Yoto32- AMA

[@True 2k8 3,217]

What non-RS games do you like to play?

[Adam_ 1,031]

Was there ever any cases of you turning a blind eye to things you'd normally address because you didn't feel like dealing with it?

[Clark Kent 55]

Just out of curosity do you still remain in contact with DB75?

[Noble Inc 35]

Good seeing you around Yoto. I had enjoyed my staff run on Zybez. What were your thoughts on me as a CD staff member?

Edited June 30, 2021 by Noble Inc

[Kim 125]

Not sure if anyone asked this but since you were once the leader of the CD, was there any important decisions that you had to take? If so, what were the decisions? 

[Yoto32 30]

17 hours ago, true said:

What RSC staff needed their ass kicked?

 

Thoughts on Scoobyninja? He was a non-clan world homie I met via RSC and he was cool as shit.

 

What is the worst case of sucking up for promotion?

 

Thoughts on Molson?

 

 

 

1. Aragon and Tmal34

2. He was a nice guy, Achievements mod if I recall. Typically the non-CD mods were all generally nice people, outside of CD RSC was a much different place. There was always an unspoken rule that non-CD mods would stay out of CD affairs unless someone was posting porn or something. You really needed to understand CD culture in order to make proper decisions so Brad/Tha Hanzz really hammered it in the early days that non clannies were to stay out of CD, and that mentality stuck the rest of the years.

3. So mod actions were tracked in the admin panel and we would usually gauge a mod or CL's activity based on their mod count. Not going to name names (because it's been awhile and I don't want to get it wrong) but at one point there was a CL who would delete posts individually instead of as a group, which would give ~3x the normal mod actions.

4. Molson's the type of guy who would barge into a space like he owned the place, and more often than not that would be the case. For some reason I felt like he didn't really like me all that much. 

16 hours ago, true said:

What non-RS games do you like to play?

Got to plat in League of Legends and I usually hover around mid gold, but I haven't played it since the pandemic started. I'm still an avid player of Magic the Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons.

15 hours ago, Adam_ said:

Was there ever any cases of you turning a blind eye to things you'd normally address because you didn't feel like dealing with it?

Yea one time I shouted lyrics of "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield at a RoT official cause I wanted to do homework instead of dealing with RSC stuff. Dealing with aggrieved clannies was always a headache. Sometimes people would give me an IP they already knew about from their boards and ask me to check if it matched with anyone on RSC, which for the most part I would do but would sometimes ignore if they had been pestering me too much.

15 hours ago, Clark Kent said:

Just out of curosity do you still remain in contact with DB75?

Unfortunately no. I tried reaching out to him a couple of times on WoW but the chemistry just wasn't there anymore. Haven't talked to him in awhile. I know Krystal played hella amount of WoW with him after they left RS so she would know better.

15 hours ago, Noble Inc said:

Good seeing you around Yoto. I had enjoyed my staff run on Zybez. What were your thoughts on me as a CD staff member?

Hey Noble, good to see you too! My impression of you was that you were someone who really wanted to prove yourself. My memory is a little hazy but wasn't there some drama around you? 

Edited June 30, 2021 by Yoto32

[Yoto32 30]

12 hours ago, Kim said:

Not sure if anyone asked this but since you were once the leader of the CD, was there any important decisions that you had to take? If so, what were the decisions? 

I pretty much single handedly made the decision of auto-merging contested fights using a pre-written staff's post. At that time making a decision as to who won a fight was a huge headache for any staff member. The proof that a clan won a fight was never clear: ending pics could be taken at any time in the fight and short of requiring video proof or staff physically being present at the fight it was impossible to tell who was really left standing, or if they thought they won and then left and their opponent came back. And of course no matter what decision you made you'd have the losing clan arguing and whining that you're making the wrong call and how dare you be so biased. It was seriously affecting staff morale and as a purely voluntary position, why would someone voluntarily subject themselves to that sort of abuse and harassment? We were going through staff faster than they can replace them, because there were always less and less new posters we could try out as the clan world became more and more inbred. So I led the discussion with the CD admin team, the CD staff, and the Kings and we all agreed to have a blanket policy of leaving that decision up to the clan community rather than have a CD staff member decide who won and who didn't.

I also was a big advocate of third-party posting, as more and more clan boycotted posting on RSC. Activity on the board was dwindling and I felt that was the best way to get people to continue posting on the boards, even if it meant it would be used for trolling purposes.

[Noble Inc 35]

1 hour ago, Yoto32 said:

1. Aragon and Tmal34

2. He was a nice guy, Achievements mod if I . Typically the non-CD mods were all generally nice people, outside of CD RSC was a much different place. There was always an unspoken rule that non-CD mods would stay out of CD affairs unless someone was posting porn or something. You really needed to understand CD culture in order to make proper decisions so Brad/Tha Hanzz really hammered it in the early days that non clannies were to stay out of CD, and that mentality stuck the rest of the years.

3. So mod actions were tracked in the admin panel and we would usually gauge a mod or CL's activity based on their mod count. Not going to name names (because it's been awhile and I don't want to get it wrong) but at one point there was a CL who would delete posts individually instead of as a group, which would give ~3x the normal mod actions.

4. Molson's the type of guy who would barge into a space like he owned the place, and more often than not that would be the case. For some reason I felt like he didn't really like me all that much. 

Got to plat in League of Legends and I usually hover around mid gold, but I haven't played it since the pandemic started. I'm still an avid player of Magic the Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons.

Yea one time I shouted lyrics of "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield at a RoT official cause I wanted to do homework instead of dealing with RSC stuff. Dealing with aggrieved clannies was always a headache. Sometimes people would give me an IP they already knew about from their boards and ask me to check if it matched with anyone on RSC, which for the most part I would do but would sometimes ignore if they had been pestering me too much.

Unfortunately no. I tried reaching out to him a couple of times on WoW but the chemistry just wasn't there anymore. Haven't talked to him in awhile. I know Krystal played hella amount of WoW with him after they left RS so she would know better.

Hey Noble, good to see you too! My impression of you was that you were someone who really wanted to prove yourself. My memory is a little hazy but wasn't there some drama around you? 

Seemed to have gotten under the skin of some clans, account got hacked and got demoted..... 😅

[Howl 945]

Did you ever wish Jagex would work more closely with the clan world?

[@True 2k8 3,217]

2 minutes ago, Noble Inc said:

Seemed to have gotten under the skin of some clans, account got hacked and got demoted..... 😅

The person who shafted you has a forum acc on these boards

[@True 2k8 3,217]

@Yoto32 without doxing yourself, what can you tell us about you IRL? 

[Noble Inc 35]

4 minutes ago, true said:

The person who shafted you has a forum acc on these boards

And it happened 10 years ago or so. I got over it a long time ago, they should too.

[Krystal 420]

1 hour ago, Yoto32 said:

 Unfortunately no. I tried reaching out to him a couple of times on WoW but the chemistry just wasn't there anymore. Haven't talked to him in awhile. I know Krystal played hella amount of WoW with him after they left RS so she would know better.

I vaguely remember doing some dungeons with him back then but we weren't in the same guild or anything. I do see him logged into Battlenet sometimes so I'll see if I can get his attention and will reference this AMA to try to get him over here haha. 

[S3lvah 291]

Hi, Yoto – I remember your name from my time posting (was active sporadically between 2005 and closure) and brief tenure as a CD CL.

 

What's your opinion on the CD topic rights system – do you think it influenced what the clan world considered a victory, or vice versa?

 

Do you think the definition of a victory put clans in earlier timezones (e.g., GMT) at a disadvantage? If so, should something have been done about it?

 

What's your personal opinion on clans choosing to fight for a certain time frame and then dipping even if they outperformed for that duration – do you regard it as a loss or as upholding standards different than "last men standing?"

Edited June 30, 2021 by S3lvah

[Yoto32 30]

12 minutes ago, Noble Inc said:

Seemed to have gotten under the skin of some clans, account got hacked and got demoted..... 😅

Ahh yes I remember now. I was hacked before too and it only slightly delayed my promotions. Top brass got a lot more strict about hackings in your time than they were in mine, but iirc you were hacked on multiple occasions.

11 minutes ago, Howl said:

Did you ever wish Jagex would work more closely with the clan world?

I mean yea, the clan world is obviously really big and keeps a lot of players invested in the game. A few jmods would come on to zybez to interact with the clan world and we gave them hmem status.

9 minutes ago, true said:

@Yoto32 without doxing yourself, what can you tell us about you IRL? 

I'm a straight, cis, white male. I currently work at a patent law office. Fun fact: I got this job because of RSC. When I was in high school I had no idea what I wanted to go to college for. I took honors chemistry as a senior in high school and DB75 was a freshman in college, also studying the same material. We would help each other study and one day he told me I was good at it so I should study chemistry. So, I did. And the only reason my boss interviewed me for this position was because I had a degree in chemistry.

1 minute ago, Krystal said:

I vaguely remember doing some dungeons with him back then but we weren't in the same guild or anything. I do see him logged into Battlenet sometimes so I'll see if I can get his attention and will reference this AMA to try to get him over here haha. 

Yea do it! I'm pretty sure his rsn is now Venteus and I've seen him online sometimes, but I might be wrong.