Counter Strike Confederation

Why do you want to become an Admin?

"I want to become an admin for 2 core reasons: Selfishness, and selflessness
My Selfish reason is that I am a bit of a role monkey, and I can only get former admin as a role by.... becoming admin
My Selfless reason is that I genuinely like CSC and what it stands for. It's the first large gaming community I've actually liked being a part of, and I want to make it better until it can stand the test of time on it's own."

---------- What prior experience do you have that you believe will help you as an Admin?

"Time in Media Committee, managing streams and schedule issues
Time as an arbiter, helps understand the moderation process within CSC, as well as the perspectives of those that have served time muted and those issues within CSC
Time in Rules Committee, gives a better understanding of the rulebook and considerations taken into account for running the league"

---------- What things do you hope to implement, reinforce, or remove as an Admin?

"One of the larger areas of improvement I would like to work on as an admin is organization of the league from an external perspective. New players joining don't know the rules clearly, they don't know what signups are, and don't have a good way of reading, even if they did want to read the rulebook. I want to work on ways to help migrate players from new player to experienced player, as well as making it easier for experienced players to understand deeper parts of the league.
My second area of improvement I would like to work on is cleaning up general areas of the discord, such as how to submit ideas to the rules trello, and making other 'simple' actions for users more clear on their existence, and on how to do them."

---------- Anything else you would like to add?

Regardless of result within the admin election: I will be entering the draft as a player for Season 10, and will be continuing to work on what I can to help make CSC a better place.

Being an admin is a serious commitment. I don't doubt that you have been involved in csc enough to run, but I just want to point out that statements like the collecting Former Admin role one are incredibly off-putting to voters, even if it is a joke. As for my question, when taking the role of an admin, you relinquish a lot of the responsibilities of your other teams (such as media head) to other people. Do you feel as if the tempo of the media team would not miss a beat if you switched from media lead to admin?

This past season, we saw the admin team take action in a way similar to an executive order by allowing more than 1 FA sub until the end of regular season for the challenger tier while the rules committee was actively discussing it. What are your thoughts on this ability to bypass committees?

If elected (re-elected) what would be the #1 issue you would improve/changed first?

What responsibilities do you believe the admins take on behind the scenes

What contributions do you hope to bring that you couldn't have accomplished as part of one of the other committees (such as the media and arbiter committees you're currently active in)?

In your opinion what is the worst thing about CSC?

You said that you plan to streamline the on-boarding process for new sign-ups. How do you plan on making the basic league information more accessible than it is already?

PFA | xXx_legeNd_xXx_420

Being an admin is a serious commitment. I don't doubt that you have been involved in csc enough to run, but I just want to point out that statements like the collecting Former Admin role one are incredibly off-putting to voters, even if it is a joke. As for my question, when taking the role of an admin, you relinquish a lot of the responsibilities of your other teams (such as media head) to other people. Do you feel as if the tempo of the media team would not miss a beat if you switched from media lead to admin?

For media committee I know of 2 people who could properly do the job of media head in my stead. One of them is already doing a lot of work internally on each project within media.

COW | Saunce

This past season, we saw the admin team take action in a way similar to an executive order by allowing more than 1 FA sub until the end of regular season for the challenger tier while the rules committee was actively discussing it. What are your thoughts on this ability to bypass committees?

I think that the admin bypass was done with a few reasons behind it. Admins knew what change rules committee was going to implement, as the change was already decided. The other important factor is the attempt to make the improvement for the season as best as they could. Given those 2 factors I think it was a good choice by admins, even if it ended up causing some issues in the end.

NAN | Carrie

If elected (re-elected) what would be the #1 issue you would improve/changed first?

The accessibility of information about what the league is and different parts of the league to people just joining the discord server.

ATO | Assass1n

What responsibilities do you believe the admins take on behind the scenes

Admins take on the role of ensuring committee health in the case of any problems in committee, as well as doing timely work for any small actions taken within the committee that requires admin capability (like time or channel management). Admins also look into cases of gm misuse, and many, many more things.

TFR | 42Firehawk

I think that the admin bypass was done with a few reasons behind it. Admins knew what change rules committee was going to implement, as the change was already decided. The other important factor is the attempt to make the improvement for the season as best as they could. Given those 2 factors I think it was a good choice by admins, even if it ended up causing some issues in the end.

I was more asking about the power in general and was using the situation as a specific example since from my understanding it was one of the first times it happened. I do appreciate your additional insight on the situation and seeing your rationalization of the decision.

Sw1ft

What contributions do you hope to bring that you couldn't have accomplished as part of one of the other committees (such as the media and arbiter committees you're currently active in)?

Improving new player on boarding and easy clarity of how csc operates. While media could make 1000 videos on the topic, videos don't help someone joining for 5 minutes, getting overwhelmed, and leaving.

NAN | jawa 🏆

In your opinion what is the worst thing about CSC?

The fact that many players simply don't know how the league works, and by extension don't know hot to help or understand discussions about league issues.

Good luck in the election! Seeing your patience, positivity, and dedication to this server, its community, and your roles gives me high hopes for you as an admin!

NAN | DerPreusse

You said that you plan to streamline the on-boarding process for new sign-ups. How do you plan on making the basic league information more accessible than it is already?

My first thought on this issue is that there is a metric absurdity of availability of channels and information to players. New joins can read everything in theory, but even that doesn't say how the league is run. To improve this, I want to better make available behavior guidelines as how CSC is moderated to new players, and work with players who are going into their second season to find what isn't understood well, and focus on how to explain those areas. The last area I can think of right now is working on finding the most common information ticket questions and problems found in help and finding why those areas of CSC are misunderstood, as well as promoting their use. This way I have access to good information on what issues do occur with understanding in the league.

Decisions usually are NOT made by just a group of admins, but through a group effort made by committee heads and admins alike. Things aren't always easy and streamlined as we would like. That being said, what would you be able to provide if what you might believe is a good idea or implementation but cannot get others to agree or stand behind it as well? How would you go about discussions that might not go the way you think it should?

How do you feel about the current form and direction of moderation on the server?

ATO | Beans

Decisions usually are NOT made by just a group of admins, but through a group effort made by committee heads and admins alike. Things aren't always easy and streamlined as we would like. That being said, what would you be able to provide if what you might believe is a good idea or implementation but cannot get others to agree or stand behind it as well? How would you go about discussions that might not go the way you think it should?

As a change it largely depends on context behind it. If I want a rules change that simply isn't popular with rules? Then I'd back down. I'm not going to overturn an elected group over matters within their area, like RC. If it's a matter of overriding a committee head about collaborations between committees then it depends on other admins understanding of issues as well as the other committee head(s) involved in the project. I would possibly override in those cases where it is justifiable to override as seen by the majority. If I can't convince a majority of elected and competent individuals of an idea, I'm more likely to think the issue is with the idea, as historically I've been able to resolve most misunderstandings reasonably well.

NAN | jawa 🏆

How do you feel about the current form and direction of moderation on the server?

From what I've seen within my staff positions, moderation in this server is a bit more lax than I think it should b, mainly in terms of things that should be deleted, just without strikes. (Things like misunderstandings explaining a problem that can lead to more issues later on) But otherwise I see moderation currently as extremely healthy in CSC. The only thing I would like to see to comment on more are what changes are made to the behaviour guidelines and the discussion around them. Without knowing what was said in the conversation I don't know if things are healthy on that front or not to comment on them. That said my assumption is that those are functioning properly as well.

Hey Fire! I have enjoyed working with you as an arbiter and in media. I have a few questions and concerns... First, given your other commitments and being a self-proclaimed "role-monkey" why do you want to become an Admin? What would this specific role allow you to achieve and accomplish over the other roles that you currently possess?

6:12 PM

Second, because of the other roles that you currently fill, such as media head, would it be worth removing you from your current role to be "promoted" but also leave a gap where you are. This season, the casting was mainly done by you and, from a sort of outsiders view, felt like it wasn't as consistent as last season.

6:15 PM

Finally, I know you have said earlier that you have full faith that the media committee will be able to run in your absence, but it has been a consistent pattern where a key figure in media (max, fuffy, tnoodle) becomes head and then gets busy, or promoted and then the media committee is left out to dry and restructure, how will this be any different?

pecan50 🏆🏆

Hey Fire! I have enjoyed working with you as an arbiter and in media. I have a few questions and concerns... First, given your other commitments and being a self-proclaimed "role-monkey" why do you want to become an Admin? What would this specific role allow you to achieve and accomplish over the other roles that you currently possess?

So I have 2 answers to this question. First, answering the question as asked: As admin I'm in a better place to work on the issues/ideas I have in terms of discord organization. Building a test server/moving channels seeing the reality of what channels exist and addressing the organization actually seeing everything. Second, answering what I think the intent of the question is, aka why admin instead of taking on a different role again: I have 2 reasons to this question. The first is that I think I am well qualified for the position and familiar with it that I wouldn't want an admin in CSC that wouldn't win the vote against me (i.e. being my own minimum standard currently). Second is that I want to see and improve on CSC in a larger scale, and being a member of multiple committees can do that, but taking the role of admin is a more effective way of accomplishing that

pecan50 🏆🏆

Second, because of the other roles that you currently fill, such as media head, would it be worth removing you from your current role to be "promoted" but also leave a gap where you are. This season, the casting was mainly done by you and, from a sort of outsiders view, felt like it wasn't as consistent as last season.

I'll address this question for each one of my "big" roles (Arbiter, Media Head, AGM, RC) As Arbiter: My term is ending soon so I don't see it in consideration personally. If I am not an arbiter there are plenty of qualified people to do the role, and it doesn't take excellence honestly. It takes levelheadedness. As AGM: I am stepping down (stepped? down) from that role to be a player next season, so that ship is sailed regardless of admin. As RC: I may or may not be removed from RC as admin (3/5? admins are still on RC. not checking to verify since the exact number doesn't matter for my reasoning) but either way I am on RC as media head so that spot's reasoning falls under media head most. As Media Head: This one is honestly the challenging one, and you did see it explicitly with your 3rd question, so I'll address it there rather than fill out an even longer paragraph

pecan50 🏆🏆

Finally, I know you have said earlier that you have full faith that the media committee will be able to run in your absence, but it has been a consistent pattern where a key figure in media (max, fuffy, tnoodle) becomes head and then gets busy, or promoted and then the media committee is left out to dry and restructure, how will this be any different?

For the issues with media: Many of the times media has had a rise and fall isn't because a key figure left, but rather that there wasn't a qualified person to step in. Within media I will still be able to ease transition to the new head, and there are people I know that can step into the role currently. Another thing that has changed is that I have placed groundwork as media head to better organise the committee internally as part of how I transitioned into the role, and can provide that organisation as well, meaning the committee doesn't need rebuilt for a new head, as the organisation is on paper, not in my head.

7:07 PM

Also as a note if I don't answer a question in a way that's satisfying or answers the intent you are looking for: Follow-ups are encouraged!

a large talking point throughout the season, especially in regards to important changes/discussions, was keeping CSC as a "for-fun league". what would you do to continue and/or improve on allowing CSC stay true to that sentiment?

ATL | omA 🏆

a large talking point throughout the season, especially in regards to important changes/discussions, was keeping CSC as a "for-fun league". what would you do to continue and/or improve on allowing CSC stay true to that sentiment?

There are 2 places I see as important for doing that, outside of just keeping it in mind generally. First: supporting events committee to have more fun events happen, which is generally pretty hands off in terms of what it needs from admins. Second: when onboarding new general managers, stress the importance of trying to make sure you're players have fun. Having the best 5 players win out a season and leave the server the next day gets you a medal, but it also hands the league more than it helps. Those are the only 2 specific places I can think of, as maintaining the for fun nature of the league is something that is done mostly in all of the small decisions to fight toxicity and providing opportunities for people to play CS in ways that can enjoy.