User blog comment:JayeMalik'/The Meeting's Product/@comment-1613839-20161023184405

So, I read this and the transcript and here's my thoughts. Feel free to take or leave them as you'd like. This is for the admin team as a whole, and not just Jaye. :D

First, Ministry stuff. This wiki's focus has always been Hogwarts (as I think it should be) and while I think it's great you guys want to revitalize the Ministry, I want to make sure Hogwarts won't be neglected due to that. If people have enough time/energy to do both, awesome but hopefully Hogwarts won't stop having events and the like due to this. If that's the case, I'm all for it.

Secondly, I saw the conversation about looking through and re-writing/defining some of the rules and roles that people play. Having written quite a few of the rules a VERY long time ago, I agree that a good number of them probably need to be updated at least. If you guys have any questions about any of the policies and why we wrote them or chose something over something else, I'm at your disposal. As for the Administration Roles, a long time ago I wrote this. I don't know that it was ever used or adopted, but it could be a starting point though obviously needs some work as there are no longer 4 Departments and the like.

As for Department Heads, I understand the reasoning behind making them available to only Admin team, but sometimes there are exceptional users who do edit and such more than some people on the admin team and might be a better fit. At one point we did the same thing with the teachers and made everyone on the admin team have a teacher to ensure classes would be posted on and the like but, it really didn't fit some people in the admin team and it left out some users who were better at it. Just something to consider. With Ferlen I have recently tried to fill all the Dept Head positions with at least semi-active people, and it would be a shame to take some of those away that they just got IC even if they're active. Sometimes to fill a position you have to take what's available from people who are active. I honestly don't know the best way to go about it, but thought I'd help spell both sides out here.

I guess my last thought was a personal one about Ferlen. He's been in the Ministry for a long time, and while my activity with him has varied widely, I've tried to keep the Ministry together somewhat with his limited influence. Personally, I'm ok if the new Minister wants to replace him, or if they'd like to keep him in his position IC but I would just like it to be as smooth a transition as possible IC if we could, and not just "You're fired because your user isn't on the admin team.

Everything else looks like solid progress. More communication and meetings are good to keep people in the loop and air any complaints or issues. Election is good and hopefully restarting the Ministry will help reinvigorate RPing and get people interested. As more RBs are needed, I'm sure we'll get some good ones, but right now I agree we probably have enough to handle things. Overall it loos like it was a very productive meeting and I'm glad to see progress in a good direction.