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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...
The election voting period is open, so as a final more lighthearted thing for candidates to wind-down with, compared to opining in on some of the more tough debates, let's give some fun questions like we did last election debate:
Favorite food?
Favorite pastime?
Best way to spend the day?
Where do you want to visit someday?
What would you spend $1,000,000 on?
New hobby you want to get into?
Favorite genre of media (literature/movies/etc)?
Favorite music/song?
Anything special on your bucket list?
Any...
I would like to know what our headmin candidates think of taking action against a player, such as a note or a ban, without saying a single word to the player. Is it fine? Is it poor but acceptable? Is it unacceptable conduct?
Bit late, but better than never.
Do you consider silicons a crew-aligned force, or a netural force? Would you empower them to collide with security/any other force on station which loudly proclaims that they will harm humans?
Tying into the above question, if yes, do you plan on creating anything that solves the inevitable fight, and stops one of the sides from being killed/round removed?
Second main point. Do you consider cyborgs a disposable tool in a round? If yes, is your opinion based on the fact...
I think there's a sort of sliding scale between admin effectiveness and the rigidity of rules.
If you hire to a high standard you're able to place more trust in the decision-making of admins, which involves loosening the concreteness of the rules
This allows for a more human interpretation of things, but makes things more vague if you're trying to find lines in rulings.
I think this freer interpretation is good, believe it allows for shitcanning people universally...
Simple enough question that I don't think gets asked enough
What will you do, if elected headmin, to make the job as admin better / easier / both, to do
Being an admin, despite what most players think, can be quite stressful, and demanding, and balancing that with actually not burning out and being good at the job, coupled with more scrutiny in the peanut galleries than the white house, I've seen a few admins over the years decide enough is enough and leave, and then we have people saying X server...
As the adminteam continues to grow despite only a small fraction being active, a bigger and bigger separation between the player community and the admin community forms. This alienates players and admins from one another and creates a toxic us-vs-them mentality - on both sides. When admins retire, they become much more lax with what they say, and despite being retired often become more active in player-facing channels than when adminned.
Ideally everyone would be unified and talking together casually...
What do you look for in people that are in a role lateral to your own? What makes a good teammate? Coworker? Co-leader? You get the idea.
Early in my career one of my better mentors did a fantastic job of drilling the idea of 'hire opposites' into my head rather than the concept of just cultural fits. I've applied that to everything including hobby roles and I've had only the greatest of success with it.
When I'm working with people (especially laterally) or in a...
Everyone here has played plenty of rounds, and surely observed plenty as well.
What makes for a healthy round? At its start, its finish?
That is not to say what makes a round fun or unfun for you, but what makes a for round ripe with potential or acted on potential? Something well rounded.
We've recently had a ban appeal in which multiple headmins were extremely biased against a player, with one in particular admitting to it and the other having implicit bias against the player because it was their ban. Headmins' involvement in appeals is to supposedly avoid bias and make sure that there's no wrongdoing among lower-ranking administrators.
What would a theoretical system for headmins excusing themselves from ban appeals they believe themselves to be biased in//have directly placed...
A few terms ago the policy was implemented that anyone who is appealing their ban can request for Headmin review. This essentially serves as ban appeal +1, as there is no reason to ever NOT request for Headmin review.
While undoubtedly it's nice for a player who is appealing to know without a doubt that someone who is not the banning admin (and thus someone who is potentially biased) has looked at their ban and affirmed that it is going to remain in place; It is an understated drain on an already...
How much effort do you personally think players should invest into their interactions with other players on LRP? What are your personal standards and how do you engage with others?
More importantly, what do you think the expectations (rule-wise) are currently, and do you think they should be relaxed or tightened? Do these vary across different jobs? Should admins be promoting a higher roleplay level on bagil/sybil/terry, and if so, how?
As the title says how would you deal with these situations if they come up during the term.
1. A player well known for their roleplaying skills and strict adherence to the rules suddenly starts racking up a ton of notes and overall behaves more sourly, when they appeal a ban that they got they explain that things have been going shitty irl and asks for forgivness.
2. Whilst you observe a server to observe a candidate mins training you notice the admin trainer giving them advice on how to use their admin...
What are the thoughts of admins closing notes under the IC issue umbrella?
I first thought this was a me problem for not understanding the rules of the game, until it seemed that it's an actual endemic problem.
If my round gets inconvenienced to the point I need to resort to violence to do my own job against an non-antagonist, and an admin just bows out under IC issue , that is a problem.
Precedent 4 for rule 1 is pretty clear about admin action.
I am as unrobust as they come. The game's combat system...
Is any of the headmin candidates willing to commit right here right now to disabling the much hated greenshift (on LRP) and/or adding Fairy's excellent SokobanStation to the rotation?
Tiding is a part of the game that seemingly divides a large amount of the community and what will you as headmin change about tiding and its interactions? if you want to change it at all. This question is LRP only as our MRP servers already do not allow tiding.
As the head admins, you are one of the most important people in the hierarchy. You have considerable freedom and influence to shape the game in your interest.
Now, to be more blunt, at the end of the day, we come here to have fun, to experience something. Nobody cares if you can perfectly recite all the myriads of rules we have. Nobody cares if it is technically right, but bombs the enjoyment of everyone else.
So... how are you going to make the game more fun?
Part of the three person dynamic of headmins always means that rejection is a possibility... Whether it be the other headmins rejecting your stance on a ban appeal, a policy proposal, a complaint, and even the things you are campaigning for in your platforms.
Say that one of your campaign platforms is shut down by the other headmins? What would you do next? Do you have a back up plan? Is there a way to get that proposal on track? Was that appeal really in the right? The wrong?
Currently Manuel has had some rule changes on the board for a while now. For example allowing station sabotage when an antag. What do you think about it? Should we push it forward? Do you want some changes done to it? Do you want to scrap it all together? Are you annoyed at how long it is taking to be figured out? How would you solve that problem?
I've seen a bunch of discussions about people's opinions on writing long ass posts in things like appeals. My appeal won me the 2022 long-form literature award for services to essayposting.
How do you feel about players making long appeals? How much does it affect your judgement on resolving that appeal if it ends up in your lap as a headmin? Where do you draw the line between a player being thorough or analytical to try and help their case and someone simply trying all avenues available to them? Are...
Please tell me your thoughts and opinions on head of staff antagonists. This is all config stuff (IIRC) so it will fall under your purview as head admin.
Some prompting questions to help you think up your answer, you can ignore these if you want:
Do you feel like less roles should be protected (Traitor captain? Traitor HoS? Traitor detective even?), or would you rather more roles (CE, RD, CMO, HoP, QM) be protected? Specifically which roles could be nice.
Do you feel like head of staff antagonists are fun...
What it says on the tin. I (And by extension the people lurking this forum I'm sure) would like to see a screenshot of your tracked playtime. You can access this via the view-tracked-playtime verb in either the OOC tab, or typed directly into the command line - but I'm sure you all know that. It should look something like this:
For bonus marks you could write a rationale or something, if you want.
Many of the runners this year seem to agree that there should be a push towards ease for new players. I've found in my experience that a major turn-off for new players is the idea that they can't simply send their friends a screenshot or stream their round, even if their friend isn't playing. We already collectively agree to not abuse information obtained while a ghost. For the most part it's managed well, so there is precedence for trusting our players not to abuse this.
Recently we had the current headmin team add a vauge new policy for repeated use of highly destructive tools Do you as headmin plan to roll back this in favor of letting antagonists do whatever they want on LRP or would you see antagonists further gimped to be more in line with manual's policy?
Imagine, for the sake of discussion, a situation such as this (within the context of LRP):
A head of security, when approached by a security officer who needs surgery, stuns the officer, handcuffs said officer, and then steals the officer's money.
How would you respond if you were the admin in game? Is it an IC issue or griefing? How would you rule if an admin had banned this HoS?
Should all jobs be allowed to tide, all non-command jobs, only assistants, or should tiding not be allowed at all?
How does...
As someone who plays Manuel pretty much exclusively I'm interested in hearing what you think about about the current state of manuel and were it ought to be heading.
First off, what does MRP mean to you? Roleplay can often times be hard to define especially what it means to do so in a medium context. Does Manuel fit your definition of MRP? Where do you think it fails and were do you think it succeeds?
second, what aspects would you like to change most on MRP? Why and how would you go about making said...
THE TIME IS NOW that a new Headmin be elected on the podiums (one of them are already taken), and start a new term in history. But, what’s so special about this term? Sure, there’s platforms and the funny little promises, but where’s the plans? What’s the goal?
How are you going to, as a Headmin, get things done? Currently, not only platforms need to be done, policies need to be handled and created, and you need to draft are you going to organize it. How are you going to optimize the...
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