Profile of The_Riddler

I realize I am "the bad guy" now, but its remarkable how this turned around. I tried to give constructive criticism on THQLynx's performance as community manager. To some of you my suggestions arent good enough. That is fine, but on the other hand, none of you have specified why you think he was a good cummunity manager and why he should be reappointed, since posting social media links and "caring about us" are still very vague arguments as well and can not be considered serious achievements that seperate one community manager from another.

Here you pretty much state yourself that you're unaware of who this "Lynx" guy is. You probably just found out about him after the whole commotion started to settle. I remember this was one of your first, if not first, posts, so while you might play it all sarcastically now, I know better than to believe you.

I made it very clear I am an active participant of the community, and as such, I was and still am on the GR fora as well. Next to that, the number of forum posts should not be a benchmark for a forum comment. To me, the "Lynx-for-community-manager" campaign seemed a nice initiative of his community friends, but hardly well deserved or a good representation of the combined feelings of the community. Given the overall agreement by the previous posters (mainly known CoH1 players and/or community friends of Lynx), I simply wanted to express the view of other, less vocal, players.

Do you even read my comments? Seriously.. There is no point in discussiing anything with you is there? Why can't you just accept the simple fact that whenever Lynx posted up a reminder about the show on FB/Twitter, viewer numbers went up with atleast 50%. This is a fact. All your statements are purely hypothetical and have relevance whatsoever with this discussion.

I do read your comments GeneralHell, but I tried to explain several times there is more to your observation than meets the eye. No offense, but given your average posts and usual stream chat commentary I do not expect you to accept and/or understand this. Lets just agree to disagree, for the sake of the forum atmosphere.

Nicely paraphrased, NTD!

Riddler, based on your examples, it's quite obvious you weren't an active member of the community whilst Lynx and SNF were around; in other words, you don't know what you're talking about.

I can't help but think that both you and Findlay just want attention by going against the grain. Come on, guys! Enough is enough.

I was and still am actively playing the game, watch replays, streams and SNF. But none of this is relevant, as I give an objective opinion, as opposed to those that know THQLynx and cant seperate friendship from facts. Its understandable and quite common, but hardly an objective view on THQLynx's performance as community manager.

If I wanted attention, I would have posted more often, participated in stream chats, possibly stream my own games, applied for forum positions, be named IronRoman (just kidding), etc etc. However, if you still think I aim for attention and it bothers you, there is no need for you to reply to my views, nor read them.

So, just to clarify, all your statements before about 'he should've done more' are basically without any solid suggestion of what that 'more' should have been?

'Don't give me problems, give me solutions.'

If you read back you would notice that my main point was not about THQLynx "doing more", but about "doing it wrong". Next to that, I made several suggestions. In fact, you replied to some of them in agreement. Other than that, I did sense the sarcastic tone when you asked for my solutions. If there are problems, and you acknowledge them, I dont understand why the community manager shouldnt join in with solutions...?

Lets focus on those I already presented, shall we?

Those jumping figures also correspond to overall increasing popularity of the game due to sales and mouth-to-mouth advertising of SNF. One cant easily distinguish between those and facebook and twitter messages by THQLynx.

The misinformation does not deal with the boundaries of the statements, its rather about the correctness, which is what the average reader cares about.

There are more solutions to solving maphacking than a section on GR.

The tournament you are aiming at (if I am not mistaken) was poorly organized, as agreed on by many participants.

Once again, if you think that funding a tournament is what the community manager's job is about, you uphold a different standard than the unknown part of the community. Financing is usually a very non-operating activity, as measured in both effort and time. Surely, a couple hundered dollars doesn't impress you...and me.

Completely inappropriate quote if hes trying to claim an update will be in the timeframe of "very soon".

Its not very successful for your average listed company, as neither employee, nor customer has significant influence, when compared to the shareholder.

I hope you realize that a column, in general, but in this specific case where a commercial book is promoted, is never considered evidence in favor of your argument.

Besides this, I was mainly aiming at the lack of nuance in the general view of (mostly) big corporates, which was shown perfectly in Dwighty's statement.