We are formally establishing the role of Admin Managers today who will be handling the admin team which includes solving internal disputes between admins as well as demoting admins and handpicking players for admin to keep the team well up to date. That means that metroid and me will mostly stand back and let the admin managers decide on their own how they want to manage the admin team. We can of course help them or do decisions by ourselves if they ask for our help but mostly we want to let the admin managers decide on their own what they want that happens with the admin team. The two admins selected for this role are Rice and Harley.
So the hierarchy is slightly changed as the veteran role does not exist any longer. The former veteran admins no longer have permissions to manage the admin team as the intention is that the admin managers will do so from now on. The veteran role was renamed to Retired Super Admin which should be viewed as a upgrade to the regular retired admin role. Retired admins keep vip meanwhile retired super admins keep their sourceban access, their forum access and the Ingame admin access they already have. But from now on these Retired super admins cannot manage the admin team any longer. The name Retired Super Admin should make very good sense considering its only alcolo and zp that still play css. Admins who have been active for 5 years will get the Retired Super Admin role as promotion. Does it matter that they are called Retired Super Admin even if they are active? Absolutely not something worth thinking about. When over 90% of the people with the role dont touch css since years anymore it makes a lot more sense to call them Retired Super Admin instead of Veteran admins.
In case of an admin manager retiring they will also be given the Retired Super Admin role, meaning the role covers both admin managers who resign as well as admins who have been promoted after 5 years of activity. The Super Admin Role is very easy to think of as the unloze pension system because your given the access for the rest of unloze's life time.
The admin manager role will reflect what we in the past used to call global admins. But this time around they will instead be called Admin Managers. The global admin role was abolished several years ago because it ended up with us having 7 global admins that were supposed to manage the admin team but all of them were inactive for years not doing their job. It certainly also did not help that they felt very entitled about needing to keep their role despite not contributing anything since years. Or some of them arguing that they would function as a good team despite literally not doing any work. I dont want it to come to this situation again, but i do realize that having middle management taking care of handling admins should be much better than me personally managing the admin team. I just have to make sure that things this time dont go overboard with inactive admin managers clinging onto their position for years despite not doing their intended work. The good global admins we had in the past resigned themselves when they knew that they were too inactive to continue on their role, meanwhile the bad one's clinged onto the role forever even despite not contributing anything.
The team this time around will only consists of two Admin Managers, as said, rice and harley. If one of them in the future resigns we will have to find a new one that the other can work together with of course. This system had its ups and downs of course, it was last time abolished because of the too many negative impacts of having 7 admin managers that all were inactive, refusing to give up their position and who still insisted on that they were a good team despite not doing anything. But the negative impacts from back then should not get in the way of trying it again, because i do remember the system also had a lot of positive aspects, such as letting people who are better at handling humans take care of the admin team instead of me (but that also requires that they are around and not fucking afk for 15 months). Last time around there also was no Retired Super Admin role, back then if a global admin was demoted they would only receive the retired admin role. This time around there is better compensation at least in the form of the retired super admin role. Hopefully re-introducing the system and being more strict about admin managers not being AFK for 6 months will send us into a better future again.
So the hierarchy is slightly changed as the veteran role does not exist any longer. The former veteran admins no longer have permissions to manage the admin team as the intention is that the admin managers will do so from now on. The veteran role was renamed to Retired Super Admin which should be viewed as a upgrade to the regular retired admin role. Retired admins keep vip meanwhile retired super admins keep their sourceban access, their forum access and the Ingame admin access they already have. But from now on these Retired super admins cannot manage the admin team any longer. The name Retired Super Admin should make very good sense considering its only alcolo and zp that still play css. Admins who have been active for 5 years will get the Retired Super Admin role as promotion. Does it matter that they are called Retired Super Admin even if they are active? Absolutely not something worth thinking about. When over 90% of the people with the role dont touch css since years anymore it makes a lot more sense to call them Retired Super Admin instead of Veteran admins.
In case of an admin manager retiring they will also be given the Retired Super Admin role, meaning the role covers both admin managers who resign as well as admins who have been promoted after 5 years of activity. The Super Admin Role is very easy to think of as the unloze pension system because your given the access for the rest of unloze's life time.
The admin manager role will reflect what we in the past used to call global admins. But this time around they will instead be called Admin Managers. The global admin role was abolished several years ago because it ended up with us having 7 global admins that were supposed to manage the admin team but all of them were inactive for years not doing their job. It certainly also did not help that they felt very entitled about needing to keep their role despite not contributing anything since years. Or some of them arguing that they would function as a good team despite literally not doing any work. I dont want it to come to this situation again, but i do realize that having middle management taking care of handling admins should be much better than me personally managing the admin team. I just have to make sure that things this time dont go overboard with inactive admin managers clinging onto their position for years despite not doing their intended work. The good global admins we had in the past resigned themselves when they knew that they were too inactive to continue on their role, meanwhile the bad one's clinged onto the role forever even despite not contributing anything.
The team this time around will only consists of two Admin Managers, as said, rice and harley. If one of them in the future resigns we will have to find a new one that the other can work together with of course. This system had its ups and downs of course, it was last time abolished because of the too many negative impacts of having 7 admin managers that all were inactive, refusing to give up their position and who still insisted on that they were a good team despite not doing anything. But the negative impacts from back then should not get in the way of trying it again, because i do remember the system also had a lot of positive aspects, such as letting people who are better at handling humans take care of the admin team instead of me (but that also requires that they are around and not fucking afk for 15 months). Last time around there also was no Retired Super Admin role, back then if a global admin was demoted they would only receive the retired admin role. This time around there is better compensation at least in the form of the retired super admin role. Hopefully re-introducing the system and being more strict about admin managers not being AFK for 6 months will send us into a better future again.
