Robe wrote:I have unlocked this topic because a similar one complaining about the election process has been started and merged them both.
Though STILL didn't answer any of the questions asked by Hansbrough. And I'm fairly sure he'd think his thread was sufficiently different that it should not have been merged - certainly not by you Robe, merely because of your involvement in it.
But let's look at some of the discrepancies shall we?
Robe wrote:The Ombudsman is chosen by the Forum Community to represent their best interest and is required to provide unbiased opinion and fair judgments on matters of conflict between Forum Users and the Moderators.
Those were part of the rules. It says nothing about the ingame status of people.
It talks about the FORUM COMMUNITY.
Now this is obviously where the question about post count has come into it, though I can understand that the issue of post count was not brought into the original rules so it didn't make a difference... supposedly.
This is from the announcement of the result:
Robe wrote:Zeratul and I reviewed every vote using the following screening criteria:
~ Shared IPs voting for same candidate
~ Incorrect ID and Username (two dislexic posts were allowed)
~ Uknown Forum accounts on vacation mode
~ Unknown Forum accounts with low post counts (under 100) or low forum activity that had less 20m Army or new game IDs.
The last one is particularly questionable. Low forum activity, linked to army and how did you decide what was a new game ID?
How did you also decide what an unknown forum account was? This is very subjective. And it appears post count did suddenly come into it. Surprise surprise. Funny how some rules are given more strength than others.
Manetheron may be the best ombudsman ever but there is simply too many questions about how he won at the moment for his position to be taken seriously