07-06-2016, 03:18 AM
(07-05-2016, 11:11 PM)Nickster258 Wrote: there will no longer be any minimal requirements set by the Staff team other than the obligatory understanding of logical functions, such as OR, AND, XOR, etc. and other basic computational concepts such as logical circuits and the like.
With something as drastic as this, and with setting the standard THIS low, we might as well just get rid of school! Because school will basically be an entire server to learn binary and logic gates, and maybe a few basic logic concepts (very vague wording with the "basic computational concepts such as logical circuits and the like"). What's the point of an entire server dedicated to that? We might as well just add the student rank to the build server and teach them binary, logic gates, and "logical circuits and the like" on there, since the standard is so low and so little needs to be learned.
I oppose this, I understand staff do a lot to help the server and need some time to their selves, but this is selfish on the part of the staff. You are lowering the standard, thus making the school server practically useless and the build server full of more clutter, just so you can have more time to yourselves? This isn't the solution; more active staff is the solution, and a more BROAD standard to get into the build server, not less. How would this help? Well, there would be more staff to trial, and since the standard would be a higher standard with more broad topics (not just ALU/multiplier build, but also knowledge of registers, PC, dataloop, maybe some CPU basics, or maybe something a little more obscure but still as compex), there would be less overall trials (since unwanted noobs will be weeded out with this noob filter) and more new builders who are PREPARED.
I hope you can see that this is not a good solution and there are other ways; there are other reforms that will bring about positive changes. And as far as "Hopefully the Staff will apply their individual thoughts and personal opinions more often with Testificates and accept new players based on their own thoughts," that sounds good in practice, but that is unfair to everyone because all staff members have different ideas as to what would be passing and what wouldn't be. Again, selfish! With a set standard that all staff must judge Testificates against, this makes it much fairer to Testificates.
Thank you for your time, and I hope this trialing issue can get sorted out to something that brings positive changes in the ORE community, and makes students and builders more productive.