Huh, two pages and still no other staff? Well, I'm just doing a quick check through before I head out for the rare social time I get to indulge in. Sorry to see that nobody else is responding to all of this. I'll be sure to drop a line regarding both this and your other thread when I return later tonight Rarit. Since I haven't checked the staff skype room yet today, there is a chance this issue is being discussed. Even so, I agree with you that some form of acknowledgement that the threads have been read is necessary. Unfortunately, I don't believe I have access to what will help with the blog image problem. Otherwise, I'd be looking into that when I return home later this evening rather than bringing it up to the staff. I hope that this issue gets resolved posthaste. I will definitely make myself very vocal if this isn't already resolved when I return home on Monday. Edit: It appears that the original issue has been resolved, but I'll still mention this particular thread.
I like to think people get promoted because there is no one else to pick from to be staff. At least no one if say would make a good one. Maybe one or two could make good ones, but they fall into that ghost category. Add on to that the activity here and it's not really worth it. GCT some times has 7 hours with no posts, some of the text games that I couldn't keep up with now get about 3 posts a day. Remember that rejuvenate thread, people just need to post in threads. In threads other then ones about the site, cause that won't really matter if there isn't a site that actually moves. I think I'm done with the rambling, I do have more, but I think it would upset some people. I'll just be quiet about it.
So, having received no response so far, am i to understand the majority of staff is saying: "Quit whining, we don't care."? Because i've seen Tyro online several times yesterday and he seems to be blatantly ignoring this thread. I'm assuming he did in fact read it considering shortly after i posted this, he took care of the blog comments issue, which i'm sure he wouldn't have done yet if i didn't bring this up. Seeing this thread turn out like this, here's my opinion of the current staff group as a whole: Of all staff members, SoulEmber was the first (and so far the only one) to respond. He assured me he'd let the rest of the staff know about this, responded directly to my complaint, and said he'd even solve the original issue if he had the ability to do so. This is what i expect from all staff, and most importantly the admins themselves. Their personal grudge towards me and some others prevents them from caring about our specific ideas and complaints. (in other words, they've proven themselves to be terribly biased.) It's true that being on staff is completely voluntary. But it's also true that if you're on staff, you're expected to live up to certain expectations. Being on staff is not a VIP ticket, and respect still needs to be earned. There are those on staff who try and fail, those who try and succeed, and there are those who don't seem to try at all. This last group basically needs to pack their bags and go. All i'm asking for in this complaint thread is for the staff to be invested in their community. To care about complaints, issues, and suggestions we give no matter where it's coming from or how questionable or silly it is. Right now i'm seeing none of that.
Some questions and statements I have If all the staff just packed it up, who would replace them? I can't think of anyone. I'm of course not counting previous staff, they've had their shot and left for whatever reason. I don't think they need to go, they just need to appear. I like to say so ill do it again. When a member becomes staff they stay around awhile then they become a ghost. It happens to all of them. So I assume being staff has to be really hard. Why else would they all hide away from the forum. But of course could they really be blamed. There isn't much going on here anyway. GCT sometimes goes 7 hours with no post. They of course could fix that by just posting, but so could a lot of people that have showed up in these threads similar to this one. How is that rejuvenate EP thing going, I believe it's dead, right. The people that posted here hardly post outside of these kinda threads. I find that interesting. I'm sure you get what I mean and if not ill explain if you ask. Lets see, ah. You call out current staff for not posting here, but I wonder if the previous staff would have posted here. As far as I remember they were the same way, just ghosts that lurked around. Of course I'm sure most of the previous staff would declare they would never ignore such a thing. Which I have an example of in a way. I remember a intro thread where a new member asked a simple question about an avatar or something. Before I posted a staff member beat me to it. Now this staff member just used copy pasta intro and left, never answered the question. I dunno, just some things I thought about as I read your post.
I agree with everything Echoax just said. Edit: and everything Kuja says below. I didn't think saying that warranted another post.
I was only referring to the ones who don't try at all. That's give or take 2 people in the current group. Even then it's easy to find someone and teach him the basics of whatever it is they're hired for. It's not hard at all. The previous staff members were at the very least active in the staff forums and site discussion (heavily active i might add) which is where their attention was most needed. The previous staff had an excuse for not being as active on the rest of the forums. Even then they spent time on the forums whenever they could and whenever a subject interested them. (Can't expect people to post where they don't want to.) In the past two days, i've not seen Eight at all, though that may be due to his excessive list of reasons which he left on his blog page. Tyro has been here several times and whenever i checked his activity, he was always reading blogs. If Eight is rightfully inactive due to personal reasons, Tyro should be there to cover for him. I've said this before.
I'd say more then 2, but that's just me. So let me get this straight, the current staff have to be active but the former staff didn't have to because it didn't interest them. Well perhaps nothing here interests the current staff. By your logic they are exempt from being active. Unless they have a different standard then you. What good is being active in only the site discussion and staff forum. It just proves that they all like to hang around that one location. I would still never see them until a thread like this or the rejuvenate thread would pop up. It's like my old restaurant manager, she liked being manager and all that but she never left the office unless it was work related. Which is all that the site discussion and staff forum are to staff. It's the job, they kinda have to show up or they become even less valuable as a staff member. Even some of the current staff are nowhere to be seen still. They would post a lot and now that they are staff, they are nowhere. Why does that happen to all of the users that get a spot. Now back to that whole subject that interests them. Should the staff at least try to appear in more areas then the staff forum and site discussion. Do you mean to tell me that the only thing that interest the current staff is like 2 RPs and the GCT for a hour. We have what, 4 forum mods, and nothing here interest them in the slightest to make them post. I don't wish to call out specific people if I can avoid it, but some forum mods aren't even posting at all. From what I gather one spend all day in the radio and I haven't a clue where the others are. It seems like that rejuvenation failed like I thought. Everyone came running out from under their rocks only to run back and expect it to just happen for them. Maybe there would be more interest things for them to post in if they went and made some threads themselves, but given current activity levels I doubt the threads would last. In that last few days I've seen 2 of the like 5-6 mods post excluding chat mods. I've seen dodo for a bit in the GCT and Tyro. And Tyro surprised me, it's super rare to see him post on the forum, don't know why, but whateva. The other remaining mods seem to be MIA as far as I know.
You're twisting my words. I'm simply saying that anyone, staff or not, shouldn't be forced to post in places they don't want to, but if you're on staff you are at least expected to post in places like the staff forums or site discussion because that's why they're on staff in the first place. The previous staff members did that. With the current staff, even the staff forums are dead, and as this thread proves, they barely give a damn about site discussion. I assume that staff members would be the sort of people who have enough interest in the forums they moderate to actually post more regularly, but that still doesn't mean they should be forced to post. Staff members need to be people who want to post, rather than being told to do so. If they need to be forced to show interest, what kind of staff members are they? And for the record, there are only 3 actual forum moderators, one of them is primarily a chat moderator. So seeing only 2 moderators is normal.
I just had to be sure what you meant, I'm not saying you have to force them to post, but what of the member that used to post a lot as normal users becoming invisible when they are staff. What changed that much they no longer post. As I said before, if nothing interest them, then perhaps make a few threads themselves. You know get the 12 or so active users to maybe post in them. I wouldn't know about the staff forum, probably because I can't see it. But yeah if they aren't doing anything, why keep them around. Well isn't that the point, they are showing that they don't really care what is happening, but I'd say that still applies to everyone that has been or is currently staff. If one is primarily a chat mod and we already have, 3 I think. Why not just make him the forth and vacate that spot. The saw one of the 2 yesterday and I have been told where the other spends his time in the radio chat.
Now that is certainly not true. My late appearance is more towards juggling coming up with just the right thing to say. I clearly didn't get anywhere, huh? Even so, your welcome to talk to be one on one about anything you're concerned about around here, if you'd like. I mean, what you've been saying has made for interesting reading.
Well sure you've showed up for one day and have been posting around, but what of the last few weeks or even months. Did you get anywhere? Well you appeared, so that is something. I'm demanding that the staff show up non stop daily, but if you did what you did today like every other day or something, that would be good. I can't say I have concerns, I just type what comes into my mind when I see someones post. So if we do talk one on one I don't really have anything to say that is helpful, it would just be about things I've noticed. That's about it really. So unless you really want that or something, cause that's all I got.
I show up non-stop daily, just not on the forums. You can't ask something that's out of other's comfort zones. If someone wants to stick in the chat, so be it. If someone wants to stick in the radio, so be it. I'm sure you can see what I'm talking about, it's just like a few users on the site, some don't come to the forums at all, but if it comes to talking about the forum staff, then I guess making more of an appearance would be helpful, I'm making a transfer to talking around the forum side of the site along with sometimes visiting the radio and pretty much when I can, because I go off at a certain time, stick in the chat. Roleplay side of the site is something I have came to ignore, as it does not peak my interests in the slightest. This week I've been so much more busier due to my Uncle and Auntie from the Shetlands visiting and having barbecues and etc. Due to such nice weather and it being the holidays, also attending in my personal life. Personally I think a few more appearances from certain staff members would be nice, but reasons come to us and we know why. All that is said isn't informed to the users about being away, just like staff discussion. Take note of that. The only few I don't see daily of around is forum/RP mods, and they have their reasons. Radio and Chat staff are always unless something comes up, on as far as I know. I technically am not even forum staff, I've been assigned the position to deal with duplicates and users not complying with COPPA. So; basically to deal sitewide bans that chat moderators can't make. And to go with the staff complaints of the newer staff list and a certain that could be replaced; if that was wished by the majority of the site for me to go, then I'd do so. Out with the new and in with the newer, ae? Because I've only been on Staff since April. I do apologize if I have misread this side of the conversation. But that's a bit of my input that was so as wanted from staff members.
Oops, you see that little space between the I'm and the demanding? There was supposed to be a "not" there. Figures I'd miss the one word that was most important to the sentence. You didn't misread anything I just mistyped it like an idiot. But I can still ramble on about what you got going on in your post only because the first part is a thing I can talk about. I'm not saying that people have to be forced into places they don't like, but if a forum mod is only ever in the chat, then what good are they. Would that not be the place they should also be around. That one that spends their time in the radio chat, they are a forum mod, but I never see them on the forum. I only see maybe one post a month and that is because they are making the CP of that week. That just seems wasteful really, if they enjoy the radio make them a radio mod and let a user that uses the forum be the new forum mod. Same with RP, chat, and whatever else staff does here, if the staff members isn't a active user of that part why let them continue to have power over it. It would be like me being a RP mod, I never go near that section, it would be a dumb decision. I haven't a clue what even happens in that section. Or if I was a radio mod, then I'd have to good to the radio, which I wouldn't so why would I'd continue to be one. As for the personal stuff and holidays and what not. Sure that stuff happens, but does it really happen so much that they can never post here or show up? If the answer is yes, sorry but I think they should be removed. What good is a staff member that never shows up. I never really complain about the radio or chat mods because I always see them there, well at least the chat, no idea about the radio. But they are almost always there, it's where I expect to see them and I do. As for your sitewide banning thing, does this mean you have forum mod powers, but you can't really do anything unless it's related to dupe accounts and COPPA? I have no idea honestly because I never knew I thing like that was given to a chat mod, that would also explain the different tinted green title. I guess, I dunno. Can't believe I forget that not.
[MENTION=347]Echoax[/MENTION] These colors for chat mod and forum should be a bit more different. And I would think that Dynasty would be able to handle other forum mod tasks. He at least has the ability to. Whether or not Eight explicitly told him not to I'm not sure, but that would be kinda dumb really. Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk 4 Beta
I thought they were different. Green for forum mod and purple for chat. But then I noticed that dynasty has a slightly different green tiny to his name. I just figure it was a mistake when the admins made the change. I had no idea he had some forum powers. So I'm a little confused here. Is dynasty a chat mod or a forum mod or some hybrid of them. From what I know about him handling dupes and all, I thought that was admin and all the forum mods jobs. Does dynasty have the power to lock threads and stuff or what. I'm sure he has the ability and all to do forum mod tasks, I never see him here. That's what my previous post was about, why give people staff spots for places they hardly go, doesn't make sense to me.
[MENTION=347]Echoax[/MENTION] Some of the colors were changed, chat mods are now a harder to distinguish shade of lighter green. You can see them on the bottom of the forumhome.
