Quote from Ashikoki;1058973:
You just need to put away the perception that I will be doing things that will strongly influence the community.
I've taken a stance of passiveness. My role is to design a system that improves the efficiency and uniformity of the other staff. Not much more. I don't really plan on taking any administrative actions at all. Though I will be mediating between members as much as possible, none of it should actually lead to having an impact on staff decision making.
This system will also allow moderators to challenge all decisions. My authority will not override any single moderator. If they are ambitious enough, they'll be able to take my seat and I'll retire. But last week when Osayidan fished for thoughts on his selection of the new admin, I was met with unanimous agreement save for the worry that there might be people who would be dissatisfied with an enigmatic member becoming the new admin. We've thought all of it through. One of my jobs is to improve the relationship between the staff and the community, but the biggest obstacle in that endeavor turned out to be myself.
Such worries are trivial. If I do a bad job, I'll be canned soon enough. Alternatively, I might become everyone's favorite. I've said what I can, and if that doesn't ease your mind, it'll just have to be through my actions in the future.
The good thing about your statement is that I can actually believe it. TA
said we would have a say in things, but when it came down to it, if we called her out on behavior that she would report other people for, we would get yelled at, from
both sides. Boy, was that fun. She was saying we had no right to call her out because she was doing nothing wrong, and people were saying we were letting her get away with too much, which wasn't true. She did get herself banned, after all.
Ashikoki has been a member of the community for a
while and is definitely not TA. TA returning as a staff member would
not/i] go over well with the current staff, considering the trouble we went through on her behalf.
Ashi's a great member. Our only real unease came from what happened when we as a collective group of new staff started being staff. We didn't know about a few of the things that were going to happen, like TA coming in to manage us, or other staff getting let go. There was a drama storm, essentially. The only concern with Ashi was that because it's a new account, people would be uneasy about a seemingly "new" member becoming not just a staff member, but an Administrator.
Rest assured, Ashi is not new, and is definitely [i]not TA. Moreover, Ashi has already started to get into solving problems on the forums as painlessly as possible. People should see how our new administrator does before coming to conclusions. Coming to conclusions, particularly very wrong conclusions, can cause all sorts of unnecessary trouble.