I think we brought it up about that time, yeah...
I also remember posting a pretty bitchy rant to the staff about their ability to whine about how bored they are and
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I could probably find it... I tend to save those types of posts to notepad.
*edit* Yep... here it is...[quote name=\'7-28-2005\']Well, I sat on this topic for a while now. Told Ada I would, and that it was a sort of test to see how long before a few replied. One is still missing, but I think I\'ve waited long enough, and that person will just have to... well, I won\'t cover that here, but it involves two lists I have been keeping, and it\'s not the best of things when one person moves between the lists in the wrong direction.
You all don\'t see much production from me from the visual standpoint, and a few probably wonder why I am sitting here as an admin. Well, I sometimes wonder too... then I think about how much of a joy it is to spend several hours keeping this server running to make sure all the sites show up when a user goes to the link. Plus the damn-near endless patching of software (seems like php, mySQL, and Apache are releasing quick-fixes daily), security steps that are being put into place for once this place goes 100% live to make sure it\'s not dead 3 days later... and well, you get the idea. While I may not be much of a php coder, and I have a severe disliking for MySQL at the moment, and I can think of nothing I would like to see more than someone shoving a hot poker into the forehead of whoever was intelligent enough to release phpBB as a \'quick-install\' but not release a patch for the rmp file as bug fixes come out, I do spend a lot of time working on this place and it occasionally reminds me of what it is all for.
There is a key word to all of that. Let me point it out again.
Occasionally.
Lately, things seem to have been slipping again. Scott and Adaera are on the verge of burnout (did anyone notice an article Adaera posted this morning about overworking yourself?), and still there are a few that are... well, lets be kind for a moment and say that a few are dragging their feet.
Giving an example here to expalin my current frame of mind (I\'m not ging to point fingers, and I could care less about blame at this point). Several months ago, we were discussing bringing killagaming online with gamserver hosting and such. Included in this was the purchase of 2 servers on a partial rack, all set up and ready to go for a very low price. All it needed was a website. We had it planned so that the website had almost 2 months to be ready, then the servers would be purchased and I would spend my holiday week prepping them for production status... patching, securing, installing, blah blah blah, you get the idea. Deadline came... and went. Still people chatted, played with shoutcast and games and whatpulse. My holiday week that I was going to spend getting this ready came... and went. And still, the chat, shoutcast, games, and whatpulse continued, The once-in-a-lifetime deal for pricing for the packages we wanted came... and went. Follow a trend? Now, here we are, almost 6 months after the initial idea was brought up... an idea that could have brought money into this network, and you look at where it is now... the site is finally done, but only because of overnight cram sessions... nothing has been sold because we now have to meet global gaming cost, instead of being able to slip in underneath it. Gaming is not the only thing this has been done with, either. I\'m noticing a lot of sites having months for a deadline, but everything else just kind of takes a priority over it and it gets lost in the shuffle.
I\'m not expecting everyone to drop their personal lives for this, but when you sit on the chat and discuss how bored you are, or how you have nothing to do, or whatever stupid thing that gives the impression you would rather do anything else over get the network moving... well, ask yourself why you\'re really here. Rift has taken the time to post numerous things that can be fixed around here... Scott and Ada have taken the timeto post the sites that need to be done or worked on... there is an extensive list that has been posted several times of the sites that are still waiting to go live. Why not step up to the plate and take some initiative on completing them?
I basically would like everyone here to just spend a minute asking themselves why they are here. Why were they chosen to be staff? Ready for the answer? Because you\'re good at what you do, and it is (was) the opinion of the admins and the other staff that you would (are) an asset to this group and can get things done that you start. Now ask yourself if the admins and other staff were right.
So... were we?
Oh... and to the staff member(s) who have not touched the reply button on this topic yet, but have still managed to view it and cruise around the forum some everyday since it\'s been posted. What\'s your excuse?[/quote]
