To me, this shows that members of the community are worried about stepping out of line. Why hasn't anyone said this before if people had such strong views on it? No one wanted to is why. Members are worried about being shot down with ideas which could be classed as controversial. I think it's time we changed the attitude towards this. With a new admin, I believe they can lead to change the conservative nature of the forum into one which is more accepting which will mean that the forum is much more approachable than it has done in the past.
Quote from: Mouldy on October 03, 2016, 02:44:54 PMTo me, this shows that members of the community are worried about stepping out of line. Why hasn't anyone said this before if people had such strong views on it? No one wanted to is why. Members are worried about being shot down with ideas which could be classed as controversial. I think it's time we changed the attitude towards this. With a new admin, I believe they can lead to change the conservative nature of the forum into one which is more accepting which will mean that the forum is much more approachable than it has done in the past.No it won't make the forum more "approachable" or "accepting". AS has bought up some points and people have agreed with them, maybe they didn't think about it before. If ideas are bad, they deserve to be shot down, and if people are scared of this then obviously their idea is not good enough to be shared. A new admin won't change anything.
R01 and Badger, if you read what Mr. As has put, he has stated that we have active mods, therefore, we do not need more. What we do need though, is another admin. I have already stated my reasoning for why we should have another one (8 posts up). I would just like to also point something out here which I feel is very important. (So important I'm making it bold)I find it interesting how so many people are agreeing with Mr. As on these subjects that he brings up in these topics. People seem to have a lot to say about each one but why is it Mr. As always posting the topics in the first place?To me, this shows that members of the community are worried about stepping out of line. Why hasn't anyone said this before if people had such strong views on it? No one wanted to is why. Members are worried about being shot down with ideas which could be classed as controversial. I think it's time we changed the attitude towards this. With a new admin, I believe they can lead to change the conservative nature of the forum into one which is more accepting which will mean that the forum is much more approachable than it has done in the past.
also lol at most toxic guy around calling others out on this sh**
A new admin will change a lot more than you think. Communication will be more frequent, resulting in more things getting done, therefore the confidence will members and guests will also raise because it feels like they are being listened too.
Just FYI.. the Moderator permissions group cannot Ban or Edit profiles anymore.. that ability has been gone for some time now...
Trovaner. My dude. We know how busy you've been over the past few months, but I'm not entirely sure if GTM is going to be well off with an admin that's almost as inactive as ACAMS was around the time that he called it quits. It's gotten to the point where you're not even around enough to host BOTM, which if I had to guess, probably takes, what, about 15-30 minutes at the most? Meganerdbomb's been hosting it for the past 3 or 4 months now. This concerns me. You even said it yourself:Quote from: Trovaner on September 15, 2016, 02:21:37 PMI'm around but I'm trying to offload some of the work that I do since the work distribution is ridiculous.While you have every right to focus on your "work distribution" (assuming this just means real-life responsibilities), GTM is at a turning point right now. We've got 3 big league tournaments with big league amounts of entrants going on right now, with one even having forum titles (aka something that requires admin intervention) as a prize for winning. It would be awkward for someone to win, only to not get thier prize that they were promised until months later.
I'm around but I'm trying to offload some of the work that I do since the work distribution is ridiculous.
There's also /r/battlebot's redditbots going on right now, which is bringing in extra members. The moderators are doing a good job of keeping people in line, but who will be there if one of them turns out to be a HurricaneAndrew/Noodle/Sparkey-like situation and floods the forum with pictures of jews and porn and Russian /mu/ copypastas? Certainly not one of the other several admins we have. Mods can only mute people and hope they go away, and not smack people with the ban hammer, and the only semi-active admins on GTM are you, and ACAMS (who just sh**posts in politics).
What I would recommend, is upgrading one of your existing moderators to admins. Namely either Craaig or Kill343gs. While they both have thier pros and cons (craig being more consistently active, but doesn't have as much moderation experience, kill being basically the opposite), I feel that either one of them would be the best for the job. Another boon to having these two in particular be admin, is the fact that the Discord chat offers a direct line of real-time contact to them, as opposed to waiting for them to log on to GTM and respond to a PM you send them. The link to the discord chat has been sitting on the forum for about 2 months, is available to anyone to join, and has amassed roughly 50 members.edit: Just an FYI, I'm not telling you to step down ACAMS style Trov, just saying that it would be a good idea to upgrade one of the more active mods to admin so that some of the ridiculous work load is at least partially offset to someone else.
Alright, I probably didn't explain myself very well. The reason why Meganerdbomb is doing BOTM is because he offered to take over when I was running late one month due to real-life responsibilities.
I can't realistically make GTM better without more people stepping up so that I have time to do these things. On a side note, BOTM was taking 1-2 hours every month with all of the threads, rule checking, file moving/renaming, and result documenting that I was doing. With MNB managing it, I've been able to cut it down to 0.5 hours (since nothing is automated enough for him to do this himself).
Every member of the moderating staff is capable to stopping a spammer with the warning system and they all have a way of contacting me within minutes if it requires my involvement. As an admin, my main responsibility is not to moderate threads (although, I can and do when it is necessary). This all comes back to my comment about distributing my workload so that I don't get bogged down by the day-to-day stuff.
What am I not doing that should be done (this sounds sarcastic but I'm truly trying to get a list of things that people feel should to be addressed)? We already have 7 admins, 5 global moderators, and 4 section moderators.That should be more than enough to take care of a site with less than 80 daily active users. I understand wanting more communication from me and I can work on that but I'm not sure what benefit there would be to having more admin.
What am I not doing that should be done?
Quote from: Trovaner on October 04, 2016, 08:07:48 PMWhat am I not doing that should be done?Umm...
We already have 7 admins
Quote from: Rob Collins on October 04, 2016, 09:25:35 PMQuote from: Trovaner on October 04, 2016, 08:07:48 PMWhat am I not doing that should be done?Umm...It was taken away months before that thread was created. This tells me it wasn't a huge deal. Additionally, I saw it the day that it was created but decided to wait and see what others thought before I posted anything because I wanted to get more input.
Quote from: Trovaner on October 04, 2016, 08:07:48 PMWe already have 7 adminsthis cannot and should not be an argument considering that out of those 7 administrators you are the only one that works on managing the site right now. we should not have to wait days or weeks on end to get a response for a simple issue like "hey why is the bot exchange not in the top bar anymore".
I can't realistically make GTM better without more people stepping up so that I have time to do these things.
R01 and Badger, if you read what Mr. As has put, he has stated that we have active mods, therefore, we do not need more.
What we do need though, is another admin. I have already stated my reasoning for why we should have another one (8 posts up).
I would just like to also point something out here which I feel is very important. (So important I'm making it bold)I find it interesting how so many people are agreeing with Mr. As on these subjects that he brings up in these topics. People seem to have a lot to say about each one but why is it Mr. As always posting the topics in the first place?To me, this shows that members of the community are worried about stepping out of line. Why hasn't anyone said this before if people had such strong views on it? No one wanted to is why. Members are worried about being shot down with ideas which could be classed as controversial. I think it's time we changed the attitude towards this. With a new admin, I believe they can lead to change the conservative nature of the forum into one which is more accepting which will mean that the forum is much more approachable than it has done in the past.
Quote from: JoeBlo on October 03, 2016, 07:24:55 PMJust FYI.. the Moderator permissions group cannot Ban or Edit profiles anymore.. that ability has been gone for some time now... Got removed a long time ago when Naryar used the ban power without permission or something like that while the profile editing got removed because one day Naryar changed people's names who requested it and I guess ACAMS didn't like that.
Quote from: Trovaner on October 04, 2016, 08:07:48 PMI can't realistically make GTM better without more people stepping up so that I have time to do these things.What do you think we can do to help you, then?