BHMs Q&A thread.

[Blindhamsterman]

As a Late entry, I'm already well behind the others in the Q&A department, however, I'll try to get something meaningful written up in here in the next day or two...

Till then, if anyone has any questions on any areas at all please go ahead and ask (e.g. anything relevant about me, history here, views on anything, thoughts on where issues are and any serious questions that are focal to each of you as a voter)

Cheers

BHM

[Heero]

Do you need a bouncer?

[/flexing muscles]

[JaydeMoon]

How were you not in good standing and now you ARE in good standing?

[Thangorn]

I read your poem. Are you or have you at any time been Amish or at least had an Amish beard?

Thanks

[paazin]

How were you not in good standing and now you ARE in good standing?

I'd say whoever is in position to waive this requirement for BH ought to do it; he's been an enthusiastic productive member since and he ought to have the ability to stand with his peers for a vote.

[hollyfant]

Will you force ALFA to break out in song and dance routines?

[Faeryl]

If you were given the authority to change any one thing in ALFA, what would it be?

If you found it necessary to mediate a dispute between two other Admin, would you be able to side with one over the other for the betterment of ALFA, even if you didn't fully agree with either party?

The letter of the law or the spirit of the law?

[Thangorn]

I'm terrible with this politics stuff. Could you explain what qualifies you more for this job than the other two candidates?

PS: I dont see a platform for your campaign. Am I missing something?

[CloudDancing]

*puts on her Barbara Walters Wig*
1.) Who asked you to wrun?

2.) Why did you suddenly stop suppworting Velian who is a friend and whom you said you would suppwort?

3.) Why and when did Vwendwin remove your strike? Was it to wrun for this powistion?

4.) Are you swecretly Ross Perot or Ralph Nader?

5.) What is your pwatform?

(ok *puts on her Tam Why wig*)

[I-KP]

$TamSpeak =~ s/r/w/gi

[Blindhamsterman]

Do you need a bouncer?

[/flexing muscles]

as I said in IRC, sure thing! If I actually got the position.

How were you not in good standing and now you ARE in good standing?

The strike was removed after a review by all Admin, immediately following the PA elections. Since being back I've proven myself to have moved on from my childish past.

If needs be, I can Quote the PM I had.

I read your poem. Are you or have you at any time been Amish or at least had an Amish beard?

Thanks

Hehe, actually it's a hymn, here in the UK kids ats primary school (ages 6 to 11) sing songs during a period called assembly, coming right after the first lesson... aaaanyway, I was in the choir for my city, and sang the chorus at the begining solo....
No I'm not amish, but I am known for regularly having a beard...

How were you not in good standing and now you ARE in good standing?

I'd say whoever is in position to waive this requirement for BH ought to do it; he's been an enthusiastic productive member since and he ought to have the ability to stand with his peers for a vote.

thankyou paazin

Will you force ALFA to break out in song and dance routines?

mostly this'll depend on the desire of the community at large, is it something you'd like to see happen?

If you were given the authority to change any one thing in ALFA, what would it be?

If you found it necessary to mediate a dispute between two other Admin, would you be able to side with one over the other for the betterment of ALFA, even if you didn't fully agree with either party?

The letter of the law or the spirit of the law?

Some great questions

There are a few things I'd personally like to change in ALFA, doesn't mean it's something that’s wise for me to push to change if I got the position though...
That being said, I'd like to help get Vendrins proposal (or at the very least something like it) in place, I think there is definitely a need for some thought to be put into that area. If you'll permit me a second thing to change that I believe would genuinely benefit ALFA, it'd be to put forward a proposal that decisions on new content (be that crafting systems, feats etc. etc.) are made in a timely manner, currently things can take far too long or even get lost in the ether, this does no-one any good, and certainly doesn't result in a productive community, or one that’s good to look on for outsiders.

If two Admin had a dispute, I'd listen to both sides, and ideally seek a compromise, if that could not be achieved, then I'd have to rule with whichever side was more in keeping with ALFAs charter.

I believe in the spirit of the Law, sticking wholly to the letter will simply result in stagnation.

I'm terrible with this politics stuff. Could you explain what qualifies you more for this job than the other two candidates?

PS: I dont see a platform for your campaign. Am I missing something?

Honestly? I'm really not going to say I'm more qualified, equally I'm almost certainly no less qualified, I've been involved in a lot, I speak to a lot of members here, I am on good terms with most of Admin. I'm not going to say I'm more qualified as doing so would almost certainly be taken as a dig against the other candidates, and I consider Veilan to be a friend (though one I often disagree with).

Platform for my campaign is coming, like I said, it was a late coming entry, and I've spent the day with my family today, so I'll do my best to get something concrete written up, when I do, I'll update my first post.

*puts on her Barbara Walters Wig*
1.) Who asked you to wrun?

2.) Why did you suddenly stop suppworting Velian who is a friend and whom you said you would suppwort?

3.) Why and when did Vwendwin remove your strike? Was it to wrun for this powistion?

4.) Are you swecretly Ross Perot or Ralph Nader?

5.) What is your pwatform?

(ok *puts on her Tam Why wig*)

1.) Actually quite a few people, honestly I suspect that you might be suprised at who they may be considering some of your loaded questions

2.) If he gets the position, I'll do my best to help him however I can, like I said, I consider him to be a friend (as much as anyone can be that you've never met in person). That being said, I think he has a lot of other things to do, perhaps I might even be running to help him.

3.) Vendrin Didn't, KMJ did, with support of admin at the time. Clearly it wasn't to run for the position he currently held though.

4.) I had to google them both (sorry I'm not american!) And I can safely say I am neither!

5.) as I said to Thangorn, it's coming, but it's likely not dissimilar to your's or Veilans, there are differences in my views, and almost certainly in the way I intend to handle things, but I suspect anyone that steps forward will have a similar desire to push ALFA forward and also have ALFAs best interest in mind.

$TamSpeak =~ s/r/w/gi

lol

[dirsa]

1. how much wood could a woodchuck chuck is a woodchuck could chuck wood?

2. what lead admin really does?

3. why do you want to do that, and how can we help you?

[NESchampion]

I'd like to start by noting that I'm willing to stay on and help with Rule Documentation regardless of who takes the reins, at their discretion of course. That said, I have a number of questions below.

To start with preface, the role of LA according to the charter is as follows: "Lead Administrator—Oversight of Administration, Veto & Referral Authority, Election Oversight, and Public Relations. Also responsible for resolving disputes over domain classification of any particular issue."

What (if any) areas of ALFAs administration do you find most in need of oversight presently?

What (if any) areas of ALFAs administration would you seek to change?

Should the Charter be changed to allow elections for Infra Admin, Tech Admin, and DM Admin be open to all members of ALFA to vote, instead of being limited to "all seated Administrators, all HDMs, vote-eligible Administrator Staff as defined in section 3.5, and all DMs"? Why or why not? If not, what purpose do you feel the restricted voting constituency is useful in fulfilling?

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Before the next question, a bit more prefacing. Advertising ALFA is one thing entirely, but one important aspect that feels lost is player retainment. However I've not seen much information available about our player numbers and trends, information which could be highly useful in indicating any problems with retainment. Details about how many players ALFA brings in each month; how many stay for a month, three months, and six months; and how regularly players trend towards logging in would be useful information for the playerbase and Admin to decide on possible changes and problems.

While player retainment is not explicitly listed under any Admin, would you be willing to pursue gathering information about player retainment available for everyone to look at? Additionally, if player retainment is a problem (something I personally feel is but lack data to support), would you be willing to take initiative, perhaps with DMA and PA, towards finding out the causes of a low player retainment rate and possible solutions?

Thanks for your time,
NES.

[Dorn]

Do you think we should upload a large portion (not the most terribly broken parts) of community things like Kaerdins to expand the variety available to players and add another 'reason' to choose alfa? Does the fact that the vanilla cleric is so overpowered in a low/moderate magic world mean that the arguments about some of kaedrins less balanced 'fixes' become slightly obsolete?

Do you think we should speed up time in ALFA? For example make 1 IG year equivilent to 3 months RL to introduce the capacity for ageing if people wanted to?

Given you, and every other potential admin since time began, note the need for more players and particularly more DMs because of the lack of willingness to curb new server numbers....what active steps are you going to propose to other admin to do about it? How are you going to LEAD alfa towards another of the RP servers out there which regularly has 20-30 people on each of at a time with many DMs?

Can you see a better online way tool for scheduling events like a noticeboard? It's almost impossible to find out wat may or may not be happeneing. Maybe this is a question for Hialmar.

good luck bee-humpy

[JaydeMoon]

I'm exceedingly glad the strike was removed. You are nothing less than a contributor.