iain0 - I made a candidate posting!
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2023 7:53 pm
Greetings forum-goer, if you're familiar with my previous platforms or my adminning on Terry there's probably not a lot in here thats going to be a surprise, for everyone else, here's a little bit about why I'm here.
Who am I?
All the usual play time graphs at the end.
As a character, I'm Bob Stange, playing since mid 2019, initially a lot of engineering eventually moving to medical a couple of years ago and moving up into the CMO slot most of the time, I enjoy helping the department help people, or more directly acting as MD if there's people stuck waiting, as well as trying to keep the department chaos level down a bit. I co-ordinate a bit with command, though most of the round and threats are their problem, I keep an eye on the crew monitor and try feed in to, or if necessary take charge of, key events like the inevitable shuttle calling.
As an admin, I go by my username iain0, been a full admin for about 2 years now, a consistent presence on terry and handled a large number of tickets, big things for me in many tickets are really asking 'why' someone did something, having a good IC reason for actions is pretty key a lot of the time, and where I end up delivering a note or ban to a player I like to take the time to try discuss the events such that the other player understands what went wrong, and to give them some guidance as to what they maybe should be doing to deal with situations. I've been an Admin Trainer for a while and brought a couple of admins into the process, and helped out with a couple of other trainer's candidates. I'd like to think I've played a part in helping Terry-minning expand from rarely having more than one admin around to regularly having a group online together, and the experience is a lot more pleasant when you have others there to share the load and discuss the round, or just chat generally with.
Why am I running?
I don't have any great headline of changes or intent in my platform, never have, but I'm still running for two reasons really.
Firstly because I believe I have a good skill set, approach, and can probably do the job well, I see this process as more of an 'offer of my time' and largely stand on my merits and history. I'll likely continue posting these fairly neutral platforms unless TG changes in a direction I dislike and see myself as a "fairly safe option". If there's someone with some idea you're really into, vote for them higher (though do read on), but if you're fine with where things are and just like them to continue roughly as-is, that's about where I'm at.
Secondly, the more personal side is that I'd like to broaden my horizons, experience and learn the rest of the TG admin experience and then can take what I learn from that going forward into my post-headmin admin duties.
Finally, I'm not hugely sold on having "notable changes" as a platform, the job encompasses so much more than that day to day, and you still have to sell two headmins on your idea to get it rolling. If its a good enough idea then you can sell three headmins on it without actually needing to be a headmin yourself. Policy forums are one such route. It could help get more controversial changes through like 'mentors', but you're still very dependant on the luck of the other two headmins, and thus the best way to increase the odds is to find a way to make it sound appealing to most admins, in which case you'll probably be able to get the ball rolling regardless.
Smaller changes that interest me would be cleaning up the AI upload access part of silicon policy, I don't think its well phrased in its current form, and I've been curious recently about dynamic and what options we can tweak there ; I feel high pop is a mix of very high impact rounds, or rounds that struggle to get rolling (no round start threat / low overall threat), but the process here is to collect data, evidence thoughts, collect opinions internally and externally and propose changes to trial. And as per the previous paragraph I can probably make attempts at that headmin or not.
Summary and Graphs
This isn't the most flashy or exciting campaign, and I try to look past campaigns to the basic princples of those behind them when voting (applying this to political votes IRL as much as here). While I appreciate this sort of platform isn't the best way to "min/max" my odds I guess I'm just "doing my thing" here, and if elected I will do my thing in the Headmin capacity, try keep and strive for the good standards we've established and take us all through the next six months. I feel there's a place for a few neutral candidates in all elections that stand mostly on their history and demonstrated abilities, there doesn't always need to be flux (or perhaps you're against some of the flux), in which case a simple stability platform fits into a slot somewhere.
Scrubby last 6 months (the gap is a gap in log processing I believe) Played time (Unassigned crewmember is probably mostly admin spawned in at thunderdome)
Who am I?
All the usual play time graphs at the end.
As a character, I'm Bob Stange, playing since mid 2019, initially a lot of engineering eventually moving to medical a couple of years ago and moving up into the CMO slot most of the time, I enjoy helping the department help people, or more directly acting as MD if there's people stuck waiting, as well as trying to keep the department chaos level down a bit. I co-ordinate a bit with command, though most of the round and threats are their problem, I keep an eye on the crew monitor and try feed in to, or if necessary take charge of, key events like the inevitable shuttle calling.
As an admin, I go by my username iain0, been a full admin for about 2 years now, a consistent presence on terry and handled a large number of tickets, big things for me in many tickets are really asking 'why' someone did something, having a good IC reason for actions is pretty key a lot of the time, and where I end up delivering a note or ban to a player I like to take the time to try discuss the events such that the other player understands what went wrong, and to give them some guidance as to what they maybe should be doing to deal with situations. I've been an Admin Trainer for a while and brought a couple of admins into the process, and helped out with a couple of other trainer's candidates. I'd like to think I've played a part in helping Terry-minning expand from rarely having more than one admin around to regularly having a group online together, and the experience is a lot more pleasant when you have others there to share the load and discuss the round, or just chat generally with.
Why am I running?
I don't have any great headline of changes or intent in my platform, never have, but I'm still running for two reasons really.
Firstly because I believe I have a good skill set, approach, and can probably do the job well, I see this process as more of an 'offer of my time' and largely stand on my merits and history. I'll likely continue posting these fairly neutral platforms unless TG changes in a direction I dislike and see myself as a "fairly safe option". If there's someone with some idea you're really into, vote for them higher (though do read on), but if you're fine with where things are and just like them to continue roughly as-is, that's about where I'm at.
Secondly, the more personal side is that I'd like to broaden my horizons, experience and learn the rest of the TG admin experience and then can take what I learn from that going forward into my post-headmin admin duties.
Finally, I'm not hugely sold on having "notable changes" as a platform, the job encompasses so much more than that day to day, and you still have to sell two headmins on your idea to get it rolling. If its a good enough idea then you can sell three headmins on it without actually needing to be a headmin yourself. Policy forums are one such route. It could help get more controversial changes through like 'mentors', but you're still very dependant on the luck of the other two headmins, and thus the best way to increase the odds is to find a way to make it sound appealing to most admins, in which case you'll probably be able to get the ball rolling regardless.
Smaller changes that interest me would be cleaning up the AI upload access part of silicon policy, I don't think its well phrased in its current form, and I've been curious recently about dynamic and what options we can tweak there ; I feel high pop is a mix of very high impact rounds, or rounds that struggle to get rolling (no round start threat / low overall threat), but the process here is to collect data, evidence thoughts, collect opinions internally and externally and propose changes to trial. And as per the previous paragraph I can probably make attempts at that headmin or not.
Summary and Graphs
This isn't the most flashy or exciting campaign, and I try to look past campaigns to the basic princples of those behind them when voting (applying this to political votes IRL as much as here). While I appreciate this sort of platform isn't the best way to "min/max" my odds I guess I'm just "doing my thing" here, and if elected I will do my thing in the Headmin capacity, try keep and strive for the good standards we've established and take us all through the next six months. I feel there's a place for a few neutral candidates in all elections that stand mostly on their history and demonstrated abilities, there doesn't always need to be flux (or perhaps you're against some of the flux), in which case a simple stability platform fits into a slot somewhere.
Scrubby last 6 months (the gap is a gap in log processing I believe) Played time (Unassigned crewmember is probably mostly admin spawned in at thunderdome)