Admin Accountability

[tsar]

@KarmaBum said in Admin Accountability:

You guys seem to get it: You’re traffic cops, not federal agents.

I’m a federal agent.

And an assassin.

And a history professor.

[Testament]

@KarmaBum said in Admin Accountability:

I had like a whole post typed up and then decided: The fact that you’re even concerned about this probably means it won’t be an issue for a long time.

You guys seem to get it: You’re traffic cops, not federal agents.

[Pavel]

@tsar said in Admin Accountability:

@KarmaBum said in Admin Accountability:

You guys seem to get it: You’re traffic cops, not federal agents.

I’m a federal agent.

And an assassin.

And a history professor.

And you’re 19 with three PhDs, right?

[tsar]

@Pavel said in Admin Accountability:

@tsar said in Admin Accountability:

@KarmaBum said in Admin Accountability:

You guys seem to get it: You’re traffic cops, not federal agents.

I’m a federal agent.

And an assassin.

And a history professor.

And you’re 19 with three PhDs, right?

Yes

[eye8urcake]

@tsar said in Admin Accountability:

@Pavel said in Admin Accountability:

@tsar said in Admin Accountability:

@KarmaBum said in Admin Accountability:

You guys seem to get it: You’re traffic cops, not federal agents.

I’m a federal agent.

And an assassin.

And a history professor.

And you’re 19 with three PhDs, right?

Yes

And a model.

[Juniper]

Clearly the solution is to store the board on the blockchain.

[Testament]

@eye8urcake said in Admin Accountability:

@tsar said in Admin Accountability:

@Pavel said in Admin Accountability:

@tsar said in Admin Accountability:

@KarmaBum said in Admin Accountability:

You guys seem to get it: You’re traffic cops, not federal agents.

I’m a federal agent.

And an assassin.

And a history professor.

And you’re 19 with three PhDs, right?

Yes

And a model.

With a tragic backstory.

[Pavel]

@Testament said in Admin Accountability:

@eye8urcake said in Admin Accountability:

@tsar said in Admin Accountability:

@Pavel said in Admin Accountability:

@tsar said in Admin Accountability:

@KarmaBum said in Admin Accountability:

You guys seem to get it: You’re traffic cops, not federal agents.

I’m a federal agent.

And an assassin.

And a history professor.

And you’re 19 with three PhDs, right?

Yes

And a model.

With a tragic backstory.

All backstories usually start with “I was born” which is enough of a tragedy in itself.

[Mourne]

@Pavel said in Admin Accountability:

All backstories usually start with “I was born” which is enough of a tragedy in itself.

For me it’s rare that I would write a background in the first person. I don’t write first person in game, why would I write first person in a background?

I also typically start with a characters environment rather than their birth, because the actual birth or creation is a given… as the character does exist.

[mietze]

I think having a team (and taking as much care as possible to keep retaining/adding on folks so that it is a team) that works well together and can collaborate together helps a lot in in the long run. That requires some community buy in as well. If you have a team that works well enough/is comfortable to speak up when there’s a decision made that should be revisited, when respect can be there even when there isn’t always a face of 100 percent unity (because there will come a time when that is not possible or doesn’t happen in a given moment), and most importantly when there’s enough people on deck that when a break is needed it can be taken–I think that is often even more important than any policy or procedure for long term health. It’s hard, though. And I think keeping the admin team numbers up is often something that is neglected first; it’s so easy to do when burnout isn’t present, but so hard to rectify once that burnout starts to happen full force.

And while it’s fine to have disagreement and different approaches, I think it works best if the people involved do have respect for everyone else on the team. The first crack at accountability almost always comes not from the membership but from the admin team itself. Once it falls to the community to hold the admin accountable because there’s evidence that they are slipping from that and not holding each other accountable, it’s just really hard to recover from.

[eye8urcake]

@Pavel said in Admin Accountability:

All backstories usually start with “I was born” which is enough of a tragedy in itself.