[Rejected] Forums Post Requirement

[Divine]

They should deduct 25 posts so that the requirements to become admin is 75 posts and 30 days/1 month.

 

I will stop spaming btw :3

[Hellobby]

I too would like this and totally not because im too lazy to get 100 posts and want to put in actual time into posts instead of just spamming them out.

[nesquik]

This gave me an idea, maybe we force appliers to have 100 posts so we dont get noobs just randomly applying.

[Soul]

100 posts is good. So we can be sure that appliers know the rules perfectly and can enforce them

[WavY]

This was discussed with higher-ups not too long ago where they seemed pretty stern about their position of not lowering it at all.

 

I personally agree with their decision and reasoning because getting to 100 post isn’t hard to get to and helps you expand your knowledge on the community if you are actively trying to post by being helpful or to start up a discussion which would just increase your chances of getting admin anyways.

[Dominic]

When you're an admin, you have to have some forum activity to keep up with rule updates, ban appeals, etc. but I think making people get 100 posts on the forums is a ridiculous expectation. Some people simply don't enjoy posting on the forums, there's no problem with that and it doesn't impair their ability to administrate the servers. I'm not saying we should completely remove requirements, some posts to test general intelligence are completely necessary imo. Bumping it down to something like 50 posts would most likely make a pretty big difference though and I don't think it'd hurt the quality of the people applying.

 

I think some sort of change to make the requirements easier to achieve needs to happen, whatever that may be.

[Ray]

When you're an admin, you have to have some forum activity to keep up with rule updates, ban appeals, etc. but I think making people get 100 posts on the forums is a ridiculous expectation. Some people simply don't enjoy posting on the forums, there's no problem with that and it doesn't impair their ability to administrate the servers. I'm not saying we should completely remove requirements, some posts to test general intelligence are completely necessary imo. Bumping it down to something like 50 posts would most likely make a pretty big difference though and I don't think it'd hurt the quality of the people applying.

 

I think some sort of change to make the requirements easier to achieve needs to happen, whatever that may be.

 

I think 100 posts is fine for applying for admin. Forums are a good way focus interact with the community and provide new ideas for the servers. I don't really come on forums and post too much yet I'm currently sitting at almost 300 posts. As long as you write quality posts from time to time, 100 posts will come in no time. While some people get discouraged because the 100 post requirement, it gives themself quality time to really sink themselves in to the community and gain everyone's support.

[Poobah]

I find that 100 posts works quite well. It shows who is committed to the community since it takes a while to rack up 100 decent posts. In that time, you ought to be trying out the servers you don't usually play on and learn their rules, interact with and get to know other members and players, make some constructive and useful posts/threads, and just overall establish yourself within the community. Forum posts allow players who do not play on the same server(s) as you to see what you're like, so by the time you apply most people will have had enough time to form an opinion on you and, if you're a decent person, that means more support.

 

in short, i had to get 100 so you have to, too

[Prez]

When you're an admin, you have to have some forum activity to keep up with rule updates, ban appeals, etc. but I think making people get 100 posts on the forums is a ridiculous expectation. Some people simply don't enjoy posting on the forums, there's no problem with that and it doesn't impair their ability to administrate the servers. I'm not saying we should completely remove requirements, some posts to test general intelligence are completely necessary imo. Bumping it down to something like 50 posts would most likely make a pretty big difference though and I don't think it'd hurt the quality of the people applying.

 

I think some sort of change to make the requirements easier to achieve needs to happen, whatever that may be.

 

What would 50 posts make different in the quality of our applicants? If anything it might take them an extra month or two to get to that point - in that time, it will solidify both: a) if they still want to apply; and b) that they are accepted as a good player in the community (a lot of the time, in a few months we see players lose interest, get banned or gain their own reputation, good or bad).

 

I don't see a reason to reduce the post count. While I'm not a good example of the "average", a regular player can easily rack up 3 to 5 posts a day responding to server-related threads, OT threads and general announcements. If you do 3 posts a day, it will take 33 days to get 100 posts from registration. That's a month. If you do 5 posts a day on average, it's 20 days. Even if you post once a day it would take you just over 3 months, which isn't bad at all considering you would spend that time playing on our servers.

[Dominic]

What would 50 posts make different in the quality of our applicants? If anything it might take them an extra month or two to get to that point - in that time, it will solidify both: a) if they still want to apply; and b) that they are accepted as a good player in the community (a lot of the time, in a few months we see players lose interest, get banned or gain their own reputation, good or bad).

 

I don't see a reason to reduce the post count. While I'm not a good example of the "average", a regular player can easily rack up 3 to 5 posts a day responding to server-related threads, OT threads and general announcements. If you do 3 posts a day, it will take 33 days to get 100 posts from registration. That's a month. If you do 5 posts a day on average, it's 20 days. Even if you post once a day it would take you just over 3 months, which isn't bad at all considering you would spend that time playing on our servers.

 

I understand that it isn't necessarily difficult to get the requirements but people don't want to post that much and they shouldn't have to. Like I said, some posts to grasp their general intelligence are necessary. The month they need to be signed up on the forums on top of the time they've already spent on the servers should be enough to see whether or not they're good community members.

 

People enjoy playing the servers more than posting on the forums and that's all they should have to do to be an admin. In Jailbreaks case, we have a hard time finding qualified people for admin, let alone ones that will put forth the effort of making 100 forum posts. Overall, I just think all the good that comes from people having to make 100 forum posts will pretty much be the same if they only have to make 50.