This place needs restructuring.

[Brasel]

We also need admins to be the final word on ban decisions, that way we could have avoided the whole mess with Glenn and Lilith's banning.

I've never actually seen the staff forum, but I'm sure that banning of more established members aren't taken as lightly as say, a random spammer or advertiser, and are talked about to some degree in the staff forum. Though I could be wrong.

[The_Amaster]

Really, almost all of the nice features go away with upgrades.

Kinda makes it not really an upgrade, doesn't it?

Seriously, having the arcade back would be awsome. I can think of at least one good member (Imprisoned) who I haven't seen around at all since it went away.

I would hope that some thought goes into banning the more "real" members.

[Beldaran]

I wish the arcade still existed as well. That was a lot of fun.

If we had a PHP person doing some periodic hacks, that could lead to some really cool improvements. I really hope that happens.

I volunteer to not do anything because I don't have any free time. :)

[phattonez]

Didn't we have 5 admins at a time before? Now we have none? How did this happen?

If only admins can get to the admin cp, then I'd want DarkDragon since it seems like he would know what he would be doing.

[The_Amaster]

Wait...isn't Warlord some kind of admin?


Agreed. DD is awsome, responsible, and probably knows what he's doing.

[phattonez]

I meant active admins. Sure, we have a few admins right now, but they're almost never here for a variety a reasons.

[The_Amaster]

This leads to an interesting paradox. We need someone of authority, such as an Admin or Warlord to actually make this discussion worth anything, but they're almost never on, so it can't.

Should we make a list of people who should/volunteer to be mods/smods/admins, or is it too early?

[phattonez]

It's kind of worthless until Warlord get here, but I know that once goKi and Solaris Omega were hired, they did that kind of thing.

Just as an example, Rainman is a mod of this forum, but he hasn't been here since April!

[SpykStorm]

So....What y'all are saying is that the not an admin to appoint a new admin to keep things interesting around here?

[DarkDragon]

We also need admins to be the final word on ban decisions, that way we could have avoided the whole mess with Glenn and Lilith's banning.

Admins already do have the final word on bannings; see the appeal section in the TOS

Senior mods have always had ban power and I think that's the best way to handle the forums - there are many times when a member of the senior staff needs to act quickly to stop a massive spam attack or defuse a situation, and the admins are nowhere near active enough to handle such situations on their own.