Did Helldivers 2's community manager K. Baskin have an overall positive or negative impact on Helldivers 2?

[God of War]

What's your opinion?

Please, also consider community management during the initial critical release period with player numbers being much higher than expected and potentially insufficient server capacities.

[MR. Worldwide]

Originally posted by WastingSanity:

Originally posted by Cosgar:

You literally didn't care until Mark Kern, a 56 year old self proclaimed game dev decided to bring it up. He dropped it because of how trivial it is and moved on to crying about female Custodes in 40k. All the guy does is stir up b/s but shuts down when anyone asks about the so-called game he's been working on for 7 years. Stop listening to grifters.

Hate to break it to you but I fired employees who trash talk customers as I view it unprofessional and shows poor judgement on the part of the company to keep bad employees on. So yes, I cared about that even before I knew about it. Because I value business ethics and work ethics.

Trashing an individual that provided the posts on X doesn't change my opinion. The only thing it does is damage your character as you grasp for straws to deflect and defend a bad employee because they are most likely part of your ideology/subculture. I am looking at the evidence provided and not the messenger. All I care about is if the posts were accurate and they were. Hence why I believe that Bask should be fired.

im glad there is still a bastion of sanity on this earth

[FluffyPinkDecoyBunny]

I would have zero knowledge that stupid people exist if it wasn't for other stupid people posting about it on forums or news media trying to make a dumb comment into a big story.

[MR. Worldwide]

Originally posted by FluffyPinkDecoyBunny:

I have zero knowledge that stupid

[Queltis]

Originally posted by WastingSanity:

Hate to break it to you but I fired employees who trash talk customers as I view it unprofessional and shows poor judgement on the part of the company to keep bad employees on.

If a customer did what Kern did to your employee, and you sided with Kern instead of the victim of harassment, then you're not as good at this business thing as you imagine yourself to be. You would, by all standards of business, be viewed as the "bad employee" in this circumstance as you'd have opened yourself up to numerous avenues for a wrongful dismissal lawsuit.

[MR. Worldwide]

Originally posted by Queltis:

Originally posted by WastingSanity:

Hate to break it to you but I fired employees who trash talk customers as I view it unprofessional and shows poor judgement on the part of the company to keep bad employees on.

If a customer did what Kern did to your employee, and you sided with Kern instead of the victim of harassment, then you're not as good at this business thing as you imagine yourself to be. You would, by all standards of business, be viewed as the "bad employee" in this circumstance as you'd have opened yourself up to numerous avenues for a wrongful dismissal lawsuit.

what victim bottom bloke?
play stupid games win stupid prizes. go to the hood and shout something about it's inhabitants in a racial matter. this is normal to you?
nah don't think so.

[WastingSanity]

Equating a customer's complaint to harassment feels extremely dishonest.

If I was the dev and everything went down identically, I would have fired Bask on the spot. I would also do an internal review of all the employees that handle community relations, mods and other community managers, to make sure that Bask didn't sour the milk. As in, if other mods and/or CMs are trashing customers because Bask acted like it was okay. Then those employees would be fired as well. It is unacceptable.

Any law suits in court wouldn't hold up as I would have receipts of said actions.

[SPIGOT]

Originally posted by WastingSanity:

Equating a customer's complaint to harassment feels extremely dishonest.

If I was the dev and everything went down identically, I would have fired Bask on the spot. I would also do an internal review of all the employees that handle community relations, mods and other community managers, to make sure that Bask didn't sour the milk. As in, if other mods and/or CMs are trashing customers because Bask acted like it was okay. Then those employees would be fired as well. It is unacceptable.

Any law suits in court wouldn't hold up as I would have receipts of said actions.

The Swedish employment law understander has logged on.

[BiscuitTheCat]

Originally posted by WastingSanity:

Equating a customer's complaint to harassment feels extremely dishonest.

If I was the dev and everything went down identically, I would have fired Bask on the spot. I would also do an internal review of all the employees that handle community relations, mods and other community managers, to make sure that Bask didn't sour the milk. As in, if other mods and/or CMs are trashing customers because Bask acted like it was okay. Then those employees would be fired as well. It is unacceptable.

Any law suits in court wouldn't hold up as I would have receipts of said actions.

I'm going to frame this and put it up on my wall. Gave me a good chuckle.

[Caleb Jones]

Originally posted by WastingSanity:

Equating a customer's complaint to harassment feels extremely dishonest.

If I was the dev and everything went down identically, I would have fired Bask on the spot. I would also do an internal review of all the employees that handle community relations, mods and other community managers, to make sure that Bask didn't sour the milk. As in, if other mods and/or CMs are trashing customers because Bask acted like it was okay. Then those employees would be fired as well. It is unacceptable.

Any law suits in court wouldn't hold up as I would have receipts of said actions.

considering you don't even know her actual name, I'm gonna call it a safe assumption that you're just rage-baiting and don't actually know what's going on

[Zero]

Originally posted by WastingSanity:

Originally posted by Cosgar:

You literally didn't care until Mark Kern, a 56 year old self proclaimed game dev decided to bring it up. He dropped it because of how trivial it is and moved on to crying about female Custodes in 40k. All the guy does is stir up b/s but shuts down when anyone asks about the so-called game he's been working on for 7 years. Stop listening to grifters.

Hate to break it to you but I fired employees who trash talk customers as I view it unprofessional and shows poor judgement on the part of the company to keep bad employees on. So yes, I cared about that even before I knew about it. Because I value business ethics and work ethics.

Trashing an individual that provided the posts on X doesn't change my opinion. The only thing it does is damage your character as you grasp for straws to deflect and defend a bad employee because they are most likely part of your ideology/subculture. I am looking at the evidence provided and not the messenger. All I care about is if the posts were accurate and they were. Hence why I believe that Bask should be fired.

not gonna sugar coat it, customers are entitled pricks 99% of the time. the adage "the customer is always right" is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

they have something you want, you pay them, what one of their employees say on social media doesn't matter to anyone who isn't trying to stir up ♥♥♥♥.

[Caleb Jones]

Originally posted by Zero:

Originally posted by WastingSanity:

Hate to break it to you but I fired employees who trash talk customers as I view it unprofessional and shows poor judgement on the part of the company to keep bad employees on. So yes, I cared about that even before I knew about it. Because I value business ethics and work ethics.

Trashing an individual that provided the posts on X doesn't change my opinion. The only thing it does is damage your character as you grasp for straws to deflect and defend a bad employee because they are most likely part of your ideology/subculture. I am looking at the evidence provided and not the messenger. All I care about is if the posts were accurate and they were. Hence why I believe that Bask should be fired.

not gonna sugar coat it, customers are entitled pricks 99% of the time. the adage "the customer is always right" is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

yeah, most customers are legit clueless lmao

I say this as one who has been on both ends of that convo

[WastingSanity]

Originally posted by SPIGOT:

Originally posted by WastingSanity:

Equating a customer's complaint to harassment feels extremely dishonest.

If I was the dev and everything went down identically, I would have fired Bask on the spot. I would also do an internal review of all the employees that handle community relations, mods and other community managers, to make sure that Bask didn't sour the milk. As in, if other mods and/or CMs are trashing customers because Bask acted like it was okay. Then those employees would be fired as well. It is unacceptable.

Any law suits in court wouldn't hold up as I would have receipts of said actions.

The Swedish employment law understander has logged on.

Swap Swedish with American and you are good.

[SPIGOT]

Originally posted by WastingSanity:

Originally posted by SPIGOT:

The Swedish employment law understander has logged on.

Swap Swedish with American and you are good.

That's cool but Arrowhead is a Swedish company.

I'm sorry that you have to live in a world where there's someone you can't get fired dog.

[WastingSanity]

Originally posted by Zero:

not gonna sugar coat it, customers are entitled pricks 99% of the time. the adage "the customer is always right" is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

they have something you want, you pay them, what one of their employees say on social media doesn't matter to anyone who isn't trying to stir up ♥♥♥♥.

I can see why you have the need to defend other bad employees when you can.

You are basically making an attempt to rewind the conversation by a few hours. Please go back and review that part of the conversation... catch up a little.

[MR. Worldwide]

Originally posted by SPIGOT:

Originally posted by WastingSanity:

Swap Swedish with American and you are good.

That's cool but Arrowhead is a Swedish company.

I'm sorry that you have to live in a world where there's someone you can't get fired dog.

sw*des are a lost cause, have been for well over 30 years.