so reading through all this, especially Swanty, DDrector, and Darkness' posts --- I think for now, the precedent for high-profile decisions like this should be that all parties involved must provide their reasoning and evidence for their individual ruling/decision
Because I feel there is a deeper systemic issue that needs to be flushed out ---- Kya is being hammered for an offense that has occurred long before Season 16(which even at that cutoff is 6-7 seasons before she even arrived), but there seems to be other factors that led to the decision
- Kya was drafted to Dallas, engaged in lukewarm-heated exchanges with rival teams, became the GM
- Kya was then drafted to Austin, Austin has been involved in some controversial incidents during her tenure there, both internally and externally
- Kya helped various players but her incident with rOtz was the breaking point. But if Kya and rOtz werent Dallas teammates or in the Dallas war room together, or she helped a Portland player or Tijuana player the way she helped rOtz ----- would the suspicion be as amped? What if rOtz had an emergency and asked for leniency? What if Kya was busy and rOtz got lucky that time and she told him so and dont expect a repeat occurrence?
The same goes for Steg, if Steg and Kya never shared a war room together and had a falling out? Would people still say HO was out to cancel Kya?
But herein lies the issue --- this league is meant to create friendships, and the overall structure favors friendships over business unlike actual sports leagues. The Dallas war room loved Amid, his wife joined, and we knew where she was going. She was equally valuable to the league. Dallas has three pipelines but one is obviously a tier above the other two ---- so knowing Steg and Kyle were in Austin, we could kinda guess where Kya would end up, even before Amid was traded to Austin. Not all friendships last forever but the point I want to raise is that conflict of interest and bias in ingrained thoroughly throughout the league.
When you dont separate officials, execs, and governing bodies from the teams ---- it creates a damning slippery slope reeking of malicious intent, bias, and collusion in these rulings, especially when they are as inconsistent as the PPT's deadline enforcement since the days of Myspace. We always hear from the lesser members ---- seldom from the ones with real weight until Steg stepped on board. The way Exclesior and Darkness are taking heat is the same energy I wish the veteran people who decided to remove Kya had.
I know that some HO members try their hardest, but the optics in general have been murky and clouded with slight disillusionment on how this looks to the general public and what the true intent of the league should be. I think in some point in the future, we might need to let the people have a voice and establish the baseline for the higher ups to work off of when it comes to these high profile issues.
Otherwise, every future ruling will be pre-disposed with inherent bias unless the league forces those with some type of title: whether it be HO, GM, Dept Head, et al to reduce their relationship/role with their player. I feel like, at some point, someone will really troll the league and slip into HO as double-agent either to expose the flaws in HO's inner machinations or to pull off a coo and overthrow those members they have a grudge with or stick it to the teams where those users are associated with.
tldr; friendships built or broken in this league will naturally create bias, so firing someone because bias might have been shown is extremely hypocritical and reeks of tyranny
Because I feel there is a deeper systemic issue that needs to be flushed out ---- Kya is being hammered for an offense that has occurred long before Season 16(which even at that cutoff is 6-7 seasons before she even arrived), but there seems to be other factors that led to the decision
- Kya was drafted to Dallas, engaged in lukewarm-heated exchanges with rival teams, became the GM
- Kya was then drafted to Austin, Austin has been involved in some controversial incidents during her tenure there, both internally and externally
- Kya helped various players but her incident with rOtz was the breaking point. But if Kya and rOtz werent Dallas teammates or in the Dallas war room together, or she helped a Portland player or Tijuana player the way she helped rOtz ----- would the suspicion be as amped? What if rOtz had an emergency and asked for leniency? What if Kya was busy and rOtz got lucky that time and she told him so and dont expect a repeat occurrence?
The same goes for Steg, if Steg and Kya never shared a war room together and had a falling out? Would people still say HO was out to cancel Kya?
But herein lies the issue --- this league is meant to create friendships, and the overall structure favors friendships over business unlike actual sports leagues. The Dallas war room loved Amid, his wife joined, and we knew where she was going. She was equally valuable to the league. Dallas has three pipelines but one is obviously a tier above the other two ---- so knowing Steg and Kyle were in Austin, we could kinda guess where Kya would end up, even before Amid was traded to Austin. Not all friendships last forever but the point I want to raise is that conflict of interest and bias in ingrained thoroughly throughout the league.
When you dont separate officials, execs, and governing bodies from the teams ---- it creates a damning slippery slope reeking of malicious intent, bias, and collusion in these rulings, especially when they are as inconsistent as the PPT's deadline enforcement since the days of Myspace. We always hear from the lesser members ---- seldom from the ones with real weight until Steg stepped on board. The way Exclesior and Darkness are taking heat is the same energy I wish the veteran people who decided to remove Kya had.
I know that some HO members try their hardest, but the optics in general have been murky and clouded with slight disillusionment on how this looks to the general public and what the true intent of the league should be. I think in some point in the future, we might need to let the people have a voice and establish the baseline for the higher ups to work off of when it comes to these high profile issues.
Otherwise, every future ruling will be pre-disposed with inherent bias unless the league forces those with some type of title: whether it be HO, GM, Dept Head, et al to reduce their relationship/role with their player. I feel like, at some point, someone will really troll the league and slip into HO as double-agent either to expose the flaws in HO's inner machinations or to pull off a coo and overthrow those members they have a grudge with or stick it to the teams where those users are associated with.
tldr; friendships built or broken in this league will naturally create bias, so firing someone because bias might have been shown is extremely hypocritical and reeks of tyranny
