Since I've been made head NA admin I've had six admins removed from power. Five of them were completely inactive and we had a bloat of admins (we had several more than EU has, and their population is nearly double that of NA). The other was Dexxtaa, who was abusing his powers to needlessly change the map and say irrelevant nonsense in pinktext, which wasn't as grievous. He was warned to stop. His last act as admin was to change to the map where both teams spawned on top of each other. That's not good.
To clarify, I changed the map manually, which is against protocol. I have been found doing this multiple times by Canary, and he is right (as far as protocol goes) to revoke my admin powers.
I've always been less admin-y and more focused on community wants and desires. I've always tried to bridge that gap between rigid administrative structure and keeping the spirit of the fact that this is a video game. I'm more interested in keeping the community fun, and my time as an admin has helped me keep things fresh (usually by doing illegal things anyway) by dicking around with the community, to maintain a good relationship between the different levels of the community.
Having my admin powers revoked relieves me a bit, because I've wanted to get rid of the responsibility for a long time, but didn't want to lose the power to be able to serve the community, as well as horse around (map changes, caps lock hour, pink text "all thine hard work") with people, as well as quench my undying thirst for power (obviously). At the very least that decision is made for me.
All told, thanks again for everything that the community has given me, and I hope I paid back even a fraction of what its done for me. You'll find me dicking around trying to jumpstart NA2 and trying things I've never had the opportunity to try (because it's illegal, and I never indulged myself as an admin).
Here's what he himself had to say about it. He accepted it, he wanted to rid himself of the responsibility, and he wanted to be able to do things that are against the rules as a result. Living up to this, he has done things such as spamming "friend" in server chat recently. He legitimately lost his admin privilege and said he was relieved to see it go, he's taken up some rulebreaking troll behavior and now he wants to be an admin again. Is this a real argument?
More admins would certainly be welcome, though. I've added six admins so far. Four of them were people that I'm not very familiar with on a personal level. None of the six were from the same clan (even though one's clan is not something I really consider a critical issue in making the choice). One, san, was from my own clan, and part of the reason he was specifically chosen was that he was made an item balancer and needed access to the rank 4 admin damage viewer; he made sense as an admin anyway so it worked out in the end.
If some of you are arguing that on paper it seems bad that people like Rhalzo and san know me personally and were made admin, implying they'd consequently make bad admins or shouldn't be admins, you ought to check on your ulterior motives for propagandizing.
The ability to tell if someone has the potential to be a great admin shouldn't be determined by a post about their qualifications.
It isn't. Likewise, the amount of upvotes said post receives does not play a part. Dexxtaa lost his admin knowingly in a way that he accepted. He did things admins shouldn't do and is now doing things no player should do, the amount of upvotes he's getting on his request to get reinstated do not change the fact that he is not a good candidate.
P.S. Chaos had more admins
before I was made head NA admin. The record was 9 (incidentally when Sauce, dynamike and Dexxtaa were all in Chaos) and with the addition of san Chaos now has 4 admins.
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