Dominic

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Yeah, week might've been ambitious for all those things lmao. Should actually have this posted within a day or two though. Apologies for the delay.

Hello everyone, Just want to quickly announce two promotions we pushed out yesterday: up to Administrative Officer we have The Real Slim Jim. Together we're gonna see if we can't get CS2 Jailbreak back on its feet and get some playtime in with the community, in the interest of nostalgia at the very least. And up to Technical Administrator we have Triou, who has been as valuable an asset at AO as you could possibly be for some time now and has been creating plugins for us and developing his skills for a while now. We're very excited for the both of these guys to continue contributing to the community as they have been, perhaps now in an even bigger way. And as always, please don't hesitate to reach out if you too are interested in any of our staff positions. I'm beginning to roll out changes the higher ups discussed some time ago regarding the ability for Server Admins to begin moderating our Discord as things have shifted in that direction, so that is also a role you can play moving forward if that is of any interest to anyone. Thanks everyone!

Really just confused as to what your goal is here anymore. Your posts are never anything but rude and pessimistic and God forbid you commend anyone for the effort we're at least trying to put in instead of whaling on us for being permanently banned at some point in our 10+ years here. Your posts almost never contain anything of substance and 'work on SEO' is the first thing of value you've said after literally thousands of words typed. And I'm sure you'll go on some long tirade about this post being a prime example of how awful my leadership is, but I suppose you'd wholeheartedly agree that it doesn't change anything at the end of the day. Things are the way they are, people are in the positions they're in, and despite your insistence on the fact that your posts come from a place of love for SG, you fail to see that they're doing so very little to help it. I have championed the value of critique and my appreciation for it for years, but this is quite literally the first time where I'm inclined to tune someone out. I have utterly zero distaste for you on a personal level, but I just wish you'd stop this nonstop attack on us. I understand that you miss the old days and are trying to give us some harsh advice but at a certain point you have to understand your words lose value when their intentions start to seem ill. I have respect for you, and I appreciate what you're attempting to do here, but you seem reasonable enough to understand where I'm coming from as well. Have you tried starting a discussion in the Discord? Logging on a server? Making a new forum thread in an attempt to engage people? None of these things are your obligation of course, they're more so mine than yours - but you have a seemingly immense level of passion for how you think things should be done and what you'd like to see SG become. Doing these helpful things in tandem with your harsh posts would at least give your harshness some substance, but instead you do nothing but lurk the forums and wait for another opportunity to strike. Once again, at the end of the day, I have to appreciate you taking the time to post. That's more than what most people with love in their hearts for SG are doing, but man can you show some love? I understand we aren't your ideal choices as leaders, but what do you hope to see accomplished with your aggression about it?

So I'm going to go down this rabbit hole with you once again.. without saying 'you need to resign' or 'get rid of the higher-ups' - please tell me what you would do with the community if you were in a leadership position. I am not saying that in a condescending way or to come across dismissive. I am literally begging you to just tell me what you think is being done wrong. GFL, the biggest community when CS:GO was in a good position, has just closed its doors. Edge Gamers, the second biggest if not the actual biggest, has one server left in CS2. You're speaking to us as if we've been dealt a grand hand and are throwing it to the wayside. Please.. I am begging you to respond with something of meaning that anyone can actually gain something from.

Hello everyone, We just wanted to bring you guys an announcement about plans we currently have going on in the background, with something of a community update to go along with it. Firstly, it feels almost obligatory now to mention this every now and again: but Steam-Gamers is here to stay. We know this can be a persistent question in people's minds with our lower population numbers in recent times, along with many other communities shutting down around us. However, we have every intention of keeping things up and running, and we're still actively working on new stuff to bring to the table. @Caution and I have struggled with activity in recent months, so we honestly have to give a massive amount of credit to our extremely strong board of Directors; @jazzy, @Elfbarf, @Zero Two, and @Karma, along with the entirety of our AO and TA team. They're really to credit for SG still providing that sense of community that many people are seeking. And that is what our goal was yesterday, that is our goal today, and that will be our goal tomorrow. We simply want to provide a place for people to game with one another and form friendships. We fully intend on continuing on for that reason. In the coming weeks, we have a few different things that might be brought to life. Though at the moment we're just vetting ideas and working through discussions. These ideas include: an ARK: Survival Ascended server, reigniting our Squad server, and potentially launching some new CS2 stuff. We have a few ideas in mind for that piece, but we're still just working out whether or not continuing in CS2 is of much use. This is the part where we, as always, would love to hear your input as community members, and definitely feel free to mention anything else you'd like to see! While we don't want to do too many things at once, we're probably looking to offer you guys at least a couple more things. Along with that, we're planning on running a community meeting quite soon here, probably in collaboration with one of the gaming events we usually run on Discord. So feel free to save your input for then if you aren't much of a typing person. Additionally, with all of these things in mind, please note that we're always looking for new staff members to bring on board. Whether you're interested in being a Server Admin to give input at a higher level and moderate our Discord, stepping up to Administrative Officer to help with the actual management of our servers, or if you have technical skills that could assist our Technical Team in keeping the gears turning! We appreciate all the help we can get, so please reach out. Within the next 7 days, expect the following: - A community meeting announcement with a date attached - Some possible new promotions - A final announcement on at least one of the mentioned servers - Exciting news about our Supporter rank Thank you everyone, and happy gaming!

Me as a DMG with an epathy clan tag and 30 kills.. wow that's a memory lmao. This was a fun blast to the past thanks for sharing, miss playing with you homie.

Things are looking good

Big shoutout to @Nishok @BoTo @jazzy and @triou for all their hard work on this! Looking forward to playing.

Dude, listen.. I understand you have some sort of deep rooted hatred for me. You don't have to make that any more clear. I asked the Directors if they felt Caution and I should step aside, and was legitimately told by Caution to 'absolutely not resign'. I would gladly step aside if that's what people call for, but relevant names. No offense to you, but you came back in 2017 (?), were mostly inactive for a bit as TA, then left again. I hardly know who you are. Even Delirium and Kable with their strong, strong distaste for me are people with opinions I take into major account whenever they speak, and would do so on this. If the current staff is not up in arms about my 'inactivity', 'power hunger', 'tyrannical behavior', or anything else of the sort.. I'm not gonna push back and insist on resigning. Truly, if I did something to you in the past to make you appear out of nowhere after years and harp on me for days, I'd love to apologize.. I'm just not sure where you're coming from at this point. It's getting a little ridiculous now and like eXtr3m3 said, far beyond the point of 'constructive criticism', you're not really giving me any pointers here lol.

I genuinely take no offense to this, and applaud your openness. I feel like it's just a tad bit extreme and I'm also 90% sure you've mixed events up a little bit but I understand your point generally speaking. Majority of your post is criticizing me being unbanned, so obviously I'm not gonna take much offense to something I didn't 'do' necessarily. I fucked up when I was 16 years old, same as a hell of a lot of people that have been here including many that made it to the Board. There is no amount of words you could spew in this thread to make me feel very sad about that to be honest lol. Thanks for understanding that I mean well, because that's the only reason, especially nowadays, that I try to do anything for this place. Believe me - I have a whole life going, the only reason I try to give back to SG is because of how much it gave me, and I'm hoping it can still be alive to give other kids the same experience.