Hello,
I'm here to state and mention several things I have queries and issues with, and maybe at the end give a score on how I feel about your admin application as per the typical -/+1 ordeal, so please read through all of this to ensure you know my stance on the following and your application.
Part One: I'm unsure what exactly you meant by this.
I'm a fair bit dissatisfied with some of the admin staff, so I'd like to help fix things by assisting from the inside.
I've read ban appeals and heard from players (multiple of each) with a running theme of players not knowing why they're being punished.
If a player has had action taken against them, they are likely told why exactly the case was and what exactly the issue at hand was to lead to this. We don't dole out bans, kicks, bwoinks or etc. for lack of a better reason than we see an issue and wish to resolve it. Most cases do go
"I was banned for no reason!!!". There usually
is solid reasoning behind why we take action towards players. Personally I've had to ban and get onto several players for simply breaking the rules or causing issue with other players wherein if I hadn't the situation would never have been resolved peacefully, if at all really. So, to reiterate, there usually
IS solid enough reasoning towards taking action, we seldom (if, really, ever) leave players in the dark about their behavior or actions that lead to the actions taken against them. I believe personally most person(s) having said actions taken against them seek respite in the
"I'm not the issue, the admins are." sentiment that I've seen quite a fair bit of here in the past few that I've been active enough to bear witness to notes, player comments, etc. towards. If someone
HAS had action taken against them without their sentiment, it's likely a QC/Toxicity ban that was warranted by their actions within the community, and as with that we do not have to dole out a bwoink if they have been warned for similar events stated prior. This is almost seldom the case, even still, and we still likely give them a moment to reconcile their ill acts towards the community before taking administrative measures. Again, we do not cast someone out just do do so, if that is what you are implying with what you've said in your application.
Part Two: The status of you returning to power as an admin.
Personally, I'm not too unkind towards former staff. Retiree staff are always welcome to reclaim their place as long as they haven't caused issue in the past. I'm not saying this is all of our sentiments put together, however, as perhaps there's other alternative outlooks separate from my own that can vouch negatively on your half of the case, or maybe there's admins here that can say 'Izzy once leapt over ten burning buildings and saved a baby by bwoinking it out a window and letting it land on an ahelp cloud'. Those people would be, undoubtedly, insane for saying something that strange but maybe someone out there has that outlook. I'm not them, though. However, I'm here to tell you that personally I'm true neutral about what I've seen of you, what others have seen of you, your stance in the community and any feedback regarding you. I've never been under your adminship as a player, and I haven't bore witness to you personally keeping up with all the players, so on that note, I'm impartial. What I'm seeing, however, from your re-admin application is a change of pace.
Part Three: Another thing I saw that I feel needs to be touched on.
I do not intend to become head admin again. I don't even have the time. I do still think that the server needs some sort of leadership structure that doesn't overstress head admins with far more responsibilities than any one can reasonably manage and still have a life. But I don't want to fill any of those roles.
I put my name in for community manager because I believed it was a role meant to help collect a single source of truth for server development direction through communicating with devs, players, and admins. I felt this was a rather doable task for a single person for each server and wasn't a power grab due to it compiling information instead of creating the direction - not having the final say on anything. Given that I like to ask people questions in ways that can define such direction, I thought I could help.
Because the expectations for the role became more defined after accepting it, I toned down any plans I had for that high level server direction compilation, and instead decided to focus on roughly gauging player interest on events and future role engagement instead of the above.
I'm applying for admin because I believe I can still carry out polls for the CM stuff I decided to take on, I want to help run small events, and I want to help other admins make sure no players get burned by not understanding punishments or policy - to help communicate better between players and staff.
On this note, I'm personally fine if you wanted to take up running as an Event Manager over you being an admin. I'm well aware that you were (and possibly still are, I haven't checked in on the Community Managers in a good bit due to personal reasons for not doing so), a CM and with that, I still strongly believe you should turn to being an Event Manager as opposed to an administrator or higher. Event Manager roles are the least stressful roles in the administrative/community aside from the CM or Player rank. Event Managers may have to handle a great deal of stress towards Events, but, Events are unprompted unless directed. You can still gauge player interest on events and future role engagement from this position, just not as an administrator. Being an admin is time-constraining, just as much as being a head administrator really, and if you do not have a superb amount of time to spend towards checking in on the players and the like then you won't fare well in this position for too long as it can be stressful. We have had people quit or retire due to such stress and time-constraints, actually, and I do not feel this would be a good field for you to go into if you are with a full schedule and aren't willing to deal with a great deal of stress. Event Manager would be a perfect role, however, for you in this case.
Part Four: In summation, closing and final statements.
I know of you as being the person to host the rules website for the server, I know of you as a former admin, and I know of you as someone that likes to post funny dog memes in the RP chat on occasion. I've never seen you as an admin (or head admin for that matter) and have no experience with how you were then vs how you are at current. You say you would like not to spend eons of time dedicated towards the server and that the job prior when you were an admin was stressful. To this, I say, if you cannot dedicate enough time towards being an admin you should not be one, nor should you force the stress of it upon yourself by re-applying for the role that you know to be a stressful one. I highly suggest seeking out the Event Manager application, applying for that, and doing that instead as it's less stressful and time-intensive. I still do not understand what you meant by 'We take action and do not give reasoning behind why', maybe I'm missing something key here, but I would like to reiterate that I personally do not do that nor have I seen it happen sans a very
very valid state of reasoning.
Judgement: Personally, from me (and in the nicest way I can give this), a strong -1. I'm sorry, but no, I don't think you should be an admin again. Event Manager, sure, but not an admin. I apologize for my negative jurisdiction, but perhaps try again another time or take on another role that isn't this.
See you next post,
-Jay