Let's discuss "Interviews with History"

[Guest]

 

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Hello everyone, Tankers, and welcome to the first episode out of eight episodes of: "Interviews with History"!
Every Monday, starting from 25 August 2014 to 13 October 2014, I will publish a new episode.

The aim of this project is to share, with all the members of this great Community, informations and histories of the historical - the oldest and still active - Staff members.
They started as users many years ago, and step by step they made the English Community a great place for everyone thanks to their effort, we all should be greatful to them, and enjoy our time reading all what they will have to tell us about them and about what Tanki Online is for them!



List of interviewed Staff members:

• • @Shar0n - 25 August 2014
  • @UwH_BPL - 1 September 2014
  • - 8 September 2014
  • Interview deleted
  • @Tommy60 - 22 September 2014
  • @FederalBureauFBI - 29 September 2014
  • @Yele - 6 October 2014
  • @Lhamster - 13 October 2014

 
The place to find all interviews can be found here: Interviews with History.

Edited October 6, 2014 by Guest

[Meliora 1,652]

These questions are not good. Can't you ask what they love most about their job, what makes it fun, how their colleagues are, what they've learnt from their job, advice for other wannabe staff members, their real life aside from the game, etc. The questions you've asked don't really bring flavour at all. 6 questions isn't fab. Also some grammar issues there... The question about the preferred quote was answered rather poorly. Shar0n could have at least picked one, else the question isn't worthy of appearing here. In addition, there's hardly any humour, although yes it depends on the person being interviewed. From the list of staff, I think Ostrica will be best, but we'll see.

 

This is my opinion, if you're offended go ahead and downvote, but that surely isn't the way to improve.

 

Note: By grammar, both the questions and answers have grammatical errors, spelling mistakes and nonsensical phrases (sensical phrases being those needed for smooth translation with a native speaker).

 

EDIT; UwH_BpL's interview:

Again, I do not see any information that struck me as being amazing, but it was a much better interview than the last. I liked the quote he included in the end, a bit of French for me :D. But anyway, like I said, nothing too intriguing - in fact, the questions we requested have not been asked. Nothing stops you from asking more questions during the week-long interval before their releases. And again, grammar is an issue - if you could just read over what you read before you submit it, that would be great.

 

What I am stressing here is that we did not learn much about the moderator apart from the facts he ranked up to Generalissimo in Kungur, does not speak Russian and has been a moderator for 1.5 years.

Edited September 2, 2014 by Meliora

[Guest]

 

 

These questions are not good. Can't you ask what they love most about their job, what makes it fun, how their colleagues are, what they've learnt from their job, advice for other wannabe staff members, their real life aside from the game, etc. The questions you've asked don't really bring flavour at all. 6 questions isn't fab. Also some grammar issues there... The question about the preferred quote was answered rather poorly. Shar0n could have at least picked one, else the question isn't worthy of appearing here. In addition, there's hardly any humour, although yes it depends on the person being interviewed. From the list of staff, I think Ostrica will be best, but we'll see.

 

The questions above are the ones that have been asked. Unfortunately, not everyone is willing to give many informations about him/herself, and with obvious reasons. Another thing is also the fact that many of the participants are really busy with their own REAL LIFE aswell as Tanki Online job, thus the answers they gave are short but informative where needed.

What I must point out is the fact that every interview will have different "things" in it: some will only have Q&A, others will have photos and videos, others, like Shar0n's one, had a special site so show off - Leprotanki.

I asked ten different questions, but no one was obliged to reply to them all or give long and descriptive answers :)

 

Note: By grammar, both the questions and answers have grammatical errors, spelling mistakes and nonsensical phrases (sensical phrases being those needed for smooth translation with a native speaker).

 

I am well aware of some errros in some of the erros and answers, but I proofread all of them and, by far, they are understandable and "fluent", nothing that stops you from understanding those sentences.

 

EDIT: There wasn't a need for this topic, as it looks like just because the first post of the topic was critical, and there was some debate about it afterwards, a need was "felt" for a discussion topic/posts to be moved to Off-Topic Discussion. Why Off-Topic Discussion? The main post was in General, and so should the discussion one - why not?

 

Just like the English Banner Codes topic or the Real Photo topic or some other topics, we prefer to split the main topic from the discussion topic for obvious reasons like organization, order and better possibility of checking and cleaning eventual violations.

 

Also seemingly subsequent to the immediate feedback, no link is being placed from the main topic to the discussion one. Why? There's nothing wrong in letting people know where to put their feedback, is there? Even though the discussion topic is under construction, you can still see the comments people have posted below, and that is satis (enough) for most. After asking twice, I haven't received a response as to why not. Looking forward to one now.

 

While being at work - I work 12 hours a day as a Lifeguard - I could not edit the links into the main posts, pardon me for this long delay: I have added the proper links now.

In conclusion, I'd like to pardon me for the "wrong idea" I gave from my previous words: what I meant is that you easily and sistematically dislike official (and unofficial) posts (and topics) coming from the Administration (and from any Staff member) which you do not like.

Edited August 26, 2014 by Guest

[Meliora 1,652]

You are free to dislike, no worries ;)

 

1. I have asked more than six questions, but as you can imagine, not everyone is willing to answer to all of them.

2. Also, replies are little due to lack of time to create long and detalied answers, all the Staff members which took part in this project spent time in answering and preparing many things which will be shown in other episodes aswell, so replies are really not meant to be long, but simple and informative where needed.

 

3. For grammar errors: if there are any, they are few and can be skipped, nothing that stop you from understanding the meaning of a sentence, so don't speak so high about being good at grammar, dear , because I don't see any other good and valuable things coming from you apart pointing out grammar errors, which is not that usefull and make you look repetitive in your fight against the Staff.

1. My point is that 6 questions, most of which aren't answered fully isn't enough for a meaty, chunky interview. This is more like a written down chat.

2. As I said, the last few questions weren't really answered well. Perhaps if you had given the staff more time to write better responses, the overall quality would improve.

3. Firstly, there's no need to be rude in your comment. Grammar is something along with other things that contribute to a high quality piece of work. This interview is official, from a company, just like a newspaper, but a newspaper does not have any mistakes as it is proofread before being published. In my post, I am not only talking about grammar, there are other issues.

 

I am rather disappointed to see that my comment has now just been downgraded to a rant. I don't understand why, just because I thought the interview had points to improve, I am now fighting against the staff. Had that comment come from ANYONE ELSE, I'm sure they would not be labelled as a staff-hater.

Edited August 25, 2014 by Meliora

[ognjen556 231]

1. My point is that 6 questions, most of which aren't answered fully isn't enough for a meaty, chunky interview. This is more like a written down chat.

2. As I said, the last few questions weren't really answered well. Perhaps if you had given the staff more time to write better responses, the overall quality would improve.

3. Firstly, there's no need to be rude in your comment. Grammar is something along with other things that contribute to a high quality piece of work. This interview is official, from a company, just like a newspaper, but a newspaper does not have any mistakes as it is proofread before being published. In my post, I am not only talking about grammar, there are other issues.

 

I am rather disappointed to see that my comment has now just been downgraded to a rant. I don't understand why, just because I thought the interview had points to improve, I am now fighting against the staff. Had that comment come from ANYONE ELSE, I'm sure they would not be labelled as a staff-hater.

Yes, 6 questions might not be much, compared to the work @Issho_Fujitora does as the admin of Facebook moderators, consultants etc sparing his time for community service should be given some value instead of pointing out it's mistakes, right?

[Guest]

2. As I said, the last few questions weren't really answered well. Perhaps if you had given the staff more time to write better responses, the overall quality would improve.

 

They had time, but as said above, not all of them are willing to reply to many questions nor have time do to so, sorry :)

 

3. Firstly, there's no need to be rude in your comment. Grammar is something along with other things that contribute to a high quality piece of work. This interview is official, from a company, just like a newspaper, but a newspaper does not have any mistakes as it is proofread before being published. In my post, I am not only talking about grammar, there are other issues.

 

Nothing rude, and this is not a project held by Tanki Online itself, but rather a project organized by the EN Administration to try to make the Community more involved with the Staff work and presence in the Game, nothing else ;)

This is nothing like the Newspaper - Reporters work for that only, thus having time for doing such things - this project was organized by we, Admins, to try to give some informations about ourselves to the Community, thus nothing so deep and formal as you were probably searching for.

 

I am rather disappointed to see that my comment has now just been downgraded to a rant. I don't understand why, just because I thought the interview had points to improve, I am now fighting against the staff. Had that comment come from ANYONE ELSE, I'm sure they would not be labelled as a staff-hater.

 

No, your comment was not a rant, I also said thanks for pointing out errors or lack of "informations" in the replies, but this is not the first time that you jump over something from the Administration with nothing but bad comments and negative opinions, thus making you really look like Staff-hater, but I'm glad if this is not true :)

 

Yes, 6 questions might not be much, compared to the work @Issho_Fujitora does as the admin of Facebook moderators, consultants etc sparing his time for community service should be given some value instead of pointing out it's mistakes, right?

As said above, this project was created for certain reasons, and it is limited by the spare time that all the participants had, unfortunately we are all busy with real life and Tanki Online duties, but we found the time to come out with this project for the Community, so let's just take it easy and keep on discussing this rather than making arguments on errors or related ;)

Edited August 26, 2014 by Guest

[MA3CTPO_HA_XAHTEP 832]

Hmm, there's a similar theme in off-topic - TankiOnline Talk Show.

[Guest]

Hmm, there's a similar theme in off-topic - TankiOnline Talk Show.

Yes. I was planning and organizing this all since July, but was faster than me and posted some interviews with famous users before I could start this project :)

Edited August 25, 2014 by Guest

[Guest Maserati]

awesome work issho +1

[unholycloak5 1,814]

Hope this goes well, good luck! :D

[Meliora 1,652]

Yes, 6 questions might not be much, compared to the work @Issho_Fujitora does as the admin of Facebook moderators, consultants etc sparing his time for community service should be given some value instead of pointing out its mistakes, right?

All you seem to be looking at is the fact that I said there were grammar errors. That is NOT the main point, so please stop pounding me about that. Look at the interviews in the Developers' News. Surely Semyon is even busier than I_F or whoever, and that's delivered to a great standard.

 

 

2. As I said, the last few questions weren't really answered well. Perhaps if you had given the staff more time to write better responses, the overall quality would improve.

 

They had time, but as said above, not all of them are willing to reply to many questions, sorry :)

 

3. Firstly, there's no need to be rude in your comment. Grammar is something along with other things that contribute to a high quality piece of work. This interview is official, from a company, just like a newspaper, but a newspaper does not have any mistakes as it is proofread before being published. In my post, I am not only talking about grammar, there are other issues.

 

Nothing rude, and this is not a project help by Tanki Online itself, but rather a project organized by the EN Administration to try to make the Community more involved with the Staff work and presence in the Game, nothing else ;)

 

I am rather disappointed to see that my comment has now just been downgraded to a rant. I don't understand why, just because I thought the interview had points to improve, I am now fighting against the staff. Had that comment come from ANYONE ELSE, I'm sure they would not be labelled as a staff-hater.

 

No, your comment was not a rant, I also said thanks for pointing out errors or lack of "informations" in the replies, but this is not the first time that you jump over something from the Administration with nothing but bad comments and opinions, thus making you really look like Staff-hater, but I'm glad if this is not true :)

 

EN Administration - official as of the EN community, therefore I still feel that grammar and the other factors I pointed out should be considered. And I_F again I see you edited your post to say thanks, after saying I'm fighting against the staff. And look, have you heard of something called a critic? I'm just trying to help this improve, and I have not received any kind comments, just that I am a staff-hater and fighting against the administration.

[Daniel898 327]

Great job I_F

[blackopspaul 753]

These questions are not good. Can't you ask what they love most about their job, what makes it fun, how their colleagues are, what they've learnt from their job, advice for other wannabe staff members, their real life aside from the game, etc. The questions you've asked don't really bring flavour at all. 6 questions isn't fab. Also some grammar issues there... The question about the preferred quote was answered rather poorly. Shar0n could have at least picked one, else the question isn't worthy of appearing here. In addition, there's hardly any humour, although yes it depends on the person being interviewed. From the list of staff, I think Ostrica will be best, but we'll see.

 

This is my opinion, if you're offended go ahead and downvote, but that surely isn't the way to improve.

 

Note: By grammar, both the questions and answers have grammatical errors, spelling mistakes and nonsensical phrases (sensical phrases being those needed for smooth translation with a native speaker).

Isho  dedicates his spare time away from work  to help the community.And this is a great idea I_F ! 

[MyLife_MyReign 256]

Great interview! Hoping to see more :)

[Scientist 4,224]

I_F, great interview. Thanks to mods and admins for spending their 15 minutes on answering these questions! It was worth it! :) Looking forward for more interviews.

 

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PS I_F, Selena12121 didn't say anything wrong, so no need to be upset. She doesn't laugh at you for making mistakes. She pointed out that the questions don't have flavor. I'm afraid she's right, because we learnt nothing new about @Shar0n. Let me point some things out.

 

We know that every staff member joined tanki as a simple player and then went higher and higher. We already know this. The same applies to Shar0n. The questions you asked required no information and gave (almost) no information about Shar0n.

"Which goal did you achieve as for now?". The interviewer himself/herself must say "We're interviewing Shar0n because he achieved such and such goals". If Shar0n says "I achieved this goal, I achieved that goal," it doesn't look nice.

Also I think he should've been asked about what his job is irl, what he likes to do, hobbies, etc.

 

I just want to say that was unfortunately right. But just because she said she had found a mistake, it doesn't mean she wants you to fail. This is a big community, a big family. And in this family we should help each other to make the family bigger. Please, let's be nice to each other.

Instead, take this as an advice to make the other interviews better. ;)

Edited August 25, 2014 by Schism

[Remaine 4,687]

If you have nothing nice to say please refrain from posting mistakes or anything not nice...

 

This would mean people must sugarcoat what they truly think which turns the comments pretentious - and if I recall correctly, this is a forum, where one can express their own beliefs on any given subject. We all have a freedom of speech; Sel's criticism was CONSTRUCTIVE, not DESTRUCTIVE - it's not like she's misusing said freedom of speech. I wouldn't want to be in a forum where comments on such things are limited to obsequiousness toward the administration.

 

It even says - "You are free to comment below, share your thoughts about the interview" - this dictates I_F acknowledges said freedom of speech; Sel here did as such, therefore, I fail to see the problem here.

 

I_F, this is certainly a nice thought; while it's appreciated that you're doing this, there are things that could do with improvement, to make for a better experience; things that I needn't mention again since Sel's pretty much done it for me.

Edited August 25, 2014 by Remaine

[Guest]

 

All you seem to be looking at is the fact that I said there were grammar errors. That is NOT the main point, so please stop pounding me about that. Look at the interviews in the Developers' News. Surely Semyon is even busier than I_F or whoever, and that's delivered to a great standard.

 

Semyon, aswell as all the Company Administrators working in the offices, work daily for and on Tanki Online - that is their real life job, thus giving them time to organize neat and clean things, formal and perfect events. We, Admins, have real life jobs and duties not related to Tanki Online, and we dedicate our spare time to it for you, the Community, and to provide you all what we can, so I think you should be glad for what we can come up with instead of going into deep criticisms of a project organized in our spare time for you all.

 

EN Administration - official as of the EN community, therefore I still feel that grammar and the other factors I pointed out should be considered. And I_F again I see you edited your post to say thanks, after saying I'm fighting against the staff. And look, have you heard of something called a critic? I'm just trying to help this improve, and I have not received any kind comments, just that I am a staff-hater and fighting against the administration.

 

Criticisms, opinions and feedbacks are welcomed, but not if done systematically like you are doing - we are well aware of it.

 

I_F, great interview. Thanks to mods and admins for spending their 15 minutes on answering these questions! It was worth it!  :) Looking forward for more interviews.

 

It took much more than fifteen minutes to organize every interview, considering all what we have to do in real life (studies, jobs, issues) aswell as on Tanki Online. Also, just to point out, this interview was simple, but some of the other interviews contains videos and more detailed answers

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We know that every staff member joined tanki as a simple player and then went higher and higher. We already know this. The same applies to Shar0n. The questions you asked required no information and gave (almost) no information about Shar0n.
"Which goal did you achieve as for now?". The interviewer himself/herself must say "We're interviewing Shar0n because he achieved such and such goals". If Shar0n says "I achieved this goal, I achieved that goal," it doesn't look nice.
Also I think he should've been asked about what his job is irl, what he likes to do, hobbies, etc.

 

As I already said, many questions were asked, but few were answered, pardon me if this is causing so many problems :)

Edited August 26, 2014 by Guest

[Scientist 4,224]

if you don't enjoy it, then just don't read it :)

To enjoy it, I have to read it. If I read it, I may not enjoy it. And how am I supposed to know if I'll enjoy the interview or not if I don't read it? :P

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Just kidding. Nice one, personally I enjoyed it.

[srikarsri 22]

Hello Issho,

I really appreciate you comming up with something like this!
I would like to give out a suggestion.

As you post every monday , giving  a ---VERY---- long gap to each interview, i wish the interview to be a lot bigger with more good questions such as their experiences before working in tanki. so roughly the questions should count about 10

I guess you are getting quite a lot of time to go on with interviews. When you get answers from the interview candidates, maybe you could edit them and lengthen them(7 days gap should be enough to edit it). making them looking like really an interview to go through at!

 

P.S : ignore my bad english

Edited August 25, 2014 by srikarsri

[iron-man_0007 73]

-_-

 

Nice work for mods -_-

[canadarules 1,938]

I am sorry but is it just me or do i really get bugged by that bad title...History?!?!?!? Is this a joke? This is interview's with staff members. If you are doing this go interview someone, go to someone's prime minister or obama ok

Edited August 25, 2014 by canadarules

[GG_reg 1,521]

Nice work Issho.  ^_^

[I.Devastation 2,053]

y no interview hogree :c

[GG_reg 1,521]

Issho has only just started, he'll get round to him sometime, hopefully! :D

[canadarules 1,938]

i only want to see 5 of them :mellow: ...btw this title is wrong...it should be interviews with long time forum/staff members