I’ve been an on and off player on Manuel for about 4 years now, I’ve been teaching silicon and navigating old silpol for 2 on the Manuelcord. My most notable static is Mary Megablade. A few of you have likely seen me arguing about things that don’t matter on the forums.
Why I’m running:
I think we’re in a pretty rough patch right now. What I think player’s need is a playermin who isn’t afraid to buttheads with people in authority if it can bring about a constructive change. There are many excellent admins and coders in this community, but I think there’s a lot of pressure to not stir the pot while headmin, because once your term is over, you still have to work in close proximity with those same people. Playing nice is generally prioritized over conflict, sometimes that conflict is avoided long enough that you get an inevitable clusterfuck and the people that suffer from it the most are the players.
People are passionate about this game and how it ought to be, genuinely some of the best headmins we’ve had are people willing to seek resolutions through conflict. One of the most promising signs for me that Keith4 was the right choice for our first player headmin, is when there was drama in his feedback thread.
My Goals:
First and foremost I want to advocate on behalf of players regarding changes, I don’t care if I have authority over a particular issue or not. A part of a player vote headmin’s role, in my mind, is to represent the community and their interests, this extends to code changes.
Regarding the Wallening: I have no ability to influence this beyond any other player, but just like any other player I’m going to say my piece on the matter:
It needs to be outright reverted. My opinion is that the most important thing is the trust between the community and the people in authority. This change and its implementation, as well as the conduct of the maintainers, has been appalling. The right step here is to revert the merge, and take a long break from this project. People on both sides are far too angry and upset to deal with this particular matter, and until maintainer’s have re-earned the trust of the playerbase, it should remain off the table as a show of good will. If not, forking should be seriously considered.
Potential Silpol tweaks: I’d personally like to see some of the older rulings from silpol readded, like metaprotecting silicons from clearly obnoxious orders, this prevents silicons from having to constantly get rule 1 (don’t be a dick) rulings from admins to avoid clearly terrible orders.
Pushing against “coin-toss” rulings: Situations where an admin could just as easily interpret a situation as within the rules as without, should always default to within the rules. Not doing so creates a domino effect of notes for behaviour that was initially, completely fine. As headmin I'll be opposing any negative 50/50 rulings.
Bagil as a player’s event workshop: I’ve blatantly stolen this from Dendy, because I love it.
What do I offer?:
I’ve spent my time here as an extremely rules minded player, I enjoy interpreting rules (hence silicon training) and arguing how the rules are, vs how they ought to be.This allows me to reasonably engage with admins while still remaining a fully player-aligned playermin.
My contributions to appeals as a player: (limited examples of policy interpretation)
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To Policy (how I interpret and wish policy to be):
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