What would you do if you were our Dictator?

Lovecraft · Post by **Lovecraft** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 9:36 pm #81839

It's no secret that our little corner of the internet is going through a rough patch. A rough patch a lot of people seem to be over exaggerating but we're definitely due for some cleanup once it's all said and done.

What if, in the midst of all this frothing chaos, the keys somehow landed on your lap and you became the supreme authority of /tg/station? The headmins, coders, and players all agreed that you get the final say on all matters. (How is this so? I don't know it's a hypothetical. Maybe you're paying the bills and we aren't crowdfunded it doesn't matter)

What would you do? What direction would you take our server in? What would you add to or repeal from our rulebook? What types of playstyles would you encourage and what types would you remove? Would you change how our admin-structure is?

Myself, would just legalize ERP, tidy up our library, and set some groundwork up for roleplay, like our own actual lore, that kind of thing. Though I have a feeling most others could use the position better.

Incoming · Post by **Incoming** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 9:41 pm #81841

Mandatory 3 month vacation for anyone in any position of power so everyone can get their perspectives on straight about the relative importance of 2D spessmin.

Alex Crimson · Post by **Alex Crimson** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 9:44 pm #81842

Wouldnt do shit.

...well... maybe id abuse my admin powers to fuck with people in stupid little ways. Move a beaker one space to the left on a table, empty a players cup of coffee when they were not paying attention etc.

AdenAbrafo · Post by **AdenAbrafo** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 9:55 pm #81846

burn it all down

imblyings · Post by **imblyings** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 9:58 pm #81847

admins wise

clean up policy, write up unwritten policy, make policy consistent where possible. There's an attitude in adminbus right now about avoiding clear boundaries to avoid line-toeing and while I understand the rationale behind it, I have a suspicion that's not a rule applicable to everything.

set up a process where admins and players get an equal amount of say in new policy, probably via usage of the policy discussion forum. I know adminbus are currently trying to do something for the benefit of the server that recently involved putting policy into play without discussion but discussion itself may also help to convince or at least inform players who visit the forums about it.

the current ingame administration and FNR process seems fine though but as admins get burned out or leave, new ones have to get trained. I'm not entirely sure how it works but if there isn't something like it, I'd like to build up a mini-wiki of sorts as a repository of knowledge and code of conducts for admin tasks.

coders wise

figure out how people start to want to contribute and help any efforts in recruiting new coders/spriters. The playerbase lives on new blood and so does coderbus.

players wise

not sure, I'd have to identify problems that need fixing or good things that need spreading. On a long term basis however, I'd probably look into ways of getting players to engage with and build an interest into /tg/ that goes beyond playing a game or two every now and then. I mean it obviously happens all the time and maybe our current influx of new players is sustainable but I want to have at least contingency plans to draw in new players as well as give existing players a reason or crippling addiction that forces them to stay.

At the core of it, I'm trying to sell a product and get people hooked otherwise there will be nobody to buy the product. This is kind of hard though, multi-million dollar mmorpg companies probably face the same problems and can't figure it out.

Post by **Atlanta-Ned** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 10:18 pm #81849

Lovecraft wrote:It's no secret that our little corner of the internet is going through a rough patch.

Way to not like, perpetuate it.

Scones · Post by **Scones** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 10:28 pm #81851

Lovecraft wrote:Myself, would just legalize ERP, tidy up our library, and set some groundwork up for roleplay, like our own actual lore, that kind of thing. Though I have a feeling most others could use the position better.

So when do you run for headmin?

On topic, I'd probably just want try to figure out some better system of deciding on code/policy changes. Maybe form democratically elected committees for them (Balance, Policy, etc.)

Not-Dorsidarf · Sun Jul 30, 2023 1:33 am

Fuuuuuck direct democracy, this is a vidya game.

We votes a boss and deal with their retarded shit when they keave.

Allohsnackbar · Sun Apr 12, 2015 11:17 pm

Permaban SoS for crimes against humanity
Make "Cup of Brown Joy" play 24/7
Show the remaining toxic players the door
Give all existing admins a chestfull of medals for staying on this wild ride.
Public Logs (With Byond Keys and other important tidbits censored out)
Take away the coderbus headmin
Revert any pulls or changes/stop their addition based on public vote.
Make sure headmin position has distinct, absolute powers that can't be overstepped by the host.

Stickymayhem · Wed Oct 13, 2021 6:17 pm

Delete the rules page, raise the sound file limit to 100mb, loop baka baka baka 24/7 and manually lock midi preferences to on for everyone.

callanrockslol · Sun Apr 12, 2015 11:58 pm

Stickymayhem wrote:hardcode loop baka baka baka 24/7 and midi preferences to on for everyone.

FTFY

If I was dictator? Smash Carthage and grind them to ashes. Oh wait...

Konork · Post by **Konork** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 12:29 am #81872

I kind of feel the server's too focused on antags, so I'd probably subtly try to push the server towards more RP involving them. Not anything major, just somehow rewarding antags who actually RP and players that go along with it instead of murdering them, while giving out non-ban punishments of some kind towards antags who pull double-esword/noslip rampages or whatever shit people use for that now. Probably something like more TCs/spells/Ling powers as rewards and decreased antag chance as a punishment. I'd probably also have something similar to the current headmin system to take care of all the day-to-day stuff. I'd require policies to be explained and discussed for a short period on the forums before they get implemented, and also require that you must explain your reasoning for why you think the policy will help the server, which should have the double purpose of encouraging actual debate on what's best or not and very clearly highlighting people who have no idea what they're talking about. As for code, probably something similar for large projects, where you'd have to have a design document detailing what's being changed and why, though I'd probably write up some of those and just give them to the coders to implement.

danno · Post by **danno** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 1:05 am #81879

kill tg.

Post by **MrStonedOne** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 1:11 am #81881

Rename /tg/station13 to /r/ggstation420

Post by **oranges** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 1:18 am #81882

Crash the plane with no survivors

Allohsnackbar · Mon Apr 13, 2015 2:20 am

oranges wrote:Crash the plane with no survivors into a singu.lo

nsos · Post by **nsos** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 2:43 am #81892

id uninstall byond

nsos · Post by **nsos** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 2:44 am #81894

i should do that now

Remie Richards · Mon Apr 13, 2015 3:30 am

oranges wrote:Crash the plane with no survivors

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Luke Cox · Post by **Luke Cox** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 4:21 am #81901

All non-sec players start with lethal chem implants that explode if you try to tamper with them.

[Shitcurity intensifies]

Lovecraft · Post by **Lovecraft** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 7:18 am #81907

I'd permaban mononamers and anyone who even slightly hints that they maybe aren't that immersion breaking

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 11:02 am #81921

Lovecraft wrote:I'd permaban mononamers and anyone who even slightly hints that they maybe aren't that immersion breaking

You and me, let's Headmin together.

I'd take the headmin vote coderbus has and give it to the players.

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 11:05 am #81922

id buy 2 video games and a pizza

Drynwyn · Post by **Drynwyn** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 11:46 am #81929

DemonFiren wrote:
Lovecraft wrote:I'd permaban mononamers and anyone who even slightly hints that they maybe aren't that immersion breaking
You and me, let's Headmin together.

I'd take the headmin vote coderbus has and give it to the players.

your sig literally has a mononame in it

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 12:34 pm #81934

I'm not sure if you're kidding or if you genuinely believe name policy affects lizards to any stricter degree than it affects, say, synthetics.

mattroks101 · Post by **mattroks101** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 1:46 pm #81936

I'd just ban the entire community and everyone who joined the server. Can't have drama if there's no community in the first place now can we! Ha!

Not-Dorsidarf · Mon Apr 13, 2015 2:56 pm

DemonFiren wrote:I'm not sure if you're kidding or if you genuinely believe name policy affects lizards to any stricter degree than it affects, say, synthetics.

Lizards literally only got their anything-goes name allowance because on the first day of lizards some people decided to pretend to be argonians (who have dumb names anyway) and every player since has seen nothing but vern-connective-noun for lizard names, which obviously they copy.

Of course, I support the right of everyone to call their character 'Valids-The-Traitor" or "Drops-the-Soap" or "Robs-The-Armory" while ragging on at mononamers (who don't even exist anyore byond
'KaiSumo' or shit like that)

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 3:05 pm #81960

Ban all the players
Deadmin all the admins
Delete all the codes
Change all urls to link to singulo /b

Not-Dorsidarf · Mon Apr 13, 2015 3:09 pm

I'd just make everything apart from rule 8 infractions legal as long as you have an IC reason.

Now that's what I call RP.

Post by **Shaps-cloud** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 3:11 pm #81964

My character is crazy and just HAS to murder people randomly

Fragnostic · Post by **Fragnostic** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 3:40 pm #81969

PM-to Admins: My character is just an omnipotent entity with all-knowing wisdom that understands the secrets of the universe and can use that knowledge to make things easier or destroy the universe or make it slower. I'm not exploiting bugs, I'm just RPing!

QuartzCrystal · Mon Apr 13, 2015 5:06 pm

I'd edit nearly everything on the wiki and ingame to reference me, basically insert myself into the canon as the god emperor of nanotrasen or something.

Then I'd ban anyone who doesn't ironically go along with it. Make anyone who genuinely finds it funny admins.

Lovecraft · Post by **Lovecraft** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 5:23 pm #81992

I would actually ban all of the people in the metaclubs
They actually exist

Not-Dorsidarf · Mon Apr 13, 2015 5:42 pm

No they don't.

Lovecraft · Post by **Lovecraft** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 5:50 pm #81999

That's a funny thing to say

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 7:56 pm #82017

As dictator?

Ban he.

BAN HE, BAN SHE, BAN ME.

EndgamerAzari · Mon Apr 13, 2015 9:05 pm

ThanatosRa wrote:As dictator?

Ban he.

BAN HE, BAN SHE, BAN ME.

I'll ban anyone's ass. I'll ban your ass. I'll ban your dog's ass. I'll ban my own ass.

John_Oxford · Post by **John_Oxford** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 11:50 pm #82056

Yell at Chucklefucks
Turn the bridge into a SUPER bar (Stocked with only gin, obviously)
Have a cigar and lighter spawn in everyones pockets apon joining
Demote all the admins (Besides Scones, Skorvold, And Nik, I'd make them my coffee getters)
Un-Ban papprika
Give Anon Headmin
Everyone round is dedicated to the one, the holy
Gin

Cheridan · Post by **Cheridan** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 12:41 am #82074

but i already am dictator

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 2:07 am #82090

EndgamerAzari wrote:
ThanatosRa wrote:As dictator?

Ban he.

BAN HE, BAN SHE, BAN ME.
I'll ban anyone's ass. I'll ban your ass. I'll ban your dog's ass. I'll ban my own ass.

I would never administer a server that wouldn't ban Me.

Balut · Post by **Balut** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 10:56 am #82139

Shit myself and cry, probably. As little as I play I barely get a whiff of all the drama, but goddamn people.

I'd probably set the admin policy to just 'don't be a dick' and 'resolve it IC', and then prod coderbus towards making it easier to do dumb shit. Also, space Valhalla.

Oh, re-legalizing ERP is a good idea too. It was always hilarious that someone would sniff it out and then fucking dismantle the walls and shit. I would also cram Acid Breakout and Woody's Got Wood back into the library.

Uh, the actual 'botany guide to wood' WGW, not the other one.

Ooh, ooh, I'd ask the vastly more experienced admins/coders/allthempeople about why all my decisions are horrible ideas, and then probably command they anyway.

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 8:42 pm #82231

Just another silly shitpost on this.

BANNU BANNU BANNU You're cool, BANNU I'm out.

Kot · Post by **Kot** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 6:54 pm #82366

Abuse my power to screw with everyone, become super commando shithead in every round, force coderbus to add Space War Two gamemode with Space Nutzis and Space Russians shooting at each other with bolt action rifles, be a shithead generally.

Jalleo · Post by **Jalleo** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 7:52 pm #82370

Merge the SS13 together communities where possible and help to create a more inclusive enviroment so when a good feature is added to one place it can easily be known about.
Seriously though it would probably mainly mean admins are shared across more servers and mainly a lot of small servers get linked to on a specific part of the website with a process for them to get proper official titles and specific slants on how they play. Not to mention probably a huge overarching database to share bans or create specific bans for types of servers with a read ability for non official with a ask to apply ban on people and official servers getting a ability to instant ban people on types of servers or all linked servers if just a pure griffer.
Goon had this idea before and offered to bring everyone in but it didnt happen.

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 8:03 pm #82375

Jalleo wrote:Merge the SS13 together communities where possible and help to create a more inclusive enviroment so when a good feature is added to one place it can easily be known about.
Seriously though it would probably mainly mean admins are shared across more servers and mainly a lot of small servers get linked to on a specific part of the website with a process for them to get proper official titles and specific slants on how they play. Not to mention probably a huge overarching database to share bans or create specific bans for types of servers with a read ability for non official with a ask to apply ban on people and official servers getting a ability to instant ban people on types of servers or all linked servers if just a pure griffer.
Goon had this idea before and offered to bring everyone in but it didnt happen.

Go away Karl Marx

Fayrik · Post by **Fayrik** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 6:08 pm #82762

We're about to find out why Fayrik didn't run for headmin.

The very first thing I would do is reclassify the server as Heavy RP and immediately bring in new policy to reflect that.
Not for my own preference or anything, just some relaxed heavy RP policy to and uncomfortably shoe-horn everyone into the lore for my own amusement.

I'd then reintroduce corgi people, pod people and slime people as per the april fools update, only this time keeping humans playable too. I would proceed to remove the option to play male characters altogether and encourage that everyone make their characters "kawaii".

Following that I would then create a new rule that everyone's forum avatar must be a kawaii anime girl, to reflect the server's new position.

Finally, I would add a rule that allows ERP for exactly three hours every day, but if the "fun times" carry one one second past that limit then it's permaban time. No Questions.

...Oh, and I might introduce Tarajans as auto-valids depending on how well the ERP rule goes down. They'd be the only race that could chose to be male, as well. But like I said, that's only a maybe.

Also, can I just compliment Lovecraft for pre-emptively conforming to my 3rd rule.

TheNightingale · Sat Apr 18, 2015 6:44 pm

You should've ran for headmin.

IcePacks · Post by **IcePacks** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 7:01 pm #82768

same thing i do as captain

yell at my subordinates, beat the ever-loving shit out of the multiverse horse, and incite riots by slapping faces with my massive command peen

Phalanx300 · Post by **Phalanx300** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 4:38 pm #82832

Remove the hug-box! Would make some serious changes to damage, if you wear no armor then a crowbar to the head wont require 10+ hits to kill you.

Drynwyn · Post by **Drynwyn** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 4:55 pm #82833

Unban Terbs.