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I apologize if my answer isn't satisfactory  , but I've answered your question in the way I best see fit and in the way I'm comfortable answering it. The purpose of this thread is not to discuss a single Administrator and how popular/unpopular he or she might be. You make a claim that "Blackdog is, undoubtedly, the most disliked staff member". This might be your opinion or the opinion of those you talk to, but I cannot treat it as a fact as you claim it is. I do however view it as an opinion from a group of our player-base. I am aware of the opinions of this group about Blackdog, but I will not talk on behalf of him nor slander him as a person nor his work as an administrator. You have an opinion on Blackdog as you are entitled to have. I also have an opinion on Blackdog, but I'm not interested in sharing my opinion about any staff-member just because someone tells me to. I am not interested in having this thread be about him and whether or not he's popular. I've answered your question as well as I can, but you can't force an answer out of me that I'm not willing to give. I'm asking that you drop this subject as it will not be elaborated on further. You've been allowed to ask these questions, and I've been allowed to give the answers that I've best seen fit. I'm afraid that I cannot answer it any better to your liking.

As for Contributors and Developers working together:

They are currently working together on a bigger update pack together, and they are doing so quite well. The teamwork between contributors and developers has never been as good as it is now, and I'm extremely impressed by everyone involved. You have your impression about how Contributors and Developers work together, and you might be right that PaulB should have gotten more support from the start. I agree with this fully. What I can say though is that these groups are currently working very well together, and I'm very impressed by all of them. You do not have the access to observe how they work and communicate together, but I do and it's up to you if you want to take my side of this into consideration or not. 

I also need to point out that the work they are doing is voluntary work, and Contributors have lives and projects of their own that they also manage. I have huge respect for all of them, and I understand that you have the same as you're showing concern for them. I can respect that. I have to point out though that you're making statements here without little evidence and actual fact to back this up and that you're sitting on assumptions as to how you feel it is. The truth might differ to your assumptions. The same goes for your opinion on the administrative team and how you believe it operates and how it should operate.

(Jun 15, 2017, 12:31 AM)PaulB Wrote: [ -> ]

(Jun 15, 2017, 12:17 AM)Zombie Wrote: [ -> ]

(Jun 14, 2017, 09:17 AM)Doctor Internet Wrote: [ -> ]Obviously I'm not staff, but I'd just like to comment on a few things.

(Jun 14, 2017, 03:04 AM)Zombie Wrote: [ -> ]4. Are the HR aware of BlackDog's actions and reputation? Every person that I know and met in FL and LL dislike BlackDog, some of them hate him in extreme levels, I mean there's a good reason why I hear a lot of a lot of people talking behind his back even by his own fellow staff and former staff and some people create groups just for the sole purpose to fight against FUMUKU.

already answered this question.

(Jun 11, 2017, 10:43 PM)Enzyme Wrote: [ -> ]2) As for Blackdog, I cannot say anything about him nor any other staff-member unless they do so themselves. I don't discuss or talk about any staff-cases in public as they are kept private between me and the staff-member in question. What I can say though is that we're constantly addressing issues internally on how we can improve ourselves as a team, behaviour-wise, rule-wise etc. We take the public's concerns seriously and we the HR team talk to staff-members when problems arise. Most of the things we do (punishments, HR talks, discussions) are internal and won't be visible to the public. I can assure you though that we try to address issues as they arise to the best of our capabilities.

(Jun 14, 2017, 03:04 AM)Zombie Wrote: [ -> ]6. What is going on with the Stock Exchange? It was like the best addition to LL that I've seen, however it's down for very long time. Was it shut down?

has already answered this question.

(Jun 13, 2017, 06:35 PM)PaulB Wrote: [ -> ]On the ECSE topic:
When I first started the project I wasn't good enough to re-design the entire front-end of it, I just decided to re-do the back-end from complete scratch not a single bit of code was re-used, in total this was near 100 files of code some of these files going over a thousand lines of code due to the sheer size of what ECSE needs to be, I know quite often people are getting tired of me/other saying "It's in the works" but I'd rather release a full polished project then something that is rushed and don't get me wrong,  I do appreciate you guys for waiting.

But why is he struggling and not getting help by his other fellow developers? As a team, you should all be working together and help each other, simple as that. PaulB is a good addition to the team and a good person, I know him for a long time but from what I've understood from PaulB is that he's struggling and doing it by himself considering he said " When I first started the project I wasn't good enough to re-design the entire front-end of it" and "I just decided to re-do the back-end from complete scratch not a single bit of code was re-used, in total this was near 100 files of code some of these files going over a thousand lines of code due to the sheer size of what ECSE needs to be"
Why is that? Does he get help by his fellow contributors/developers? Or he does get help but his team is struggling because of lack of communication between the contributors and developers? Or is it just that the team are not good enough in developing? There's 4 contributors, 7 developers, Faustie and Temar, 1 out of 13 is struggling, where is the other 12 of his team to assist him? I am asking these questions as I don't understand what's going on with all the contributors and developing team.

I'll answer this bit:
I do indeed get help by fellow contributors/developers no one knows everything, communication has improved drastically over the last few months however simply no one at the time knew front end development except Noble who left and at this time I realised I had to quickly learn and become good at it, I believe at that moment of time I was one of the only one's focused on web development rather than in-game development (which is a good thing).

With the new development of ECSE I couldn't of done it without a mod and a contributor graphic designer, he has designed the entire concept for the new ECSE (something that I am not good at all - concept art/graphics).

I'd also like to point out that the other people you have mentioned do a incredible amount of work, you may not see it but they are also extremely busy and have projects of their own to do.

^ This is why I love PaulB being part of the team, as I said previously, a good addition to the team. Cheers for answering my question about ECSE

(Jun 15, 2017, 12:36 AM)Enzyme Wrote: [ -> ]I apologize if my answer isn't satisfactory   , but I've answered your question in the way I best see fit and in the way I'm comfortable answering it. The purpose of this thread is not to discuss a single Administrator and how popular/unpopular he or she might be. You make a claim that "Blackdog is, undoubtedly, the most disliked staff member". This might be your opinion or the opinion of those you talk to, but I cannot treat it as a fact as you claim it is. I do however view it as an opinion from a group of our player-base. I am aware of the opinions of this group about Blackdog, but I will not talk on behalf of him nor slander him as a person nor his work as an administrator. You have an opinion on Blackdog as you are entitled to have. I also have an opinion on Blackdog, but I'm not interested in sharing my opinion about any staff-member just because someone tells me to. I am not interested in having this thread be about him and whether or not he's popular. I've answered your question as well as I can, but you can't force an answer out of me that I'm not willing to give. I'm asking that you drop this subject as it will not be elaborated on further. You've been allowed to ask these questions, and I've been allowed to give the answers that I've best seen fit. I'm afraid that I cannot answer it any better to your liking. 

As for Contributors and Developers working together: 

They are currently working together on a bigger update pack together, and they are doing so quite well. The teamwork between contributors and developers has never been as good as it is now, and I'm extremely impressed by everyone involved. You have your impression about how Contributors and Developers work together, and you might be right that PaulB should have gotten more support from the start. I agree with this fully. What I can say though is that these groups are currently working very well together, and I'm very impressed by all of them. You do not have the access to observe how they work and communicate together, but I do and it's up to you if you want to take my side of this into consideration or not. 

I also need to point out that the work they are doing is voluntary work, and Contributors have lives and projects of their own that they also manage. I have huge respect for all of them, and I understand that you have the same as you're showing concern for them. I can respect that. I have to point out though that you're making statements here without little evidence and actual fact to back this up and that you're sitting on assumptions as to how you feel it is. The truth might differ to your assumptions. The same goes for your opinion on the administrative team and how you believe it operates and how it should operate.

First off I have nothing against BlackDog since I don't know him in real life, don't know his personality, I don't know him how he is behind the screens. And yes you were right that I talked about BlackDog mostly behalf of the staff/former staff and LL's player base and former LL's members and outside of LL because there's a good reason why his own fellow staff dislike him in the first place, and if the staff/former staff including countless of people doesn't like him and hell I even heard someone people saying things like BlackDog should die in real life with details of the cause of his death which is ridicuclous and disturbing so for me it's a serious subject about BlackDog. My own opinion about BlackDog as a staff is that I don't agree how he handles as an admin and opinions within LL, however I still have to respect his opinions and respect how he handles situations with people as he's a human being with different views and when he tells to do something and if I'm breaking a rule as he says, I should comply with him since there's a reason why he's a staff in the first place. About the claim of him manipulating the rules, I personally witnessed that only once however it might be a misunderstanding.  Yes I understand that you cannot take my claims as a fact, as they are claims by a large group of people with opinions that you are already aware of the group, as you said " I am aware of the opinions of this group about Blackdog" which that means you are already aware of BlackDog's reputation by that group of people is just the answer I needed, thank you.
As my simple question was:
4. Are the HR aware of BlackDog's actions and reputation? Every person that I know and met in FL and LL dislike BlackDog, some of them hate him in extreme levels, I mean there's a good reason why I hear a lot of a lot of people talking behind his back even by his own fellow staff and former staff and some people create groups just for the sole purpose to fight against FUMUKU.
And you answered it with: " I am aware of the opinions of this group about Blackdog" which to me it means that you are already aware of BlackDog's reputation by the group of people that I was talking about, the reputation of the group of people that has given to BlackDog of him manipulating the rules, bias for his clan, etc etc. So thank you Enzyme, that was the answer I needed.

Quote:I apologize if my answer isn't satisfactory

You didn't answer my question until now, however you did answer to Tails which his question was "2) Blackdog is, undoubtedly, the most disliked staff member. Is anything being done to improve his, and the staff team's as a whole, public image?" And your answer for his question was "[font=open_sansregular, Arial, sans-serif]2) As for Blackdog, I cannot say anything about him nor any other staff-member unless they do so themselves. I don't discuss or talk about any staff-cases in public as they are kept private between me and the staff-member in question. What I can say though is that we're constantly addressing issues internally on how we can improve ourselves as a team, behaviour-wise, rule-wise etc. We take the public's concerns seriously and we the HR team talk to staff-members when problems arise. Most of the things we do (punishments, HR talks, discussions) are internal and won't be visible to the public. I can assure you though that we try to address issues as they arise to the best of our capabilities."  Which your answer for him is good, however my question was mainly "[font=open_sansregular, Arial, sans-serif]Are the HR aware of BlackDog's actions and reputation? "  which your answer to Tails doesn't answer my question as it is different question and I asked if you're aware of his reputation or you can call it opinions and you answered it with " I am aware of the opinions of this group about Blackdog" And this was the answer that I needed, a straight forward answer if you are aware of what kind of reputation players has given him.[/font][/font]

Quote: I also have an opinion on Blackdog, but I'm not interested in sharing my opinion about any staff-member just because someone tells me to

I never asked you to share your opinion about BlackDog, my main question is that if the HR are aware of his reputation, so don't share it because that is completely irrelevant.

Quote:The purpose of this thread is not to discuss a single Administrator and how popular/unpopular he or she might be

Well I know that the entire purpose of this thread is not to discuss a single admin and how popular/unpoplar he or she might be, how is that even relevant? I asked 8 questions and only one of the 8 questions is about if the HR is aware of BlackDog's actions and reputation, the 7 other questions is not about BlackDog.

Quote:You make a claim that "Blackdog is, undoubtedly, the most disliked staff member"

Although Tails was the one who said it,  it is the truth, you are aware of the group of people that has opinions on BlackDog as you said but that group of people, is so huge, countless of members that no one can keep up with the numbers and and as I said it before, among these group of people are your own staff members. So basically your own staff members dislike BlackDog that is also part of your staff team, which it means something.

Quote:I've answered your question as well as I can

"I am aware of the opinions of this group about Blackdog"
Yes this is the answer that I needed, I appreciate your answer.

Quote:but you can't force an answer out of me that I'm not willing to give.

I never tried to force an answer from you, even if I asked for an answer from you and you're not willing to give me an answer, that's fine man, I respect that.
And as you requested me to drop this subject about BlackDog, I will drop it now.




And as for Contributors/Developers subject:

I was in the stuck past about them, I remember that there was lack of communication between contributors and developers not long ago which is my mistake and I admit it, but since  said:
I do indeed get help by fellow contributors/developers no one knows everything, communication has improved drastically over the last few months however simply no one at the time knew front end development except Noble who left and at this time I realised I had to quickly learn and become good at it, I believe at that moment of time I was one of the only one's focused on web development rather than in-game development (which is a good thing).

With the new development of ECSE I couldn't of done it without @Bambo a mod and a contributor graphic designer, he has designed the entire concept for the new ECSE (something that I am not good at all - concept art/graphics).

I'd also like to point out that the other people you have mentioned do a incredible amount of work, you may not see it but they are also extremely busy and have projects of their own to do.

I'm really happy about it, it has improved. I remember there was staff inactvitity for awhile but   told me yesterday that it's getting more active and which I was even happy about it and I edited in my original post with the 8 questions in page 3 which those questions are important for me because I want to know if LL is doing any better in the present and in the future.

Yes I do appreciate them since they are using their spare time in their lives that instead of having fun after they come back from school/work to do more work in developing which I personally won't have fun from developing hours, days, weeks and months just to make LL better and enjoyable for everybody which is an act of kindness from them and I'm not capable of doing it if you ask me, because I wouldn't enjoy and have fun developing hours/days/weeks/months because it's not fun for me but I guess they enjoy it since they are developers in the first place, and I am fully aware and know that contributors are doing voluntary work and this is why I have huge respect for them just as you do. Even if they weren't the best developers, I will still appreciate them and respect them for spending their time to make LL better and they will still do good things and better for LL than I will ever do in my lifetime.
"You do not have the access to observe how they work and communicate together, but I do and it's up to you if you want to take my side of this into consideration or not. " Obviously I will take your side on this since you know better than me what's going on between them because I don't have access.

Few things to point out:

Quote: I have to point out though that you're making statements here without little evidence

First off I never made any statements about them I simply asked if there's something going on since PaulB is struggling:
My questions:
"Why is that? Does he get help by his fellow contributors/developers? Or he does get help but his team is struggling because of lack of communication between the contributors and developers? Or is it just that the team are not good enough in developing? There's 4 contributors, 7 developers, Faustie and Temar, 1 out of 13 is struggling, where is the other 12 of his team to assist him? I am asking these questions as I don't understand what's going on with all the contributors and developing team."

Yes I agree with you that I and no one can't make statements without any evidence however I never gave statements in the first place. 

Quote: that you're sitting on assumptions as to how you feel it is. The truth might differ to your assumptions.

Huh? How is asking questions is an assumption? Can you explain to me please? The definition of assumption is "a willingness to accept something as true without question or proof" I obviously asked questions, I simply didn't understand what was going on with the contributors/developers especially when I'm not part of the staff team so therefore I don't know what's going on, however since there's 4 contributors, 7 developers, Faustie and Temar are all the developers for LL and only one out of 13 is struggling and didn't get support from the start which he should have and you even agreed with me as you said "[font=open_sansregular, Arial, sans-serif] I agree with this fully." so obviously I was concerned that something was going and this is why I asked these questions, again:[/font]
[font=open_sansregular, Arial, sans-serif][font=open_sansregular, Arial, sans-serif]"[font=open_sansregular, Arial, sans-serif]Why is that? Does he get help by his fellow contributors/developers? Or he does get help but his team is struggling because of lack of communication between the contributors and developers? Or is it just that the team are not good enough in developing? There's 4 contributors, 7 developers, Faustie and Temar, 1 out of 13 is struggling, where is the other 12 of his team to assist him? I am asking these questions as I don't understand what's going on with all the contributors and developing team."[/font][/font][/font]

Quote:The same goes for your opinion on the administrative team and how you believe it operates and how it should operate.

Well sometimes I have an opinion as you said you have your own opinions based on what you believe, so do I. This is what I believe, first of all, I'm going to paste my question in the original comment in page 3.
"How will the staff inactivity be dealt with?"   "[font=open_sansregular, Arial, sans-serif]For example Barkles and Pinky are admins right, they play CS:GO most of the time so therefore they obviously have spare time to administrate LL as well however they are inactive. Barkles join LL and play for maybe 5-15 minutes then disconnect and won't be seen in LL for quiet a while. Pinky well he's more inactive than Barkles anyway.  So they should resign if they can't be bothered to administrate in LL anymore and they can play as much CS:GO as they please without having any power and position in LL that they don't even need."[/font]

I believe if a staff member is unreasonable inactive, they have spare time in other things however they are not fullfilling their duty as an admin then they shouldn't be a staff member and they should resign as they don't need their powers anymore because they are not bothered to administrate because they are playing something else with their spare time, for example playing CS:GO which each competive match on average is 30-45 minutes which they can still play as they please to as they enjoy it and play it more than LL for a good reason in the first place but it comes with a reasonable price.

While   apologized to me and told me that I opened his eyes and he's being mature about it which I have huge respect for him as we talked together in Steam chat.
Steam chat conversation:

15:31 - Zombie: You don't need to apologize to me, it's all good man
15:32 - [L²] Pinky: Nah i know but like ive been inactive and its actually abit sad that HR havent talked to me abaout it once.
15:32 - [L²] Pinky: First now ive opened my eyes.
15:32 - [L²] Pinky: First now.
15:33 - [L²] Pinky: Thats abit sad really but yeah. internal. Uh i mean i gotta try to balance it out with work n such if not i have to step down but its calm now the start was new it was a new start for me really. But yeah
15:33 - Zombie: I have nothing against you and Barkles, however I believe if a person has a certain position and power, but they can't be bothered doing what they are supposed to do, just simply resign

However sadly   removed me from Steam, I thought he would be mature about it because my impression of him was being mature person and we would have a chat however he took a different path which I did not expect and surprised to see him in this type of behaviour.

How long are the rope textures gonna be broken for? Is there an ETA for a fix?

(Jun 15, 2017, 05:04 AM)Loaf Wrote: [ -> ]How long are the rope textures gonna be broken for? Is there an ETA for a fix?

It's planned in a coming update.

(Jun 13, 2017, 07:00 PM)CeriseVanille Wrote: [ -> ]Are there any plans to revive the meth system and perhaps balancing it to match other money-making methods like woodcutting?

Yes, there are plans. We would like to add additional ways of making money first, before re-working the meth system.

(Jun 14, 2017, 11:50 PM)Project Wrote: [ -> ]Is there a plan for when Garry's mod dies as a game? Is this community going to die off or are we planning on moving to another roleplay game?

Always looking for new ways to expand, however breaking through in other games is not as easy.

Do you think LimeLight would consider expanding into GTA V and creating a roleplay server on that? I've watched quite a bit of DOJ GTA V Roleplay and it seems pretty cool. Would LimeLight consider something like this or not?

(Jun 15, 2017, 09:57 AM)Quantum Wrote: [ -> ]Do you think LimeLight would consider expanding into GTA V and creating a roleplay server on that? I've watched quite a bit of DOJ GTA V Roleplay and it seems pretty cool. Would LimeLight consider something like this or not?

It would be cool but as a company i think we could run into lots of  issues Rockstar/GTA do not support external servers and its against their EULA :/

(Jun 15, 2017, 11:02 AM)Barkles Wrote: [ -> ]

(Jun 15, 2017, 09:57 AM)Quantum Wrote: [ -> ]Do you think LimeLight would consider expanding into GTA V and creating a roleplay server on that? I've watched quite a bit of DOJ GTA V Roleplay and it seems pretty cool. Would LimeLight consider something like this or not?

It would be cool but as a company i think we could run into lots of  issues Rockstar/GTA do not support external servers and its against their EULA :/

Oh that sucks... :/

(Jun 16, 2017, 10:41 AM)Quantum Wrote: [ -> ]

(Jun 15, 2017, 11:02 AM)Barkles Wrote: [ -> ]

(Jun 15, 2017, 09:57 AM)Quantum Wrote: [ -> ]Do you think LimeLight would consider expanding into GTA V and creating a roleplay server on that? I've watched quite a bit of DOJ GTA V Roleplay and it seems pretty cool. Would LimeLight consider something like this or not?

It would be cool but as a company i think we could run into lots of  issues Rockstar/GTA do not support external servers and its against their EULA :/

Oh that sucks... :/

Considering take two interactive just shut down all major modding tools for GTA V, I don't see this ever happening.

As said above by Tails,BlackDog is the most hated staff member.Are you gonna do anything about that?Also he's inactive as fuck.

(Jun 16, 2017, 01:38 PM)ICEKILLER_99 Wrote: [ -> ]As said above by Tails,BlackDog is the most hated staff member.Are you gonna do anything about that?Also he's inactive as fuck.

I personally have not got anything against Blackdog as I haven't been with him enough to know anything.
But seriously, whether I like him or not, this question has been answered twice by . It's time for you to move on, and keep your opinions to yourself. It's hard enough being an administrator, and making decisions a lot of the time that will get you hate has sadly bitten Blackdog badly.
Start being respective to the ones who keep the server clean for us.
Make a new question rather than repeating the one that's been asked 4 times now.

Also another factor you guys have to consider for staff activity is our lives. Some of us are students, workers, and even both. This doesn't leave much room to play and me and BlackDog's timezone, we get back from work and there is no one the servers. This leaves us to only be active behind the curtains.