User blog comment:JayeMalik'/Going in circles/@comment-5327224-20170125234558

So, I want to start off by apologizing. I know that I've made decisions recently that many people got upset over, and it wasn't my intention at all to try and undermine and go against the admin team. I personally didn't view them as big issues or anything, and saw them as things that fell within my duties and responsibilities as the OOC head. So, I'm sorry that it went against what people wanted, and truly wasn't trying to be the all powerful crat.

To continue I think i'll follow the format of the others.

Policies- I've thought that for some time that our policies have needed some reviewing, some thrown out and maybe some adding, but I didn't really know how to approach it. I've been thinking, and to go to the point of forums and votes because I fully support those coming back, that I could post a different section of our policies each week for us to go over as a team. I'll have the entire team read through that section and we can start a discussion in a forum of what we think needs to be changed, removed, or added to each section. Once we finish one, we can move on to the next and do the same thing. Once we reach the end of our current policies, we can open a forum to discuss other policy sections that need to be created. This way, it isn't just me trying too reqrite all the policies, but rather allow all of the admin to to put in their voice and we can vote to pass or reject the amendments to a certain policy section. I'm definitely open to other ideas on how we can mend policies, but to me this seems like the best way for all of us to discuss them and vote on them.

Division of Powers-With this, I still think that the Minister and and Headmistress should remain within the admin team, but I am completely open to any other position going to any user, Head of House and Department heads for example. With this, however, I'd personally like to see that those users have shown that they are active within the ministry for a bit, or show that they can make it through at least most of a school year being active as a teacher. After that, I have no problem with them taking control of one of those positions, whether it is with the same character or not.

OOC Power-This kind of goes back to how I started this. Whenever I'm thinking of making a change that is large, I usually do go to others to see what they think before changing anything.Honestly, I try to avoid making changes or anything like that by myself, but usually wait until something is brought to me for my opinion, and I'll give it my stamp of approval, or say that I'll do something to take care of it. Other than that, I try to stick to what I see falling under my daily duties as the OOC Crat. All three of us have things that we do to make things run smoothly that we generally don't see as big decisions or changes, or think need a huge vote by the admin team to do. Otherwise, things take forever to get done, But, I do know that people have differing views as to what constitutes a big decision and what the  day to day duties of the crats should be. So, maybe as I suggested with the policies, we open a forum to establish what day to day duties of Crats, Admins, and Rollbacks in each department should be, and what things we think need to be brought to a full admin team vote. This way, everyone knows what they can do, what things they need approval for, and so that the admin team can know when the crats are within their limits of power. Because, as I said, we often see things as not big decisions and just go ahead with them because we want to get things done. None of us truly want to act as if we have all the power, because I know we shouldn't.

Spokesperson-Personally, I don't think that this helps accomplish anything here. If there's just one person running around talking for everyone, things can often get misconstrued and we end up with another issue. It makes things so much easier when people come bring things up for themselves. And if multiple people come to me expressing their concerns,it's much more effective than one person speaking for everyone else. I don't know why people are scared to come forward, because I don't think there will be any consequences for you speaking your mind and expressing your thoughts. Even if I don't agree with what you may have to say, you're not going to get in trouble for it, or going to have negative things happen as a result. THat's how the world works. People have differing opinions, and that's ok. I'm not going to yell at you for thinking a certain way. I may tell you how i feel and give reasons for it, but you won't receive any punishment for coming to talk to me. Everything would honestly be so much easier if we could all just discuss things out like adults, rather than send someone else to do it for you. Even if you think you're the only person that feels a certain way, come talk to one of us, and we can see what can be done about it. I gurantee there's someone else who feels the same way.

Communication- I definitely agree that we all need to comminucate better and should have regular admin meetings. It's just nearly impossible to try to get everyone on chat at once to do it. So, I know that there are discussion boards and such that can be turned on, so we could use those for meetings, so that admin team members can post heir concerns/ideas and others can respond to those. If we start one of those each month, I think it would help with out commincations, and can be done over a wider amount of time so we dont have to stress about getting every admin  member on chat at the same time. We can turn them on in someone's sandbox too, so that we dont clutter things here with all of our meeting talk.

I think that I hit everything I wanted to say, but if i forgot something, I'll post it below. Let me know what you think about what I said and we can see what we can do about it. Again, I truly am sorry if people think the myself and the other crats have been hogging power, because I assure you, it hasn't been the attention. I don't want all the power. I don't have time to have all the power. So, let's see if we can work things out and move forward.