There are way too many posts for me to get track of them. o_o; I'm just going to answer the questions the best way I can.
It seems to be running smoothly, but they're not the perfect team either. For example, I don't recall seeing an administrator complaining to staff members' attitude in public sight or a staff member taking part on drama with the old staff team. It seems some of the new staffs are rather new on their tasks, and they still need to learn how to hold being a staff member better, as in, sharing their oppinions with eachother to avoid conflicts between themselves, and take the best final decision in each case. But this knowledge may come with time.
Regarding resources moderation, it's running pretty faster than before, but there are many moderators who barely moderate anything; in the hacks section for example, there are 13 currently, of which I see about half moderating a hack with a good frequence. Some of them have other tasks, but some don't. The music moderation is the best example for showing this problem, because there I basically see only two to three moderators out of five working.
Though I shouldn't consider "lazy staff" as a blamabble thing, in part because they're not too much of a problem for the site right now - there are not 30 files to be moderated -, and also because I'm not the best person to complain about it - there are chances they're working on stuff behind the scenes.
In general, I'm pretty satisfied with the new staff, except there are a few that don't seem to do much for it, but I can't tell that with certainity (see the previous paragraph).
Not anything that would affect the site directly. The thing I dislike the most is when one says "other staff members have the ability to reopen it, but I strongly recommend cutting off the discussion here". Tatanga is an awesome staff member, but the point there is that I think staff should think the same way when it comes to take decisions. By that I mean I think there should be a common sense between all the staff members, which would be a result of effortful discussion. If there are no conflicts between the staff, then it would be easier to stop conflicts with the regular userbase.
Another example of that can be found if I go back to Dipalon's tool contest idea. The thread was closed by Masterlink, but it got reopened shortly by Torchkas (or by aj, I'm not sure). Conflicts between staff oppinions don't bring a good impression regarding the staff team. I think the team should argue about what to do in the staff forums and only act when they come to a conscient decision, because after all that's what the staff forums were made for.
Then again, I don't know what happens behind the scenes; so I can't tell if a staff member is being useful or not, or if they seem to be taking bad decisions but they're actually well-discussed. I'd leave that one to the staff team, because after all they're the ones who know the best way how goodly or badly the staff team is running.
It's easily the best thing I've done
So why the empty numb?
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1. What do you think of the staff team?
It seems to be running smoothly, but they're not the perfect team either. For example, I don't recall seeing an administrator complaining to staff members' attitude in public sight or a staff member taking part on drama with the old staff team. It seems some of the new staffs are rather new on their tasks, and they still need to learn how to hold being a staff member better, as in, sharing their oppinions with eachother to avoid conflicts between themselves, and take the best final decision in each case. But this knowledge may come with time.
Regarding resources moderation, it's running pretty faster than before, but there are many moderators who barely moderate anything; in the hacks section for example, there are 13 currently, of which I see about half moderating a hack with a good frequence. Some of them have other tasks, but some don't. The music moderation is the best example for showing this problem, because there I basically see only two to three moderators out of five working.
Though I shouldn't consider "lazy staff" as a blamabble thing, in part because they're not too much of a problem for the site right now - there are not 30 files to be moderated -, and also because I'm not the best person to complain about it - there are chances they're working on stuff behind the scenes.
In general, I'm pretty satisfied with the new staff, except there are a few that don't seem to do much for it, but I can't tell that with certainity (see the previous paragraph).
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2. Is there anything you don't like about the staff?
Not anything that would affect the site directly. The thing I dislike the most is when one says "other staff members have the ability to reopen it, but I strongly recommend cutting off the discussion here". Tatanga is an awesome staff member, but the point there is that I think staff should think the same way when it comes to take decisions. By that I mean I think there should be a common sense between all the staff members, which would be a result of effortful discussion. If there are no conflicts between the staff, then it would be easier to stop conflicts with the regular userbase.
Another example of that can be found if I go back to Dipalon's tool contest idea. The thread was closed by Masterlink, but it got reopened shortly by Torchkas (or by aj, I'm not sure). Conflicts between staff oppinions don't bring a good impression regarding the staff team. I think the team should argue about what to do in the staff forums and only act when they come to a conscient decision, because after all that's what the staff forums were made for.
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3. If you could change anything about the staff, how would you make it to be?
Then again, I don't know what happens behind the scenes; so I can't tell if a staff member is being useful or not, or if they seem to be taking bad decisions but they're actually well-discussed. I'd leave that one to the staff team, because after all they're the ones who know the best way how goodly or badly the staff team is running.
It's easily the best thing I've done
So why the empty numb?