shit.

Does caring about the site include dragging out unfair games in order to win cheap points like half the master class people here?

That's how it goes, ssorenn. The forum critters are there for the forum. The dip players stay away.

Those who are both forum critters and good dip players are made into mods lol (See: 2WL, PE, zultar)

Play to win, or don't play at all.

5 active games yeah I barely play

The good dip players typically have no concept of honor, theyre just point grubbers. And theyre far more abusive than forum trolls.

Pssssss, goldie, don't give away our secret mod selection process.
I'm tempted to play a game with you, goldie, just to kick your ass again. :)

Putin, that's not necessarily true. The Hanged Man, TheWizard, and many other top tier players are nothing like that

Well if you could get 2WL and the rest back to our Ankara Crescent game on Vdip, that'd be a start :)

Speaking of variants... if we could get Colonial Diplomacy, I'd be ecstatic.

That would be cool.
My top choice for variant inclusion is still Ankara Crescent though. In our game, 2WL would have been stabbed pretty badly that phase or the next one with little to no defense, though I'm sure he will say otherwise :).

Should I look into getting AC and Colonial variants for our site?

Colonial is already here, but it's inactive (I'm unsure why).

Variants are pretty easy to implement, I believe, and Colonial is hardly even a variant - it was published in the past as a board game.

I've been told that Colonial was rather unbalanced. One power has a very very high win rate.

http://vdiplomacy.com/stats.php?variantID=12

Take from it what you will. Compared to Classic:

http://vdiplomacy.com/stats.php?variantID=1

I'll have you know, the one Holland solo on that map was mine :)

Honestly, its my favorite variant

Same. I love Colonial. It's not quite as balanced, but it's a fun variant.

http://vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=13104

There's one I would have won if not for an unfortunate NMR.

Come on Putin I want to play a ge with you to see what you got. I won't Cd Let's go. Me poo poo pants

Okay we need those stat pages for webdip, someone remind me to do that.

Hey jmo,
I just wanted to remind you that we need those stat pages for webdip.

Don't forget to use the new cover page on those TPS (total playing stats) reports, jmo.