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This subforum is for headmin candidates to engage in debate over questions posted by users.
This saves you asking the question in multiple headmin candidate threads and also lets the candidates engage in policy debates with each other.
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Non headmin candidates may only post a thread to ask a question - updates to clarify a point or the intent of the question are also allowed in your own thread
Current sitting headmins may also post, Candidates who have already won this years slot(headmin...
A couple people have mentioned this and I've heard others express support. Do you support term limits for headmins? If so, what form would you like them to take?
Thanks to Armhulen, Goof, Rave and Lukas for participating, and especially thanks to Sacko who organised the whole thing, moderated and was generally fun and excellent.
I think a place to discuss some of the points we went over would be cool, and I wanted an excuse to post, for discussion with the other candidates who couldn't participate, a particular idea we came to a consensus on.
In debating how we could better accomodate new players as we attempt to make the community more accessible, we settled on...
Consider the situation: an admin makes an event with 10 participants. At the end, 5 people enjoyed the event while the other 5 hated it. Later, the admin repeats the event, complaints are made, but the admin keeps running the event, citing the people that enjoyed it
Was this a good event?
If not, would you ask the admin to stop?
What would be the criteria for the event to be considered a success?
An old old old version of our roleplay guidelines for sybil, from before i took over hosting the website/wiki (so i can't find it to quote), basically said something to the effect of All players should assume that every round is the first round they have ever seen a code blue, let alone any antags/enemies of the station .
I also remember it once suggested via ooc policy...
I've noticed a lot of minor to moderate ooc in ic recently, from both players and some admin shenanigans. Do you feel the need to clamp down on it, or do you think it doesn't matter enough or happens to rarely?
Here is what the rules and policies used to look like when I first took over hosting the webserver.
I think we need more retrospective looks back like this:
Rules
tl;dr
I don't want to read this!
There's a lot here, but the gist of the rules is roleplay takes priority. Don't metagame. Don't play to win. Don't be a jerk OOCly. If you don't understand what those words mean or you need more detail, read on!
Primary Policies
0. Admins may disregard any of these rules at their discretion when they...
For administrative measures, MSO has the ultimate authority. Typically he lets democracy do it's thing through the headmins, but every now and then we'll see some activity on his part to bring about some change. Recent/relevant ones which come to mind are Rule 11 and FNR rule 10.
Assuming you become headmin, how do you plan to work with MSO? Say he feels passionately that a change should occur and you disagree, how would you approach this? Vice versa too, you want a change which he disagrees with.
As a completely serious question, I just want to see what the candidates of the headmin election see /tg/ as - as a whole. What kind of name would you give to /tg/station if you HAD to rename it from '/tg/' station? Any answer works, but I'd like to hear your genuine opinion on what kind of name would represent the game and project as a whole to you.
One of the more frustrating points, certainly not exclusive to the lineup this year, is the idea that candidates dont seem to have any idea about what is going on in the MRP (or LRP for MRP-girls) world and thats supposedly fine.
As MRP becomes a more considerable portion of the community, especially with the opening of a european MRP server, im believing less and less in the idea that individuals are just going to pick a MRP-headmin lite to run that area when someone who does involve themselves with both...
The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing.
To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do . To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the...
Recently somebody asked me about setting up a role to ban people from voice chat on discord who were abusing it with mic spam or something along those lines.
This got me thinking. When should somebody who is abusing a tool be preventing from using that tool, and when should they instead be punished for not being able to avoid abusing the tool.
Be it appearance/job bans or discord mutes or something else.
This is slightly different from complimenting server bans with longer role bans, in that it's still...
Currently, the admin candidate process requires at majority headmin approval, or complete approval, decided each headmin term. My question to you all is, are you currently satisfied with the current system and standards we have for choosing candidates? If not, what would you change?
edit for an addition related question: also, what are *your* standards for a candidate? connections, hours played, notes, etc
Over the past term we saw the rise of the public ban list, restricted to permabans only, put up.
How do you feel about them? Do you think we've benefitted from publicizing players permanent bans? Do you have any thoughts on increasing the types of bans posted publicly?
As a new player who has been playing this game for around less than 3 months, I want to ask all all the candidates a question: How much will you have new players in mind when having decisions?
SS13 is a large, complex, obtuse game. A lot of the learning curve involves asking your coworkers how to do something. Add on top the widly out of date and unreliable wiki, the constantly updating nature of the game and the billion and one ways antagonists can mess with your round, actually learning the game can be...
I really like this question last election because it acts as a good litmus test for ideal headmins. If you cant fill it out, consider your decisions.
Posts should be fairly simple
For each promise/claim/ideal you have in your headmin campaign, describe a post/thread/etc. where you made an attempt to push it through before elections began . If you did a similar activity on your main thread then just say so and save us the scroll bar.
Things such as links and screenshots to provide validity to your...
As it stands right now, this is the wording of rule 11:
Bigotry is not allowed.
Intentionally seeking to demean others due to their actual or perceived race, sex, gender, orientation or the like is not tolerated.
It is not our goal to create or enforce a list of banned words and instead our goal to eject bigotry from the community. Enforcement will be less PC based and more common sense based with that goal in mind.
The above rule applies to ALL OOC bigotry, even when expressed in IC. There is no racism...
Would you support a Missed Ahelps board, or something similar to it? I proposed this concept back when I first became a headmin and got veto'd, but I still think it's a worthy idea to consider and invite you to.
If you're not familiar with the idea, read on:
Non-headmins often aren't privy to the fact that ban requests still kind of exist, just in a really shitty form: Players must PM the headmins directly to inform them of in-game grief that took place when no admins were around. For example, if somebody...
What is Medium Roleplay?
/tg/station classic roleplay standards have oft been defined as the bare minimum effort to play a character in a space-adjacent setting. In catering to our roleplay-oriented audience, great groundwork has been laid in setting out a more roleplay oriented space with the advent of our Medium Roleplaying Server Manuel and the Roleplaying Rules as defined on the forums. As it stands, Medium Roleplay is loosely defined and can be summarised as: light enforcement of the chain of...
The feature makes it so if a user has create topic permissions but not read forum permissions, they can still post topics and see the topics they created. if they have reply, they can reply to their topics.
The current headmin term is gonna use this to make an admin application subforum, but what other ways could you see it being used?
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