Tier 1 - question 5
Write 800 words or more on something that interests you. It could be related to statistics, to a league issue you take seriously, or a niche part of history that doesn’t fit neatly into either of the above categories. This must be directly related to the league, so don’t wax 800 words about your team’s Werewolf server. Be warned that freedom comes with risk, and this category will be judged especially stringently for anyone trying to spew complete nonsense.
With some recent league events that have caused polarising opinions, interesting discussions and arguments, its seems pretty topical to talk about the situation amongst the league about Head Office, Power and Accountability. First things first, like most things in the real world, the people loudest about this are those who disagree with how things are done but we as a league is functioning well and could continue with the current iterations of rules and guidelines. Secondly, it’s important to make sure anytime discussions on such an opinionated topic, arguemtns are open-minded, logic and with reason. There Is no point yelling heck HO everytime something happens because it does nothing. Constructive criticism comes before tearing someone or the whole team down in terms of effectiveness.
The strongest thing this applies to is the fact that the more users pile onto a body such as HO, the disconnect between the two will only become larger. Whilst a majority of statements are not personal attacks, they are a few that can be interrupted as such and when the player bases biggest ask of HO is clarity and openness, why would they want to showcase everything to us to be ridiculed and memed constantly? Recent league events have shown what can happen when memeing goes wrong and yet as a user base, we let this happen constantly and question why nothing changes. If the loudest of users want the change they so heavily desire, they need to ensure they are doing it in a well-mannered, logic and reasoned way or else their perspective will be dismissed. The more constructive criticism over general negative or passive aggressive responses we give, the more likely there will be change because we can paint our perspective much clearer and effectively by doing so. What if that does change anything? Well….then we go back to yelling but in all honestly, we need to give it time. HO takes care of way to many things that should be outsourced to either the respective team or made the responsibility/new team.
In terms of the teams that attract the most attention, there is an obvious two, Appeals and Audit. Firstly, appeals I feel is in this weird position where what they do is important, but from an outsider perspective understanding nothing of their process, it seems they should probably move more to the investigators than working like a jury. HO give out the punishments, they investiage the “crime” and come up with a decision on if it breaks a rule or if an action is deserving of a punishment. As a result, by the time it comes to the appeals team, HO have pulled evidence and discussed things and im sure that just as the person/team appealing gives their evidence, HO passes on their findings. In this case, Appeals aren’t investigating the crime, simply evaluating the two sides but when one of them has already discussed all the evidence, its not wonder that most appeals are unsuccessful, or only reduce fines compared to waiving the punishment. Solution? Maybe the appeals team should become the punishment team. One less thing for HO to deal with and gives some more power/control to an organisation that isn’t HO since that is a common issue people have. Yes, HO hired a lot of people into roles but the most recent appeals hiring was done strictly by the appeals time. If their role become investigate and not appeal, they can function fully independent of HO with the Head of Appeals being the liaison between the two departments.
The other department, Audits, commonly get called into question about relevance, and as an audit I will tell you that as long as updates are done by humans, auditors will and should exist. We bring accountability to what is the most important aspect of the league, the factor that marks progression in this league. Without accountability on TPE, why bother having it in place and just giving everyone a flat amount per week to spend? I don’t know if the audit team was based mainly to give extra jobs, but it has an important role to play within the league and this past season was always going to have the most problem updates, since we covered for most players, majority if not all of their career, imagine going through S13 player Nate Swift, aka 12 seasons of updates, around 5 posts a season minimum. Going forward, audits only have to do maybe one or two seasons of post auditing, meaning much less and smaller mistakes should be found.
Finally, the point of contention I find the most relevant, is the fact that HO hires HO. Personally, I get why we don’t want the league heads picking the league heads but who else is gonna decide? Are we going to publicly vote every single time there is a person stepping down? We don’t know what each individual does and does not do whilst in HO so if they then have to be revoted in, how do we know as a user base who to pick back in and who to leave out? It’s a definitely flawed system but there isn’t really a much better way to do it. My naïve self questions why the league owner, which I don’t know of what their role entails them doing, has voting powers and is amongst HO. It’s something I would and should just ask SLM but from the outside perspective, he I guess “owns” the server and therefore gets to take part in shaping the league? If anything, and I have no problems with SLM in a position of power since I don’t even know what it does and doesn’t enable him to do, shouldn’t we question the fact that this position is even more exclusive/non-changeable. If SLM decided to screw everything in votes or not care, we can’t simply remove him or replace where HO members, including commissionars, making it objectively worse of a situation than what people complain about.
All in all, if the league was unbearable to play and take part in, we wouldn’t be here. Whilst it has flaws and improvements that can definitely be implemented, the league works, it flows, and we get what we signed up for, dots on a screen that do whatever the heck they feel like doing since they are the real overlords of this league.
Write 800 words or more on something that interests you. It could be related to statistics, to a league issue you take seriously, or a niche part of history that doesn’t fit neatly into either of the above categories. This must be directly related to the league, so don’t wax 800 words about your team’s Werewolf server. Be warned that freedom comes with risk, and this category will be judged especially stringently for anyone trying to spew complete nonsense.
With some recent league events that have caused polarising opinions, interesting discussions and arguments, its seems pretty topical to talk about the situation amongst the league about Head Office, Power and Accountability. First things first, like most things in the real world, the people loudest about this are those who disagree with how things are done but we as a league is functioning well and could continue with the current iterations of rules and guidelines. Secondly, it’s important to make sure anytime discussions on such an opinionated topic, arguemtns are open-minded, logic and with reason. There Is no point yelling heck HO everytime something happens because it does nothing. Constructive criticism comes before tearing someone or the whole team down in terms of effectiveness.
The strongest thing this applies to is the fact that the more users pile onto a body such as HO, the disconnect between the two will only become larger. Whilst a majority of statements are not personal attacks, they are a few that can be interrupted as such and when the player bases biggest ask of HO is clarity and openness, why would they want to showcase everything to us to be ridiculed and memed constantly? Recent league events have shown what can happen when memeing goes wrong and yet as a user base, we let this happen constantly and question why nothing changes. If the loudest of users want the change they so heavily desire, they need to ensure they are doing it in a well-mannered, logic and reasoned way or else their perspective will be dismissed. The more constructive criticism over general negative or passive aggressive responses we give, the more likely there will be change because we can paint our perspective much clearer and effectively by doing so. What if that does change anything? Well….then we go back to yelling but in all honestly, we need to give it time. HO takes care of way to many things that should be outsourced to either the respective team or made the responsibility/new team.
In terms of the teams that attract the most attention, there is an obvious two, Appeals and Audit. Firstly, appeals I feel is in this weird position where what they do is important, but from an outsider perspective understanding nothing of their process, it seems they should probably move more to the investigators than working like a jury. HO give out the punishments, they investiage the “crime” and come up with a decision on if it breaks a rule or if an action is deserving of a punishment. As a result, by the time it comes to the appeals team, HO have pulled evidence and discussed things and im sure that just as the person/team appealing gives their evidence, HO passes on their findings. In this case, Appeals aren’t investigating the crime, simply evaluating the two sides but when one of them has already discussed all the evidence, its not wonder that most appeals are unsuccessful, or only reduce fines compared to waiving the punishment. Solution? Maybe the appeals team should become the punishment team. One less thing for HO to deal with and gives some more power/control to an organisation that isn’t HO since that is a common issue people have. Yes, HO hired a lot of people into roles but the most recent appeals hiring was done strictly by the appeals time. If their role become investigate and not appeal, they can function fully independent of HO with the Head of Appeals being the liaison between the two departments.
The other department, Audits, commonly get called into question about relevance, and as an audit I will tell you that as long as updates are done by humans, auditors will and should exist. We bring accountability to what is the most important aspect of the league, the factor that marks progression in this league. Without accountability on TPE, why bother having it in place and just giving everyone a flat amount per week to spend? I don’t know if the audit team was based mainly to give extra jobs, but it has an important role to play within the league and this past season was always going to have the most problem updates, since we covered for most players, majority if not all of their career, imagine going through S13 player Nate Swift, aka 12 seasons of updates, around 5 posts a season minimum. Going forward, audits only have to do maybe one or two seasons of post auditing, meaning much less and smaller mistakes should be found.
Finally, the point of contention I find the most relevant, is the fact that HO hires HO. Personally, I get why we don’t want the league heads picking the league heads but who else is gonna decide? Are we going to publicly vote every single time there is a person stepping down? We don’t know what each individual does and does not do whilst in HO so if they then have to be revoted in, how do we know as a user base who to pick back in and who to leave out? It’s a definitely flawed system but there isn’t really a much better way to do it. My naïve self questions why the league owner, which I don’t know of what their role entails them doing, has voting powers and is amongst HO. It’s something I would and should just ask SLM but from the outside perspective, he I guess “owns” the server and therefore gets to take part in shaping the league? If anything, and I have no problems with SLM in a position of power since I don’t even know what it does and doesn’t enable him to do, shouldn’t we question the fact that this position is even more exclusive/non-changeable. If SLM decided to screw everything in votes or not care, we can’t simply remove him or replace where HO members, including commissionars, making it objectively worse of a situation than what people complain about.
All in all, if the league was unbearable to play and take part in, we wouldn’t be here. Whilst it has flaws and improvements that can definitely be implemented, the league works, it flows, and we get what we signed up for, dots on a screen that do whatever the heck they feel like doing since they are the real overlords of this league.
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