How good are the Crossfire Crew at running the site?

Crossfire is an autocracy - but every great despot* needs a report card. So how do you rate the admin quality?

What would you suggest needs improving?

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19.7 %
(307 votes)
33.2 %
(518 votes)
19.4 %
(302 votes)
27.7 %
(432 votes)
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Only a few admins do their job neutrally but not over zealously.

1st to comment & 1st to vote , woohoo.
so lame

and yes i know that replying to 1st posters is lamer.
So i am überlame?
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ok thanks :D finally someone who speaks the truth :D

thank you thank you thank you!
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Why doesn't that work in my profile anymore?:(

Edit: silly foonr ! fixored
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I'm hosting it now, foonrs webspace got deleted somehow. Anyway I'd say the old admins were better than the ones before considering I never heard whine about over moderation before and now I do. Also most of those admins got higher in ranks because they actually contributed something to crossfire unlike most admins (including me) now.
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You got those pics separate? Wanna use that elsewhere but without the geek nicks :X
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I wasn't the one taking the pictures, I think foonr might still have them somewhere should ask him.
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did some one actually hook up with nicks sister ?
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Yer points, I think the toss/foonr/fusen combo was best (though the amount of times I berated shakes for bein nostalgic :v ) - back then it was easier to coordinate what people did with the site not being so huge. I guess it's an inevitable consequence of expansion, that it's harder to keep track of what everyones doing & there's more differing opinions in on the act.
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That bartender (Nick?) is fucking win!
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I asked him about his sister (:D) @ CDC4 but apparently the girl was also a bartender but she quit because she didn't like games and gamers. I bet Nellie scared her off and made her quit the job.
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pedro gets away with it cos he's got W.H Auden quoted in his profile, but you wesbo... I'm nothin but smooth :v
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You're smooth like a baby vagina especially when you're drunk!
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admins are shit here, go get some new ones
OMFG [+] FOR NELLIE
cF needs also mods from every country imo, otherwise it will gone for wild (with no respect, no mature, no tolerance, no brain, etc. community or maybe its already running)
i think the admins should be more neutral. they only support and forgive the guys on the site which are their friends and stuff and punish the ones they dont like...this kinda sucks.
some quakewars nazis, some overall nazis, and few good admins (<3sol)
Too inconsistent.
Fine with me
image: turkmenistan
Too inconsistent!
I think they do a good job on the daily maintenance side of things considering the vast amounts of pure shite that gets spammed around.

Would be nice to see some more proactive ideas and innovations, but then again if it ain't broke - don't fix it.

A community of this size could benefit from some competitions other than just gaming tournies though - the quakewars beta key comp. for example was good fun.
QuoteWould be nice to see some more proactive ideas and innovations

Aha there's many things they're not, but not proactive enough? Crossfire LANS, sent a team to Quakecon, various Cups, worked with CB to create configs, introduced new competition maps, trying to introduce a replacement anti-cheat etc etc
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QuoteHow good are the Crossfire Crew at running the site?


I was answering the question literally.
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Too inconsistent.
I love my admins
i voted Terrible because there's no 'so-so' option.

all i see is admins not banning spamming bullshit-talkers and deleting journals that aren't even annoying/offensive/...

not the mention the xxx<3random_admin in the nicks.

also, the nickchanges some people get to random shit like McCheeseBurger and stuff.

i used to come here alot, but lately there's not much interesting to see here.
I'd read the 'alright' option as meaning 'so-so', personally.
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Hm, never really had business with the admins, besides pw reset, which was dealt with quickly, so alright I guess.
they're awesome

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Not neutral enough.
Good imo, running a community such as this is a pretty thankless task so how they put up with it all is beyond me.

The fact that they've managed to organize a LAN from the ground up is impressive, along with managing to somehow send a team to Quakecon!

Are there any plans to add anything new site-wise atm?
Gotta love Nellie! :P
terrible. they let retards like me on here.
I love you anyway you lanky Irish home-boy!
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back in your cupboard nigger.
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crossfire admins are:

-unfair
-gay
kinda unfair..
I'd personally say Oligarchy rather than Autocracy, at least when referring to administration standards. (Although some might argue we should be termed an Aristocracy).
There be always one pedant - usually you ! Autocracy implies tyranny, that was my obvious angle :p
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too bad there is no option " mentally challenged"
mentionally redarted imo
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How good are the Crossfire Crew at ruining the site?

GREAT!
alright imo...
will be great without sol deleting my journals/banning me :[
I think the main argument on xfire today is the journals. A big amount of users see this 'write in your journal' button and really consider it 'their' journal, allowing them to write just anything, whether it took them 5 seconds to write or just 5 minutes. Most of these journals are total crap and I stopped browsing journals a long time ago as 90% of them are either attentionwhoring, currently playing or some random youtube link journal nobody really cares about.

On the other hand, journals are what made crossfire this big. People dont browse xfire for 1 hour to read newsposts (about cod and etqw). They browse crossfire for the stupid journals with the even more retarded comments.

Imho, allow anything but racist stuff to be posted in journals. Stop moderating it. People should be allowed to write whatever they want in their journal, no matter how retarded and average it might be. Forums should be moderated way more, just delete all the posts which took less then 1 minute to make.
The big debate - and as I see it the problem here is that both the community and the admin team are split on this - is whether journals should be moderated so only those with 'useful content' are allowed or whether, as you say, anything goes (excepting abusive or offensive journals).
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namechangewhore :O
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Admins are bullying me :/

I'm sick of browsing in this police state!
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Though I don't use the website or talk to the admins much that more, nellie, foonr and TosspoT, are/were the best.
The only normal admins are:

Tosspot
Tala
Wesbo (even though he hates me, he's still good ^^)
Frop
Adacore
I'm not normal :'(
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yes u are, that's why I never rly knew u even are an admin, cuz u don't show it like sol/ronner do :/
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that's cuz sol and I take care of the shit jobs as well. I bet if sol and I didn't clean this place up on a daily basis, it'd be a 1st class mess.
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I'm not normal!
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it's grolsch...
dude...
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I don't hate you I tend to disagree on anything you say :D
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NOT ok.
As long as retards like killerboy arent banned: terrible
They don't get paid (as far as i'm aware :P) and have to put up with so much crap so i've got nothing but respect for them.

Had no problems with anyone and i keep coming back, so great job :]
you are not allowed to express yourself so stfu or be banned
they need me as an admin
How good are the Crossfire Crew at running the site?

A crew - singular not plural so it would be is instead of are fucking retards .

stuart en jeroen cn suck ma bloody ballz
nope, its ambiguous...

1) how good are the crossfire crew [members] at...

2) how good is the crossfire crew [as a collective] at...

thanks for your messianic input though!
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isnt ambiguous cuz theres one option nd that's the second.
'Crossfire crew' is singular even though 'crew' refers to a plural verbal form.

go eat the shit of ur hamster
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when english is your first language, and you're studying english at university, i think then you might be in a better position to analyse grammar.
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'Have you tried an ET hack?' would be a nice poll :-)
+ banning cheaters
- too strict / deleting too many journals sometimes
pretty good i guess, never had any problems

so keep up the good work
alot of nice journal getting deleted for nothing, fo sol
Excellent.
tbh i've no idea why is everyone flaming sol, i've never had any issues with the guy

my stuff was deleted a few times, sometimes from him, sometimes from other admins.. but whenever i asked him, he kindly explained what happend and there was always a valid reason
most of xfire users are not very bright
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Only you because when i pm him and ask for what reason he keeps ignoring me and my pms
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+ banning cheaters
+ organizing cups/lans
+ excluding ex/cheaters from competition
+ quality news/articles (when written)

- too less news/articles/columns
- too less innovation of the page
- too hard restriction of any anti etqw/cod4 comments (it's a wolf:et based comm, can't disclaim that.)
- lately too many non et related news
- sometimes too strict comment/journal deleting

(btw: please ban the word 'fail', it just became annoying lately.)
i lament for the days when i actually knew what was happening in the scene, could predict which teams would win and who played in them.

:o(
pretty okay imo, but sometimes they are too keen on deleting comments and/or journals
sol is a dick
You need more perfect admins, just like sol!
admins are alright, more across the board admining will be nice (some topics are a bit wtf at times :D)

worst issue on crossfire are the polls - this is the best so far. :)
Poor mans sockeh =(
Some of the admins are nice, and some are not. I'd say it's about 75-25.

However I voted for terrible. The language thing is just stupid. You could aswell make few forum sections more for own languages, since there are so many people watching the forums. Also, some people that are seeking for help, ain't that good with english, and they don't get any help then.

You should punish flamers more than people who aren't good with english language.
THE INTERNETS ARE BACK...wait no, NELLIE IS BACK
some are ok, some are just.. terribbble.
The gods are nice, some administrators and moderators not.
i think the admins should be more neutral. they only support and forgive the guys on the site which are their friends and stuff and punish the ones they dont like...this kinda sucks. yeah and sol is good in that tbh , stupid prick
Shit job as always.
Well they're certainly doing a good job when you take a look to this community. But on the other hand I'm worried about the future ... I don't hope they'll add new "retarded" people to their crew.
00:53.04 .•• you have been kicked out of #crossfire by hentai`study ( maybe you'll learn from this mistake yourself )
00:53.05 .•• error: Addresses from ( #crossfire ) not saved. (too many users)
00:53.16 .•• you have been kicked out of #crossfire by hentai`study ( i don't like scripts y'know )

wtf at this retarded fuck.

the script he talks about is the general feature that mIRC offers via clicking a button that is 'auto rejoin' _^_^_^_^_^
auto-rejoin scripts deserve a tempban
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Well pretty sucky since they kick all the good ones.
Terrible!
They say it's anonymous but really it isn't :P
taLa Haven't seen him do anything. Except code the site, but then, who gives a fuck? Sometimes I just open up notepad and reply to myself for hours on end.
TosspoT Obviously he'd never give up the power he so desperatley craves.
Fusen Got there by creating an impenetrable vacuum around tosspots anus, and will stay there permanently because of it.
Ronner He's fine, but dutch, I don't think you should be allowed to wield the ban hammer whilst high and/or support child molestation.
Nellie Tosspots lapdog, occasionally included with fusen in admin threesome's, but is in general a fine admin.
Rafiki I don't even know who this peon is, but he's definitley a peon, my peon sense tells me so. ...peon!
sol He's irish and apparently lot's of people <3 him, whatever that means. Also he's one of the few admins who instills fear within the hearts of peons due to his liberal use of the ban hammer.
Frop The only thing I've ever seen him post are pictures of socks. He stays!
arni GTV admin, I guess it's understandable that he'd be admin at crossfire too, right?
Bulld0g Cheatbuster extrordinnaire, so I suppose he also has to be an admin?
decem I'm sure there's a valid reason for this.
raza Obvious legacy.
hellgoat I haven't seen him do anything.
Cash Same
foonr I imagine he's an admin more for his writing than ability to yield the hammer of the ban.
crow No one from CoD should ever be admin here, but he's friends with tosspot, and he looks like matt damon, apparently. I guess that means there'll be some 4some's in the future.
-Max- Making movies makes you eligible for admin status? Or did I miss the one post that wasn't about muzzle flash or 3d cams?
Arachon CDC buddy or something?
pedro Jesus.
Deman Who the fuck is he? Demanufacturer? The australian guy who's in a different fucking timezone to most of the people on the site? Oh, ok then.
unblind Haven't seen him do much, but I do believe that there is an overabundance of british admins. Racism? I think so.
Adacore Most comical voice ever but a pretty solid admin.
Wesbo<3foonr No idea what he did to gain admin status or what he does to keep it.


The rest of the admins are peons who I'm guessing are only there to boost numbers enough to keep the site from falling into a black hole of spam, the kind created when you breed loekino with flyingdj. Hmmm.
Haha

As a side note, Hellgoat and max are, I believe, both on the admin team mainly to help out with the 'movies' section, although I'm not sure how much they actually do. Hellgoat was one of the main fragmovie admins on sweRTCW, and max is one of the most active/known/respected movie makers. They were both uberactive back when sweRTCW was drawing its last metaphorical breath.
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