Well, I had made a topic [url=http://forums.intldoomleague.org/index.php?topic=545.0]here[/url] about hotly-contested changes in the WAD that while we did vote on are subject to player opinion regardless due to these changes being more heavy-duty than just board judgement.<br /><br />That aside, I don&#039;t know if you wanted the board dudes to reply here or it&#039;s a rallying point for upset IDLers but seriously. The board has fucked up on some things and will fuck up on more in the future, this is not specific to any one makeup of board members. Pretty much any group of people will fuck things up because there&#039;s no possible way everyone can be satisfied about everything. Especially with a huge volatile group of players that Doomers are.<br /><br />I would like to see these shady PM deals over votes and rules. All the discussion I&#039;ve seen and participated in has been in the board channel. I will be frank, it is true that maps were not tested in any capability. Dew will attest that he had wanted this and so did I. In the end we were all voting on sheer intuition on how we thought maps were going to play when there&#039;s no way we could have known and no way we will know unless they get played in the IDL season. That is the test of implementation. I very much oppose map replacements for this reason if they&#039;ve not been been tested. I support map changes for this reason because they will be tested in the upcoming season(s), and then we know if it is good! Nothing is truly set in stone.<br /><br />I kind of have to think, though. The advantage a board of experienced players, although pretty disorganized by my admission as of right now, is the ability to go &#039;Well, lots of people might not like this but this is a change that could benefit the IDL.&#039; without a massive group of people swaying one way or the other and deciding off sheer popular vote. One thing we are doing is that on hot button issues like team names, map32 textures and map28 spawns so far, we&#039;re trying to get concrete stats on player input before proceeding.<br /><br />I doubt anyone on the board will say we&#039;re perfect. No group of players can be! And that includes the majority of the IDL, especially the most loud, opinionated ones, like you and me. In the end the result would be the same, but I think there would be far less control over the direction the league goes on. Again, that&#039;s opinion. I don&#039;t know for sure. All I know is I was asked to serve on the board by the Commissioner and I&#039;ve done my best to help out. Sorry it hasn&#039;t turned out well!