[Resolved] Staff Complaint - NanakoAC

[Nanako]

Functioning together in harmony is not the natural state of people, especially not mature adults.

 

I am partial, actually I am adamant with saying that this statement acts no more as a filler in your wall of text due to simply how untrue this is.

I believe this to be quite true, its the reason we have hierarchies to begin with. the reason why every respectable democracy has more than a single party. But this is at risk of becoming too political

 

 

This was posted in a political channel, not in an area of general interest. And it is a statement i made in full sobriety and stand by. After colonising south america, the spanish interbred with the natives and created a new race: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mestizo

It's hardly relevant to code development though, and i don't see the value in continually bringing it up

The question here is why are you so socially repulsive? Where you're driving people off?

 

I linked this a page or so back, i will again as an answer to this question: https://www.16personalities.com/intj-personality

Its an interesting read, really

[Faris]

Thank you for proving what I sought out.

[Nanako]

No shit, you were absent. He had to fix what was wrong with your code!

There were a couple of bugs with cooking appliances, and I actually made a PR to fix them shortly before my PC broke. It sat there, unmerged for the full month of my absence, and i returned to find lohikar had altered some systems and fixed it himself in a different way. Fair enough, i don't mind that

increased both power efficiency and its ability to warm up so it doesn't take fifteen minutes for the cook to do his/her/xer job.[/i] That's like, multiple amazing changes! Why would you be opposed to that?

These are balance changes, and they alter the design intent of cooking, which was to make it a more time-management based gameplay. That fifteen minutes at the start of a round is for you to start preparing ingredients, order animals, put in requests with the hydroponics people, and make a couple of simple things. It's about pacing and gameplay flow.

While there were a couple complaints here and there, feedback about the new cooking system was overwhelmingly positive, and it was well-recieved by the community. I consider it a successful project with a clear scope and purpose, which was achieved.

The power usage is part of a larger scope to scale up station power towards generally more believable values, a little bit at a time. And in future the power output of various engines would be raised too. You should note also that, while based in reality, the kitchen's power usage was not hardwired to realism at the cost of gameplay. The fryer for example, uses (or used, before recent changes) the same power as a large commercial dual basket fryer, although it has FOUR baskets. It is infact only half the cost of a real world analogue, a change that was made during the review process in response to feedback.

I have made several other steps on this overarching plan too, such as the high powered air alarms that now run in several temperature-controlled rooms, and use substantially more than the base. It is a longterm, ongoing project, and lohikar seemed to be onboard with it, when he added the antimatter generator to cargo. More sources of power is the desired direction, and i was very happy with and approved of that addition

The tweaks he made to power usage in the kitchen, were tweaks he'd already proposed numerous times, and rejected. I made very clear the reasons that everything was done, the overarching plan was explained numerous times, and making these changes when i wasn't around to say no for the umpteenth time was very underhanded. It is poor conduct

 

And if Lohikar's other comments are of any indication, you seem to be responsible for a fair bit of the recent spaghetti code.

Even Moondancer was performing more meaningful changes with less inherent experience and time with a development team,

 

This is you commenting on something you don't understand,so i won't get too deep into it. But I will say that skull (and also lohikar) are present, commenting and requesting changes, on all new PRs. Spaghetti code would not get through our peer review process.

With 44 comments and a wide variety of changes requested (and implemented) Nanacooking was approved, passed peer review, and merged into live code several months ago https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/1743

[Scheveningen]

Allow me to paraphrase then.

 

I believe this to be quite true, its the reason we have hierarchies to begin with. the reason why every respectable democracy has more than a single party. But this is at risk of becoming too political

 

"I do not believe people can function together in harmony."

"I never get political until I inevitably, inject politics into discussions as a form of allegorical example."

 

I linked this a page or so back, i will again as an answer to this question: https://www.16personalities.com/intj-personality

Its an interesting read, really

 

"I am socially repulsive not because I choose to be, but in spite of that I do not take responsibility for my social failings and I do not make concerted efforts to improve and change the way I socialize with other human beings, I just say I do and pretend I'm not being manipulative, because that is the way I am."

That and the most recent post are why I'm maintaining a new stance of not taking anything Nanako has to say seriously because the constant contradictions that stem from her make it incredibly difficult to find any degree of honesty coming from this person. I believe Nanako is, at the very least, not a sincere person and is seemingly more disposable than any other member on the dev team because of her manipulative and anti-social tendencies, causing a great deal of grief to not just dev staff but to the unfortunate individuals that have to deal with a 26 year old individual acting half her age. Despite the stance I hold as a "completely screen out anything ridiculous they have to say" placeholder, I am convinced that it is more dangerous for the long-term integrity of the development team to keep Nanako on. The busfactor of other hard-working individuals such as Lohikar and Fowl, two specific individuals that butt heads with Nanako regularly on development decisions, are much exponentially higher than the very person claiming to be a victim in this complaint right now as I knew she would.

I am fairly certain it would be better off long-term to dismiss the problem development staff member from the team rather than letting this sit for a month to be dropped, ignored and the status quo to be pushed onward. If there is any doubt that would make the point that Nanako is more valuable than the long-term sanity and will to continue being a development staff member on this team for anyone who isn't Nanako, I would highly suggest Skull make his rebuttal as to why he thinks it's a good idea to keep this person on the team. I'm really curious as to what's keeping him.

[Nanako]

"I am socially repulsive not because I choose to be, but in spite of that I do not take responsibility for my social failings and I do not make concerted efforts to improve and change the way I socialize with other human beings, I just say I do and pretend I'm not being manipulative, because that is the way I am."

 

I am working on improving my ability to work in a team, i pointed out several recent examples of compromise. It's a problem to work on.

However, I'm 29 years old, and relatively set in my ways. My personality is not going to fundamentally change, nor has it. Despite your assertions to the contrary, I am still more or less the same person I was when I joined aurora. When i played medical i was the ambitious nurse that took charge of medbay and often argued with command officers, who planned ahead for every eventuality.

My head of staff application was, and maybe still is, the longest in aurora's history: https://forums.aurorastation.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=6004&p=59850#p59850

People rallied from far and wide to hate or love me in nearly equal measures, while most application threads barely get a couple of mild recommendations and fall into obscurity.

I have always been a controversial and polarising person. Your assertion of "Socially repulsive" is merely your perspective, being one of those that doesn't like me. I can't help how you feel, and i don't have the time in the day to deal with the thousands of people who don't like me. I've got plenty others that do. If i were the universally awful person you accuse me of being, the above application would have died on the first page from universal hate.

I am an individual, and I won't apologise for who I am. My personality gives me a useful skillset as much as it gives me flaws, and I wouldn't have lasted an entire year here if i were more trouble than I'm worth. There are some problems i need to deal with, both professional and personal, I am not perfect. I believe I am learning to work in a team better than before

 

That and the most recent post are why I'm maintaining a new stance of not taking anything Nanako has to say seriously

If thats your stance then so be it. I still have the right to defend myself, since i'm the one on trial. You've always been a vocal demagogue with a reputation that speaks for itself, calling others toxic is probably not a good idea in your position delta. Several of the seven reports against you accuse you of bias, as I do too, and with a report rate just under two per month in your short tenure as a moderator, I don't think it befits you to be calling anyone else a problematic staff member.

I will admit i've been a bitch to you. Probably more than you deserved. I've apologised for one incident, i refuse to apologise for one other though. We aren't friends, and I will endeavour to be more neutral to you in professional contexts. Right now you're just cheerleading a hate train in circles with no new points to make.

[Garnascus]

this is just getting silly. I am going to lock this for skull to review when he wakes up. you have all made your points and its just going in circles now.

[Skull132]

Complaint resolved.

For the sake of public record and transparency:

Nanako was offered the choice of either being dismissed immediately, or entering a 3 month probationary period, the aim of which would have been to give her a definite deadline on improving her conduct. Considering said conduct has been unchanged for the past 9 months, I considered the setting of a clear end date important. A matter can only be stretched that far. During probation she would have also lost her in-game developer powers due to unrelated matters (specifically, misuse of them). And probation would have ended with a peer review whereby she'd either be given the opportunity to continue working on the team, or denied it.

She chose to resign effectively immediately.

That closes the complaint.