Staff & forum updates - Staff listing update
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 10:44 am
Staff updates:
Update:
Original post below:
First off:
I understand & respect her decision to step down, and thank her for the time and dedication to both SkullTag and Zandronum the past several years.
I know there are some who are cheering this decision, so I would like to remind people to keep the discussion civil & on topic.
There have been recent staff discussions on revamping & improving the staff's positions (for example the title under avatars). Basically, we plan on having an admin preside over each aspect of Zandronum instead of just one person trying to manage everything all at once. This should help on both the community and staff sides, and also lead to less PMs from confused users not knowing where to turn, as we are volunteers and can't be everywhere all the time. This should help fix any "Admin's not on right now" issues.
We are reviewing the staff listing to see who is active or not, and we have planned to add more master server admins to help deal with potential cheater threats, as well as reviewing & white-listing innocent users caught in range bans.
Forum updates:
Along with the staff updates, I will be updating and revamping the staff groups over the next week or so (maybe just the few days if I'm lucky). Right now the user legend is being updated at the bottom of the main index page, so I apologize for it shifting around and changing a bunch.
In trying to work with and improve MyBB's built-in "warning system" for problematic users, and after discussing things with the staff, I have decided to disable the built-in automated punishments (such as Suspension and Banning) and favor manual staff actions for infractions instead, and just using the warn system as a staff note keeping system. The warn system was resulting in too many users relying on its "delayed punishment" before being finally dealt with. Hopefully this makes sense for everyone, though I noticed the warn % still shows on the user control panel, I will see if this can be fixed though it might be hard-coded (the warning system is a built-in feature, not a plugin).
Hopefully things will go smoothly! And also for those who submitted patches and updates on the tracker to the forum software (you know who you are), I will work on double checking and pushing it through when I get the time. (We use a Mercurial repository for the forums, I can't just arbitrarily upload stuff via FTP)
Update:
From: http://zandronum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=4368infurnus wrote: As you may know, Metal and Ruin have recently stepped down from forum admin positions, I was also informed by Qent that they will be stepping down from global moderator.
What I know so far: Ruin is staying a master server admin/moderator, and Qent is still working on community events like FNF. Metal has stepped down from all positions, but will still be around the community.
If you need to know who to contact for assistance, the Forum Team page should have updated info on Zandronum's staff listing: http://zandronum.com/forum/showteam.php
There are also moderators for each subforum that do not show on this list, they will show on the subforum's page.
Examples can be found in our Community Events area:Before anyone asks, we are not hiring (yet)!
- http://zandronum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=81
http://zandronum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=56
Due to these recent events, I will be making an effort to look over and fix up various things on the forums that I had not gotten to fix up yet, as well as review the tracker for bug reports and patches for the mybb software.
Original post below:
First off:
Don't worry! Metal has recently stepped down as lead admin.Everyone in #zandronum wrote:Metal is gone oh god the world is ENDING
I understand & respect her decision to step down, and thank her for the time and dedication to both SkullTag and Zandronum the past several years.
I know there are some who are cheering this decision, so I would like to remind people to keep the discussion civil & on topic.
There have been recent staff discussions on revamping & improving the staff's positions (for example the title under avatars). Basically, we plan on having an admin preside over each aspect of Zandronum instead of just one person trying to manage everything all at once. This should help on both the community and staff sides, and also lead to less PMs from confused users not knowing where to turn, as we are volunteers and can't be everywhere all the time. This should help fix any "Admin's not on right now" issues.
We are reviewing the staff listing to see who is active or not, and we have planned to add more master server admins to help deal with potential cheater threats, as well as reviewing & white-listing innocent users caught in range bans.
Forum updates:
Along with the staff updates, I will be updating and revamping the staff groups over the next week or so (maybe just the few days if I'm lucky). Right now the user legend is being updated at the bottom of the main index page, so I apologize for it shifting around and changing a bunch.
In trying to work with and improve MyBB's built-in "warning system" for problematic users, and after discussing things with the staff, I have decided to disable the built-in automated punishments (such as Suspension and Banning) and favor manual staff actions for infractions instead, and just using the warn system as a staff note keeping system. The warn system was resulting in too many users relying on its "delayed punishment" before being finally dealt with. Hopefully this makes sense for everyone, though I noticed the warn % still shows on the user control panel, I will see if this can be fixed though it might be hard-coded (the warning system is a built-in feature, not a plugin).
Hopefully things will go smoothly! And also for those who submitted patches and updates on the tracker to the forum software (you know who you are), I will work on double checking and pushing it through when I get the time. (We use a Mercurial repository for the forums, I can't just arbitrarily upload stuff via FTP)