Dominic

We have ideas, but they're all just ideas at the moment. We do want to expand and we have discussed it a few times with different games in mind. We're in the middle of switching our servers over to new dedis and then we can evaluate our resources and see what we can do.

Hello everyone, We haven't done one of these for a little while, but someone has caught our eye and we've decided to roll one out. The Staff of the Month award is given out each month to a staff member that has gone above and beyond and deserves recognition for the effort they've put in. As the month is coming to a close, it's about time to give it out. The recipient of this award will receive this badge on the forums. This person actually holds not one, but two ranks that normally vote on this award. However, the BD team has unanimously agreed to handle this one on our own and give it to this person. In every position they've held at the community so far, they've done a tremendous amount of work and have portrayed an unmatched passion for doing well in their rank. They've taken each promotion and ran with it, exceeding our expectations and earning our respect. We're very happy with how far this person has come, so without further ado: Please join me in congratulating @John as the recipient of this esteemed award!

Congratulations everyone!

Glad you were able to get this off your chest, no worries. Going to lock this thread up though, as I don't think this is going anywhere.

I wish you the best of luck going forward. Whether you want to believe it or not, you've been a valuable staff member here in every position you've held. You're a genuine, good dude and you deserve the best, so I'm praying that's what comes to you. Just know there's people here who genuinely care about your well-being. Really hoping your situation improves. Cya around.

Blake is permanently banned for beating the shit out of @HAXOR. And being an asshole.

you haven't moved up ever

Congratulations everyone!

Case closed.

Found the mistake. @Zayne

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Hello everyone, We have some exciting news / promotions to announce today. First off, as the title suggests, we're bringing back the Marketing Team! This team is responsible for general marketing of the community; reaching out for partnerships, improving our marketability on the services we provide, and anything else that betters our ability to attain and retain new members of the community. We've had the members together for awhile now putting in some work into various areas of the community, but it's finally time to reintroduce them as an official team. Onto the promotions: The roster for the newly introduced team will be John, Zayne, Phoenix_ and BoM! Their new responsibilities will include: Manage all third party sites/applications. Manage all advertising, sponsorships, and affiliations. Recommend upgrades and general marketing aspects for the community. Research what the community likes / doesn't like. Upkeep the image of SG and help expand. Work with the Media Team to manage branding and community design. Work with Media team to manage social media accounts (Youtube, Twitch, etc). As for the manager of the team, idealist will be filling that position! His responsibilities will remain the same, with the addition of managing the other members of the Marketing Team. Moving on to our other promotions. First, we have a new member of the Media Team! Our newest addition will be crazedkangaroo! His new responsibilities will include: Manage forum and community website themes and layouts Manage all forum and community images (awards, rankbars, etc) Manage forum design sections (signature/avatar requests, etc) Manage branding and community logos/external advertising Work with the Administrative Team to keep in-game branding and design (map textures for SG) up to date and relevant Manage social media accounts (Youtube, Twitch, etc) Moving on up the ranks, we have a new member of the Internal Affairs team! This person has shown an extreme dedication to the community and constantly displays how passionate he is about moving this place forward. The qualities he has displayed have made us very confident that he will perform well in this new role. fantastic will be our newest addition to the team! His new responsibilities will include: Handling and resolving admin complaints, player complaints and ban appeals Handling admin disputes as they arise Managing member of the month/staff of the month nominations and awards Lastly, we're promoting another member of the Board of Directors. This person has held various high level ranks here and has proven his worth in each and every one of them. He has displayed his trustworthiness and dedication to the community time and time again, taking whatever work we throw his way. His work ethic is admirable and he clearly has the community's best interest in mind at all times. I think I've talked highly of him enough, so please welcome roux as the newest member of the Board! His new responsibilities will include: Support/build/fix servers Approve admin applications Set up new Admin and Subscriber access Issue admin warnings/punishments Keep the community updated of any changes Final say in all admin disputes Plan for growth (website/servers) Support forum/plugins/logos Review and implement community suggestions Promote/demote server admins Handle admin complaints Handle disputes among fellow admins Be a role model to all admins/setting by example Collect donations, manage subscriptions, and pay the bills Manage the website, forums, and bansite Manage AT staffing and responsibilities ... anything else that needs to be done Congratulations to everyone!

Some people use VPNs normally without the intention of ban evading, so we don't want to instantly block these people from playing on our servers. When we have an extremely bad problem with ban evasion on a specific server though, we do usually enable this. It's just not something that we really need to keep on permanently.

Glad to have you guys on board, congrats!

Hello everyone, The new year has just started and we have a whole bunch of exciting promotions to announce! First, we have a couple new members of the Events Team! Our newest additions will be Takuto and Kopsta! Their new responsibilities will include: Organize, plan, and run events Manage/Promote special events on our servers Manage and monitor gaming tournaments (ie. SGSL) Make sure servers are ready for all special events Schedule events to fill servers in need via the steam community Work with the Administrative Team to create events that cater to community interests Next up, we have some new Community Advisors! These three are both great administrators and community members and have clearly shown that they are ready to move up. We're very happy to be promoting Alex, Infinityward and Poke up to their new positions! Their new responsibilities will include: Work with the higher staff on implementing important decisions and projects Handling player complaints and issuing bans Moderation of the forum Give awards to members on request Send group invitations to members on request Post in-game server problems on the forum Help in any way to make the servers fun Handle reported posts on the forum Continuing down the line, we're bringing up a couple new members of the Internal Affairs team! These two people have done great work in the roles they've been in and have shown that they are ready to take on this new position. John and Greggy G will be the newest additions to the team! Their new responsibilities will include: Handling and resolving admin complaints, player complaints and ban appeals Handling admin disputes as they arise Participating in promotion discussions Participating in hosting CA+ admin training and assisting with creating training materials. Managing member of the month/staff of the month nominations and awards Next up, we're promoting someone to the position of Modding Manager! This person has been doing an immense amount of work as a member of the Modding Team and has shown that they are ready to take this position. Please congratulate Infinityward on his promotion to this position. His responsibilities will remain the same, with the addition of managing the Modding Team. Lastly, we're finally bringing someone up to the Administrative Manager role! This person is one of our longest standing members of the Administrative Team and has done an immense amount of work during his time in his position. We're very pleased to announce Cept For Her as the new incumbent of this position! His responsibilities will remain the same, with the addition of managing the Administrative Team. Please join me in congratulating all of these people on their new positions! Happy New Year!

Rejected for obvious reasons.

Yup, still being discussed. If anyone else wants to give their input you can still do so.

Sort of confused as to why there's any retaliation to this idea. He didn't say he wanted to bar them from viewing the section or being able to post in applications, just not be able to view the application if they don't meet the requirements. Makes pretty perfect sense to me especially considering the fact that we've had an extreme increase in unqualified people submitting applications recently. Haven't thought too much into if it's possible but it doesn't seem far-fetched. In any case it'd probably wait until the new forums but I don't see any harm in the idea, only a small benefit. Would implementing this cause something negative that I'm missing / hasn't been brought up?

Great work guys.

Hello everyone, Today we have some promotions to announce! First, to the Modding Team, we're bringing up Bacon! His new responsibilities will include: Work with the Administrative Team to find and fix errors and exploits found in maps, models, textures, etc. Creating and developing projects for the servers including maps, models, textures, etc. Arming requested maps for use on the servers. Porting popular maps and models from other games to CS:GO for use on the servers. Work with the Media Team to develop graphics for completed projects. Work with the Administrative Team and Events Team for the production of event based projects. Next, we're promoting some new (and one old) Community Advisors! These people have been doing an insane amount of work in their current positions and we are excited to see them moving up. Bacon, urp, and Takuto are our newest additions to the team! Their new responsibilities will include: Work with the higher staff on implementing important decisions and projects Handling player complaints and issuing bans Moderation of the forum Give awards to members on request Send group invitations to members on request Post in-game server problems on the forum Help in any way to make the servers fun Handle reported posts on the forum Lastly, we have a new member of the Administrative Team! This person has been doing a ton of work as a CA and has absolutely earned their new position. Trazz will be our newest member of the team! His new responsibilities will include: Verify that servers are operational Reboot dead/lagged servers Assist in training new admins Monitor the Teamspeak 3 server Grant access rights to Teamspeak 3 Search for new maps for all servers Upload maps to the servers and fast downloads site Edit map lists & rotations Congratulations everyone!

Sorry to hear that, good luck with your future endeavors. Locked.

Case by case, but it's usually along the lines of what @fantastic said.

Really appreciate all the feedback so far guys, it's gonna be really helpful. I encourage everyone to continue posting and building off of each other. I'm going to respond to some more of this stuff tomorrow, as I already have a few thoughts on some of these.

Since a few replies have built up now I'll make a reply. @TheZZL @Manny The plan was to scrap "Administrative Team" completely and switch to Server Managers, so the "team name" would be no more. It's a confusing / vague name that doesn't explain much about the rank and "Server Manager" explains what they do much better. So with that, anything including "Administrative" probably wouldn't make much sense. A good point was brought up about the "Lead Manager" thing, so feel free to keep brainstorming for that one. @Dom Each Director would still make up the Board of Directors. It just doesn't make much sense for someone to hold the rank "Board of Directors" as no one person makes up the entire Board. @Noxstar My mindset, similar to with AT -> SM, is that it's not super easy to understand what it does from the outside looking in. Visiting another forum and seeing the rank "Mapper" is pretty self-explanatory and may immediately catch someone's interest, but "Modding Team" doesn't seem to have that same effect. The name was originally switched from "Mapping" to "Modding" with what you had said in mind. However, I think the work the team would do outside of mapping is so minuscule that it'd still make plenty of sense. Majority of it would probably be map work and majority of the people coming into the rank would probably only know how to do map work. Thank you guys for the replies thus far.