Sunday, September 26th, 2010
Issue: 48   Editor: SeanGoesToUni


Nyxxie: The Players opinion. MarlonB
Love Nyxxie or hate Nyxxie, this article is about her last few years on Bootleggers. We at the Buzz got you, the players of Bootleggers, opinion and we also got the opinion of the moderator herself, Nyxxie. So we invite you to come on in and read the article.

Nyxxie has been the centre of many Bootleggers topics in recent history. Whether they are claiming how much someone hates her or how much someone loves her, we are aiming to find out the true feelings of the Bootleggers community and also a little bit of history about Nyxxie. So a quick breakdown of Nyxxie's history up to this point in time. At the end of 2006 Nyxxie became the co-editor of the Buzz. Nyxxie told us, “There was a lot of controversy at the time regarding this because players just saw me as a "forum whore", therefore being completely unfit to do the job.” Most of the topics brought up were negative and you can’t really blame the players for this. A player who was branded a “Forum Whore” being given such a high position straight off was a good enough reason to start this very negative view of Nyxxie. However, things were only bound to get worse when Nyxxie was promoted to HDO. As you can imagine, if players felt she was not good enough to get co-editor they sure as hell were not happy about this. About this time rumours were spread about Nyxxie, she told us, “They said I sucked dick to get there.” Players were trying a bit too hard at this point and spreading rumours just showed how they felt at the time. Of course, things only got worse when Nyxxie was promoted to Moderator in 2009. Players responded by creating topics claiming she didn’t deserve the position and that she only got because she was with 5litre. That is a short summary of her history and as you can see it is not amazingly nice, but it was the truth at the time players felt this way.

Now after all that “hate”, we decided that here at the Buzz would see how you the players felt now, we also asked Nyxxie for her views and the Buzz team. We can tell you this for certain, things have changed. Clarabell told us, “ive learned to appreciate her, cuz she might be a cocky biatch yet shes the only one whos trying to clean up bl.” You can see it is no longer hate, the players told us they now realise that nyxxie puts in a lot of work for bootleggers, in fact Nyxxie told us, “I am online 7-12 active hours a day, answering tickets, dealing with appeals, banning and muting people and just having normal discussions in both the forums and IRC.” Players like her for the work she put in during the hacking period. However players are still not happy with the way she conducts herself at times. Poison said, “But her activity has its downside, like everything. Players find it easy to attack her for past grudges (which I won't comment on for the reasons above), but also because she rises to it and I think this to be a little unproffesional.” A fair point in all circumstances.

So we at the Buzz think this article outlines the evolution of Nyxxie. From public enemy number one to probably Bootleggers most active member. You can see people respect her more even if she has faults. However like everyone on Bootleggers we are only human and sometimes it is a reaction to defend ourselves by all means, but in a situation were people look up to you as a higher member? It is your opinion in the end.