Revenga

I already told you you're not allowed to step down... In all seriousness, thank you for everything you've done for SG, Black Rain. I remember you first becoming an admin, now look at you, time flies. Best of luck to you.

Congrats all, good to be back.

I agree with Dominic’s original post to an extent, but would push it a step or two further as well. At this time, when forum/server activity is down, I agree with Caution that it is best to simplify and return to our roots. The thoughts I basically have is this… The part I disagree with is the removal of Internal Affairs, which I will explain later on. At the moment, we do not have the population or growth to warrant the elaborate rank structure that currently exists. I think the Modding, Marketing, Designer, Streamer teams should be discontinued until a later time when we have more population. Right now, the focus of the community needs to be on the servers, which will in turn help out our forum activity. If we remove those teams, our rank structure would be as follows: President & VP Board of Directors Internal Affairs Manager Internal Affairs Officers Technical Manager Technical Administrators Junior Technical Administrator Lead Server Manager Server Managers Lead Advisor Community Advisors Server Admins Legends Veterans Honorable Gamers Supporters Regulars Members ...Which, in all honesty, for a community of this current size, is still too many ranks. While we’re in a sort of “rebuilding” mode as far as population and which servers to keep and get rid of and whatnot, I feel it’s best for the BDs themselves to manage each different group, thereby eliminating the “managers” or “leads” of each group. I’d like to pose a question to which I don’t currently have the answer: is there a need for IAM, TM, LSM, and Lead Advisor, and what do the individuals in these roles do? Can these duties be performed by the BDs or other individuals in IA/SM roles, without an actual title? Additionally, could we remove the JTA role, and just combine that with regular TA as well? In the past, TA access varied user to user anyways, so that could be another simplification to the structure. If we remove JTA, and those manager/lead roles, in addition to the above changes of removing the teams, this would be the rank structure: President & VP Board of Directors Internal Affairs Officers Technical Administrators Server Managers Community Advisors Server Admins Legends Veterans Honorable Gamers Supporters Regulars Members ...Which is a lot more manageable/understandable than the current structure. However, I think there are still changes that could be made even further than this. Take Community Advisor for example. You could remove this role to make sure input from all admins is taken into account. Why limit ourselves, especially given our current size and server population, to discussing community matters with only certain “senior” admins? Encourage discussion among everyone, and people will want to post more and participate. That would help solve the issue of less forum activity these days as well. I understand CA was talked about becoming a Server Representative instead. While it’s an interesting idea, I think that currently it’s not needed. Server population is the important thing to focus on right now, and while it sounds like a good rank to have, what difference will they actually make? If we want to get the servers popular, are Server Reps going to do that, or is it the combined efforts of all players and admins? Beyond that, let’s look at the responsibilities of the IAO group: Handling and resolving admin complaints and ban appeals How many admin complaints and appeals have existed in the last 2 months? 6 admin complaints, at least one of which looks like it was a joke. 5 appeals. Not saying those statistics warrants removal of this group, but these issues do not come up often anymore. Also, only 3 player complaints in the last 2 months as well. Handling admin disputes as they arise If this also refers to complaints, see above. Participating in promotion discussions Good to have more people than just BDs discussing promotions within the ranks. Participating in hosting CA+ admin training and assisting with creating training materials. Having any sort of admin training program is good for those new to any rank. Managing member of the month/staff of the month nominations and awards I need to look more into how this works, so no comment at the moment. Then let’s look at the responsibilities of the SM group: Verify that servers are operational This can really be done by any higher up. Reboot dead/lagged servers This could be done by any higher up as well. Search for new maps for all servers This is important, especially researching what kind of maps players like, and getting feedback on different maps. Upload maps to the servers and fast downloads site A necessary step to the map adding process. Edit map lists & rotations Another necessary step to the map adding process. Maintain dominion over and keep up to date with their respective server Can’t run a server without knowing what’s going on. As Caution said, what AO, or Administrative Officer, used to be is basically IA and SM combined into one group. When looking at the IAO duties next to the SM duties, honestly you could probably merge them into one group again as AOs, with BDs stepping in as needed. With as few as complaints/appeals come up these days, it would be a workable structure in my opinion, but as Caution also said, don’t want all the SMs to just quit… However, if some just want to manage servers while others don’t mind the extra work, you could just make them TAs, with the same access they have currently so they can keep doing their thing. How the AO group would operate, would be more defined as time goes on. Merging two groups together, you can’t expect everything to be perfect right away. It does take time to adjust to change. However, when people step down, bringing in fresh blood is the opportunity for the Board to define and emphasize their expectations of the AO group, which is why I say it will be more defined with time. Looking at the last structure I listed above, if we made these changes as well, our structure would look like: President & VP Board of Directors Administrative Officers Technical Administrators Server Admins Legends Veterans Honorable Gamers Supporters Regulars Members This is just some of my thoughts, and I think this makes more sense and is far more straightforward than the current list of ranks, for the current state of the community. I’ve seen a lot of rank structures at this place, ideas that have worked/not, but we have more ranks now than I’ve ever seen, and we’re at one of our slowest points. I had more typed up for this before, but I can’t find where I saved it, so I’ll wrap it up.

Thank you for everything you've done to keep this community going over the years. It's been a while since we last spoke, but I wish you the best in your future endeavors. Take care.

Never really eaten at 5 guys much tbh, however I feel it's only fair for voting purposes that I give it a fair try before voting, due to the above replies praising this burger.

When you click on your group, on the top green bar you should see a dropdown menu called Admin to the right side, click pending and invited members and put the username of the player you want to invite.

Record a demo and post a complaint or call an admin in to take care of it. It's a freekill and the CT is dumb for trying to shoot past another T like that. We don't need a new rule added for every little thing when we have admins who applied to take care of this stuff.

That would ruin fun for other players which would give them a choice to essentially donate or lose, I don't think too many people would enjoy the game that way

PM a TA or BD+

Fixed, sorry for the wait

No problem with making a thread for a simple question, that's what the forum is here for.

Soon as a donation is added to the meter it should update on your post, usually Caution needs a day or two to confirm when a donation was sent and donations are usually added once every few days to the monthly goal

All donations need to be added by a BD and for the one time donations Caution needs to confirm it before it gets added, subscriptions are included toward the monthly goal.

Chatbox is for small talk, if he has a question he can ask it in the forum, nothing wrong with that.

You've uploaded an avatar, but profile pictures only show for players who use the steam sign in feature on the forum.

If you wanted me to clean it up you should've said something, I'll clean it up better later

What do you mean by use picture? And for images in signatures I believe it's set so you need to be at least a Regular (30 days and 50+ posts) before you're able to upload an image to your signature.

Can do something like that.

I'm gonna close this before it goes too off topic... take it to PM's.

It won't let you upload a different animated one if you're no longer a subscriber.

@Nuclear Onion it's actually sub or HG, not just a regular admin

To upload animated avatars you have be be a subscriber or honorable gamer

Makin' bacon pancakes because @Caution kept putting it in the TS chat every other day

Yeah, it works. Going to close the thread since there's not much more to say here.

Interesting thought, but that's why AO's moderate the forum, CA's as well. If the post is worthless, they can delete it. Or it can just as easily be ignored, and if that's all they post to try to get 100 posts for admin, the vote probably won't pass on their app. People will find a way to spam with a minimum character/word count anyway, so it's not worth the hassle tbh.