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Day 1

So they said to promote a few people, just a quick small promo thread...at least that's what they said at first. Let's get into it! First, join me in welcoming Applily to the Events Team! His new responsibilities will include: Organize, plan, and run events Manage/Promote special events on our servers Manage and monitor gaming tournaments 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 a familiar face returning to the Media Team. Join me in welcoming back the very talented crazedkanagroo! He held up the media team when we barely had anyone else, and after a brief hiatus he has come back to make pretty banners once again. His 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) Work with Marketing team to manage branding and community logos/external advertising Work with Game Divisions to keep in-game branding and design (map textures for SG) up to date and relevant Work with Marketing team to manage social media accounts (Youtube, Twitch, etc) Following that, we have a new person joining the Marketing Team. This person has put in tons of time and effort into this place over the last few months and absolutely crushes any task put in front of him. Noxstar is the newest addition to the Marketing Team! His responsibilites 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). Next, we have a few Community Advisors joining us! These folks are very dedicated and have demoted many hours to helping the servers and contributing to discussions on the forums. Joining the team today will be Hawks, Toasty, and Venom! Their 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 In we're gonna have new CAs, we are gonna need a solid Lead Advisor to help them out. This person has displayed great leadership skills and has probably called you bud on more than one occasion. Jumping in as LA is the one, the only, Maniac! His responsibilities will be the same, with the addition of managing the Community Advisors. We're not done yet. Next up, we have two folks joining the Internal Affairs team. It's kind of awkward because I just got done talking about them, but please join me in welcoming Maniac and crazedkanagroo to the team! These two have shown they are more than capable of handling whatever we ask of them, and we know these new roles will be no different. Their 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 award Last, but certainly not least, we have a new Lead Server Manager approaching. I don't know how this little shrimp has managed to climb as far as he has, but at this point I can't do anything but support him. You may know him as a great server manager or as an absolute killer in the scrim server, either way I know you know. Please stand, or I guess sit, and applaud for Trazz. His responsibilities will be the same, with the addition of managing the Server Managers. Congratulations all around!

Whatever we gotta do to get your cute face up on the screen @idealist

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in case anyone was worried about roux's computer being lost in the fire, @patrick also built a brand new computer for @roux and shipped it to Canada for him. As if dropping something like $1000 on the stream wasn't enough....the true fucking MVP. @patrick@patrick@patrick@patrick@patrick

@Black Rainyou like that movie? I never knew.

I was almost right here back in 2015 but then I was stupid and threw away basically everything I had worked for in this community. In all my time away I never thought that over 5 years later I would come back and end up where I am now. I know it's just a gaming community, but I care about this place so this means a lot to me. Thank you everyone.

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Okay folks, it's time to get serious for a minute. Two weeks back a fellow community member, roux, suffered a great loss when his house burnt down with all his personal possessions inside. Now roux and his family are stuck living out of their relative's house and trying to work with the insurance company to somehow recover from this horrible situation. Unfortunately, due to uncertain times with Covid and bureaucratic red tape they most likely won't see any money for a long time, and what money they do get won't be nearly enough to cover all of their losses. SteamGamers is a community first and foremost, and when someone in the community suffers we do what we can to help remedy that suffering. So, on August 29th we will be hosting another 12 hour stream similar to our charity stream, only this time all money will go directly to roux and his family to try and help them recover. I know the turnout was big at the charity stream and the support was even stronger than we expected, so we're asking you to bring the same energy and support to this stream. The schedule 12 PM - 3 PM Hawks 3 PM - 6 PM Acer 6 PM - 9 PM BoM 9 PM - 12 AM Hawks Saturday August 29th (all times in EST) There are obviously less people up there and longer run times. something we chose to do differently this time. I'm sure you guys won't complain though because I know you guys all love Hawks and he'll be up there TWICE. I really urge everyone to come and join in on the fun and hype of the 12 hour stream even if you can't donate any money. I look forward to seeing everyone there on Saturday!

Honestly, people will always have an issue with change no matter what improvements are made. Thankfully this is a gaming community not a professional business, so there is no need for grading right? The fact is, this new forum has insane new functionality for many different aspects of the community and that alone should outweigh any minor features people feel they are missing. I say minor because I can't for the life of me fathom what is so big and important to people that they have to be publicly shitting on what is a job absolutely well done. I'm assuming maybe people aren't educated on the fact that we completely switched our software and therefore some functionality is just different. Similarly so, there are a lot of minor bugs that are better found by simply piling everyone in, as fresh sets of eyes often lead to the quickest results during bug finding + testing. The new forums are here and pretty well fully functioning, with improvements coming to fix those minor bugs and other things people feel are missing. The people working on this project couldn't predict every little problem that might occur when the forums went live, nor could they predict what people love vs hate from the old or new forums. All in all, the improvements and changes combined with the fresh new look deserve nothing less than a "job well done" especially considering all the hours poured into the project for free by people who simply care about making this community better. We have bug reports and other ways to contact people should someone feel anything is missing or out of place, so I don't see why anyone needs to be publicly and vaguely criticizing the efforts put into the project unless you were right there working with the people who made it happen.

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150x12 = 1800. A whole years worth is still only 1.33% of the average gross salary there! Just get a job