Stereo 2023 (Vote for Armodias Edition)
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 8:35 pm
by AwkwardStereo
Introductions
Who is this guy?
The Platform
The meat and potatoes.
Stereo Fun Facts
Make what you will of this information.
One of my notes is a stealth note for mentoring and is not visible.
This search link will show you all of the ban appeals and admin complaints I got for your viewing.
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This link will take you to the last Headmin Debate hosted on Discord. No, I will not timestamp every time I spoke but the highlight is getting elected not to be headmin, but to become a game master after 6 months.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAc99i0l-kk
TLDR
Really?
Debate Responses
So you don't have to look for them yourself.
Who is this guy?
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Hi. I'm Stereo. For the people who don't know who I am I'll give a quick low down. I've been fascinated by SS13 for a long time. Saw Mandalore's video on it, but at the time was invested in other communities and didn't have the time to really invest myself into another time sink. Over the years since that moment I'd watch whatever I could find on SS13. Videos from Admiral Hippie, Tex of the BPL, Melbert, and many other smaller names from people you may or may not recognize (Pissbuster666 is a GOAT). Sseth's video would come out, and yet again, while my interest is piqued I simply did not have the time to invest into the game at the time. Early May of 2021, some 5 years of off and on watching SS13 content, I'd finally gotten some spare time and decided to take the plunge. Originally, my plan was to learn on Sybil and make my mistakes there before moving to Manuel, but I liked it so much there that I never moved. 6 months after my first appearance, I would be scouted out by Wubli and made into an admin candidate. I exclusively adminned on Sybil for the ~9 months that I was an admin candidate, trialmin, and game admin.
The Platform
The meat and potatoes.
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I will do whatever the fuck I want. I have been forced to elaborate further by the election officials. This list is non-exhaustive and only so my thread doesn't get closed.
Speedy Response Time
Ban Appeals, Policy Discussion, and Admin Promotions. All these things will have swift and prompt responses under my tenure. If you call for headmin review and your thread is dog shit I will tell you immediately after I read your appeal. If your policy discussion doesn't have a hope in hell of getting passed after a week, you'll hear it from me. If you're an admin in the pipeline we're sticking to the schedule and either delaying you or promoting you on an official basis, no limbo bullshit. I'm reachable almost at all hours of the day and I already lurk every channel, every forum. My eyes are already present everywhere, even if my in game time is abysmal.
Silicon Impartiality
You follow your laws, not the "good" guys when you aren't subverted. If I get ban appeal with something like this I will kill the silicon and people who bully silicons for not valid hunting for them.
ASS DAY, ASS DAY
Very few people can say no to me running an event where I suspend most of the rules (rule 8 and 11 stay on during ass day) for both players (griefing) and admins (exceptional adminbus) if I am a headmin. If I do something as retarded as this it would be very infrequent, probably 3 times max over my term and scheduled well in advance. If people jump the gun on stupid shit like trying to start early or to carry it over after the event ends I will personally be on to permaban you for being a dipshit who can't read.
Stop Being an Asshole
I don't know why the Headmins felt the need to come up with "QC Bans", we can just ban people. If you're just going to be an unrepentant asshole the entire time you are here you can get gone. We have Rule 1 for that.
Become Game Master and fuck off
I don't care about being Headmin as much as I care about after 6 months being a Game Master. After achieving the highest possible elected office and serving my time I will fuck off and do nothing except shitpost and never run again.
Standardize and Centralize Some Admin Documentation
Put it all in one place, one document, and pray I don't go insane trying. Some of the shit people should be reading or knowing is in the admin forum, in bus as a pin, in bus not as a pin, in chatter as a pin or not. It's dumb, we need one place to just throw everything, split it up into chapters and shit and be able to just point to and reference from 1 place so people don't go insane keeping track of information without having to do it themselves.
I will play more TGMC
Nothing will stop me until I burn out of my own accord.
Speedy Response Time
Ban Appeals, Policy Discussion, and Admin Promotions. All these things will have swift and prompt responses under my tenure. If you call for headmin review and your thread is dog shit I will tell you immediately after I read your appeal. If your policy discussion doesn't have a hope in hell of getting passed after a week, you'll hear it from me. If you're an admin in the pipeline we're sticking to the schedule and either delaying you or promoting you on an official basis, no limbo bullshit. I'm reachable almost at all hours of the day and I already lurk every channel, every forum. My eyes are already present everywhere, even if my in game time is abysmal.
Silicon Impartiality
You follow your laws, not the "good" guys when you aren't subverted. If I get ban appeal with something like this I will kill the silicon and people who bully silicons for not valid hunting for them.
ASS DAY, ASS DAY
Very few people can say no to me running an event where I suspend most of the rules (rule 8 and 11 stay on during ass day) for both players (griefing) and admins (exceptional adminbus) if I am a headmin. If I do something as retarded as this it would be very infrequent, probably 3 times max over my term and scheduled well in advance. If people jump the gun on stupid shit like trying to start early or to carry it over after the event ends I will personally be on to permaban you for being a dipshit who can't read.
Stop Being an Asshole
I don't know why the Headmins felt the need to come up with "QC Bans", we can just ban people. If you're just going to be an unrepentant asshole the entire time you are here you can get gone. We have Rule 1 for that.
Become Game Master and fuck off
I don't care about being Headmin as much as I care about after 6 months being a Game Master. After achieving the highest possible elected office and serving my time I will fuck off and do nothing except shitpost and never run again.
Standardize and Centralize Some Admin Documentation
Put it all in one place, one document, and pray I don't go insane trying. Some of the shit people should be reading or knowing is in the admin forum, in bus as a pin, in bus not as a pin, in chatter as a pin or not. It's dumb, we need one place to just throw everything, split it up into chapters and shit and be able to just point to and reference from 1 place so people don't go insane keeping track of information without having to do it themselves.
I will play more TGMC
Nothing will stop me until I burn out of my own accord.
Stereo Fun Facts
Make what you will of this information.
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This search link will show you all of the ban appeals and admin complaints I got for your viewing.
search.php?keywords=awkwardstereo&terms ... mit=Search
This link will take you to the last Headmin Debate hosted on Discord. No, I will not timestamp every time I spoke but the highlight is getting elected not to be headmin, but to become a game master after 6 months.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAc99i0l-kk
TLDR
Really?
Debate Responses
So you don't have to look for them yourself.
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AwkwardStereo wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 6:06 am viewtopic.php?f=40&t=34098
I have nothing but respect for Starlord Gwyn stepping down of their own accord following this admin complaint but it is absolutely baffling that they were almost completely inactive for that time and still got repromoted to Game Admin. I would have retired them and told them they were welcome to reapply any time.
LOOK AT THIS. HOW???
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AwkwardStereo wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 8:48 pmI don't really give a fuck. The time to remove them was before they were ever added to begin with.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?
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.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 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.
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.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?
Headmins this term have been fine on Ban Appeals, I really have no complaints aside from Policy slowing down.
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.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.
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.4. What ideas or campaign promises that other candidates have that you support or might support?
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.
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.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?
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.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?
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.
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.7. How do you feel about restricting assistants from having maintenance access?
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.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?
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.9. How do you feel about SS14 and the possibility of ever setting up a SS14 TGstation server? Explain your thoughts.
I don't give a fuck.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?
Vote for Armodias.11. Is there anything you wish to add at the end?
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AwkwardStereo wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 12:16 amIt was one of my first forays into Command after unlocking Head of Personnel. I recall playing lawyer for a week to get the hours. It was a lower population night on Sybil and someone decided to airtank themself at the HoP line I was manning as acting captain. Not a big deal. Then someone else saw the airtank pile and decided they'd do it too. One thing leads to another and suddenly there's a pile of like 8 dude's internal organs and clothing. I make announcements about people not killing themselves with an earnestly desperate tone. Admins took over and suddenly there were waves of suicidal greyshirts, psychologists, dead lizards with suicide adjacent names (dies-on-arrival, dies-when-greeted), and wicked curses bestowed upon everyone I interacted with. Top tier interaction that whole shift.TheRex9001 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 11:29 pm What is your favorite ss13 moment you've had on tg? What would you do, if anything to cause other players to have similarly memorable moments?
The mime gets me onto the bridge alone. It's a tense moment. I unload upon them all the things that have happened to me this shift, woe is me, yadda yadda when...
Then admins played this after they suicided.
In the end, I got burned to death and the chaplain that was performing the ritual sacrifice on me went SSD. I got revived, my doctor instantly killed themself in front of me, and as I tried to escape medbay I touched a trapped holoparasite door, exploded, and died again.
The last doctor wordlessly morgued my body and that was the end of events on Lizard Hut Tango.
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AwkwardStereo wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 5:38 amLet the admin team know when to expect me back and that they should probably let people know requesting headmin review or admin complainting shit that response time will be delayed due to headmins being out.
If I'm the first back I'll start looking at the backlog of bullshit, start compiling summaries so that when the 2nd or 3rd gets back we can just start banging stuff out. If I'm not back but the other 2 are I'll just tell them to do whatever without me, just keep the show rolling.
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AwkwardStereo wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2023 12:20 amBad things happen sometimes without a reason and part of the story is how people react to these actions. Gameplay is snappier when an antag doesn't have to justify their actions in character and just decides, "I want to make the world a worse place in whatever way I can." Then it's a scramble for other people to remedy whatever damage they cause and work to prevent them from doing anymore.4. Lone antagonists can do whatever they want.
Or maybe they just decide to lock 60 monkey-men in a box with a hotmic'd radio and some spraytan smoke.
Limitless possibilities to fuck with people and the only limitation is your imagination, and its those player driven events that spawn stories that make people laugh or ask "What the fuck?"
We take far too damn long to ban the people who are consistently (round-to-round) a drag to play with. The advent of the QC ban, while not a bad side-grade, is just indicative of how weary Admins are of sticking their neck out to actually remove them for the community/server's sake. Nobody wants to deal with the appeal so it either gets tossed to Head Admins or very few Game Admins.1. Don't be a dick
We're all here to have a good time, supposedly.
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AwkwardStereo wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 7:07 am If you fuck around on Sybil you shouldn't get a 2nd chance on Manuel, and vice versa. An especially important concern of mine is that people will go to one or the other server and intentionally grief them simply because they won't get banned from the other. It's more shit piled on top of the already high pile of shit that Admins need to deal with and keep track of that I don't think anyone is clamoring to oversee.
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AwkwardStereo wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 6:32 am If their activity isn't great over a few months I'll check in with them and let them know that if after a few months things haven't improved they're on the block for retirement. I'd say it's pretty generous. If another headmin wants to be more aggressive about it I wouldn't have any problems giving my thumbs up.
Game Masters should be immune to this so that when I become one I can sit on my ass and shitpost in chatter while watching the discussion in bus before finally doing myself in to go play TGMC for 6 months.
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