RedBaronFlyer wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 7:08 pm1. Some candidates have floated the idea of disabling felinids as a selectable race. What are your thoughts on this, and how do you feel about the idea? If you support or are against this idea, why? What would you do if one or more candidates that were pushing this idea happened to be elected?
I don't really give a fuck. The time to remove them was before they were ever added to begin with.
2. Semi-related, at least one candidate has floated the idea of bridging the pay gap between species and possibly even allowing non-human heads of staff. How do you feel about these two things? Do you support either eliminating the pay gap, allowing non-human heads, or neither? How do you feel about MRP having non-human heads of staff, but keeping heads of staff as a human-only thing on LRP? Do you think QM being grandfathered in to allow non-humans to be that role was a mistake, a good thing, or are you neutral? What would you do if one or more candidates that were pushing either of these ideas happened to be elected?
Absolutely no to the non-human heads of staff. I think it's a good source of conflict and thematically pretty cool beanso. Plus other servers already do that and I don't care to do exactly what the fuck else everyone else is doing. The paygrades are meh, I would probably cave on that even if I think it's a cool in-universe thing but I wouldn't go out of my way to change that.
Absolutely no to the bullshit of MRP having non-humans and LRP not. It would only widen the gap between the two even more and more importantly I fucking it hate it when things aren't consistent with each other.
I THINK IT WAS A FUCKING MISTAKE THAT QM WAS MADE A HEAD OF STAFF TO BEGIN WITH. IF ORANGES HAD WANTED THAT SHIT DONE HE WOULD'VE DONE IT HIMSELF, BUT THE ONLY THING GOOF HAD TO SAY ABOUT "WHY IS IT GOOD FOR THE GAME" was just "ORANGE MAN SAID SO
". BRO. THAT SHIT GOT MERGED IN THE HALF BAKED STATE IT WAS IN??? I cannot even fucking comprehend how that shit got through, oh my lord I am fucking fuming just THINKING about what they did to my beloved QM. FREE MY HOMIES.
I ain't letting non-human heads of staff through, no way no how. If they want to get promoted or kill their incompetent bosses and take their place then by all means, go for it.
2. Several candidates have mentioned a desire for expediting headmin rulings in ban appeals. What are your thoughts on this, and how would you try and speed up headmin rulings when a user requests a headmin review of their ban, if you see them as currently being too slow? Do you think, if it is an issue, that it can be realistically fixed or is it just part of the bureaucracy?
Much of the shoveling bullshit that headmins have to do is just going through the motion and not as many cases as people would think need 3 weeks/months to ponder over, we can just it over with one way or another. I already exist on the ban appeals forum reading every appeal because every once in a while there'll be a clueless moron lacking any form of self awareness that I can get a cheap chuckle out of. If someone requests Headmin Review and I think their appeal is stupid I'll give the other Headmins the lowdown and then tell them that unless they object I am closing their appeal for being dumb.
Headmins this term have been fine on Ban Appeals, I really have no complaints aside from Policy slowing down.
3. Multiple candidates have voiced their opinions regarding MRP and LRP. Where do you view them currently? Do you think that LRP is being influenced too much by MRP rulings, or vice versa (or neither)? Do you think MRP needs a special seat just for an MRP headmin, like one candidate has supported? Or a special headmin group for MRP so they can make rulings separate from LRP. Please explain your viewpoint.
What the fuck are you people talking about? This is just more bureaucratic bullshit that I can't stand. We need less of this shit, not more. The more of this bullshit you people add the less anyone will understand.
4. What ideas or campaign promises that other candidates have that you support or might support?
Fikou's desire to centralize admin documentation. Dude, seriously Why isn't this shit done already? I know for a fucking fact people keep some important links or info in their own private portfolio, but this is something that doesn't even have to be perfect off the bat it just has to have enough information that people want to contribute towards it and a single consistent editor to keep the documentation from looking like a coloring book.
Chadley's desire to retire inactive admins. Come on dudes, we should be held to a higher standard than everyone else. If you aren't showing up for 6 months your ass
should be getting the boot. Hell I would even probably start considering 4 months. Just reapply when you want to start contributing again, it's not a big deal if you just don't have the time or desire right then.
I don't know what the fuck anyone else is doing, I keep getting distracted.
5. Multiple candidates have floated the idea of doing more events or having more events at the event hall server. What, in your opinion, makes a good event and a bad event?
They're fun for more than just 1 person? I really don't think the bar is that high, just don't spawn yourself in with godmode and run around ei'nath'ing people. You can't please everyone and there's always at least 1 motherfucker who will scream that you had the audacity to put sprinkles on their vanilla.
6. Multiple candidates have also voiced their opinions about Silicon Policy as a whole. What are your thoughts on Silicon policy currently? What do you view the role of silicons (primarily AI and borgs), as being for the station? Do you think silicons as a whole are too powerful, not powerful enough, or are just fine in terms of in-game capabilities? Do you think they are too restricted or aren't restricted enough in terms of policy? Where on the spectrum (from assistant -> Captain/HoS/Security) do you think silicons should be held to in terms of standards? If you have no (or a limited amount) of silicon experience, what do you think you can bring to the table in regards to silicon policy?
Silicon Policy is fucking stupid and I hope Timber and Co. manage to get their rewrite through before their term is over so I don't have to deal with it.
I've always thought of silicon as their own independent faction, only really caring about what their laws state. Silicons should have more opportunities to be fucked up and evil if people do stupid shit with their laws. But don't punish the silicon, punish the moron for changing their laws without thinking about it.
I don't give a shit about the power of silicons in game because I don't think that's something that I need to give a shit about as a Headmin.
7. How do you feel about restricting assistants from having maintenance access?
I don't care, let the grey people have maint. What the fuck else is maint going to be for? Antags? So anyone in maint gets arrested for trespassing or bag searched? Booooooring. Plus its funny when the grey people kill each other in maint over the most petty shit and I can just IC issue it when someone ahelps.
8. What are your current views on escalation policy? Do you think it's fine as is, or does it need a change? How would you change it if you do feel it needs a change?
More people need to know that they can kill people and more people need to know that they're being a prick and should die. That's not something you can change with a rewrite, you just need to get out there and start telling people to kill each other.
9. How do you feel about SS14 and the possibility of ever setting up a SS14 TGstation server? Explain your thoughts.
If the tech runs better than this dinosaur shit then I'm gone. There's periods of time where I can't play TG13 or TGMC for days because it just suddenly decides I can no longer connect with a ping more stable than 5000. Then suddenly it just works again? It isn't my fucking ISP because it is JUST SS13 and BYOND. If shit like that happens on SS14 then I will fucking implode, for there truly is no promised land.
10. If you aren't an admin or have had admin experience, what do you think you bring to the table that makes you a better choice over active or retired admins or previous headmins?
I don't give a fuck.
11. Is there anything you wish to add at the end?
Vote for Armodias.