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[Pepper]

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^ I always deliver on my promises.

This is the September 2023 headmin campaign thread for ANIMETIDDIES. Vote for me if you like big boobs or the policies listed below.

Who am I?

I am ANIMETIDDIES/Pepper Mint. I have been playing /tg/station13 since 2017. A lot has changed since then, and the community's numbers have grown significantly. As a 2-time /tg/ Toolbox Tournament Champion. (2017 and 2019), I qualify as a highly skilled and dangerous Gamer.

Here is what I want to do if I become Headmin.

1. Take steps toward allowing LRP and MRP servers to act more independently of each other, with the end goal of potentially having a 4th, MRP exclusive headmin election at the end of the coming term.

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Manuel was introduced years ago as an alternative playstyle for LRP players who wanted a more laid back experience. Since then it’s gathered its own dedicated base of players and admins. Oftentimes Manuel and its atmosphere is the main draw for these people. So, I don’t see much benefit in having LRP and MRP servers attached at the hip. They share (mostly) the same server config, maps, and have to compete for admin trainer attention, coder interest, and most annoyingly the effort and interest of headmins.

We’ve had the same three headmin setup since Bagil and Sybil were the only two servers and player counts were a fraction of what they are now. Our community is larger, let's use that to expand instead of pushing for our respective LRP/MRP candidates every election. I want to spend time tuning a feedback based server config for Manuel/Campbell that cuts out all the stuff that isn’t conducive to roleplay focused interactions. This would be an ongoing process to get it right, but would eventually pave the way for the MRP servers to have more freedom in how they want the game to be played. Depending on feedback, I want to pursue the option of adding a 4th headmin, elected by and having sole dominion over Manuel and Campbell. This way, the LRP and MRP servers can act independently, with a guarantee that their headmins have a genuine interest in their server’s players and give them their full attention. I’d like to keep the finer details of this left open for now to accrue the perspective of other admins and players… this is not something I could do solo.

2. Create escalation regulations for headroles to curb specific department heads from valid hunting.

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Headroles should be responsible for making sure their individual departments don’t fall to pieces the best they can. However, there are occasions where players pick headroles solely for the telebaton/chain of command authority, and spend their entire round hunting valids. This is detrimental to the entire station, as often times headroles are the last (and most competent) line of defense from an entire departments operations grinding to a halt. I want to give headroles more leeway in how they are able to defend their workplace from troublemakers, but narrow their scope of authority outside their own department. Basically, if it’s something you have to spend 20 minutes roaming the halls while not doing your job to rectify, and it’s not something that is crucial to your department's continued operation, it’s Security’s job to deal with.

There would be obvious exceptions to this, ie Captain and HoS are exempt, lowpop/no security, acting Captains, etc.

In short, I want a higher bar for headrole players. Do your job!

3. You will play in the Event Hall.

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I want to experiment with the concept of occasionally opening Event Hall to GameAdmins for whatever they see fit. We’ll rally the masses in the Discord, and converge on the server to engage in admin event heavy rounds. Whether it be intricate, preplanned stories or pure “round ruining” madness, anything would be fair game in Event Hall rounds. I think it would create more wacky situations when the server is full of players who are actively joining to participate in admin events.

4. I want to reintroduce self deleting threads to the Player’s Club.

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Player’s Club (formerly NTR Hut) is the containment board for all the inevitable, unsavory discourse that happens surrounding in game drama. If it doesn’t happen in a peanut thread, it will happen behind closed doors out of the authority of admin intervention. However, I don’t see any good reason why we should archive a majority of these threads. Most Club threads serve little purpose beyond what their intended target ban appeal/complaint’s lifespan is. The NTR Hut had a system of auto deleting threads that hadn’t been viewed or posted in, and I want to reintroduce this. Player’s Club threads should be auto deleted if nobody posts or views them for a period of 90 days. We stand to gain nothing from cataloging the unmedicated ramblings and ugly arguments of our community. This will deter attention whores from making spectacles of themselves in FNR - after all, it’s only temporary.

Please let me know what you think, and consider voting for me this time around. This thread will be actively updated with any information I feel is pertinent throughout the rest of the election.

[Pepper]

Links to my answers to the various debate threads are here.

"Candidate Scrubby Checkpoint"

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hi yes i am going to need to see your last 180 days of playtime on scrubby and maybe even perhaps your tracked playtime

If you already posted it in your introduction you can send it again for convenience but its time to see who actually has been putting in the time to get in touch with atleast one server community

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"March 2023 Headmin Self-Insert Fanfic Workshop - the thread"

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As the title clearly states, I’m curious to see you guys dissect an event from this last term. It could be a ruling, a ban, a config change - whatever. It doesn’t even have to be something that the headmins got involved in.

If they were: thoughts? What did you like? Dislike? Would you have handled it differently?

If not, well, the above still applies. Wwyd? How? Why?

Feel free to offer constructive criticism on one anothers fanfics!

Those two Terry players that made the dorms slapping video. That shit was way too funny to deserve getting banned for.

AAA,AAA,AAA,AAA!!

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also this. i agree with this

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[NecromancerAnne]

Have you any prior experience as an admin (or similar role) on server? What differences might exist between those experiences if so?

Since I feel the first agenda is really two in one, so tackling the first half, how exactly do you anticipate separating the two servers further than mere server tribalism. You mention similarities but is the intent here for total separation in admins, codebase and rules? How do you foresee doing this as a headmin or how would you facilitate this and with who?

Second part, why do you think breaking the triumvirate would functionally allow for better management? The benefit of the triumvirate currently is that any given inter-headmin decision will inevitably have a majority vote. How do you anticipate resolving deadlocks? wouldn't this ultimately undermine the effectiveness of the team?

Your second agenda is already policy to some degree. Departmental defense is something heads of staff can enact, but in situations outside of this, heads of staff are not necessarily empowered with imbalanced escalation restrictions.

The third: I mean, if someone wanted to do something on Event Hallthat warrants a whole server dedicated to it, I think they are entirely able to approach MSO to organize that currently.

The fourth: So basically, you want to return the Hut without calling it the Hut?

[conrad]

TIDDIIIIES. Er, um, anyway, I have some questions:

- Who would vote for the 4th headmin? Manuel players? Manuel admins? Both? How is that determined?
- How would you liason introducing self-deletion to the player's club? Particularly, with Rave, although I imagine other GMs or maybe MSO have opinions on it.

Other stuff on your thread I was curious have already been responded somewhere else or it's not something of interest to me atm. Thank you

[Pepper]

Have you any prior experience as an admin (or similar role) on server? What differences might exist between those experiences if so?

I stopped doing any active jannie for online stuff when I was like 14. Since then, I've become a first responder and picked up a lot of skills related to socialization, crisis management, and alloting responsibility. The major differences between that and being an admin on SS13 is that nobody is literally dying.

Since I feel the first agenda is really two in one, so tackling the first half, how exactly do you anticipate separating the two servers further than mere server tribalism. You mention similarities but is the intent here for total separation in admins, codebase and rules?

The general opinions I've seen levied around this concept seemed to be based on a misunderstanding of intensity. No, I don't think totally separating LRP/MRP in it's totality is a good idea. Everything would continue business as usual with the addition a larger scope for config changes on the MRP servers and (eventually) the election of a headmin(s) with the responsibility of maintaining MRP config, policy/rulings, and testmerges. Admins and players that play primarily play/take tickets on Manuel would be highly encouraged to seek out the MRP headmin position rather than the roles that cover Bagil/Sybil/Terry. The intent here is simple - every election cycle the server triablism comes out in full swing with each one pushing a headmin seat for their server's individual candidate. With the addition of MRP head administration, everyone is guaranteed to get someone that won't outright neglect one server type from another or impose changes that are misguided or unwarranted. I draw the line at LRP/MRP specifically because I think there are fundamental differences in philosophy of what SS13 is or why it's enjoyable. Sybil/Terry/Bagil tend to be on a similar wavelength.

How do you foresee doing this as a headmin or how would you facilitate this and with who?

The entire concept would require coordination from the entire headmin team. As for this coming term, I would only want to start making tweaks to MRP servers config to start priming and setting basic prescedent for what exactly the new role would be responsible for. I'd like to run player polls on Manuel to gauge popularity of certain toggleable features (ie nonhuman headroles, warops, security slot scaling) to implement what seems best for a more story-driven environment. When the following election comes around, the newly elected MRP headmin would be given free reign to take their two servers in whatever direction they see best. Everything is fair game, these are not my decisions to make. This way the two servers can take off in diverging directions without having to compete for headmin slots or step on eachother toes.

Second part, why do you think breaking the triumvirate would functionally allow for better management? The benefit of the triumvirate currently is that any given inter-headmin decision will inevitably have a majority vote. How do you anticipate resolving deadlocks? wouldn't this ultimately undermine the effectiveness of the team?

As I mentioned in the OP I'm intentionally leaving the specifics vague to allow any other headmins/admins to give their input. There's a number of possible layouts to try here. Ultimately I think most impasse situations could be resolved through the indirect input of the LRP headmins. Remember - all the headmins would be part of the same team, just given different responsibilities and voting privileges. There is a lot to be gained from communicating and listening to eachother between servers.

Your second agenda is already policy to some degree. Departmental defense is something heads of staff can enact, but in situations outside of this, heads of staff are not necessarily empowered with imbalanced escalation restrictions.

Most clarifying policy on this matter is MRP only (MRP rule 3 and 4). I want to bring the principle to "do your job" to head roles on all servers. The intention here is to encourage heads of staff to man the fort and not abandon their job's duties.

The third: I mean, if someone wanted to do something on Event Hallthat warrants a whole server dedicated to it, I think they are entirely able to approach MSO to organize that currently.

And yet it barely happens. I will lead by example.

The fourth: So basically, you want to return the Hut without calling it the Hut?

The OG Hut had much laxer rules and a much shorter deletion period. I want to keep the existing Club rules with the addition of self-cleaning threads. Three months is a long time.

- Who would vote for the 4th headmin? Manuel players? Manuel admins? Both? How is that determined?

As mentioned above - it depends on the collectively agreed upon configuration of the new team. Manuel admins would get first pickings to vote on an MRP headmin slot.

- How would you liason introducing self-deletion to the player's club? Particularly, with Rave, although I imagine other GMs or maybe MSO have opinions on it.

I will be headmin and Rave will not be.

[Pepper]

this post is for thunder12345 only. if you can see this post and you arent him your computer has a virus

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[carlarc]

Bigg Bobs approves this thread.

[ekaterina]

1. Take steps toward allowing LRP and MRP servers to act more independently of each other, with the end goal of potentially having a 4th, MRP exclusive headmin election at the end of the coming term.

Does this mean there would be one LRP headmin and one MRP headmin, or would you just be giving MRP players double representation at the expense of LRP players?

[Pepper]

Does this mean there would be one LRP headmin and one MRP headmin, or would you just be giving MRP players double representation at the expense of LRP players?

In practice this 4th role would have a much more limited scope of what they can actually change - stuff that exclusively affects MRP only. Inversely the regular headmin team would have less input on what actually gets changed on Manuel. At this point I'm honestly considering calling it something like "Mannyger" because I am envisioning something like a mini-headmin anyways.

Could a Manuel player or admin run for the regular headmin position? Yeah, but it would be kind of redundant because they would have limited power to change the servers they actually play on.

[Pepper]