Staff Manager

Yeah so Melvin resigned today mainly bc he didn't get promoted to Smod or whatever (ask him for more details if you want, he posted a bunch of stuff in the raid discord if you want to see it). But anyways, this denial, or rather yet another poorly managed situation could have been handled differently and Brawl wouldn't have lost the most lovable trombone tooting melvin to exist. Side note: I know what happened here and have the conversations, so what I am saying is accurate. This thread also has no real connection to melvin, I am making this for my own reasons, based off of melvin's experience here.

The issue:

This situation was poorly managed for these reasons:

- Long wait between responses in conversation (lasted over a month)
- No real answers given, false hope / bs empty responses
- Flawed logic of promotion system

My suggestion:

Get another staff manager already ffs. No offence meant to roke, but he isn't the most personable... person in the entire world. This does make him great at a lot of things, don't get me wrong, but as a staff manager, I don't think his personality really fits tbh. Cuddled was amazing at her job because she was so friendly and understanding. When I told her I wanted to resign a couple times before I actually did, she came up with compromises and actually talked me out of things. That's what a staff manager should do, compromise. She was pretty much always there to talk to us, and we could talk to her about anything too, she was extremely understanding and really was the staff Momager. Now, I am only going off of what I have seen with Melvin's situation here, and what I know of roke, and I'm pretty sure he isn't as... Cuddly (pls don't hate me). Melvin should never have had to chase roke for a response, especially after being given such lame empty answers to his questions to roke, and I think this point also ties in perfectly to the issue with staff applications being poorly managed too.... almost like a new staff manager is needed.......

So after saying this, I think that Brawl needs an actual staff manager now - one that can be more available, understanding, and dedicated to being there for the staff team. This does not mean promoting another admin to the role, a new manager should exist where they will not have other duties interfering with the responsibilities of other positions. My suggestion, @xxMineSheepxx. Although she is the build team manager, the two roles are kind of similar in a sense, and she is quite chill from what I knew her as. I actually just realized she is the build team manager as well lol, but if the workload between the two roles would be too much, then needless to say it should be someone else (not sure who, but someone with the right personality).

My final suggestion - stop bull****ting staff about promotions. I've said this a lot before, but really, why is brawl so damn sensitive about promoting existing staff? It costs nothing, ONLY BENEFITS BRAWL, and boosts the work ethic and moral of the staff. It's a volunteer position on a ****ing minecraft server, what's the big deal if you change someone's rank from Mod to Smod..... They want the rank to help brawl and to achieve goals. I know melvin wanted to do more events, interact with the community more, and just have another smod available for the server / rollbacks and what not. Do any of these goals hurt brawl?? HELL NO! He's been staff for over a year, has had no issues with abuse or any warnings given out, plus is/was doing well activity wise. He also had the community's support for ages, even since the last smod wave went out (or rather just when socool was promoted). Now, I'm sure someone is going to say "oh but eel is the raid manager you donkey". SO WHAT?? No offence to eel, but he hardly interacts with the community, partly because he has a large workload as an admin (say this seems to be a trend), so... why not promote someone to take over the role / help out?? They are friends and have worked together flawlessly for years, it would pose zero conflict if they both were "in charge" for raid... whatever that means lol. Its a team of people, not one person controlling it but whatever. TLDR I don't see any reasonable explanation to have not promoted him, and I think I've brought up every argument that's been used against him already, which are all bullsh*t anyways.

I hope this thread isn't too ranty. I sort of said this in discord as well, but I feel like this issue has existed for far too long now, and we shouldn't be losing melvin for no reason. Hope this can get resolved soon, and that changes can be made before brawl loses another dedicated staff member.

Here's the conversation btw in case if context is desired (as mentioned he posted this in the raid discord, I'm not leaking this without melvin's permission).

Spoiler: Context

CLICK, I'm too lazy to fix the link

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RIP MELVIN

A FRIEND, A STAFF MEMBER, A MEME
26.12.2016 - 13.07.2018​

 

Confused here. Substitute as assistant?

Also would appreciate your opinion @Lord_Roke