New admin, and possible moderator slot opening

[Tobias]

As a few people have already noticed, my name has acquired a snazzy new color. While a part of me will miss wearing a taiga-centric color, I overall am looking forward to what will hopefully be a painless process of integrating to my new role as admin. Now, I actually was taken a little off guard by this myself, so this notification thread is more then a little unpolished.

Cliff notes version, the vote had been in the works for a while, but it being completed today, which resulted in my being tapped to replace the vacancy that roadbuster left behind, was not something I had anticipated. That said, me being made administrator will only effect a few areas of BL and most of these are things normal forumites will not be effected by. The changes that most concern you is as an admin I have some extra latitude in my day to day policing of the forum, and my vote will count differently then it did as a moderator.

I feel it is important to note that my elevation is, at least in my view, a statement of trust by the other admins and moderators, and I have every intention of living up to that trust as absolute best I can. I am not perfect, as any number of members have happily explained to me during my time on BL, but I hope I can do my job well and help maintain the friendly, welcoming place that was so nice to the n00b that thought the third magic was time travel, and the root referred to the big bang. (that was in like, 2010 or so for those of you with copies of the old forum, look it up, I did that)

My elevation aside, my no longer acting as a mod leaves a vacancy in our mean green team. This is a problem because both seika and mac have noted that the work maintaining and running the forum was more stressful then they had envisioned, as a result, there is a high likelihood we will look for another active member (actually, some on the team are even pushing for two new members) to join the crew.




...and if that should occur, hopefully I will be a bit better about doing one of these forum notifications.

[Mcjon01]

Just please stay away from the forum cogs and gears panel when you've been hitting the brew thanks.

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And congratulations.

[Nihilm]

congratulations

[SeiKeo]

Congratulations.

[Kat]

Congratulations!

[Strange_One]

Green is a Taiga colour?

And didn't realise MacSeika was finding the job tough. More help would be good.

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Congrats Tob-chan btw >.>

[Seika]

And didn't realise MacSeika was finding the job tough. More help would be good.

Right, yeah, this was the question I actually meant to answer in the first place.

Difficult isn't quite the right word, I think. The best way I can explain it (or the way that mostly clearly illustrates it to me, which might not be the best way at all) is by my avatars. I have this fun little rotation policy of changing avatars every 100 posts, right?* After my promotion, I blew through those milestones at a rate way beyond what I'd ever done before, like one per week. My PM box likewise is filling up much faster than it once did.

There is some time consumption, and stress, and a bit of hard thinking or detective work at times. The day before yesterday, I ended up with a headache between my exams and dealing with our vexatious board members. But by far the most significant issue is the sheer amount of activity; that's what makes us want to share this out a little more.

* (And retaining one for a full thousand every couple of thousand posts, which is what I'm on now, but that's not really relevant).

[Alternative Ice]

Wait a minute, the third magic isn't about time travel?

Everything I know is a lie.

But seriously congratulations.

[Break]

congrats dude.

Well, with the Taigabutt, it was only a matter of time.

[Cruor]

No, my sidekick is getting ever more powerful!


Congratulations tobias~!.

[gwonbush]

So how much xp does a food puppet give? You've clearly gained enough to get a class change.

[Cruor]

Its called a job advancement.

[Sinon]

Congratulations.

[Spinach]

My elevation aside, my no longer acting as a mod leaves a vacancy in our mean green team.

I don't understand why you being admin means you're no longer going to do mod stuff.

[Mcjon01]

I don't understand why you being admin means you're no longer going to do mod stuff.

Admin accounts are actually time-locked out of the forum for the majority of every week, it's hardcoded into the vBulletin software.

[Strife ❤️]

I don't understand why you being admin means you're no longer going to do mod stuff.

Separation of powers.

[Tobias]

The mod team is there specifically so the admins don't have to do everything. That's kinda the point.

[Tobias]

There are votes and choices that are more traditionally handled by the mod team. Now I'm nosy so I will probably still shove my nose in every once in a while, but while y'all probably won't see anything different, the team might.

[Spinach]

Why are mods making votes for things, that sounds like the kind of thing you have administration to do

[I3uster]

Why are mods making votes for things, that sounds like the kind of thing you have administration to do

It was always like that, when there's a stalemate it went down the mods.

This is how mike got banned