Have more admins usefull ?

Hi,

I just don't get one thing, please enlighten me.

More and more admins are nominated but they ain't doing a thing for the website or the community (I have nothing against them), I was just wondering why they are nominated if they appear to be "Casper".

I was thinking of juleeeh and ZippoW especially (I repeat I have strictly nothing against them) and now nobody^ ? Come on some admins don't seem to be that helpfull.

Like for example, Vee is left the only demo admin, it'll be more usefull to nominate someone who is willing to take kayne's place to help him instead of nominating friends of other admins.

Plz don't spam any worthless respons, this is serious thread.

Best regards.

more map admins would be fine

Just so you know about the demo checking job:
Most members think it's really easy and fast to do, but you guys are completely wrong.
As jusuuh said, apart from the CEO position, it's the most time-consuming job in the staff. Apart from the actual work needed to release new world records, you've got a harsh schedule to follow and as soon as you've got a suspicious demo, you cannot even imagine how many hours it takes to detect advanced cheats, since no software does all the job: we've got advanced stuff to "decode" demos, but then the admin has to decrypt everything.

Just imagine huge .txt files of codes and numbers to read and decrypt.

I never said the admins didn't do anything or weren't active on private parts of the forum.

Except maybe ZippoW moving topics wrongly placed, I don't see much activity tbh.

And what's with nobody admin ? I'm not saying he's immature or whatever but come on guys, lets be serious, he's like 15 years old ...
We all know that we are rarely mature enough at this age, especially to handle the admin competence.
(kayne cheated around that age if I'm correct so ...)

Just sayin'

Originally posted by jusuuh

I don't know your age, but to be honest, he have shown a lot more maturity than you've generally in the forums.

I am no admin here, but wanted to share a few things, hope jusuuh wont mind.

Most of the time the members won’t approve any new admins because either they think he doesn’t do his job properly or someone else deserves it more appropriately. The problem is it’s only a small section of the admins’ work that is out in the open and palpable, for example demo/map/movie/forum cleanup, you see them, and think “wow he is doing good”.

For all the things that’s happening backstage, ex administration/managing/coders;who’s out there and trying to make our stay in here a li’l better, is scarcely visible and never appreciated.

It becomes increasingly difficult to search new admins – the interested ones are not qualified enough, and the qualified ones are not interested.

As far as nobody^ is concerned, despite his young age he is well ahead of a large amount of the people in here in terms of maturity and a helpful mindset - a thing long lost in this community.

Seems like none of you understood WOOF's point here. Let me make this clear o_O

I think we all know who nobody^ is : a great person/member here on XJ and we, all, have seen his behaviour, kindness and maturity aswell. But this is offtopic.

What WOOF (and me ofcourse) would like to know is that : why there are so many admins and yet nothing interested and fun to watch/read or something like that. Ok , i got the point of the forum cleaning and chatbox argues and etc, etc. But c'mon guys , even my 11 years old brother can do this .. We would like to see some MEGA-POOL of the year / demo recorder of the month / interviews / map-releases more often / weeklies.. you feel me?

I think the whole XJ is bored of demo-releases and ROTW's.. those are fun too but .. once per week? kinda slow don't you think?

There would be alot more things that i would like to explain but it's kinda late and you should be aware of those things.. not to wait some 16 years old ganjA member to bring that out.

Originally posted by ganjA!

Seems like none of you understood WOOF's point here. Let me make this clear o_O

I think we all know who nobody^ is : a great person/member here on XJ and we, all, have seen his behaviour, kindness and maturity aswell. But this is offtopic.

What WOOF (and me ofcourse) would like to know is that : why there are so many admins and yet nothing interested and fun to watch/read or something like that. Ok , i got the point of the forum cleaning and chatbox argues and etc, etc. But c'mon guys , even my 11 years old brother can do this .. We would like to see some MEGA-POOL of the year / demo recorder of the month / interviews / map-releases more often / weeklies.. you feel me?

I think the whole XJ is bored of demo-releases and ROTW's.. those are fun too but .. once per week? kinda slow don't you think?

There would be alot more things that i would like to explain but it's kinda late and you should be aware of those things.. not to wait some 16 years old ganjA member to bring that out.

@Zippow i really get you. And if i would be in your place, i would feel offended too. But bro, me and woof are not the only ones who think like this:). I'm up to everything.. i would do everything for XJ if i would have the chance. I don't go to school anymore, due to some personal prolems, so i'm free 24/7 . There are ~20 adimins (not all of them are active) FOR A COMMUNITY WITH 67008 members (not all of them active either) but still.. if you apply for a job here you have to be aware that you are needed all the time. and i'm not talking about you in particulary, i'm talking about other admins. maybe you get it BRO

It's been hard times with extra activity as you've seen, but in my opinion it was much more important to clear all the basic schedules to a working point, rather than trying to pull off something extra on a broken platform.

As Zippow mentioned, back in days we had a working concept both on the main side as well on the extra activities side. These guys have retired during the days, which have lead to problems, as you might've seen. The problem is that, what I already mentioned on me previous posts: it's outstandingly hard to find "perfect" kind of admins for the positions. For the basics, they should be available really often for high activity, they should do their job well, and on top of that, to achieve f.ex. your points, to do a lot extra.

About why there's nothing more than basics out there is just lack of extra activity, with this staff we can manage out the routines decently. You just can't stare the number of admins at the moment, there's a lot going on the background that isn't open for public. Every admin has it's task, that's for sure.

Actually, there has been tries for more regular extra content. You might remember Weekly Reload, for what we never found a solid crew, whom could be active. There were numerous different crews trying to handle it, guys from external & internal recruitation, but like you can see, it didn't truly work as planned. With active guys it should be still running. That's a question which you can throw for the audience aswell, is it fault of current admins that multiple crews chosen via rectuitation never worked? I thank those who made it possible as it lasted, but for making permanent choices for weekly crew, I think we're near out of oppoturnities.

Also, I tried to gather up crew for the weekly video version, video podcast, as I wrote in both eSports squad recruitment posts. It coudl've replaced weekly with video&audio content. Again all the acceptable help came from internal side, as ndR promised to help if needed, and prad messaged me with helping hand relating to the content. There weren't actually more than few notable applies for the whole streaming squad, I'm glad I have the current guys, but it did get very lame response from the community. But even with little resources we managed to stream the tournament about like we planned. There were mistakes and good moments, but that's what you'll get on first time.

Rather long post again, but I hope you could read it.

Regards,

jusuuh / XJ