Post by Cloud on May 4, 2009 23:54:14 GMT -5
I decided to make this thread because I really want everyones input. Hopefully the people that usually don't post in this thread will post something. Or at least vote. (Rika, Cloud). So to get to the point.
I feel that over the year, I have made some pretty bad decisions as Captain/admin of the club. Some of them were really stupid. Some I reacted to fast without thinking. Some of them I really wasn't thinking at all. Thats why I wanna give everyone a chance to talk about what they feel was my worst decision thus far. But before you do that, lets go back to these situations.
Operation SAB. I swore I wasn't gonna talk about this again, but this honestly will be the last time I want this to be mentioned on the forum. I spoke about this some in the Mess Hall in the bulls*** of your lives thread so I really won't go over it. But I will say again that the whole operation was my idea and I got members involved in a plan to get rid of Tiffany. At least to try to stop her from posting on the club. It was completely out of hate over something she did to me which sadly I can't remember anymore. And I've searched as much as I could for the thread that contained all the plans and talks about this operation. This is really one of my worst decisions to date because even though I have a lot of power, I should not abuse it on a member that I dislike if they didn't do anything wrong on the club. I really let my personal issues get the best of me and it just got way out of hand.
I'm sure everyone remembers the merge with The Awesome Club. Boy was that something. I honestly enjoyed the merge because I knew it was gonna bring a lot of people. I also knew it was gonna make a lot of people uneasy and some of you guys were not scared to show your concerns about that choice I made. Even though the merge was not a complete success I still think that it could of overall been a success when it comes to activity. But activity only was something I was solely concerned with. I honestly didn't care to much about what my members were feeling because initially what any admin wants is a really successful fourm thats very active and has a lot of members. And I believed that over the course of time, my members would adapt to the change (minus Tiffany) and Luigi's members would also adapt. Although a lot of his members were very uneasy with the idea as well since they had already claimed there territory and were comfy with who they had that was apart of there club.
Banning Rika was a really stupid decision. It wasn't even a valid one because Rika has never caused trouble since she was here. Banning her just because she spent more time on The Awesome Club is just plain stupid. Theres no other way to really put it. Once again though, this is similar to what I did with Operation SAB with where I made a choice out of my personal feelings for Rika and abused my powers. I banned her because I could. Rika has the right to join whatever fourm she wants to join and she can choose which forums she wants to be really active on. It maybe that she was more active there because after the merge, The Misfits Club had a rapid decline in activity. It was a really bad choice and another example of abuse of my powers.
Letting certain members be staff in my opinion was something that really ruffled just one persons feathers. The only person that really showed concern about my choices in staff members was Tiffany. I don't think there has been one staff member that she has felt 100 percent comfy with. I take her concerns to heart but ultimately, I run the place so I can choose who I want to be staff. I do admit, I haven't fully always trusted certain staff members or felt that they did all that they could of done as staff. An example would be John. But he was so busy that he just didn't have time to really engage in threads and conversation. It's a pity because he helped me created this place. He came up with the idea of the name so I felt like it was only right for him to be admin. But sadly I had to let him go. Plus I knew there was some issues going on between him and Tiffany. I just don't recall them at the moment. I think the biggest concern was the big staff that was here when the merge with The Awesome Club happened. I know Tiffany was concerned because she felt that there would be an abuse of power since there were so many staff members. She also had a few other concerns. I didn't really see it as a problem because they knew that this was my forum originally and at any point that I felt they were a threat to the well being of the club, I would immediately take action. My regret though is letting people be staff without really starting them off the way a "normal" admin does. Which is from the bottom (typically a moderator) and they have to work there way up to the highest rank (typically an admin). The people that come to mind are Trekkie and Rika. Not saying that they did a bad job, its just, they had a bunch of power and never really used it so it would of been better to start them off as mods so that they would be able to get the feel of using there powers cause maybe having to many powers was overwhelming.
Idk if anyone fully remembers the time that I closed The Misfits Club for a while. It was rushed decision and I really wasn't thinking long term. It's just I was really stressed out because of the recent loss of members. It really hit hard for me to see purplepinto's post about her leaving. I was deeply saddened by it because I felt that I really did everything I could to make sure everyone was welcomed and accepted as a misfit. I was really shocked to "hear her say" that she didn't feel welcomed because we responded to her posts and we noticed her. And I valued her as one of my weirdest, wackiest members. And thats what I really loved about her. She was so similar to Rika's sister and Chilli. I just thought she was a great addition to the site. But anyways, back to the closing. As I said earlier, it was a rushed decision and I wasn't thinking long term. I just at the time didn't wanna deal with the issues at hand with the loss of members and everyone kinda doing there own thing. I think I could of handled that situation better by just trying to promote more, or just taking a few days away from the site and just focusing on other things and letting the damage sorta repair itself. That kinda doesn't matter that much now since things for the club are pretty much getting better day by day.
I could honestly see this being voted a lot as one of my worst decisions. I don't really think it was to bad to given Cloud a lot of chances to come back after hes left. Hes really never done anything to the club that was threating other then Operation SAB and a few other things that I can't fully remember right now. I think that everyone deserves a second chance and sometimes a 3rd or 4th. And banning someone just because they leave all the time isn't really right in my opinion. Unless of course the member is doing it to be a troll.
So, those are my explanations about some of the bad choices I've made at The Misfits Club. I wouldn't say that there all bad but I'm just throwing a few things out there based off of concerns that a few members have had and other reasons. So as I said before, I just want some feedback. You can respond on my explanations if you wish to. The more feedback the better. This will just help me to be more with my members and have more of a clear understanding with everyone. So just be as honest as you can. But if I feel the debate gets really heated, I'm just gonna lock it. Oh and another thing. If it sounds like I've bashed anyone with my explanations, that was not my intentions. I apologize if it sounds in anyway that I've harmed someone personally. As for voting, its going to take me a while to decide what was my worst decision because I'm kinda stuck between a few options. Oh and if you can think of any other decision that I've made that is not stated in the poll options, please feel free to talk about them.
I feel that over the year, I have made some pretty bad decisions as Captain/admin of the club. Some of them were really stupid. Some I reacted to fast without thinking. Some of them I really wasn't thinking at all. Thats why I wanna give everyone a chance to talk about what they feel was my worst decision thus far. But before you do that, lets go back to these situations.
Operation SAB. I swore I wasn't gonna talk about this again, but this honestly will be the last time I want this to be mentioned on the forum. I spoke about this some in the Mess Hall in the bulls*** of your lives thread so I really won't go over it. But I will say again that the whole operation was my idea and I got members involved in a plan to get rid of Tiffany. At least to try to stop her from posting on the club. It was completely out of hate over something she did to me which sadly I can't remember anymore. And I've searched as much as I could for the thread that contained all the plans and talks about this operation. This is really one of my worst decisions to date because even though I have a lot of power, I should not abuse it on a member that I dislike if they didn't do anything wrong on the club. I really let my personal issues get the best of me and it just got way out of hand.
I'm sure everyone remembers the merge with The Awesome Club. Boy was that something. I honestly enjoyed the merge because I knew it was gonna bring a lot of people. I also knew it was gonna make a lot of people uneasy and some of you guys were not scared to show your concerns about that choice I made. Even though the merge was not a complete success I still think that it could of overall been a success when it comes to activity. But activity only was something I was solely concerned with. I honestly didn't care to much about what my members were feeling because initially what any admin wants is a really successful fourm thats very active and has a lot of members. And I believed that over the course of time, my members would adapt to the change (minus Tiffany) and Luigi's members would also adapt. Although a lot of his members were very uneasy with the idea as well since they had already claimed there territory and were comfy with who they had that was apart of there club.
Banning Rika was a really stupid decision. It wasn't even a valid one because Rika has never caused trouble since she was here. Banning her just because she spent more time on The Awesome Club is just plain stupid. Theres no other way to really put it. Once again though, this is similar to what I did with Operation SAB with where I made a choice out of my personal feelings for Rika and abused my powers. I banned her because I could. Rika has the right to join whatever fourm she wants to join and she can choose which forums she wants to be really active on. It maybe that she was more active there because after the merge, The Misfits Club had a rapid decline in activity. It was a really bad choice and another example of abuse of my powers.
Letting certain members be staff in my opinion was something that really ruffled just one persons feathers. The only person that really showed concern about my choices in staff members was Tiffany. I don't think there has been one staff member that she has felt 100 percent comfy with. I take her concerns to heart but ultimately, I run the place so I can choose who I want to be staff. I do admit, I haven't fully always trusted certain staff members or felt that they did all that they could of done as staff. An example would be John. But he was so busy that he just didn't have time to really engage in threads and conversation. It's a pity because he helped me created this place. He came up with the idea of the name so I felt like it was only right for him to be admin. But sadly I had to let him go. Plus I knew there was some issues going on between him and Tiffany. I just don't recall them at the moment. I think the biggest concern was the big staff that was here when the merge with The Awesome Club happened. I know Tiffany was concerned because she felt that there would be an abuse of power since there were so many staff members. She also had a few other concerns. I didn't really see it as a problem because they knew that this was my forum originally and at any point that I felt they were a threat to the well being of the club, I would immediately take action. My regret though is letting people be staff without really starting them off the way a "normal" admin does. Which is from the bottom (typically a moderator) and they have to work there way up to the highest rank (typically an admin). The people that come to mind are Trekkie and Rika. Not saying that they did a bad job, its just, they had a bunch of power and never really used it so it would of been better to start them off as mods so that they would be able to get the feel of using there powers cause maybe having to many powers was overwhelming.
Idk if anyone fully remembers the time that I closed The Misfits Club for a while. It was rushed decision and I really wasn't thinking long term. It's just I was really stressed out because of the recent loss of members. It really hit hard for me to see purplepinto's post about her leaving. I was deeply saddened by it because I felt that I really did everything I could to make sure everyone was welcomed and accepted as a misfit. I was really shocked to "hear her say" that she didn't feel welcomed because we responded to her posts and we noticed her. And I valued her as one of my weirdest, wackiest members. And thats what I really loved about her. She was so similar to Rika's sister and Chilli. I just thought she was a great addition to the site. But anyways, back to the closing. As I said earlier, it was a rushed decision and I wasn't thinking long term. I just at the time didn't wanna deal with the issues at hand with the loss of members and everyone kinda doing there own thing. I think I could of handled that situation better by just trying to promote more, or just taking a few days away from the site and just focusing on other things and letting the damage sorta repair itself. That kinda doesn't matter that much now since things for the club are pretty much getting better day by day.
I could honestly see this being voted a lot as one of my worst decisions. I don't really think it was to bad to given Cloud a lot of chances to come back after hes left. Hes really never done anything to the club that was threating other then Operation SAB and a few other things that I can't fully remember right now. I think that everyone deserves a second chance and sometimes a 3rd or 4th. And banning someone just because they leave all the time isn't really right in my opinion. Unless of course the member is doing it to be a troll.
So, those are my explanations about some of the bad choices I've made at The Misfits Club. I wouldn't say that there all bad but I'm just throwing a few things out there based off of concerns that a few members have had and other reasons. So as I said before, I just want some feedback. You can respond on my explanations if you wish to. The more feedback the better. This will just help me to be more with my members and have more of a clear understanding with everyone. So just be as honest as you can. But if I feel the debate gets really heated, I'm just gonna lock it. Oh and another thing. If it sounds like I've bashed anyone with my explanations, that was not my intentions. I apologize if it sounds in anyway that I've harmed someone personally. As for voting, its going to take me a while to decide what was my worst decision because I'm kinda stuck between a few options. Oh and if you can think of any other decision that I've made that is not stated in the poll options, please feel free to talk about them.