SpawnPoint

I'm always being asked if it's "fun" being a Support Staff member here on Spawnpoint.

People seem to have a mis-conception that it's all fun and games being on the staff lists.

Well "News Flash" IT'S NOT!! The staff on spawnpoint work very hard both on forums, on servers and behind the scenes to make your gaming experience as fun as possible.

I tend to patrol a lot of the servers each night checking for hackers/spammers/general "asshats" and spend a lot of time sitting in spec watching and recording potential hackers etc. I've seen me spend an entire "game" without actually getting to play!

We "staff" get abused, shouted at, ridiculed, slated and accused of abuse by many players for "not banning him or kicking her or such like".

We're human (well most of us) and we do the best we can. Mistakes do happen (we're not all perfect) and sometimes people will NOT be happy with our decisions.

Some of us staff spend hours each week glued to the monitors watching dozens of demos in an effort to keep the servers as free of cheats etc as possible. We don't get paid to do this "job" and, yes, i look on it as a job and am both happy and proud to do it.

So the next time your not happy with one of our decisions or think that we all have great fun being able to slap / kick/ mute / ban people take a moment to reflect on the fact that, while you are STILL playing, we've had to take time out to let you play in peace.

Would i ever think of giving it up now that i KNOW what's expected from us?

NOT A CHANCE.