Archie700 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2024 3:00 pm
How are you going to ensure you are able to spend your term as headmins without pissing off the playerbase, the admins, the codebase, or your fellow headmins?
I think the electorate and players and admins will be satisfied with my decisionmaking and I think they will be very happy.
EuSouAFazenda wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2024 10:37 pm
Recently an admin removed someone's timeout from playing the roulette bot in the TG discord; the consequence of this was the removal of the roulette mute function.
How would you handle if something like this happened in a trail by combat? Someone got a friendly resolution and was going to be unbanned, asks for trial by combat, loses, gets rebanned for a full year, asks to not be banned that way and the admin actually does it. How would you handle this? Would you let it slide? Deadmin the admin? Ban the guy for one more sentence? What happens?
Why would I overrule the admin's decision on this front? If they wanna be generous and unban the person even though they lost, it's their ban, they can do what they want with it.
Archie700 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2024 4:31 pm
And what if an admin refuses to participate in a trial by combat?
If elected I'll get a proper Terms and Conditions set up for Trial By Combat but there's three big caveats to the system as outlined in the OP of this thread:
1. You have to write an
admission of guilt and a sincere apology.
2. Said admission of guilt and sincere apology have to be accepted by the admin.
3. Rule 8/9/11 bans are not allowed to be trial-by-combatted due to the nature of those infractions.
If we need to add additional caveats to it if holes are discovered in practice, that's totally reasonable and I think we can work on that.
I'm not gonna make an admin go through with this if they're uncomfortable doing it, but I think it's a good way to encourage people to actually understand why they were banned and apologize for their behavior while also providing good community entertainment. We like our bread and circuses here at /tg/, you need only look at the Player's Club peanut threads to see that, and this is a good way to both provide that bread and circuses while subtly encouraging what we actually want players to do for ban appeals when they're in the wrong: understand what they did wrong, and apologize.
GamerAndYeahMick wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2024 6:05 pm
Your 1v1 for the ban appeals thing probably wouldn't fly with me unless it was a very funny ban appeal or the banned player wasn't so bad, what do you think about that and would you be willing to compromise so that it wouldn't be every ban appeal?
The answer to Archie700 gets into this, so I'd have to refer to that for this question.
GamerAndYeahMick wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2024 6:05 pm
additionally how do you think you will do when dealing with the admins and other head admins who may not have the fondest feelings about your personality? do you think you will engage in conversation differently than you currently do considering the head admin position has the obligation to be more responsible and nuanced with the statements they make?
Headmin statements do require nuance, but I think you do need people who can get to the heart of a matter quickly and effectively. I've gone to bat for our community more times than I can count and I care deeply about /tg/station as a community. I think this'll be no problem for me.
