[RussEfarmer]

It's a mixed bag for me.. I've been in some places where everything happens behind a veil and it's extremely frustrating to see major changes or decisions made by administration just out of the blue. What has set Dinkleberg's apart for me over the years is how open stuff like staff applications, ban requests, unban requests, content addition/removal and exploit patches are. Take a community back in the day like Compact Gamers, staff applications weren't public, unban requests weren't public, and almost no contact was made from administration to the rest of the players about server changes. Dink's is the complete opposite, players have the privilege of knowing what is happening on the servers they play on, which I like a lot. The fact that I can make a thread pointing out a major exploit basically saying "holy shit dinkleberg fix this right now", and even disclose the original source code of the addon causing the exploit, and NOT get dragged off in the shadows like a Chinese independent reporter is pretty awesome.

On the other hand though, players don't need to know absolutely EVERYTHING. I hate black boxes, but it's really not a good look for the server administrators to go out and say they promoted two pedophiles to moderator positions and had to ban them for it.. or there's a maniac with 200 alt accounts posting CP on the server every other day for the past 5 months.. I personally don't really need to know that level of detail for a problem completely out of my control, and having an expectation that such level of detail with those kinds of problems is just slapped on the forum's front page isn't very realistic for any community, business or anywhere really.