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[/spoiler]Semper wrote:Well. Problems with admins is accountability... jason doesn't care. Ombudsman is powerless so who do they answer to? What makes them better than us that they should be beyond reproach? Nothing. Ideally Jason should run the forums himself... he has no alliegence and actually should be/is beyond reproach being for all intents and purposes God of the game.
I know how to sort the forums out.
Remove all Global mods and admins.
Re-elect Admins from three categories in different ways. Let Admins choose GM's.
First Cat: Veteran. This is someone who is a veteran forum user and has the account date to prove it (it can't be faked or debated). Veteran forum users know the community, know the forum history and if elected will be popular with the users who use the forums. This should be the user admin who deals with complaints and the forum users.
Second Cat: The Guide. Second admin should be elected from the last three admins by the former forum team (excluding admins). This should be the only way for an admin to be reelected. This admin should deal with teaching the other admins and should have absolutely no power in deciding forum team members fate.
Third Cat: Should be voted in by the forum team, old admins and users from the forum team. This should be the admin reponsible for internal affairs and hiring new mods/dealing with mod v mod disputes. Should be done publically. Users vote = vale of 50%. Admins vote = value of 25% and forum team value of 25%. This means prevents calculated voting from the forum team.
After the admins have been put in place then they should be allowed to bring a GM team of their choosing to the board. I would personally say 2 GM's per admin as an ideal number, otherwise one per admin and have 2 or so chosen by the others.
Leave blue mods in place and don't forget to rinse and repeat once a year!
Not just him but many users have posted that they think there should be a time period on mod's/admin... It's something I do agree with so I figured I'd post here since this is where we are supposed to post ideas xD
Personally I feel that we should have admin/mod's changed and or altered at least once a year not necissarily to be taken completely off the staff list, but at least be switched around please discuss!