I touched on this in another thread.
If one staff member on a tracker is a bastard (even though they are just doing their voluntary job), then the whole tracker gets lambasted elsewhere on the net (not just here).
but when say, 90% of a countries users cheat, and the staff ban the country from that tracker, the staff have done wrong (even to members not from the banned country).
this is why this poll is nonsense, you cant lump a whole tracker staff, in with the 1 (bad cop) staff member.
and you will usually find, the ones that bitch and moan, have done something wrong to get on the bad side of that staff member to start with, but its never their fault, its always that staff member/tracker as a whole that gets the blame.
It used to rile me no end when i read ppl slagging us off, now i just laugh at them and their oppinion means shite all to me. If a member that was outstanding in the community and the tracker, turned around and said something though, then yes i will still get riled, but i will listen and they wont get banned, but i may loose my temper a notch or 2 lol.
And if anyone has not realised it it yet, its good cop bad cop routine. most trackers, and i would say every tracker with over 20,000 members, needs a staff member that is a stickler for the rules, and a bit of a hard nut (Pezby when he was staff, Cirno now for us) unless there would just be anarchy on the trackers.
The other thing as well with Cirno, he cares about the tracker, he will ban first, then its up to you to come into IRC and speak to him and state your case, OK he may not budge from his stance, but at least he is willing to listen to your case. And i have to add, (i have never seen this anyway) he is never foul mothed and abusive about it, like you can see elswhere.
just makes me laugh when i see threads like this, as you cant lump the whole tracker with 1 staff member who you got on the wrong side off.