If you really have no influence as a GM I somehow feel you are even dumber than the regular user who still hangs around. XD
If that is how you feel, i pity you. Seems like you have yet to discover something that you really like and genuinely want to contribute too. All you seem to enjoy is being a genuine nuisance and irritate people. I pity that you haven't found something yet that you genuinely like. In BB i found a game which was fun, worth my time and had a community who genuinely was worth the time invested into it. the BB community used to be like a beautiful garden. Alas, the BB's are forgiving people and force the GM's to abide by a much to generous code. Else we would have been able to remove weeds long ago.
At least you can harass and fine people.
Just proves my point that you take pleasure in annoying others. Unlike you, i dislike the punishing part. Each time i dish out a punishment, be it a warning, a forumban, a fine or a game ban, i pity the guy receiving it. For he felt the need to
a) either abuse others on the forum or by bbmail
b) cheat so that he would progress faster
c) failed to live by the simple code of conduct that was put together by the BB's, giving the best possible chances for a beautiful BB garden to prosper.
The one thing that lets me do my job as GM, is that at the end of the day, i know i've done my best to positively contribute to the game of that i genuinely like playing, even if that involves having to do some of the less pleasant work. That when i log in the next time, the game will be all the better for it. Should the day arrive that i no longer feel the motivation to eradicate as much weeds from BB that i can, then that will be the day that i quit as a GM. And i'm pretty sure that more than a couple of users would be sad to see that day arrive (although i doubt you will be one of them.)
Oh and free supporter yay! B)
XD i doubt there is a single GM who does his work just because they get a free supporter package. a supporterpackage is 12 USD for 3 months. that means 4 USD for per month. 4 USD for the amount of time GM's spend to be online is a joke. We do the job cause we want to contribute in the best possible way to game. If that implies doing the nasty stuff so that others don't have to, then I (and i think i speak for any GM for that matter) will gladly do it. If the BB's deem it fit to reward us with a supporter package, then we gracefully accept that token of appreciation for all the hours we invest in this game. Each GM does this job, cause he wishes to positively contribute to the game and is willing to invest the time to make positive contributions. I'm truly astonished you are still having difficulty understanding that. i would have reckoned that people with even limited brain capability would have understood that within a year of playing the game. Maybe i think to highly of certain users in this community. XD But i much prefer to make than assumption and thus i'll keep believing that there is still more good than bad in this community. For when the day arrives that the previous statement doesn't hold truth anymore, means that the game which i enjoy so much has been tainted by too many weeds & that i've failed to call a stop to it