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As a late follow up, Euro and All Ts are both permanently banned for essentially mocking the higher up staff and making fun of a situation that could have been completely avoided. There is much, much more to this story, but rather than getting into it in a public sphere we'll leave it as this: regardless of your past tenure, rank or position within the community, if you continue to push drama and cause trouble for the community at large, it will be dealt with by the board. Decisions that are made by the board are discussed at length and take into consideration the thoughts of the community and staff, and can always be debated or discussed - in the right way. When you take the wrong approach and cause trouble on the forums, the board will not hesitate to stop this. We are always open to discussion and critique if it is presented in the appropriate manner; otherwise, you are welcome to go somewhere else.

We're discussing the hidearms plugin as a whole on all of our servers right now as we have indeed seen this quite a bit. We'll get back to you on what we figure out.

Trying to see if I can make it. @WillofCamelot prepare to be serenaded

Correct for now unless otherwise officially stated

this. Not sure what the rest of the team thinks but dom's got my thoughts here

I will address this part in this post. Let me let you guys into a bit of the decision making behind this push as well as some of my personal thoughts. In the Canadian Forces, we learn how to deal with situations that involve decision making in order to further a goal, plan or objective. In order to do this, we do what is called a 'risk assessment'. In order for a decision to be made that is in the best judgment of the individual or group, the following process is followed (adjusted for a gaming community vs military force): - Specify the mission at hand We, as a board, are looking to consolidate our platform offerings to the community in order to provide a more streamlined and consistent approach to socializing within the Steam-Gamers gaming organization. In order to do this, we are looking to merge our voice and text platform offering into Discord. Discord is a newer gaming social media platform that allows for simultaneous voice and text-based conversations in a community sphere. We are looking to merge our existing Teamspeak server base into Discord to provide a single source for Steam-Gamers social media. Identify problems that may arise Change is always difficult within any organization. There are entire courses dedicated to change management, giving people the tools they need to manage change within an organization. A change in any system is never easy, so it's expected that there will be backlash or arguments against. Within SG, TeamSpeak has been used for years (since Ventrilo was discontinued) and has been used for official meetings for the last few years. As a Board, we are looking to keep abreast of the gaming sphere and officially adopt platforms that can adapt to the changing needs and requirements of the community. As a result, our agreement in the Board discussion was to adopt Discord-only as a trial to see how it ran overall with the community. I believe we would have done better by stating that at the outset, but either way the end result is the same. While we didn't have unanimous agreement in the thread I voted in, the majority of the board agreed to trial this for a period and gather feedback post-launch. Implement Controls Once Discord-only launches at the end of the month, we will definitely be taking feedback from all sources. In the run-up to launching, we are working with CA+ in their section to identify shortcomings of the Discord currently and are working with the Technical Team on beefing it up in anticipation of the switch over. We are currently looking to gather their thoughts and recommendations to make it as good as it can be in anticipation of full launch. In terms of community feedback, as Caution noted it's fully kosher to offer your thoughts - until the launch happens however, we are in construction mode and would recommend you pipe feedback to the CA+ team for discussion. One thing that doesn't help with any process is the creation of public drama, as it's counterproductive to any team trying to make a new change while still including positive feedback from their base. Assess decision and make changes As the rollout happens and continues on, we will as a team (staff with BD decision) look at how the Discord rollout has happened and will make decisions on how best to proceed. Based on the result and response, we could see: - Continue as discord-only with no changes; - Continue as discord-only with changes (all staff involved + community feedback); - Re-introduce hybrid TS/Discord system and re-evaluate; or - Removed Discord in favor of TS. Personally, I like TS. I don't think it's a bad platform, nor do I think it should never be used by anyone again. However, with Discord, it bridges two different systems that I think can do better together rather than independently - a primarily voice-based system (TS), and a text-based system (Slack for staff, Discord currently for the community at large). We use multiple systems to accomplish similar goals, so I think it makes sense to try bridging things together. Now, I'm not saying that for staff we're moving Slack. I think it would be interesting to try, and I did detail my thoughts last night to some people; however, that is up for discussion later as it hasn't been brought up as a group at all. Happy to discuss the upcoming changes as we continue planning. -- In terms of the rest of the post, I prefer to speak with those people involved privately via PM, but I will say this - as VP, I have worked with the various teams consistently and exhaustively over the last few months to continue pushing changes, making updates, and helping where needed. When all of the drama went down in December, I was at my wit's end - I could not believe how much drama had picked up and how utterly exhausted and stressed it made me. I took this holiday off to re-evaluate my position within SG and how/if I wanted to continue forward. After taking time off to de-compress, relax and truly think about things, I have come to this conclusion: we all treat this place way too fucking seriously. While I am happy that some of you (as well as myself I'd like to say) have put in hours and hours of work here, we have to remember that at the end of the day, it's just a gaming community. Nothing in this place will matter in your life more than school, your jobs, or your social life. We are here to run a community for CS:GO and other serves and let people have fun - the forums and discord can also be a source of fun, but when people bring up drama, call others out, step down and complain, etc. etc. it does literally nothing for you nor us. At this point I could literally not give half of a shit about all of the drama that is ongoing and continues to happen. My job stays the same - ensure that our managers have what they need to run our servers effectively, keep rule breakers off of our servers, work with the board on expanding our offerings and keeping us in the top echelons of gaming communities, and more. What my job does NOT cover - stand idly by when people step down because they're mad, then pick apart current staff for decisions they make; make passive-aggressive comments to the point of utter annoyance; continue in the back-and-forth that adds nothing to any conversation; etc. I don't like to take sides in arguments around here, nor do I usually elect to make longer posts on drama in the public sphere. I much prefer to keep these things private as the rest of the community doesn't deserve to see this spilling out into the limelight. But at a certain point, when you cause me to lose sleep, arrive late for work, and miss out on visiting my girlfriend who lives 6 hours away because I have to stay up until 3am dealing with pathetic drama - I have had enough. We are all one community. The board makes decisions that it feels is in the best of the community - and these decisions can always be reversed; nothing is set in stone. If you have a problem with the way that our staff of over 40 people does things, or if you feel like you are being dis-credited, dis-honored or offended, feel free to go somewhere else. We are inclusive of anyone who is willing to work with us, rather than against us. I truly love this community and hope that we can reach new heights and places we've never been before. I will continue to do my best to accomplish this, by working with our teams and admins to make the community as fun as possible to be a part of. If you would like to speak more on this, please feel free to private message either myself, Caution, or anyone else on the Board.

@Black Rain also, fixed the description kek

a1OzMOj1wRU Enjoy everyone!

To give you an example, I got demoted from my position in 2011 for being an ass and immature. And look where I am now! ... still an ass and immature, but with a red italic title :>

Sorry guys, I took a leave of absence for about a month and I'm back tonight. The video is uploading now - should be ready in an hour and I'll make a post! Thanks again to everyone who worked together on getting clips made + putting it together (@roux gets all the credit js heheh)

Congratulations guys!

Nice

Welcome back my man.

so proud my dude, so proud

Happy new year everybody for your gifts I will give you permanent bans hahahha I love this community

for new years i wanna be a rocket ship

yeah fuckface, stop being such a retard gosh

nah we tight now sry

Hello everyone, As part of our ongoing mission to target needs within the staff structure and develop solutions for them, we are introducing a new team rank: Internal Affairs! The Internal Affairs team was created in order to streamline community-related HR and management activities. We feel that having a rank to help deal with and manage the policy-related and community-related management tasks will help to keep things moving as they always should. The rank's responsibilities and structure will be fleshed out in time, but as a start their 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 SR+ admin training and assisting with creating training materials. Managing member of the month/staff of the month nominations and awards This rank is considered a more senior, trusted position and as such the promotions to this rank are discussed at length and will be monitored post-promotion to ensure the people in it are doing what they need to be doing. As a start, this rank will be held by members in tandem with their other ranks - i.e. an AT can hold both ranks, a TA can hold both ranks, etc. For our first round of promotions to IA, please join me in congratulating All Ts and Gator! We feel that these two will do a fantastic job in helping us to build up the rank and make it what it needs to be in order for it to be successful. They will hold IA in tandem with their other current ranks. The team will be reporting to delirium, who will be taking a spot as team lead. Please join me in congratulating these two! @All Ts @Gator

Hi everyone, We have a very exciting promotion to announce to you tonight. This person has done a multitude of work in multiple divisions and ranks and has had a profound impact on SG as a whole. We're very happy to announce his next step up in the staff ranks - to the rank of Administrative Manager, welcome All Ts! His responsibilities will stay mostly the same, but he will now manage the team to get where it needs to be to function nominally and will report directly to the Board. Stay tuned for some other very important updates... Please join me in congratulating @All Ts!

Aaaand, back to our regularly scheduled program! @Creten and @roux will post with some updates on going forward for the tournament. Re. the deleted msgs - if you have any questions, please send me a PM as it has been resolved privately.

Locked until further notice.

1 year later, confirmed still dumb

um excuse me if you read my post you could clearly see that i DID

So as some of you may know, I've had woes and troubles for the better part of the last 3-6 months with my computers. My laptop was stolen last year, and I got money from work for a replacement that I've used to game (it wasn't a great one but it worked). That laptop then went kaput in August, and I tried fixing it myself to no avail. So, basically I've been limited to forums only until now because of my lack of a gaming (or even close to it) PC. Now, that all changes.. My new build is now complete! This is the first time I've ever built a computer from scratch, but I'm happy with the result. It was more work than I anticipated but not super difficult - honestly it was a fun little project to get everything wired in the right way haha. Here are my specs: CPU - Intel i5-8600k 6-core 3.6GHz processor with Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU cooler GPU - MSI GTX 1070 TI Titanium 8GB RAM - 2 x 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 PC4-19200 memory PSU - EVGA SuperNOVA 550W G2 Storage 1- Samsung 970 EVO M.2 250GB SSD Storage 2 - WD Black 1TB Drive Motherboard - Asus Prime Z370-A Case - Phanteks Enthoo Pro F Full Tower All in all was able to get this whole rig for under 2 grand. I'm hoping that it will last me a while, but either way it's miles better than any shitbucket I had before. Currently installing CSGO on this guy so that I can finally get back onto the servers that I love playing.