About TN and Head contact.

[Digan]

So you are assuming Elu is at school yet you are voting him to become the head contact? We don't need another inactive person as head contact.

[Blamina]

Someone seems to be alarmed now.

[Soleks]

"I'm assuming Elu is in school as well though as I have not been around to note that he isn't here either."


If you could please re-read and understand Digan, you'll find I said I have not been around to note that Elu hasn't been around either... I wasn't aware he's not been around. I'm sorry if there was any confusion.

-Solekz

[Tommer]

Soleks, even if Elu would have still be around.
Why would you choose Elu above Thuddy? Don't get me wrong here because I also think that Elu has done a tremendous job for TN but I don't see him run a fansite for some reason. I think that his strength lies in other things as writing articles.

Anyway, my vote goes for Thuddy.

[Soleks]

I choose Elu because of his indifferent attitude and above all work effort. He's a behind the scenes kind of guy, at least IMO, which is how I think a Editor should operate a lot of the time. I mean, not 100% or anything but Editors are the general factor in maintaining the foundation of the site. I see Thuddy more as a promoter with the drive to attract people to the site. That's why I chose Elu over Thuddy, if you really wanted an in-depth view.

Also... Just to point it out to those who didn't know.. Cantinelle was unable to access a majority of the site because of the internet she had at the time. She now has good internet again and will be able to access the site once more. She did call a staff meeting for this weekend too before GVM made the thread to get things organized and going again. (Or at least organize a plan of action.)

Also, I am going to attempt to help out the site again as well. I can't make any promises as I am in school and what not, but when I have time I will help update the site and what not. I do wish to see this site thrive again.

Also: To all remaining staff members: I wish to have this meeting Canti has tried to organize before any decisions are made because I want to see this from all points of view before decisions are made.

@Fans: The above post isn't ment to disclude your opinions, but as we can see on this thread you've already stated them


In any case, I'm glad to see this site is still moving, even with so few active members. I'm thinking a few contests are in the works and I believe prizes still needed to be handed out from the last contest we held too so I'll get moving on that asap.

-Solekz

[Brandon Blinn]

I've held back from posting my opinion now for a very long time, mostly because I haven't wanted to offend Cantinelle or walk on her feet. We used to talk quite a bit and I found her to be a great person and for this reason, I've never really felt comfortable talking about her and TibiaNews. I've known Thuddy for about just as long. We don't know eachother well but we've talked a bit.

Putting it bluntly - Cantinelle is not the right kind of person to be running this website. If you haven't noticed (which I'm sure everyone has), this website has been driven to the ground over the last few years not only with the lack of updates, but with the broken promises that have been made over and over; this is with Cantinelle running the show. Cantinelle has it out for Thuddy. For whatever reason, it just doesn't look like she likes Thuddy when it comes to TibiaNews. I don't know if it's because he smells funny, looks funny, or is actually better for this website, but whatever. That's besides the point. Thuddy has had a strong passion for TibiaNews ever since he was hired on with Excessus in 2005. The crowd loves him and he does his job well. He's a team player and is able to initiate team cohesion; something that Cantinelle is not able to do. Since Cantinelle's been in control, most of the productive staff have left the website. They've grown tired of the false promises and immense lack of activity on her part. As the head contact of this fricken website, being inactive for months yet being seen being active in other places, is something that you really shouldn't do! If the spark to work for this website is gone, then it is gone. Pass the position to someone else who's capable of fulfilling all of the tasks involved.

Now, back to the grudge she seems to be holding on Thuddy and this website. Rest assured that she and most of her friends will do what she can in efforts of making sure that Thuddy does not gain control of this website. As you can see, people like Soleks have come out of hibernation after several months of not being active. It's ironic that it takes a thread announcing that the head contact should be switched due to immense inactivity to get the ball rolling again. - The ball that might roll for a few weeks to a month, then the site will go back to the way it was before. The meeting that Soleks is talking about was never even brought up to anybody (you can ask the staff members yourself, or take a look at the staff forum). It's obvious that once the pot is stirred and someone's about to make a good change for this website is about to gain control, that Cantinelle and her gang would claim that they're going to become active again. These are the same false promises that us viewers have been seeing for the past fricken 3 years. As a viewer, I am tired of it! I want to see TibiaNews ran by someone who actually cares. Not by someone who wants it on the backburner just because of some personal grudge they're holding on the person who's actually right for the job.

I hope you make the right decision.

[Soleks]

Now, back to the grudge she seems to be holding on Thuddy and this website. Rest assured that she and most of her friends will do what she can in efforts of making sure that Thuddy does not gain control of this website


Just to quote that part... I would just like to say, this is untrue. From my understanding Canti and Thuddy have worked things out for the most part... I mean she wouldn't have trusted him with all the workings of the site again if she had a "grudge" against him, I spose eh?...

I helped keep this site up as much as I could when it was just about done. You shouldn't be talking about coming out of hibernation when it seems you are doing it yourself.

Oh yes, me and Canti are such a gang... Cmon Brandon use your head some. I'm sorry for the way you feel but you post on knowledge that is past knowledge and not current knowledge therefore parts of your post is inaccurate.

-Solekz

P.S. My intent isn't to argue with you so if you feel that is what I am doing this is not the case. I'm at the belief right now this is just a debate on the site.

[Strazdas]

Couldnt have said it better Brandon.

If you could please re-read and understand Digan, you'll find I said I have not been around to note that Elu hasn't been around either... I wasn't aware he's not been around. I'm sorry if there was any confusion.

your not even aware of what is going on in the website that you run (well pretty much everything about cnatinelle comes from you nowadays so its apperently you are pretty high up there) and yet you tell people who is right, wrong, who should do what and pretty much do anything to kill the spirit of people who still think this site can run. good job.
I believe when the question was raised before Elu said that he didnt want to be anything more than somone who whites articles, so first of all we should ask if he wants it at all.

Also... Just to point it out to those who didn't know.. Cantinelle was unable to access a majority of the site because of the internet she had at the time. She now has good internet again and will be able to access the site once more.

So lets get it straight: she looses internet, but is still seen on tibia, then she gets dialup, and there is no sight of her, then she gets a "Better internet" and thats about all we know, now its dialup again, and thne better internet again, and once again she had it couple weeks and still done NOTHING.

Its worth staying if only for the TN drama here really

[Soleks]

I just want to say it bothers me when people assume to know information that they don't know at all.


Canti was on Tibia yes. But on dial-up internet all you can do is sit. And that's all she did was sit and afk. Her net took ages to access the joomla tool which is why she was unable to really do anything with TN. I'm sorry but that's the truth, you are free to see it how you wish though.

and Straz, could you please clarify how I am killing people's spirit? And yeah, I'm not aware of the site because my real life responsibilities started to kick in. My deepest apologies for that.

[Blamina]

If you can get into Tibia you can access a website as well. Trust me I have had dial up (56k modem) very long.

I didn't see Elu here since months. If Cantinelle doesn't want this site to exist at all anymore, she should at least say so, not updating anything over Christmas (forum contest) made me wonder if Thuddy was meant to fail (and no, he didn't say anything like that). This is an official fansite and it can not afford if the whole staff goes away for months without even announcing that.

When I met Cantinelle for the first time she said people have told me that she is a very bad person. I thought "wtf" people never have said anything about her to me. She was Thuddy's ingame wife back then. He hadn't said anything about her to me, actually I think I didn't even speak with him that time, I only saw one of his shows on testserver. So from the start I had the impression that very Tibian paranoia is involved in that relationship. If I meet someone for the first time I don't tell him what everybody has told him about me because I wouldn't think everybody talks about me all the time, people have more interesting things to do.

[Rockmelter]

I like how everyone agrees that it should be Thuddy

also, I have his autograph in my signature ;D

[Strazdas]

I just want to say it bothers me when people assume to know information that they don't know at all.


Canti was on Tibia yes. But on dial-up internet all you can do is sit. And that's all she did was sit and afk. Her net took ages to access the joomla tool which is why she was unable to really do anything with TN. I'm sorry but that's the truth, you are free to see it how you wish though.

and Straz, could you please clarify how I am killing people's spirit? And yeah, I'm not aware of the site because my real life responsibilities started to kick in. My deepest apologies for that.

well maybe we have to assume because there was o information for years now? so sitting afk on dialup you can get couple levels now? wow i need to use this tactic too then. imagine that, leave the game afk and you get experience. also isntead of trying to utilize her internet she used it to sit AFK in a game she cant paly on that conenction? thats really useful usage of bandwitch.
now altrough i really dont like how joomla works, and i think it is not so great site tool, i still ahd to work with it couple times, and if you can run tibia, you cna rum joomla. it will go slow but it will allow you to do stuff. well obviuosly till the programs bugs kicks in but thats another case.
you are killing peoples spirits by coming here once in a couple months for 2 or 3 days, telling everyone is stupid, they dont know anything and then dissapearing again. in few months you come again, repeat it, make some new excuse for cantinelle and dissapear again. yeah and probably that you havent kept a promise yet as far as i see.

[Brandon Blinn]

So we have someone who's completely willing to take over and do the job the way it's supposed to be done (which would also attract many players back to this website, both old and new) and then we have the person who's currently in control who's doing absolutely nothing. No apologies for not caring about the website, no updates, no nothing. We have a dead website with a head contact who clearly doesn't give a sh!t.

The best possible thing that could be done here is to pass the head contact position to someone else.

Excuse my bluntness.

[Dragonas]

Do me a favor Brandon. Don't say you are not out to offend somebody, but then go on to repeatedly insult them in multiple ways. It cheapens your arguments.

As for Canti, I personally hope she does pass it over to someone else, if for no other reason than the time and effort she did put in to the site aren't generally appreciated. The months she spent trying to get someone to update the site aren't even considered.

Let someone else take over and deal with the public stonings.

[Brandon Blinn]

Do me a favor Brandon. Don't say you are not out to offend somebody, but then go on to repeatedly insult them in multiple ways. It cheapens your arguments.

As for Canti, I personally hope she does pass it over to someone else, if for no other reason than the time and effort she did put in to the site aren't generally appreciated. The months she spent trying to get someone to update the site aren't even considered.

Let someone else take over and deal with the public stonings.

Hello Cantinelle's defending friend.

If anything I have said offends her, then she has nobody to blame but herself. After all, she is the one who decided to neglect TibiaNews while smothering it for so long.

The truth hurts.