Administrators are the public leaders of the community. Sometimes you may not appreciate some of the changes we make to the community, sometimes you may not appreciate our level of professionalism that we carry about ourselves when dealing with/discussing certain situations/topics, and sometimes
we (unfortunately) make mistakes.
That said, I'd argue that the current administration (and staff team as a whole, for that matter) is one of the least controversial ones that we've had in a long time. Every administrator we have understands why they're in the position, what they're to do in the position, and what they're
not to do while in the position. While the majority of us have duties that we tend to specifically (e.g. Rai managing clan-works and Clan staff, myself managing the market and Market Squad, Icky and Reta managing events and the Event Squad), we all pitch in our opinions for general implementations. Take for example our new
Wibbles 3.0; I can't think of a single administrator who didn't pitch in an opinion behind-the-scenes. sir may have announced it and set up the majority of it, sure, but there's a team of administration and staff behind him who pitched in on the idea of setting it up.
As an examples of section management and work that's been released, you can find the majority of the
Scam Report announcements made recently, you can find the
sticky updates made to the Market section back whenever I was Smod, and you can find the Market Squad's
Marketeer of the Hill event we made a month ago (granted, it wasn't the most
amazing event, but it have us a solid understanding of what to craft our events like in the future). This is the work of my team, and this is only the stuff you can
see - there's plenty of things that we all do behind the curtains that you dudes don't know about yet.
And that's just the work of the Market Squad - every team has their fair share of work going on as well, and every administrator is playing their part in the work.
Yes, undoubtedly, there will be reports filed against us - there will almost always be a person who disagrees with the ruling of a staff member, and administrators aren't an exception to that. Some of those reports are well-founded and some of them aren't, but for every single one that is, we take something from it. We're volunteers - we aren't paid to do this; we do it solely out of our love for the community and the game. We undoubtedly may not be the best administrators this community could have, but we push through the ridicule and do the work we do because we enjoy doing it. We enjoy doing it because you of the guys here in the community.
Have suggestions for the community that you want us to take a look at? Drop it
here; I happen to frequent the section for solid implementations regularly. If you have something that you'd rather discuss with me in private, or you believe there's something that my team (or myself, for that matter) could be doing better?
Send me a PM, or if I have a bit of free-time and you want some quick responses you can always
query me on IRC.
We, the administration, are here for you - the Toribash community. Don't be afraid to approach us with questions, suggestions and criticism, but please, remember we're people too.