Dominic

Hello everyone, We have some exciting news / promotions to announce today. First off, as the title suggests, we're bringing back the Marketing Team! This team is responsible for general marketing of the community; reaching out for partnerships, improving our marketability on the services we provide, and anything else that betters our ability to attain and retain new members of the community. We've had the members together for awhile now putting in some work into various areas of the community, but it's finally time to reintroduce them as an official team. Onto the promotions: The roster for the newly introduced team will be John, Zayne, Phoenix_ and BoM! Their new responsibilities will include: Manage all third party sites/applications. Manage all advertising, sponsorships, and affiliations. Recommend upgrades and general marketing aspects for the community. Research what the community likes / doesn't like. Upkeep the image of SG and help expand. Work with the Media Team to manage branding and community design. Work with Media team to manage social media accounts (Youtube, Twitch, etc). As for the manager of the team, idealist will be filling that position! His responsibilities will remain the same, with the addition of managing the other members of the Marketing Team. Moving on to our other promotions. First, we have a new member of the Media Team! Our newest addition will be crazedkangaroo! His new responsibilities will include: Manage forum and community website themes and layouts Manage all forum and community images (awards, rankbars, etc) Manage forum design sections (signature/avatar requests, etc) Manage branding and community logos/external advertising Work with the Administrative Team to keep in-game branding and design (map textures for SG) up to date and relevant Manage social media accounts (Youtube, Twitch, etc) Moving on up the ranks, we have a new member of the Internal Affairs team! This person has shown an extreme dedication to the community and constantly displays how passionate he is about moving this place forward. The qualities he has displayed have made us very confident that he will perform well in this new role. fantastic will be our newest addition to the team! His new responsibilities will include: Handling and resolving admin complaints, player complaints and ban appeals Handling admin disputes as they arise Managing member of the month/staff of the month nominations and awards Lastly, we're promoting another member of the Board of Directors. This person has held various high level ranks here and has proven his worth in each and every one of them. He has displayed his trustworthiness and dedication to the community time and time again, taking whatever work we throw his way. His work ethic is admirable and he clearly has the community's best interest in mind at all times. I think I've talked highly of him enough, so please welcome roux as the newest member of the Board! His new responsibilities will include: Support/build/fix servers Approve admin applications Set up new Admin and Subscriber access Issue admin warnings/punishments Keep the community updated of any changes Final say in all admin disputes Plan for growth (website/servers) Support forum/plugins/logos Review and implement community suggestions Promote/demote server admins Handle admin complaints Handle disputes among fellow admins Be a role model to all admins/setting by example Collect donations, manage subscriptions, and pay the bills Manage the website, forums, and bansite Manage AT staffing and responsibilities ... anything else that needs to be done Congratulations to everyone!

Management in 2016 constantly preached "stay vanilla" and pretty much kept the server away from any type of plugins that would allow the server to sustain itself, such as a ratio control plugin. This wasn't really an issue at the time and most regulars in the community liked the mentality. The issue began when we raised the slot count. In 2016, Jailbreak was only a 24 slot server. That meant you were usually sitting around 8 CTs, assuming the server was full, less if it wasn't. This wasn't too many cooks in the kitchen and people could give orders, play a death-game on the side, and even fit in a casual conversation, all while not turning the server to chaos. Under my management, we strayed away from the plugin free mentality and added plugins like Ratio Control, CT Lockout and First Order. (not claiming credit, it was just during a time where I was managing the server) I believe at first, these plugins helped drastically with the general atmosphere of the server. The slot increase by that point was already enough to make the server a bit too chaotic. Over time, I think some of these plugins stopped working fully or at all and may still not work. Nonetheless, I think they were good additions and I actually suggested that all of them get a buff, or a version two. My exact ideas are foggy but given the slots had increased again, it made sense. I got on the server maybe a week or two ago. It was pretty close to being full, there were a couple of admins online, and nothing was really wrong. There were no freekillers, no one was mic spamming, CTs were pretty good, etc. However, I was just trying to give orders while these CTs were doing multiple other tasks on mic (ordering one T around, a death-game, casual conversation, etc.) and no one could hear me. No one was doing anything wrong, it's just the fact that there were too many cooks in the kitchen. This actually prompted me to ask in the staff Discord about what plans were in the works for improving voice chat, to which I got a pleasing answer. Slot count is a big factor here, I'd highly suggest we don't touch that though. It's the only thing keeping us up there with other servers and if we lower it we'll probably have no chance of beating them out. A push to return the server to it's old ways is great and all, but the community has changed too drastically. I can make a clear distinction between the quality of Ts and CTs alike from 2016 to now. Back then it was a more tight-knit group of regulars whereas now you have many new people joining and probably a lot of younger people too, who most likely don't have the best comprehension skills. Encouraging everyone to break away from their tryhard mentalities is a good start though, everyone should really loosen up, it's roleplay. Regarding the whole admin thing, (sorry Gumline - we're not shaving off 6 months because you believe you can save us) sometimes it doesn't even matter if an admin is there, like I was mentioning earlier. Everyone could be abiding by the rules fully and the server is still chaotic. More admins is always better though, so encouraging fit regulars to apply is always something anyone can do to help. Making a rule because something is going wrong on the server or because something could be better makes sense. In regards specifically to eliminating freedays and special orders during First Order, just thinking about it, it would totally reduce general chaos. This also wasn't a rule of any sort prior, so blaming that on admins makes no sense. While I advocated against a warden system because of the fact that it could be what's keeping us up so high, I do think buffs to plugins like First Order can assist us while keeping our "brand" we have. I also think some of the other ideas regarding voice chat (not sure what's public and what's not) could do us good without harming the server's style. There's just too many people at this point for any round to go completely smoothly without constant admin oversight or plugins that keep things somewhat orderly. Like I was getting at earlier, this doesn't mean slot count is the problem, it just means we have to adjust to that slot count. I didn't really think the original post in this thread was too helpful as it didn't really address any specific problems and present solutions, I like where the thread has begun to go though. The Jailbreak managers (and the managers for any server, really) seem very willing to listen to your concerns and act on them. I actually really like the style of management the server is under right now, personally. The highest Jailbreak has ever been at is I believe the high 50s on Gametracker, so it's not as if the server is in some ditch. We're not far off from where we've always been and I think you guys can go beyond that, help from the regulars is very crucial though. I honestly just sat down and wrote what I was feeling based on where the thread was going, but I don't think I addressed what sparked the thread. The change, from my perspective, makes perfect sense. If there's more people on, there's more of a chance for things to get out of hand. Therefore, it'd be beneficial for just one person to lead the first 60 seconds, to get things in order. It sounds pretty logical, at least based on the reasoning I'm interpreting. Orders at the beginning of the round are really important because all the CTs are getting into positions and gunning for the secrets, so chaos at the beginning caused by multiple orders being given could ruin the round entirely. I think "JAILBREAK IS BEING RUINED" is a bit of an exaggeration, but I'd encourage everyone to voice their own opinions on that.

Some people use VPNs normally without the intention of ban evading, so we don't want to instantly block these people from playing on our servers. When we have an extremely bad problem with ban evasion on a specific server though, we do usually enable this. It's just not something that we really need to keep on permanently.

Glad to have you guys on board, congrats!

Hello everyone, The new year has just started and we have a whole bunch of exciting promotions to announce! First, we have a couple new members of the Events Team! Our newest additions will be Takuto and Kopsta! Their new responsibilities will include: Organize, plan, and run events Manage/Promote special events on our servers Manage and monitor gaming tournaments (ie. SGSL) Make sure servers are ready for all special events Schedule events to fill servers in need via the steam community Work with the Administrative Team to create events that cater to community interests Next up, we have some new Community Advisors! These three are both great administrators and community members and have clearly shown that they are ready to move up. We're very happy to be promoting Alex, Infinityward and Poke up to their new positions! Their new responsibilities will include: Work with the higher staff on implementing important decisions and projects Handling player complaints and issuing bans Moderation of the forum Give awards to members on request Send group invitations to members on request Post in-game server problems on the forum Help in any way to make the servers fun Handle reported posts on the forum Continuing down the line, we're bringing up a couple new members of the Internal Affairs team! These two people have done great work in the roles they've been in and have shown that they are ready to take on this new position. John and Greggy G will be the newest additions to the team! Their new responsibilities will include: Handling and resolving admin complaints, player complaints and ban appeals Handling admin disputes as they arise Participating in promotion discussions Participating in hosting CA+ admin training and assisting with creating training materials. Managing member of the month/staff of the month nominations and awards Next up, we're promoting someone to the position of Modding Manager! This person has been doing an immense amount of work as a member of the Modding Team and has shown that they are ready to take this position. Please congratulate Infinityward on his promotion to this position. His responsibilities will remain the same, with the addition of managing the Modding Team. Lastly, we're finally bringing someone up to the Administrative Manager role! This person is one of our longest standing members of the Administrative Team and has done an immense amount of work during his time in his position. We're very pleased to announce Cept For Her as the new incumbent of this position! His responsibilities will remain the same, with the addition of managing the Administrative Team. Please join me in congratulating all of these people on their new positions! Happy New Year!

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Rejected for obvious reasons.

Yup, still being discussed. If anyone else wants to give their input you can still do so.

Sort of confused as to why there's any retaliation to this idea. He didn't say he wanted to bar them from viewing the section or being able to post in applications, just not be able to view the application if they don't meet the requirements. Makes pretty perfect sense to me especially considering the fact that we've had an extreme increase in unqualified people submitting applications recently. Haven't thought too much into if it's possible but it doesn't seem far-fetched. In any case it'd probably wait until the new forums but I don't see any harm in the idea, only a small benefit. Would implementing this cause something negative that I'm missing / hasn't been brought up?

Great work guys.

Hello everyone, Today we have some promotions to announce! First, to the Modding Team, we're bringing up Bacon! His new responsibilities will include: Work with the Administrative Team to find and fix errors and exploits found in maps, models, textures, etc. Creating and developing projects for the servers including maps, models, textures, etc. Arming requested maps for use on the servers. Porting popular maps and models from other games to CS:GO for use on the servers. Work with the Media Team to develop graphics for completed projects. Work with the Administrative Team and Events Team for the production of event based projects. Next, we're promoting some new (and one old) Community Advisors! These people have been doing an insane amount of work in their current positions and we are excited to see them moving up. Bacon, urp, and Takuto are our newest additions to the team! Their new responsibilities will include: Work with the higher staff on implementing important decisions and projects Handling player complaints and issuing bans Moderation of the forum Give awards to members on request Send group invitations to members on request Post in-game server problems on the forum Help in any way to make the servers fun Handle reported posts on the forum Lastly, we have a new member of the Administrative Team! This person has been doing a ton of work as a CA and has absolutely earned their new position. Trazz will be our newest member of the team! His new responsibilities will include: Verify that servers are operational Reboot dead/lagged servers Assist in training new admins Monitor the Teamspeak 3 server Grant access rights to Teamspeak 3 Search for new maps for all servers Upload maps to the servers and fast downloads site Edit map lists & rotations Congratulations everyone!

Sorry to hear that, good luck with your future endeavors. Locked.

Case by case, but it's usually along the lines of what @fantastic said.

If it seriously needs to be discussed further, someone should definitely make a new thread regarding the killing / calling KOS off of models thing. I don't think much more needs to be said though, punishing people for using common sense when it's completely appropriate to do so seems extremely ridiculous to me. In any case, some official statement from the Jailbreak management team to clarify this misconception (because as of right now, that's what it is, a misconception, there's no rule about that) may be beneficial to prevent any further confusion.

You can totally kill people off of cosmetics. If I see a red Lara Croft with a Minecraft head stab a CT in his back and then I see that same Lara Croft later, I'm putting a bullet in his brain. But, just like with anything else, if you're wrong and it was an identical Lara Croft that didn't kill that CT, you can be slayed. Calling a KOS on someone based on their model is probably not the best idea though, because if a CT follows up on it and you're wrong, you'd be the one getting punished for it. You should really only be calling a KOS with someone's actual name, if you wanna be smart about it. I'm not sure if anyone thinks otherwise, but to the absolute best of my knowledge, there is no rule or FAQ regarding literally any of this. Telling someone they "can't" do something makes it sound like there's a rule against this. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here though.

I don't know what went on with who told you what about what to do with your threads, but it doesn't matter. One thread, six threads, either way the discussion is going to be had. I actually have all of your threads opened up in different tabs because I plan on formulating responses. I noticed a couple things off the bat after reading your threads that I disagree with, but also some stuff that I totally think is worth looking into. Personally, I'm very appreciative of the fact that you've brought this stuff up, I think they're all valid things to be concerned about.

Really appreciate all the feedback so far guys, it's gonna be really helpful. I encourage everyone to continue posting and building off of each other. I'm going to respond to some more of this stuff tomorrow, as I already have a few thoughts on some of these.

Since a few replies have built up now I'll make a reply. @TheZZL @Manny The plan was to scrap "Administrative Team" completely and switch to Server Managers, so the "team name" would be no more. It's a confusing / vague name that doesn't explain much about the rank and "Server Manager" explains what they do much better. So with that, anything including "Administrative" probably wouldn't make much sense. A good point was brought up about the "Lead Manager" thing, so feel free to keep brainstorming for that one. @Dom Each Director would still make up the Board of Directors. It just doesn't make much sense for someone to hold the rank "Board of Directors" as no one person makes up the entire Board. @Noxstar My mindset, similar to with AT -> SM, is that it's not super easy to understand what it does from the outside looking in. Visiting another forum and seeing the rank "Mapper" is pretty self-explanatory and may immediately catch someone's interest, but "Modding Team" doesn't seem to have that same effect. The name was originally switched from "Mapping" to "Modding" with what you had said in mind. However, I think the work the team would do outside of mapping is so minuscule that it'd still make plenty of sense. Majority of it would probably be map work and majority of the people coming into the rank would probably only know how to do map work. Thank you guys for the replies thus far.

Hello everyone, The Board has been discussing possibly changing the names of our ranks for some time now. We have some ideas of our own that we'll be presenting below for you to comment on, but we'd also like for you guys to give us new ideas. You can disagree with a change, bring up an alternative, comment on a rank not stated here, etc. Now is the time to do it all. The name list we've come up with is as follows: President -> President Vice President -> Vice President Board of Directors -> Directors Internal Affairs -> Internal Affairs Administrative Manager -> Lead Manager Administrative Team - Server Manager Technical Manager -> Technical Manager Technical Team -> Technical Administrator Junior Technical Administrator -> Junior Technical Administrator Events Manager -> Lead Coordinator Events Team -> Event Coordinator Media Manager -> Lead Designer Media Team -> Designers Modding Manager -> Lead Mapper Modding Team -> Mapper Lead Advisor -> Lead Advisor Community Advisor -> Community Advisor Senior Administrator -> Senior Administrator Administrator -> Administrator Legend -> Legend Please feel free to comment on any of this - just stay on the topic of rank names and don't go off track onto something else.

The suggestion for this (when it came up at the CA level) was much more than just a simple change. It was suggested that it should change somewhat frequently, with the possible addition of a credit multiplier on the featured server. (CA+ correct me if I’m wrong on the details) It was definitely more than a simple quick switch though. We can definitely switch it right now, there’s just no rhyme or reason to switch it to anything else currently. Actually, it sort of makes sense that it’s ZE currently, given what state it’s in. Nonetheless, if we go through with the more complex idea (which I like personally) it’d be waiting until the new forums. Going to lock this.

Hello everyone, We have some exciting promotions today! First, we have a new rank to announce. We're introducing a new manager role which will be taking over management of the CAs - Lead Advisor! This person will have the same responsibility set as a CA, with the addition of overseeing the CA team. The first incumbent of this rank will work with us to shape the role, which is why we're very confident with the person we've selected. Please welcome roux into his new role! Now onto some other promotions. First, to the Events Team, we're promoting bat! His new responsibilities will include: Organize, plan, and run events Manage/Promote special events on our servers Manage and monitor gaming tournaments (ie. SGSL) Make sure servers are ready for all special events Schedule events to fill servers in need via the steam community Work with the Administrative Team to create events that cater to community interests Next, to the Modding Team, our newest addition will be Noxstar! His new responsibilities will include: Work with the Administrative Team to find and fix errors and exploits found in maps, models, textures, etc. Creating and developing projects for the servers including maps, models, textures, etc. Arming requested maps for use on the servers. Porting popular maps and models from other games to CS:GO for use on the servers. Work with the Media Team to develop graphics for completed projects. Work with the Administrative Team and Events Team for the production of event based projects. Lastly, we have two new members of the Administrative Team! These two people have been putting in an insane amount of work in their current ranks and we're excited to see what they do in their new ones. Please welcome Dong and ThRza as our two newest additions to the team! Their new responsibilities will include: Verify that servers are operational Reboot dead/lagged servers Assist in training new admins Monitor the Teamspeak 3 server Grant access rights to Teamspeak 3 Search for new maps for all servers Upload maps to the servers and fast downloads site Edit map lists & rotations Congratulations!

There's no way to remove it, but you're not going to get into any type of trouble for that.

Third, you've done an immense amount of work here and all of it is truly appreciated. Thank you for all the time you poured into this place to make it better. Best of luck going forward, I hope everything concerning your real life goes well.

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