Let me begin by saying that I am NOT writing this as an insult to Jurgen or to any of the other MOD's.

What I am doing is questioning / discussing the current MOD system.

Without talking to Ryan personally, I can only guess at the reasoning behind having MODERATORS as actual players of the game, but I’m sure they are (and not limited to) some of the following:

1. The MODS are in the games, know the game , and like the game .

2. The MODS will not be immediately recognized as a MODERATOR in every game, and as such, the MOD's will witness a lot of 'uncensored' chat and game play.

3. The MODS are probably free to Ryan. Possibly compensated with some free memberships / and or a feeling of authority.

With that said, its obvious that Ryan is running a business. The KDice, GPokr, and Xsketch sites are successful web businesses that I have enjoyed for years, along with many other players. I am also sure that the inexpensive / friendly gaming environments that Ryan has created have brought him a lot of financial success, and I congratulate / aspire this as a fellow programmer.

I believe the current MOD system changes the games to an extent that jeopardizes the future success of these sites.

The reasoning for my frustration:

Jurgen recently accused me of being in violation of the game rules. The Justification for his accusations: Not accepting a verbal flag from Moulue during a members tournament.

I would like to go over the actual rules of the game for those of you who have not read them.

The rules of the game are simple:

1.Do not use pornographic Avatars. (My Avatar is a black square, and has been for several weeks, before that, it was the Mandelbrot set for a very long time.)

2. Do not harass people. (OK,well, this one is a little vague, what constitutes harassment? Honestly, I have, like a lot of others, in the past gotten angry in the chat box over the outcome of a game. Note though that my treatment of other players was never in question during this member’s tournament or any other ring game in the past.)

3. Do Not Use Hate Language or Avatars. ( See my responses to Rule 2 and 3...Furthermore, I am not a racist, and do not use racist language. The only Biased thing I do on this website is go easier on girls with cute pictures of themselves....Brighty is a perfect example.)

4. Game to Game favors are not allowed. ( I was accused of being in alliance with 2 players in a 9 player members tournament . MC and another player whose name I can’t even remember. For the record, I do not know these players in real life, nor have I any arrangement with them for mutually beneficial game outcomes. Jurgen accuses me of this, but cannot ever prove this, because it is SIMPLY NOT TRUE).

5. Play only one account at a time. (I have several accounts Nix, Nixx, Nixxx, Nixxxx, etc. I have only ever played one of them at a time. If this is to be questioned, I rerfer Ryan to his own servers history records.)


So...with all of the above said, the following was posted on my review page by Jurgen after Moulue reported me minutes after the conclusion of the members tournament.

serious warning: can't call it pga with "MC"/zoid for sure but very fishy screw of molou at the very least. Game 1: you don't let him fight for 3rd for a made up reason. Game 2 before heads up: you don't let him fight again because you accept the weirdest "I won't cut you for 2nd" when there wasn't even a real cut on. Next fishy play will mean a ban. -avatar jurgen 7:43 PM, Saturday September 10, 2011 CDT


Notice that Jurgen was able to post this on my review page with the warning category listed as Avatar. I guess there is not a category for warnings regarding NOT ACCEPTING VERBAL FLAGS. I bet that is because NOT ACCEPTING VERBAL FLAGS IS NOT A VIOLATION OF THE RULES. I wonder why not accepting verbal flags is not a rule….. Probably because it is sometimes WISE TO DO SO, seeing as the the goal of KDICE IS TO WIN POINTS WITHIN THE RULES AND PARAMETERS OF THE GAME! Flags are in place to shorten games, not as a tool for players to think they are guaranteed safety, at the cost of other players expansion and game progress.

Let me go over how I handle verbal flags:

If a verbal flag hurts my game….I do not accept it.

If a verbal flag is neutral to my game….I sometimes accept it.

If a verbal flag helps my game…I accept it.

In conclusion, MODerators should not have the ability to arbitrarily assign negative warnings on players review page. I agree that pornographic, racist and otherwise inappropriate language and avatars should not be tolerated, however, I think that there is too much wiggle room for the MODerators. They are not there to analyze the way I win games. They are there to, based on facts, and never capriciously, assign warnings to players that are in clear violation of the actual rules of the game. I want this post to begin a serious discussion about authority and discretion give to the MODerators.

(This Post has been emailed to Ryan as Well)