Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25330335-20161229155836/@comment-26236093-20161230103638

SamwiseFilmore wrote: I would note that positions usually emulate the kind of activities the user does in their previous position. My point being that if you moderate the forums a lot (which you Warpig, have done very faithfully and very effectively for many moons now), then you have the rank that allows you to do such things. Lysurus is less interested in moderating the forums (although as a proper staff member, in my opinion, should have permissions which have the capability to forcefully break up arguments) and as such gets a position in which he has the permissions which can be used to make his effort more efficient.

I would wish that we could re-examine the roles of staff here, and get the community a better understanding of what we do, and what being a staff member actually entails. Since we can't do that, I would make the comment that being staff should be based on the usefulness and responsibility of the individual involved, and their place in the system. For example, If I run a server, I own the physical server, I pay for the Internet service to those machines, and I control everything that goes on in the physical location. Therefore, my user on the server has root level permissions in order to be able to make any kind of changes I need to. If my server expands, I need more manpower in order to keep things maintained. Some of these people are going to be web developers and programmers. Those people need write access to the files on my server with which they can make programs and web pages to display on my server. More staff is added, this same Idea is applied. The permissions given to different parties reflect what those parties do best, and allow the machine to function and peak efficiency. I hope that monologue didn't have any unpleasant consequences...

Yes I am well aware of all those points Samwise and I do not wish to in any way sound rude, but if I could take the example of my dear friend Recneps I would point out that he has now been given the position of Content Moderator during his recent promotion from Temporary Moderator despite the fact that he according to these figures less frequently makes article edits than I!