Alrighty. I'm sorry to be creating another one of 'those' threads where we rant about EscapeRestart and how much better it was in previous years. However, I do believe this to be a pivotal matter regarding to the community and its current state of decline.
To put it bluntly, I do not believe EscapeRestart's Administrative Team are performing at a level required in their position within the community. In fact, at the time of writing this, I can't find their latest activity where they contributed as an admin should.
Now, it is important for us to consider the roles and responsibilities of admins. I will discuss those later in this post.
Admins are, in the end, the people who have control of the entire community. What has become more important recently is their responsibility to control what servers are removed or added.
Recently I bumped a thread in the staff-only forum that had been inactive for a month after Ogarci had called for a vote on several community matters.
To put it simply, what have the head staff done in the past few weeks and even months? We have hardly heard or seen any action from them whatsoever, even when we have brilliant ideas coming from those who actually want to see the community survive. Perhaps it is a lack of motivation or passion on their part, but in their position I believe it is one of their responsibilities to resign if they do not wish to support the community any more. At this point in time we have enough ideas to improve, but the administrative team are not supporting or implementing those ideas. We cannot progress as a community if we continue like this.
Now, onto possible solutions.
Evaluate the current admins. This can come in a few forms, but most importantly the admins themselves need to consider their position. Are they passionate or motivated enough to really fulfill their role within the community? Do they really want to put in all the effort required to start this back up?
Elect new admins. Anyone who has shown in the past few months that they are truly passionate enough and willing to take on the role of an administrator should be considered for election. These should be held as community votes because ESCAPERESTART SHOULD BE COMMUNITY-BASED. Anybody's ideas should be considered and we should stop segregating staff and players! When or if new staff are elected I would encourage them to remove the staff-only subforum.
Consider alternatives to the current way we operate. Regular (I suggest monthly) polls where community members can suggest and vote on features or changes to make to the community. Here's how they would work:
TL;DR:
- Re-evaluate responsibilities / duties of head staff. What should they be doing?
- Compare current head staff. Are they meeting these requirements?
- Resolve the issue. Current admins resign? Improve activity? Re-elect new admins? Consider alternative ways of managing the community?
-Monthly polls where users can suggest and vote on major or minor changes to the community
I am almost calling for another community overhaul, but this time of the administration team and staffing as a whole. I believe things here should be more community-run.
DISCUSS!!
Yes, this thread suggests that certain things from communism would do this community a world of good.
To put it bluntly, I do not believe EscapeRestart's Administrative Team are performing at a level required in their position within the community. In fact, at the time of writing this, I can't find their latest activity where they contributed as an admin should.
Now, it is important for us to consider the roles and responsibilities of admins. I will discuss those later in this post.
Admins are, in the end, the people who have control of the entire community. What has become more important recently is their responsibility to control what servers are removed or added.
Recently I bumped a thread in the staff-only forum that had been inactive for a month after Ogarci had called for a vote on several community matters.
This post only received one response from Elandrir. Why didn't more staff respond? That is a part of their duty - showing interest in improving the community as a whole.
To put it simply, what have the head staff done in the past few weeks and even months? We have hardly heard or seen any action from them whatsoever, even when we have brilliant ideas coming from those who actually want to see the community survive. Perhaps it is a lack of motivation or passion on their part, but in their position I believe it is one of their responsibilities to resign if they do not wish to support the community any more. At this point in time we have enough ideas to improve, but the administrative team are not supporting or implementing those ideas. We cannot progress as a community if we continue like this.
Now, onto possible solutions.
Evaluate the current admins. This can come in a few forms, but most importantly the admins themselves need to consider their position. Are they passionate or motivated enough to really fulfill their role within the community? Do they really want to put in all the effort required to start this back up?
Elect new admins. Anyone who has shown in the past few months that they are truly passionate enough and willing to take on the role of an administrator should be considered for election. These should be held as community votes because ESCAPERESTART SHOULD BE COMMUNITY-BASED. Anybody's ideas should be considered and we should stop segregating staff and players! When or if new staff are elected I would encourage them to remove the staff-only subforum.
Consider alternatives to the current way we operate. Regular (I suggest monthly) polls where community members can suggest and vote on features or changes to make to the community. Here's how they would work:
- User has an idea.
- They post their idea on the suggestions forum.
- The poll master creates a poll of all suggestions of the month in a post with links to the threads containing the suggestions.
- Members of the community vote for the feature they would most like to be implemented next.
- The suggestion with the most votes gets implemented and the next 3 or 4 runners up get a second chance next month, as to not skip any great suggestions.
TL;DR:
- Re-evaluate responsibilities / duties of head staff. What should they be doing?
- Compare current head staff. Are they meeting these requirements?
- Resolve the issue. Current admins resign? Improve activity? Re-elect new admins? Consider alternative ways of managing the community?
-Monthly polls where users can suggest and vote on major or minor changes to the community
I am almost calling for another community overhaul, but this time of the administration team and staffing as a whole. I believe things here should be more community-run.
DISCUSS!!
Yes, this thread suggests that certain things from communism would do this community a world of good.
. There are also some threads that really don't pertain to players at all, but do to staff, and I think those should stay hidden. As per everything else, let the world see.