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Staff appreation day
ok i have noticed that the admin and mods are treated like a member or lower just because of the rank like the server fussing
i will try to have a contest set up for them and all thet stuff i am planning on doing it around the end of november.
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i don't know i just thought of it but i will have it set up i know it is short term but i will ha ve it done mind you i will have a few awards to give to the admin that fits it
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basically having a award ceremony (just a post) contest between the admin mods and other staff. and having a whole day to celebrate the staff.
here is the current awards
Member picks
Favorite admin
Favorite mod
Coolest staff member
Time wiz staff award
Active award
Staff picks (can’t pick your self)
Favorite admin
Favorite mod
Coolest staff member
Time wiz staff award
Active award
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omfg. Back to the good old ways.
Waaaaaaay back when I was a Global Mod and up for Adminship, I introduced an idea to Josh about a Staff Appraisal Scheme, where the members filled in a given form [which I actually still have on me] and sent the forms to the Administrators, who were Darkblade, Sephiroth and Garnet at that time. I'll paste the form;
Quote:
Originally Posted by Users Form
Staff Appraisal Scheme – Members Template Username of Staff Member:
1. Do you think that this member of staff has enforced the rules?
YES / NO / I DO NOT KNOW
2. Do you think that this member of staff has done his/her job correctly (has closed necessary threads, has banned members appropriately, has issued warnings fairly, has dispersed quarrels and such like)?
YES / NO / I DO NOT KNOW
3. Do you think that this member of staff has been professional?
YES / NO / I DO NOT KNOW
4. Do you think that this member of staff has been active (on the forums often)?
YES / NO / I DO NOT KNOW
5. Do you think that this member of staff deserves to have a position on Final Fantasy Forums?
YES / NO / I DO NOT KNOW
6. Do you think that this member of staff would be better suited with another position (if yes, please state which)?
YES / NO / I DO NOT KNOW
7. Do you think that a staff appraisal scheme is necessary/useful?
YES / NO / I DO NOT KNOW
8. How would you rate this member of staff?
EXCELLENT / GREAT / GOOD / FAIR / POOR / VERY POOR
9. Do you think that another member on the forums deserve a position with the staff on Final Fantasy Forums (please state name – this question is not compulsory)?
10. Please leave any extra comments/criticism/praise and such like that you may have for this member of staff below (this question is not compulsory).
[Thank you for taking the time to complete this form – your input is greatly appreciated and very useful to us. Now send your completed form to the stated recipient. Please fill out this form for other member of staff, not just one, as this will help us even more]
It was going quite swell and so I introduced something else to Darkblade, and that was the idea of giving us assessments and such himself, so that he was communicating with the staff. I made a template for him and said template was as follows;
Quote:
Originally Posted by Admin Template
Staff Appraisal Scheme – Administrators Report
[Reports will be sent to each member of staff through a Personal Message. The member of staff who filled out your appraisal will make his/her multiple-choice answers stand out in some way]
Activity: EXCELLENT / GOOD / FAIR / POOR / VERY POOR
Professionalism: EXCELLENT / GOOD / FAIR / POOR / VERY POOR
Complaints: 0 / 1-3 / 4-6 / 7-9 / 10+
Use of Language: FORMAL / NORMAL / INFORMAL / SLANG / OTHER
Compatibility With Job: TOP QUALITY / MODERATELY FINE / ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT / POSSIBLE JOB CHANGE / OTHER
Suggested change
Of Job Responsibilities: YES / NOT QUITE YET / NO
Moderation: FAIR BUT FIRM / TOO STRICT / TOO LOOSE / CARELESS / OTHER
Administrators Comments:
[Insert personal comments here – praise, criticism, or develop one of the above points more clearly]
I then filled in the report, as the idea didn't seem to sink in.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dummy Assessment
Staff Appraisal Scheme – Administrators Report
[Reports will be sent to each member of staff through a Personal Message. The member of staff who filled out your appraisal will make his/her multiple-choice answers stand out in some way]
Staff Member: Riku
Activity: VERY POOR
Professionalism: VERY POOR
Complaints: 10+
Use of Language: SLANG
Compatibility With Job: OTHER
Suggested change
Of Job Responsibilites: YES
When Moderating: CARELESS
Post Content: NOT ENOUGH
Overall Performance (Marks out of 10): 0
Administrators Comments:
Riku, I am not impressed with you. I find that you are lacking in responsibility and I believe you to be too far up your own ass to realise that the members come first – you are not allowed to be the top poster. DE-STAFFED!
Please stay active on the forums though.
Yours Sincerely
Josh Hawkman
Forum Administrator, Site Owner and Site Webmaster
Everything surrounding the SAS was going swimmingly and only ended due to the fact that I left as a result of the Christmas incident. The appropriate threads were later closed because Josh didn't seem to want to handle them.
Maybe it'd be a good idea to re-introduce them? Although it's likely that the templates would have to be revised. Nevertheless, each of us found the entire thing extremely effective.
EDIT:
D'lain, those ideas don't help fix the problems you've presented in your first post. All they do is raise or lower the self-esteem, or ego, of the staff members. I remember I made a "Who's your favourite staff member?" thread ages ago ... and it had to be closed, purely because of the chances people were taking to bash or flame other staffers. It really wasn't fair.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by d'lain
basically having a award ceremony (just a post) contest between the admin mods and other staff. and having a whole day to celebrate the staff.
here is the current awards
Member picks
Favorite admin
Favorite mod
Coolest staff member
Time wiz staff award
Active award
Staff picks (can’t pick your self)
Favorite admin
Favorite mod
Coolest staff member
Time wiz staff award
Active award
Aha. I get you know, like the FFF awards but only allowing staff members to be voted for?
Meh...i guess if you wanted to do it you could.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Saix
This could potentially downgrade certain staff members. It's not like we can't stop people from posting their opinions, so I'm a bit iffy with it.
I like the structure of Riku's idea though, but my statement still stands.
That was taken into account and, as such, the appraisals were not given back to the staffers in question. For example, if Tethar Atrum and I were being assessed by one person, the forms were sent to Darkblade. Darkblade was then supposed to take all of the appraisals in at the end of the month, fill in his own wee form and give feedback to the staffers in question, making his comments from what the other members had said.
Unfortunately, due to what happened at christmas, the appraisal never reached the end of its first month and so I can't even comment on how effective it might have been. I think Darkblade's reason for closing it was because it was too complicated for him to run on his own. I was quite the mastermind, back in the day :cool:
If Josh happens to read this thread, I am SO gonny get my testicles handed to me on a plate. Oh well.
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