A Land Far Away

Good morning/afternoon/evening everyone!

Please post below if you would like to nominate yourself for the position of Technical Administrator.

As well, please put a link to your platform thread in your nomination (if you have one).

And finally, please be familiar with what the position of Technical Administrator entails!

Technical Administrator—ACR/HAK and other in-game coding, scripting, and software issues.

More at: http://www.alandfaraway.org/charter

Good luck to all those that nominate!

It seems that Foam isn't going to be running again and Basilica's too smart for politics, so I'm up for TA again.

Philosophy is much the same as before: we should set expectations that we can keep, keep expectations that we make, and provide expectations that are the game we actually want to play. I think we're terrible at that last part, on account of the labels and terms we bandy about on the forums/ website/ advertisements/ charter, but that it's also not usually the TA's call.

I usually want to accomplish the above by improving automation and reporting. People here have enough to worry about already, and most of the problems we have come from one of a few things-- either people don't know something is wrong, people think the right thing is too damn hard, or people think that other people are far simpler beings than they actually are. I burn out pretty much immediately if I try to help on that last one, but the others are things that can be improved my making computers do more of the work.

In matters of all-admin votes, I reliably resist motions for per-situation arbitrary rulings (argued by the flaws in human perception and cognition, and the inherent inconsistencies in human judgment and behavior), I support motions for sunshine in admin dealings (but generally not for things that were presumed private when they were written; you need to tell people that their words will become public record before they write them or ask permission to make that change), and bitterly complain about subjective and fallaciouis argument when it appears.

Likely products from tech in the next several months are probably going to be static, regardless of who sits in the admin chair. The Chooser and the Creator continue to be so profoundly broken that their oppressively-complex and unrewarding projects still merit progress and attention. Castano has recently dug up a good deal of feedback and information about the tools that are misused or misunderstood, which helps us target training and documentation. We have a number of projects requested that change some fairly-central workings of the ACR which will probably need multiple passes of fixes to work entirely right. Many aspects of our game are poorly logged, or hard to access by people responsible for acting on them, which we could improve to general benefit. It's likely to result in two...ish... hak releases until the next election, and smaller projects in between meant to target usability/training/discoverability issues that are about.

Voting has Begun for the TA Position!

http://www.alandfaraway.org/phpBB3/view ... 73&t=49594

As there is no competition, a simple Vote of Confidence will determine the candidate's eligibility for the role.

This poll will run for 4 days.

SSM seems to have forgotten it, so let me do his job

Please welcome Zelknolf as the new TA.

Thanks to Foam for the last term.

May her reign be long and prosperous, so that other people don't need to deal with it.

Hialmar wrote:Thanks to Foam for the last term.

Half-term! I only filled in for Ronan when he bailed halfway through, since literally no one else wanted the job.

My thanks to Zelk for volunteering to be TA. And thanks to Foam, and Ronan, and SSM, and Hialmar, and all those who stand up to do the Admin job here. Thanks for putting in the time and the effort to keep this place going.

M.

Hialmar wrote:SSM seems to have forgotten it, so let me do his job

Please welcome Zelknolf as the new TA.

Thanks to Foam for the last term.

Voting runs for 4 days from the 8th, and ends at the end of the 4th day I hadn't forgotten, just following the procedure!

With 18 voters, and 78% voting in confidence, Zelknolf is ALFA's new (And returning!) Technical Administrator. Congratulations, Zelk!

may the Ones and Zeroes be with you Zelknof!

Grants.

Good luck on your second sanity.

yay! I hope the second time around is a good one.

Enjoy...
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Thanks.

Congratz Zelk

thanks Zelk!

Congratulations!