Counter Strike Confederation

Why do you want to become an Admin?

I would want to be admin because I believe that over the past few seasons I've learned how almost every part of CSC functions, the most important of those being the moderation and rules. Since I'll have a lot of free time entering 2023, I'll be able to dedicate a lot of my time to CSC. With CS:GO becoming more and more popular I believe that Season 10 will be one of the leagues biggest seasons, meaning admins will need to be more active than ever.

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

I've been a player in CSC since S7, during my time in CSC I've been a part of the Mod committee, an AGM, and am currently a part of the media committee. While I haven't been a part of every committee there is I've talked with an learned from members of nearly every committee and branch of CSC. Alongside my actual experience though I like to think I'm a pretty well-known person around CSC, whether I'm liked or not depends on who you ask but I do try to be a pretty active voice in the community. This past season I've just been on the player side of things with the experience of being a mod and agm which has brought to my attention a lot of things I think are going well and a lot of things I hope to add or change during my time as admin.

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

First off, we noticed this season admins becoming a lot more active. Which is good, however the ways that admins became active weren't what we as a community were hoping for. It felt like many times admins were just acting as mods with more privileges, which is something I whole-heartedly disagree with. I know there were probably things they were working on in the background however Admins should not be able to come in and completely change things within the community without any sort of check or vote (for example; reacts in score reporting). My main priority as admin would be to ensure that our mod team is both well-trained, and well-staffed, that way they can do their job without needing admins to come in and make sudden and unpopular changes. I also would want to implement better communication between mods and admin, something that (at least when I was a mod), felt lacking. My main priority however, would be to be more of a direct pipeline from the community to the admins, yes I know our current admins do listen to the community and implement the changes they see fit. However with that being said there are times where it feel like if something isn't deemed important by the admins they often just won't answer or communicate with the community about why they won't be looking into it or why it has to wait until the end of the season. I also understand that currently its frowned upon to dm admins about questions relating to the league, however as admin my dms would be open to questions or suggestions if a member of CSC wants to talk about it 1 on 1 with an admin.

---------- Anything else you would like to add? Thank you for reading my novel, I'm looking forward to being grilled by you guys :)

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?

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 committees are a necessary part of CSC and bypassing the rules committee was a mistake. Especially when it comes to Rules Committee, in the CSC Rulebook under "Rules Committee Policies, Voting" they have a section for "Emergency Rule Creation" which states that there must be a unanimous vote by all Rules Committee Members for modification to the rules without timing restrictions. Unless the admin team did not make the community aware of the unanimous vote within Rules Committee it seems like this portion of the Rule Book was bypassed. As admin I would do my best to ensure that any action taken by the admin team follows the CSC Rulebook.

You say that your main grievance with admins this past season was acting more like higher-level moderators than people who do background work for the league, but in your platform for running you mention training moderators better and bridging a communication gap between them and admins. Not only would this be an admin acting the part of a higher-level mod, but it also seems like this would be better suited for the head of the moderation team (at least the first part of training mods better). What privileges would being an admin grant you that allow you to do this rather than running for mod and working your way up to committee head? Additionally, I would like to ask you to describe to me what responsibilities admins have within CSC.

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

PFA | xXx_legeNd_xXx_420

You say that your main grievance with admins this past season was acting more like higher-level moderators than people who do background work for the league, but in your platform for running you mention training moderators better and bridging a communication gap between them and admins. Not only would this be an admin acting the part of a higher-level mod, but it also seems like this would be better suited for the head of the moderation team (at least the first part of training mods better). What privileges would being an admin grant you that allow you to do this rather than running for mod and working your way up to committee head? Additionally, I would like to ask you to describe to me what responsibilities admins have within CSC.

Just for clarification by saying "ensuring our mod team is both well trained and well-staffed" does not mean I would take over training of new mods, this means equipping our head-mod with what they need to train the new mods, whether that is helping by creating a training document for the ticket system, working with the mod committee head to create a better outline for new mods to look over, or helping new mods understand the rules by including examples of how each rule should be applied. However bridging the communication gap between the mod committee and admins would not be an admin acting a higher-level mod it would hopefully be what ensures our mod committee has the ability to work with admins on strikes, when I was mod I remember there were often times us and the admin team had to work together. As for the privileges being an admin would grant me to help with this, there really aren't any extra privileges granted that would specifically help the mod committee. Our current mod head has been doing a great job since being elected, I want to be able to work with him directly to ensure he has what he needs from the admin team for his committee to thrive. However that statement isn't just for the mod committee, as admin I would want to be able to provide the necessary tools or just lend an extra hand to committee heads so they have what they need to keep the committees running smoothly. As for responsibilities of the admin team: 1. Ensuring the league has the necessary funds to maintain itself 2. Working within Rules Committee to write, review, and pass new rules 3. Being the final say when bans are given or not 4. Working with each individual committee to ensure each committee has the necessary staff, resources, and support to keep running. 5. (Most importantly) being a line of support to community members when they have questions other staff can't answer

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In your opinion what is the worst thing about CSC?

What contributions do you hope to bring that you couldn't have accomplished as part of one of the other committees (such as mod, events, media, etc)?

NAN | Carrie

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

Honestly, as stated before it would be ensuring each committee has the necessary tools and resources to keep their committee running or hopefully improve their committee. It's not directly an issue but just something I'd want to see done within my first few weeks of being admin.

NAN | jawa 🏆

In your opinion what is the worst thing about CSC?

As of now it's the slow growth of the league. I know its not something admins (or anyone for that matter) could fix but it's been a bummer to join in S7 when the league was booming to now where it feels like there's a lot less growth. Could be viewed as a good thing though since it gives everyone time to actually prepare for the season rather than trying to figure out how to ensure there's enough space for all the new comers.

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Sw1ft

What contributions do you hope to bring that you couldn't have accomplished as part of one of the other committees (such as mod, events, media, etc)?

I want to see more of a "web" between each committee, with the admin team acting as the center of it. We have the ability now with the staff channels but I would really love to see each committee being more open to working directly with eachother, for example media working with events to create the graphics for upcoming events that can then go on our social media pages to encourage more people to join the league. I'm sure there are ways one can accomplish that without being admin however being admin would allow for me to make sure the committees have what they need to accomplish this.

I appreciate your answer and candor! Best of luck in the election!

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Hello! You mentioned that the league is experiencing slow growth. I was curious by what metric would you personally measure that and how would you gauge the success of the league's growth? Best of luck!

WET | sletong

Hello! You mentioned that the league is experiencing slow growth. I was curious by what metric would you personally measure that and how would you gauge the success of the league's growth? Best of luck!

Slow growth isn't necessarily a way to gauge the success of the league per-say but when I say slow growth that comes with somewhat "limited" experience as to what the average growth should be, since I joined based off when our reddit post blew up and we had that shoutout from Launders on twitter, we were having tons of new members join every day. Now obviously that dropped off since we can't recreate the luck of the algorithm but I think being able to either add on a new franchise or 2 every season (or in last seasons case, a whole tier) is a pretty good show of growth. Part of the issue is that the amount of people we have in the server is vastly different than the number of players. We had roughly 400 players last season which is mind boggling, but we also had around 2000 server members throughout the season. I think if we can find a way to grow our actual player numbers we'd in turn grow the amount of people joining the league just through word of mouth.

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Just piggy-backing off that question/answer; There has been some discussion previously about free agent retention. Do you have any ideas on how to get players that aren't signed to a team to stay involved 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?

I know you have answered this in another answer but will post for continuity sake. (Feel free to ignore) How do you feel about the current form and direction of moderation on the server?

You seem to be very interested in providing individual committees the tools and resources they need to function. What resources and tools do you think our committees are lacking currently and how would you generate the necessary manpower/funding/interest to provide them? (edited)

PFA | Luke

Just piggy-backing off that question/answer; There has been some discussion previously about free agent retention. Do you have any ideas on how to get players that aren't signed to a team to stay involved in the league?

I think the #1 thing I could come up with right now would be a once a month/bi-weekly FA only event, obviously thats easier said than done but just spit-balling ideas I think that could up the number of FA's who stay active throughout the season. I know for a lot of people who aren't drafted or signed they'll just wait till the next season to open this server. Aside from that though the biggest thing would just be giving them a reason to stay involved, which is something I would want to work with events on figuring out a way to do that. Its a pretty difficult question to answer since we can really only go off what we think would work for now. It would be something I'd want to work with the community to figure out though.

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?

My goal as admin wouldn't be disrupting the status quo so to speak. If an idea I propose isn't favored by committees, other admin, or the community I'm ok with admitting that I'm wrong. I would much rather allow the community to make decisions than make my own opinion speak over others.

What made you stop being a mod? You mentioned changes that you wanted to make for the mod committee, can you be more specific on what changes you want to make. For instance, you mention communication problems and changes, what do you want to change about that? Why do you want to become an admin over being a mod, or a mod head?

Hermit

You seem to be very interested in providing individual committees the tools and resources they need to function. What resources and tools do you think our committees are lacking currently and how would you generate the necessary manpower/funding/interest to provide them? (edited)

Honestly, this is one of the tougher questions so thank you. I believe that right now most committees are lacking the same thing, commitment. Which isn't something that an admin could inherently fix, however I do believe that part of the admins role in the community is to talk with committee heads and figure out how we can improve the committees on a case by case basis. As for generating things like funding, manpower, and interest I believe that those (aside from funding) are responsibilities the committee head should work within their committee to find. When it comes to funding I know that it's a very touchy topic within CSC and I don't want to speak too much on something I don't fully understand however I will say that if needed the admins and committee head should come together to plan out a fundraiser for an individual committee if what they need hasn't been outlined in the budget and is something that's thought of halfway through the season. However I'm also aware of the issues that could cause. I know I didn't really give specifics in my answer but since each committee is unique in its needs I really can't give an overall generalization of what they need, and would be making it a priority to talk with the committee heads about what they do need.

pecan50 🏆🏆

What made you stop being a mod? You mentioned changes that you wanted to make for the mod committee, can you be more specific on what changes you want to make. For instance, you mention communication problems and changes, what do you want to change about that? Why do you want to become an admin over being a mod, or a mod head?

The biggest reason I stopped being a mod was time. For those of you who don't know my full time job is working in politics, and while I was a mod I was also trying to run political campaigns in 3 different states so rather than taking up a space on the mod committee I decided it would be better for me to let someone else get the experience and be able to fulfill the duties. I know that will bring up questions about my time commitments going into S10 but since its a political off-year we'll be working from home for the first 3/4ths of 2023, meaning I have pretty much all the time in the world to dedicate to CSC for the next 2 seasons. As for changes to the mod committee: I somewhat went over this here: https://discord.com/channels/644377562516029460/1051926384118874202/1051941824295612489. But I'll give you a better overview. My goal would be to work directly with the current mod head on creating training documents/guidelines for new mods so that when we do have new mods its a more streamlined process and the new mods have a better idea than I did when I first joined mod committee (Throw back to the One Month Mod Squad). Other changes wouldn't be my place to make as admin, fixing the communication issue also isn't necessarily just a mod committee issue either. I'd want to work with each committee based on what they need from admins, I just know that mod committee is one of the committees most engrained with the admins. I want to be an admin because there's really only so much one can do as mod/mod head. With my new-found free time I want to be able to dedicate as much time as I can to CSC for the next 2 seasons, and I know the most positive change I can bring would be as an admin within CSC. This doesn't mean I won't still be working with other committees or taking on other roles within the community, since obviously admins only do so much, but I want to be able to use the next 8-10 months to work with the other members of CSC in growing and making the league better with every season.

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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?

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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?

Definitely one of the more complicated questions I've gotten, I think the way the league is running currently is keeping as a "for-fun league" but improvements that could be made: There's nothing in a sense that just being an admin could do however like I mentioned earlier I'll have some more freetime to help with things like recreating the wiki, helping more with media (graphics, social media, etc) that could help improve the way people view the league. Let me know if that answers the question