Staff Feedback Thread

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Pulling the curtain away a bit, I will say that select threads I had created within the staff subforums when I was last a green was (mostly) ignored.

• Official Faction discussion was mostly me replying to my own thread with different ideas and elements. Pinged the staff multiple times to co-operate and send some ideas in. Unless things have changed since my last departure, I would bet money my name is the only one in that thread. Has there been any developments on that by the way? Last I heard the bar set in the proposal apparently meant that no current (at the time) OFs qualified.
  
• Then there's the table I put together for repeat offences, how bad the punishment gets depending on the offence of the reported party. These would standardize a lot of things. I understand that each VR that comes along is unique and doesn't fit the table, but there's been a good lot of examples where the community has pointed out inconsistencies with sanctions. A handful having been withdrawn. These need to be internally addressed and agree on a standard. Minute alterations to the standard are fine, but at least it will prevent the wildly inconsistent punishments for the community to throw back at you.
  

My experience with staff recently on an individual basis has been adequate, some more, some less than others. There are a couple staff I would like to see not utilize gaslighting and manipulation when in a discussion or argument as this happened with me recently on the rules discussion thread. Not great conduct from someone in an elevated position.

I'm not one to single people out on this thread, as some other community members have been. I just hope that shit improves because I honestly don't like what I see.

Hey Kusari, I'll try address each of these as best as I can.

[*] Official Faction discussion was mostly me replying to my own thread with different ideas and elements. Pinged the staff multiple times to co-operate and send some ideas in. Unless things have changed since my last departure, I would bet money my name is the only one in that thread. Has there been any developments on that by the way? Last I heard the bar set in the proposal apparently meant that no current (at the time) OFs qualified.

The OF rework as you know is a big undertaking and is still something we're working towards in the background. There's a lot of things to take into consideration in how we roll this out and what implications it has on existing and future factions, and we want to make sure we've got the plan as well developed as possible before rolling it out to go live. I cannot share any ETA on this at the moment but rest assured it is still progressing.

[*] Then there's the table I put together for repeat offences, how bad the punishment gets depending on the offence of the reported party. These would standardize a lot of things. I understand that each VR that comes along is unique and doesn't fit the table, but there's been a good lot of examples where the community has pointed out inconsistencies with sanctions. A handful having been withdrawn. These need to be internally addressed and agree on a standard. Minute alterations to the standard are fine, but at least it will prevent the wildly inconsistent punishments for the community to throw back at you.

Additional structure to help standardize sanction outcomes is something that we are looking at, and as you know was looked at previously when you had raised it. There's some huge benefits to having such a system as it could potentially speed up handing out sanctions and informing people of the outcome, however it isn't without it's downsides as it would mean less ability for the staff to try make sanctions better fit for purpose depending on what the type of rule break is, if it's a pattern of repeated behaviour, and what sort of impact it had on the community as a whole. I can't share any specific details about these discussions, but hopefully it's somewhat reassuring that it is an active topic of discussion.

My experience with staff recently on an individual basis has been adequate, some more, some less than others. There are a couple staff I would like to see not utilize gaslighting and manipulation when in a discussion or argument as this happened with me recently on the rules discussion thread. Not great conduct from someone in an elevated position.

I'm not one to single people out on this thread, as some other community members have been. I just hope that shit improves because I honestly don't like what I see.

It's a shame that you're left feeling that way, and I can only apologize for that. As always I would encourage anyone to contact myself (or any Admin) if they felt they were treated unfairly by someone on the staff team. This will then be raised internally in confidence and we'll review the situation to find out what happened and if we believe someone was acting inappropriately. Feel free to PM me or reach out any other way if you'd like a chat to go through it.