This is MisterK's idea for the team he has created. For those that do not know, LichKing has been put in charge of a team of individuals such as Morax, Sid, Super, Evan, Blue_Owl, etc from what I can tell. The notion is to ignore the past of what these players have done in order to give them a chance to "redeem" themselves in the eyes of the community. Obviously some of these players do not really need redemption and I don't mean to say that all the players that I wrote down are some faf untouchables. I do not really disagree with this idea. I do however have an extreme worry about someone like Super having a presence on the team as I feel that someone that has shown that he is willing to abuse client code to crash the games of others, threaten the entire community, and constantly maintain himself as a thorn in the side of FAF should not be given any position. I'm fine with someone like Sid having a low level role that revolves around picking maps out of the client, however. My problem mainly revolves around LichKing.
So let's look at why I feel there is a problem with LichKing. LichKing was made the authority on "maps" under MisterK and effectively acts as the organizer of the rest of the people helping the M&M Councillor. This is fine and even if I think LichKing is a poor choice to lead a team, it is ultimately the choice of MisterK. Where I take huge issue with this appointment is the fact that LichKing has been given authority to hide maps in the vault. This is a person that cannot be trusted with the authority to do such actions. Plenty of people here are aware that LichKing is a person that has a deep distaste for maps such as the gap variants to the point that he had written in his M&M application that he plans on pushing people away from these "bad" maps. Looking back at the M&M applications, I saw that he had edited his post once I asked him to explain why some maps are "bad" maps. You might see this and assume it means that he realized that it was a silly statement that could not be backed by any reasonable criteria. I would still argue it is a terrible idea to make a person who would say such things in his application, even if he later deleted it, in charge of mapping. In fact it was the major reason I kept telling people to vote in anyone but him. However, it is fair to say that he might have changed the way he thinks after the election. Yet I really don't see this being the case.
MisterK and those responsible for looking at maps created a google spreadsheet of maps that need to be hidden and the reason for why they must be hidden. For the sake of the mapping team, I won't post the sheet here but I will post some clips of the sheet.
LichKing:
Here are the "reasons" he gets rid of various dual gaps. Now here one of the random versions that I took from this list:
You might argue that the map should still be hidden because it is outdated or there is a new version, but I don't feel that is a relevant argument. The point is that LichKing wanted to hide these dual gaps for an ulterior reason. The reason he puts on the doc is clearly false as we can see above. I feel that LichKing does not care whether these maps are "played" because
1) if this counts as not played then open palms is also a map that is not played.
2) he had shown past behavior that gives a far more reasonable explanation for his desire to hide the maps; his extreme hatred towards any map he deems as not "worth" being hosted.
LichKing is trying to hide his animosity through fake reasons to remove maps. I would argue that this is an individual that deserves no authority in a mapping team, not even to suggest removals. However, I do not think it is possible to argue that he should have the authority to remove maps from the vault. He clearly either lacks the desire to actually look through these maps and put a map down for removal without actually checking whether the reason was true or he is lying in order to further his own agenda.
Now when I addressed MisterK about these issues, I was told that he was training his team and that some mistakes should be allowed. I do not find the behavior by LichKing to be excusable and I also do not find MisterK's inability to check whether LichKing's reasoning for the removal was legitimate excusable. One of the reasons MisterK gave to keep LichKing, once he was pressed, was that he would curtail any excess of power and oversee any map removal he does. However, the dual gap version I had shown above was in fact removed from the vault and the reasoning for its' removal was completely false.
Now there are other outrageous notes in the google doc. However, I do not mind if individuals with no authority are created poor reasons for map removals so long as MisterK is responsibly going through those reasons and examining whether the map should be removed or not. While I'm willing to accept that he made an error in trusting LichKing here, I'm only willing to accept it as error under one of two conditions:
1) The removal of LichKing from any position that gives him ANY access to the vault
2) The removal of access to the vault from the position that LichKing is in
In summation, the purpose of the M&M position, when it comes to mapping, should be to clear the vault of redundant maps and other custodial matters. It should not be determining what maps people should be playing. I feel that LichKing is overstepping the authority he should NOT have been given in order to manipulate the maps people can play and that is inexcusable.
I hope the rest of the community can see why I had to make this case. For those wondering why I had to handle this on the forums, I tried to deal with MisterK personally but he refused to listen to me. I hope enough people can voice a concern that he is pushed to take action in some way.
