[Cleverley]

im calling a house meeting!

right, now were all here i think this needs to be discussed and sorted because i can see this going tits up.

now i know im not a mod or admin but that shouldnt change the fact that i can address a problem and solve it.

so i think we need to focus on 3 things. an agenda if you will.

1. who is running this place and when? if mark is at college and unavailable, then who steps up? is it nelvannya by herself or are we replacing ozziejess? its all about involvement people...we cant have mods getting involved when its an admin job, and we cant have mentors over stepping their remit when something needs to be modded.

2. we all need to invite people we know that would benefit from exasco...it doesnt have to be your best mate but someone who wont be offended by what or who you rant about.

3. were losing members fast...this is not just new people but old members from exasko and further back...we need to address this and find out why...

if i had to put my finger on it...i would say a difficulty is possibly old members (including myself) taking our position for granted. as of yet i have no more powers than the next guy to sign up in 10 minutes...but my flaw is that because ive seen, heard and done half the stuff on here, im numb to it and can seem too black and white...this is something I WILL IMPROVE as best i can.

secondly is egos, we all have them and we all have to take a step back and rationalise/de-dramatise things.

i just think we need a hierarchical management system not based on power but based on who deals with each incident and why.

for example

3 x admins (responsible for making final decisions on bans and recruitment)
4 x mods (responsible for the maintanance of the forum and referring evil do-ers)
4 x mentors (responsible for taking on padawans and offering advice/referral to others)

reason being? workload, opinion and time zones. by having multiple positions, we can have at least one admin, mod and mentor working at any one time which can enable us to be more effective at helping others. otherwise we have everyone on in europe but all the mods are australian for example. also it means that a mod has to seek reasonable grounds and have at least 2/3 admins in agreement that a ban should occur.

now the above is just a suggestion but this is not an ego trip for me...

i just dont want to see this site go down in flames because we couldnt get over ourselves.

its why we have lost a lot of people. so without focusing on that, perhaps if were a bit better re structured, we can improve...

have a great evening all.