I would like to apologize to tyler (and all other staff members) for the terrible things I said at the start. More specifically... "ORE sucks. I think we all can admit that it is sloppily run and is quite doomed to fail." Considering tyler has been doing about 85% of the running, this statement implied tyler was sloppy, sucky, and a failiure. But in contrast, it is because of him that this server is running smoothly. He helped transfer hosts for school. He helped immensely during and after the large outage. And he's done countless other things to help out, including accepting applications and whatnot.
This isn't limited to just tyler (although he's the main contributor, along with mort in some aspects), newo and some others have also been active and have helped very much in keeping ORE running generally smooth. The REAL problem is the LACK of staff to help out. We need more qualified staff to help with this kind of stuff, tyler (and sometimes mort) cannot do it on their own.
Now, when I wrote that bad passage at the start of the thread, I started with "ORE sucks" as an attention grabber, however, I meant it as an overly exhaggerated phrase for "ORE is in trouble." As far as the sloppily run and doomed to fail part, I was mainly focusing on some of the individual aspects that were highlighted in the changes, most of which are on the backburner of the to-do list. Also, I was talking about the lack of staff being a bad feature. If ORE keeps up the huge backflow of visitors and does nothing about the school plot shortage (more like complete lack of), then ORE will certainly fail over time, however, I am fully confident that the staff (as long as we add some more active members to that rank) will be able to handle this issue, and once the serious things are taken care of, THEN we can focus on some of the changes here.
Once again, I am sorry for the destructive things I said, and I have reworded it to convey what I really meant to say. I have learned two lessons: Watch how you word things, and keep the people in mind.
Paul:
Honestly, I chose to synchronize the member/builder rank by selection the builder rank because of 1 reason: If it says [Member] on school, you are not really a member of school. Honestly, it doesn't matter whether we choose [Member] or [Builder], as long as we combine them into 1 rank on both build and school.
Right now, I think most of us agree that ORE needs some work done, and that work should be done by staff. However, there are still trials to do, applications to review, and visitors to help, which should be given to Foremen at the moment.
As far as reformatting my lengthy thread, I think not, as thoughts and concerns are highlighted in all 3 categories of each change.
This isn't limited to just tyler (although he's the main contributor, along with mort in some aspects), newo and some others have also been active and have helped very much in keeping ORE running generally smooth. The REAL problem is the LACK of staff to help out. We need more qualified staff to help with this kind of stuff, tyler (and sometimes mort) cannot do it on their own.
Now, when I wrote that bad passage at the start of the thread, I started with "ORE sucks" as an attention grabber, however, I meant it as an overly exhaggerated phrase for "ORE is in trouble." As far as the sloppily run and doomed to fail part, I was mainly focusing on some of the individual aspects that were highlighted in the changes, most of which are on the backburner of the to-do list. Also, I was talking about the lack of staff being a bad feature. If ORE keeps up the huge backflow of visitors and does nothing about the school plot shortage (more like complete lack of), then ORE will certainly fail over time, however, I am fully confident that the staff (as long as we add some more active members to that rank) will be able to handle this issue, and once the serious things are taken care of, THEN we can focus on some of the changes here.
Once again, I am sorry for the destructive things I said, and I have reworded it to convey what I really meant to say. I have learned two lessons: Watch how you word things, and keep the people in mind.
Paul:
Honestly, I chose to synchronize the member/builder rank by selection the builder rank because of 1 reason: If it says [Member] on school, you are not really a member of school. Honestly, it doesn't matter whether we choose [Member] or [Builder], as long as we combine them into 1 rank on both build and school.
Right now, I think most of us agree that ORE needs some work done, and that work should be done by staff. However, there are still trials to do, applications to review, and visitors to help, which should be given to Foremen at the moment.
As far as reformatting my lengthy thread, I think not, as thoughts and concerns are highlighted in all 3 categories of each change.