Hello
I haven't seen the ZLs post the 'arrangement' of the position in this thread yet so I'll dump what I heard in the last ZL meeting.
Pook was an admin and a community leader. He set the direction, we followedPook drove himself insane by taking on way too much and stepped down putting me in chargeThe responsibilities were separated so that no one man took on all of the responsibilitiesAs time went on, I slowly removed myself as "Community Leader" and encouraged the ZLs to take this role on collectively. Over the last 1-2 years I've acted only in the SysAdmin capacity.This solved the problem of having one man being a blocker, but also created a new problem: with so many ZLs, who is leading the charge anymore?MrChaos has been appointed as a leader among equals. Every ZL has the same "privileges" and work together to get things doneMrChaos consults with the ZLs and will always choose the most clearly-consensused path for everyone to followMrC beats the drum, keeps ZLs on top of their tasks, and takes on the role of "leader" to make sure they are all making progress on their goalsIn the event of a "tie" or unclear consensus, it is MrC's responsibility to gather all of the information necessary from everyone involved (ZLs, community, admin(s)) in order to make an informed decision. MrC will then choose the course he feels will benefit the community/game most while incurring the least amount of drawbacks.MrC is accountable to all the other ZLs just like every ZL is accountable to each other. If he makes too many decisions that are seen as hurting the game, he's "voted off the island" like other ZLs have been in the past.Above all else, MrC's role is to LEAD the community in growth. This inherently means that he will have to boss people around - including the ZLs and myself - in order to get @#(! done.The ZLs accept MrC as a leader among equals.The head SysAdmin accepts MrC as the community leader.This should (hopefully) solve the organizational problem.
Hope that clears up any confusion
--TE
Pook was an admin and a community leader. He set the direction, we followedPook drove himself insane by taking on way too much and stepped down putting me in chargeThe responsibilities were separated so that no one man took on all of the responsibilitiesAs time went on, I slowly removed myself as "Community Leader" and encouraged the ZLs to take this role on collectively. Over the last 1-2 years I've acted only in the SysAdmin capacity.This solved the problem of having one man being a blocker, but also created a new problem: with so many ZLs, who is leading the charge anymore?MrChaos has been appointed as a leader among equals. Every ZL has the same "privileges" and work together to get things doneMrChaos consults with the ZLs and will always choose the most clearly-consensused path for everyone to followMrC beats the drum, keeps ZLs on top of their tasks, and takes on the role of "leader" to make sure they are all making progress on their goalsIn the event of a "tie" or unclear consensus, it is MrC's responsibility to gather all of the information necessary from everyone involved (ZLs, community, admin(s)) in order to make an informed decision. MrC will then choose the course he feels will benefit the community/game most while incurring the least amount of drawbacks.MrC is accountable to all the other ZLs just like every ZL is accountable to each other. If he makes too many decisions that are seen as hurting the game, he's "voted off the island" like other ZLs have been in the past.Above all else, MrC's role is to LEAD the community in growth. This inherently means that he will have to boss people around - including the ZLs and myself - in order to get @#(! done.The ZLs accept MrC as a leader among equals.The head SysAdmin accepts MrC as the community leader.This should (hopefully) solve the organizational problem.
Hope that clears up any confusion
--TE
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