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Congratulations everyone! Well deserved promotions. (fuck u reid)

Honestly kind of shocking to see you leave at this stage man. Best of luck with everything - you had a huge impact on the community in the time you've been here, and I know that the work you leave behind will benefit the community for years to come!

Just drank a glass of milk a min ago. I could go through probably a gallon of milk in a few days tbh

Awesome promotions! Congrats everyone.

Grats all!

Winnipeg?

Congrats all!

Congrats to all of you! @fantastic let me know when you've mastered the secret BD song I wrote and put in the section, we can karaoke it together some day

Congrats to all of you! EDIT: Wait kopsta is orange? wtf (just kidding)

Después de ver esto, no me lo pierdo dank

What has happened to our sacred community

Wot? You discount Paul McCartney and Andrew Lloyd Weber?

Coming from my perspective, even though I haven't been VP or on the board for over a year these kinds of decisions and changes are made with the mindset of positively pushing our organization into more logical forms. You can't always work with the "if it ain't broke" mentality, otherwise progress will never happen. This change, while unexpected, makes sense to me in the way that there has always been a lack of concrete definition of what/who qualifies as "Legend" vs HG. Making a middle rank and *more* clearly defining all three now makes sense, and it is more scalable, even if there is further room for clarification. That isn't to say that there isn't room for improvement, but these kinds of announcement threads are by and large made for two reasons: a) To notify everyone of what is happening, of course; and b) To see what kind of feedback happens. If they didn't want feedback, they would lock the thread and delete further discussions from the outset. Obviously, the team doesn't run that way in general - so then you get responses like yours, mine, everyone else's, etc. Programs like this never, and I mean never stay in Version 1 format. Will they add administrator permissions? Maybe, who knows; might take a few days for them to discuss and bring in the right people. Trust me, I've been in those meetings before; it took weeks and weeks to create the initial structure of the Divisions we have today... and look what happened: they have probably changed 10 times since the original thread two years ago. I think these kinds of discussions and threads with public opinion are healthy. However, changes are made with a purpose and will always end up being affected by some future event, feedback or criticism and they will change again. The other thing I will mention is that nowhere in the OP or from a BD directly was it mentioned why powers weren't granted. Everything that is said until it is clarified is pure speculation. No one here that doesn't have a red name can say why it was chosen - be it trust issues, personal decisions, whatever. It is best not to speculate because you'll just end up pissing both yourself and everyone else off with rage over what the potential reasoning is. It will likely come out from the Board (at least partly) on why it was decided in this way, especially due to different responses being posted by various members of the community (mine included), so I would wait for that before making any more judgments or opinions on this.

Without knowing a lot of the work done behind the scenes for the change, based on the general eligibility I think it may make sense to give veterans at least an A level of powers, if not SA like Legends.

Instead of making a new thread, I wanted to at least mention the fact that I'm no longer an IA anymore. Over the past year I have looked to see if my availability became better for any sort of active staff role, and funnily enough due to the quarantine situation I thought it might be a good chance. Even with that, unfortunately I don't have the interest to play and it isn't a fit for me. While I may be now (officially) off the staff, I want to thank everyone for their dedication and hard work, and appreciate that I've had the chance to be a part of the team since my departure as VP.

Welcome back! Hope everything ends up well for you.

Oh shit it is finally out! I have been waiting for so long.

Congrats all! Ayy will!!

Please make it soon as I am in self-isolation and need entertainment!

While we haven't necessarily talked 1-on-1 in a while, you are one of the people that has made a lasting impression on me from my time here at SG. Thanks for being a friend and I hope to keep in touch with you even as you move on to the next adventure. Your actions on building up this place will be felt for a long time.

Congratulations!

Still haven't tried the sandwich at Chick-fil-A. Hoping soon because I hear it is bomb

You would be correct. Besides MG this is my all-time favorite gamemode for any CS game. I'd be down to help!