General Quigley wrote:I see Wicked and her coterie are flaming me for what I said here. That's all well and good. The substance of what I said remains and I predict will remain unaddressed.
When I first joined this site I was pretty excited about the concept and played a lot of games, recommended it to family and friends. Some joined and have told others, and they joined. I'm sort of embarrassed by that now. I wish I knew then what I knew now (that cliques or gangs have formed and are manipulating the system for their benefit). The cheating charge is under investigation. I believe wicked was clever enough to stay within the lines of the guidelines and will be exonerated. She has said she is certain her admin friends will exonerate her.
It doesn't change the fact that her play was unsportsmanlike, at minimum, and unethical, whether the letter of the cheating law was broken or not. That a moderator could abuse her position like this should be a matter of concern to Conquer Club management. Once people figure out this whole thing is rigged, membership and recommendations will start declining. I'm making noise about it here. Most others will just go silently. I'm seeing the trend already with the first people I recommended this site to, and imagine it's a common occurrence with those not inclined to join the gangs and cliques of ratings-manipulating, foul-mouthed adolescents that tend to form here.
I guess you didnt read the experienced coherent threads providing examples of why your post and beliefs are inaccurate, by the not-so-adolescent professional players of the site?
You can choose to believe, that because you arent enjoying the site the way others are, that the masses will read your concern and leave. But ive been here for a couple of years, and this place only gets bigger and better every year. There will always be turnaround on a site like this, but the number that leave, will never exceed the number that join. The positive players will always outnumber the negative ones, and as hard as some will try to bring down CC in any way they can for whatever reasons they may have. There will be many to counter such actions.
I have seen this many times over. The majority of players in CC are not the foul mouthed adolescents you like to assume constitute the body of CC. The majority are normal people with great attitudes that enjoy a great strategic, psychological game. Feel free to make whatever assumptions that allow you to stand high and mighty and cast down on what you have obviously come to believe are an inferior group of players that lack your individual insight, but I will continue to believe what I have come to learn, time and time again in CC, which is that this is a great group of people, and the good ones outnumber the bad with unbelievable proportions. They always have, they always will.
The fact that you cant see them in every post is irrelevant. Its too bad you havent found this out for yourself already, as it seems you might actually care about CC, but unfortunately youre the same as the screaming adolescents who simply use off color words to bash everything they can because they are probably frustrated with some other aspect in their lives, and cant stop themselves from being negative, and trying to impart their negativity upon others.
At least they have an excuse.