Admin Only Section

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Then why have a clan-only section of the forum? Why not expand the clan to include the entire community? Why stifle the regulars from having input on what goes on in the community just because they can't seem to win favor with the clan? Obviously a sarcastic point, but a valid one in my opinion: admins are different than the larger community in a similar manner to IBIS clan members are different than the larger community.

Admins were not selected to become admins. Clan members have much more responsibility because they have proven in spades that they can handle the responsibility and are the best members of the community. They also have moderation status, which means they should have their own private area to deal with affairs in the forum. All discussion boards have that.

You are asking for more responsibility for admins who gained that title with their wallets. They are not at the same level as clan members.

Besides, the central idea that I support would have an admin forums as primarily a resource guide for admins; beyond this we could have a place for discussing server policy (as well as forming server-specific policies) before bringing them to the people as a whole. It's not as though the larger community wouldn't have a place in decision making, and in fact they would have a better understanding of the idea initially if it could be more finalized before viewing.

For starters, if ZERO wants to make a resource guide he should write one up and sticky it. Admins only need to view that guide and the need for discussion on those issues would be non-existent. "How do I do this? Oh wait there is a nice little guide stickied at the top of the sub-forum for me to look at!"

Also regulars bring up server policy as well, and should be privy to the discussion because, like I said, admins aren't automatically better at discussing the rules than the regulars are. There is no need to have two separate forums for these kinds of discussions and if there are people discussing new rules I want to know.

For instance, the list of restricted spots on ZMod would have avoided a lot of grief and potentially implemented faster (at the time of this writing it hasn't yet been implemented) if it could have just been posted in the admin forums, a list be developed then posted in the discussion forums for input from regulars for a time, a final edit put into place then put into action. A lot of admins are some of the more active regulars on each server, it's not as though decision making would be hampered to some massive degree. It would be streamlined as far as I'm concerned.

Once again, regulars should have input, because I know Kavinsky is a long time regular who does not own admin and should be allowed to discuss the issue.

There is no reason to believe that the list for that would be implemented faster if FEWER people are putting up their input. Is that better for the community? Less people giving their input?

Collaboration causes things to move faster, and with a separate private forum for just the servers it hampers it.