Subj : Re: hey To : All From : <> Date : Wed Jan 08 2003 05:26 pm I didnt vote for him ----- Original Message ----- From: "Liquid Chaos" To: Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 10:23 PM Subject: [twgsdotorg] Re: hey > > Actually the award wasnt something Silver was pushing for. They voted for him not the other way around. So there is good reason why they voted for him. Silver is an excellent sysop and one of the fastest systems out there. Just because the Stardock went down doesnt make him any less. > > Just bum luck when someone gets a bad first impression. Going outside of that idea I went to a restraunt that everyone said they loved. They raved about it and said I should go. Well I got food poisoning and will never ever eat there again. Hate the place, hate the smell. > > Though I might go back that first impression was set. So even the other 2 games didnt matter either way. And Im sure a lot of us made stupid mistakes when we first starting something like programming or running a bbs or twgs. > > Him winning the award just showed how much improvement he has made since he first started. And this whole USO thing, Im sure it will be a great tourney, but once again first impression causes everyone to be paranoid. Phantom pains as they call it. You felt it every year, now your waiting to feel it again. > > Rome wasnt built in a day and regaining trust in the USO wont either. > > Good Work Silver > > The Chaos > > >From a message by SLG about Re: hey: > > My thought is that with it involving 3 different games it was probably over > a longer time period than a week. And why shouldn't he judge your sysop > abilities by his experiences whether they are based on a week or a year. > You seem to base your superior qualities as a sysop on an award from a year > ago that was voted on not long after the most popular server shut down > and your board was only one of a few out there. To base your failures as a > sysop in your fist week may be unfair but I think so is using an old one > time award to prove your quality as a sysop. > > At 02:02 PM 1/8/2003 -0500, you wrote: > > >Thank You cherokee, Like I said I think he played the first week I ever > >ran a server if he did this is what happened, I refilled terra with > >collies when it ran dry in a high turn game, my bad the only other thing I > >can remember was my second game when I tried to do some edits and totally > >messed up the planets lol, the top fig producer made 1 fig for every 500 > >collies lol. So I repaired the error the second day without a rebang. Oh > >yes now I remember the game he is talking about a rebang had to do with > >aliens that ran rampant. Shrug all in the first week as sysop since then > >he hasnt been back and thats fine, but to judge my whole career on my > >first week is unfair. Shrug. > >Silver Dragon > > > --- FEddy 1.4.03/modPHX * Origin: http://www.twgs.org -- THE Trade Wars web forum! (1:229/522.0) .