Board Thread:Wikia Discussion/@comment-28069733-20170526022034/@comment-28069733-20170528004449

Jffgvzl wrote: Well, hello newbie here. Can you guys stop pointing fingers without going into solutions? So far, this thread it´s all "you´re inactive", "and you have errors" etc etc and no solutions, except for the couple of "what do you want, elections?" questions, that have gone unanswered.

The funny thing is, everyone agrees that people are leaving, and many vets have RL issues that prevents them to play (except on events of course). and that, from my newbie POV, is all but the admin´s fault. It´s actually a personal choice.

Now, as for solutions, since the staff is growing thin, and there are no vets to fill the positions. Why don´t you follow the example of every sports team or high school/ college and train (groom) the new generation, first as apprentices, then as full fledged admins?. There are a handfull of guys I saw a lot during spring, with it being the first,second or third event they complete. I say that each admin take one under their wing and teach them the more obscure parts of the game (since   I´m pretty sure everyone that finishes an event knows about double attacks, LOS, as+, aaci and other stuff that are the bread and butter of the sorties). kinda like a jedi knight-padawan thing. and then, since I know we all agree kancolle grow a tad more  boring with time, those guys will train their own padawans, let´s say, in a year´s time.

Or better yet, since you guys all have strong and weak points (tsuba being good at historic things and in depth mechanics, DU being good with japanese, presentation, quick uploads and general mechanics, Mikado being good talking to ppl and frontlining etc?) why don´t you guys do like an academy to train the new admins, each teaching their strong points. That way in the future (hopefully) we can have admins as quick as usagi on the update, with the focused intent of tsuba. again, access to the "academy" should be invitational, with each admin nominating one candidate (like on kingsmen).

So this is my idea. No elections, since the DE/ PF thing clearly showed those tend to drag way too much, more like a conclave admin thing, that regenerates over time (I dunno, a year as an admin and then passing the torch if you want?)

You're completely right, all this arguing has caused us to sidetrack from the real issue.

The point of this thread is actually more along the line that we all realize that we are understaffed, yet our bureaucrat refuses to acknowledge that we are in need of new staff members or does he realize that our staff is currently in shambles. It is meant to address the irresponsible behaviour of our bureaucrat.

The idea of getting each administrator to elect their discussion mod like a jedi/padawan relationship isn't bad actually, but I have to see how many staff members are still active and is willing to go with this idea. Regardless of the method though, getting new staff members is the sole objective now.

CDRW wrote:

Discussion mod can be promoted by admin too, but as they are part of our staff it can't be loose like chat mod. It is recommended to be backed by some of our admins by starting thread on Suggestion page or now staff discord. It does not need my approval but better give a notice to me as well as other staff about these promotion.

I do not know what caused him to spontaneously change his mind, but as he mentioned just now that he allows administrators to promote new staff members to discussion moderators as long as they are backed up by people, I say its a good time to start our work. It's going to take some time to restructure the current staff team, but we're looking for new staff members as of now.