gonna pull a hi19 really quick

[Mahou]

Re: gonna pull a hi19 really quick

He made a mistake. Nobody is perfect. Lets keep moving on and AJ will get the job done. I'm fully confident that he will live by his words.

[choof]

Re: gonna pull a hi19 really quick

guys

I understand

but if there's anything I hate, it's reiteration, especially now that I deliberately removed myself from GM/EM; but, I'll do it tonight, as I said.

it's not even you, dude. I'd even personally say that I'd rather see someone else responding to these threads lmao.

it's the fact that you're, like, objectively the only person that's being vocal about shit aside from maybe silvuh, and even then, silvuh's mostly on top of the batch. honestly, at this point, it just seems like the majority of the staff, aside from you and silvuh, don't want to elaborate on anything

I honestly don't get why the staff are unwilling to give the rest of us even a hint of things to come... if it's to increase hype or have players be anxiously awaiting the next update, you're doing it wrong: it's just making us annoyed

edit:

He made a mistake. Nobody is perfect. Lets keep moving on and AJ will get the job done. I'm fully confident that he will live by his words.

this is what I'm talking about. everyone expects AJ to come to the rescue, but I would rather have someone else come to the rescue; having everyone expect AJ to fix issues is straight fucked up

[choof]

Re: gonna pull a hi19 really quick

tl;dr you need a fuckin break

[j-rodd123]

Re: gonna pull a hi19 really quick

He made a mistake. Nobody is perfect. Lets keep moving on and AJ will get the job done. I'm fully confident that he will live by his words.

no one is blaming him it just seems like a much better idea to have someone who can do this consistently, as xiz volunteered to do

[hi19hi19]

Re: gonna pull a hi19 really quick

This, ironically, is part my fault.
I was sick over Thanksgiving and have been doing end-of-semester stuff since. My #1 priority is doing well in school (something that, if you know me, I haven't been able to do for over 5 years) and I've had to sacrifice a lot of FFR time as a result. What free time I do have I've mostly put into D_C's tournament because it's interesting and enjoyable, whereas writing the FPP, especially wrangling HTML, is not my strong suit and therefore not particularly something I look forward to.
My last final is next week and I promise, at least from me, that updates and dev work will renew much stronger over the winter break.

It's largely that everyone is a volunteer and this time period tends to be crunch time work, education, and social-wise.
At the same time that's not a perfect excuse because we did sign up to do this, so, I know both sides of the argument because I think both are right.

[25thhour]

Re: gonna pull a hi19 really quick

choof can i rim u

[25thhour]

Re: gonna pull a hi19 really quick

cuz u seem pretty butt hurt and my saliva cures butthurt

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: gonna pull a hi19 really quick

If you want transparency, I encouraged defining Staff Roles to be more specific and started up a rewrite of site rules but nobody else seemed to contribute.

Silvuh and I have been working together on the batch, both automating it and keeping track of files and so forth, and he's on vacation until the 13th and I allowed the judges to start judging the second half of the batch to get back on track -- the first half displayed a good pace at two and a half weeks and I want it to stay that way.

With AJ coming in frequently about issues he doesn't even have control over (like the code implementation for the D7 final round to become a token) I think you can imagine how aggravated that makes Staff members like me feel. I don't even know who is supposed to be managing the front page posts either -- I've seen them previously written by Popadopalis, OWA, Xiz, hi19hi19, TC_Halogen, and several others, but there isn't any clear plan on who is supposed to be handling front page posts.

Silvuh and I are handling the batch and getting in contact with users to reduce errors in the batch and make the process smoother. As much as I would like to help, some situations are out of my control and more importantly there is a lack of specifying who is supposed to do what and lack of accountability. Silvuh and I made a dedication to the batch and we want it to catch up, and I'm sick of seeing inactivity on other parts of the site when there is supposedly staff assigned to it.

[choof]

Re: gonna pull a hi19 really quick

cuz u seem pretty butt hurt and my saliva cures butthurt

i'm not into twinks, sry

[choof]

Re: gonna pull a hi19 really quick

I won't respond to your points about judging because I'm available to judge for the next n amount of batches lol

but, I have an idea for this

With AJ coming in frequently about issues he doesn't even have control over (like the code implementation for the D7 final round to become a token) I think you can imagine how aggravated that makes Staff members like me feel. I don't even know who is supposed to be managing the front page posts either -- I've seen them previously written by Popadopalis, OWA, Xiz, hi19hi19, TC_Halogen, and several others, but there isn't any clear plan on who is supposed to be handling front page posts.

If there's an update that necessitates a front page post, how about blasting a PM out to a list of people who have written FPPs/who are willing to write an FPP. First come, first serve. If OWA and Xiz are both too busy to do an FPP, that leaves Plop, hi19, and Halogen to potentially write one and have it up in a timely manner.

i'd actually be willing to write a front page post, welp

[TC_Halogen]

Re: gonna pull a hi19 really quick

If you want transparency, I encouraged defining Staff Roles to be more specific and started up a rewrite of site rules but nobody else seemed to contribute.

Silvuh and I have been working together on the batch, both automating it and keeping track of files and so forth, and he's on vacation until the 13th and I allowed the judges to start judging the second half of the batch to get back on track -- the first half displayed a good pace at two and a half weeks and I want it to stay that way.

With AJ coming in frequently about issues he doesn't even have control over (like the code implementation for the D7 final round to become a token) I think you can imagine how aggravated that makes Staff members like me feel. I don't even know who is supposed to be managing the front page posts either -- I've seen them previously written by Popadopalis, OWA, Xiz, hi19hi19, TC_Halogen, and several others, but there isn't any clear plan on who is supposed to be handling front page posts.

Silvuh and I are handling the batch and getting in contact with users to reduce errors in the batch and make the process smoother. As much as I would like to help, some situations are out of my control and more importantly there is a lack of specifying who is supposed to do what and lack of accountability. Silvuh and I made a dedication to the batch and we want it to catch up, and I'm sick of seeing inactivity on other parts of the site when there is supposedly staff assigned to it.

This brings up a good point that I want to make with a bit more of an explanation about why I dropped from Game Manager/Events Manager and convinced staff to put Dossar, Silvuh on GM, and Kayla back on Events (as I took over from her before, so she's just basically reinstated). I was doing nothing short of a shitty job on both fronts with a lack of song releases; I mean, if you look at the song list, there was a period where I didn't release anything at all. That wasn't because there was nothing in the queue, and that most certainly wasn't because there was nothing unreserved for the tournament. It was 100%, sheer laziness. I started to realize that my overall performance as a long-term organizer was declining very quickly, and that's why I sought out help from staff members that I know are organized (Dossar/Silvuh), and that I know can handle keeping users interested (Kayla, and the rest of the events team).

Since then, some things have happened on both sides that are good. The events team independently held a number of spontaneous contests for the tournament, and they also revived the Halloween banner contest design, which I admittedly did not do as manager a year ago. There's much more to come on that side in the upcoming weeks, and months.

Game management has done a good job modifying my intentional structural change to the batch process to be suitable for smaller numbers of judges. Silvuh took charge with the process of conditional files, as well as organizing the results on batch completion, and initially, also took charge for the organization of a batch that came after a horrendously concluded May/June batch done by myself. Dossar has automated a great majority of the batch system thanks to an API that handles a ton of parsing of information to prevent manual entry, thereby reducing errors and making the process faster through programmatic means.

I stepped down from game management and events management in full confidence that they could handle things on their own, and contrary to what anyone believes, those three users have done a great job taking over and I will very strongly defend them and their causes. If it wasn't for Silvuh/Dossar coming in, the judgments would likely still be halted. If it wasn't for Kayla coming in, the Events team likely would be sitting silently as they had been under my terrible leadership (either that, or revolted against me -- both would have worked quite well honestly). On the flip side, I switched to a more immediate and case-by-case responsibility of global moderation for two reasons: a.) I wanted to deal with things as they came, and b.) I actually had the power/authority of global moderation as a Game Manager already, and was actually using the power to deal with certain cases regardless of not really being responsible for it.

[gold stinger]

Re: gonna pull a hi19 really quick

Here's an idea -

Why not put Philippe (Noname219) in charge of updating the front page?

If you look at the recent & past FFR Wiki updates you would know why I would recommend such a thing. He's one of the most dedicated people I've ever seen on this website imo. He's scrounging the resources of what's happening on this website manually by himself without any interaction as it is right now.

[noname219]

Re: gonna pull a hi19 really quick

Maybe we should consider a small news feed for everything that happens in the community (new permissions, new tournaments, new twgs, user promotions, site improvements, etc.). Just a line of text and a link to keep players informed about that kind of thing. It would make the front page feels more active than it is right now. And it could be posted at the same time on the Facebook page. I've been doing that for 8 months on the wiki. It's easy to update, doesn't feel like a burden and very convenient.

edit : ninja'd.
edit2 : not saying I should be in charge. Every staff member could take part of it, one could be in charge of TWG, another of events, etc.

[yo man im awesome]

Re: gonna pull a hi19 really quick

While noname is naturally being modest about being nominated for being in charge (also bringing up another good point), I would pick him too, he's been working on that Wiki for ages, and something as simple as FPPer would fit right in with his work/abilities. If he's up for it, I would +1 him in.

Also ayyy anyone remember that changelog lol

[noname219]

Re: gonna pull a hi19 really quick

While noname is naturally being modest about being nominated for being in charge (also bringing up another good point), I would pick him too, he's been working on that Wiki for ages, and something as simple as FPPer would fit right in with his work/abilities. If he's up for it, I would +1 him in.

Also ayyy anyone remember that changelog lol

Yeah, I was totally thinking of the changelog when writing my post above but couldn't even find the link for it. It's probably buried or hidden at this point. It had a lot of potential but was lacking any update and visibility.

Oh and I'm not saying a news feed should replace FPP. They could totally go hand in hand.