Foolish move.
Outspark's selection Community Leaders was bad enough; reading some of their posts, they are often woefully incompetent in their assessment of Fiesta. The selection appears to be solely on activity: the more active, the more likely you acquire status. I am willing to wager that at least one obtained rank through obsequiousness, considering his or her behavior on another forum unaffiliated with this game and company.
As for giving free cash items to these users, along with server-wide shout permissions, I truly question the tact of Outspark. While paying customers pay—myself included—to enjoy a bonus feature of the game, many issues remain prominent, many of the potent skills remain unreleased. Oh yes, let's make—and I quote a high ranking official here—more money rather than fix things! I am well aware of the "fixes" that have surfaced, at any rate. Certain members of this forum could probably fix the errors faster than the officials. Interestingly enough, quests that have broken from the first day of OB release remain broken, but they are able to repair the Earth Day HP Potion rather quickly. Coincidence? I think not.
This applies to the selection of GL's. I
strongly doubt that these users were appointed based on experience. Activity is understandable, obsequiousness is amusing if it is a guideline to worming into favor.
Conclusion: Outspark staff doesn't appear to really think things through. There is no problem with granting certain "respected" individuals power to moderate forums, but I wonder how cash items in-game help moderate the forums. To quote directly what the Community Leader's role is:
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Originally Posted by lordalden, Official OutSpark Forums
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Hey guys, lordalden here, and I'd like to say, thank you for reading this, and having an interest in helping us, the Community Leaders. As you may know, we are charged with keeping the peace in the forums in a as dually beneficial way as we can, but it's also true that we may miss some threads or posts, and we'd like your help on this, too.
So by all means, we encourage you to report to us any posts you may find of questionable in content or in context. You may directly report the post via the "Report Post" function in each post, or by private messaging us a link of the thread in question and we'll work on it right away.
As always, thank you for reading, and thanks for any and all help you may render in this matter in the near future!
Sincerely,
Lord Alden
PS: Don't forget, come and talk to us sometimes too! We love to chat, ya know!
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Game, set, match. Got off topic a bit, but the point is clear.