Your View: Administration

[marimbamonk 1501]

Hello LotC! This post and the form within are the first step in a set of incoming improvements to LotC. We have certainly noticed that many people in our community have had concerns or feedback to express about our Administration team and their conduct, and we want to now offer a more formal way for those concerns and feedback to be received.

 

The link below will lead you to a Google Form where you can submit your feedback about the Administration team. This includes your general opinion of the Administration over the years up to now, specific issues that you would like to express your thoughts on, news and communication and visibility with our community, and more.

This is the place to submit the concerns and thoughts that many of you have expressed already as replies to forum posts, or in other places. If you want it to be seen and directly addressed by the Administration, submit it here.

Please submit a response only once.

 

https://goo.gl/forms/xiBikFwsPcGFwSP63

 

We will be accepting responses for at least the next week, let's say. This may be extended if we feel we haven't received a good volume of responses.

 

How this information will be used – What we're trying to achieve

Once we receive a good range of responses and close up the form, I will be personally poring through the responses and organizing them. Similar concerns or feedback will be grouped together and refined into a single issue that I will then address/question the Administration with directly. There will most likely be a good dozen (more or less) of these refined issues, all of which we will then discuss.

The Administration will respond to these concerns directly, making their own statements that give their perspective on the matter at hand. If improvement is needed in something, we will push to make sure that the community's concerns are heard and that necessary change is made – but in some cases, miscommunication or assumptions may actually be the outlier, in which case the Admins will do their best to communicate their own perspective!

 

Where will the Administrators statements be presented?

Either in a forum post that serves as a sort-of direct response to this Your View, and/or an appearance on the Lord of the Craft Talkshow, which would be a live interview of the Administration about what the community has expressed.

 

This will happen after the form is closed, so most likely a little more than a week from now. This may change due to scheduling or if we extend the response time of the form.

 

Final Words

In any case, it's important to remember that our server leadership are volunteers. Volunteers who, for the most part, do not have a degree or higher education in the position they hold; who do not get paid to do this; who are generally in only the second or third decade of their lives. We are by no means professionals, and we have and will make mistakes! All of those conditions I mentioned don't necessarily excuse bad conduct, and that's important to remember. But expressing forgiveness and positivity instead of animosity will go a long way in making the server better as whole. And I'm talking to everyone here. ?

 

Thank you all! I look forward to seeing your feedback.

[Zacho 2177]

Moved to The Great Library. It shall be sorted into the appropriate category shortly.

 

If you feel this is a mistake, please contact myself or any FM and we'll restore it.