before i say anything else...
WTF are you smoking, and why don't you share? that's gotta be some goooooooooooooooooooood stuff
Lemme see now, why shouldn't players have power like you're suggesting, over the immortals?
Well, first and foremost, 99.9% of the time, what mortals *think* they know about a situation, turns out to be only a small portion of the full story, therefore they'd be making judgement calls without all the info they need to make that judgement. This is true of everyone, myself included.
Secondly, that would leave a caretaker that goes out of their way to punish cheaters and abusers, vulnerable to those same cheaters and abusers just by them getting enough players together to say the caretaker was wrong.
Caretakers are appointed to their position for several reasons...1) They have knowledge of the mud that makes it much easier to do their jobs, 2) They know the rules, and the loopholes in them, and are trusted enough to enforce them fairly on all players, friend or not.
If anyone *truly* believes they've been treated unfairly by a caretaker, or even more than one, or if they believe a caretaker has abused their power, the correct action to take, is to post a log of the situation to celeborn or zeraphin, in a PRIVATE message on the forums, not to make a public scene over it on ooc or any other channel on the mud. That only succeeds in a big argument, and imms and players alike being pissed off about the drama/spam/etc.
I have a lot of friends, and enemies in DL, but i don't believe there is anyone, among either of those groups, that can *truthfully* say that i am not honest with everyone, whether they like it or not
, and i can tell you from personal experience, that if you post a pm to cele about what you believe to be inappropriate behaviour by a caretaker, he WILL read it, he WILL look into it, and, if action is needed, he WILL take that action...whether he replies to your message or not.
Anyone that wishes to dispute what i have said here, or wishes me to back up what i've said, feel free to pm me on the forums, and i'll do what i can to prove my points.
~Eventine E'lessidil,
Spirit Wolf, Sentinels of Wolf Spirit