User blog comment:Epicnail/Regarding future promotions/@comment-5482968-20150909214246

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Okay, I'm going to attempt to flesh out how I've viewed this up until now, because it doesn't seem (at least from my perspective) that it's being fully understood by people, and if that's true then we can't do anything to work towards improving this situation until what I'm hoping to get across is made clear.

I'm not certain which way I'll be going with this as I start writing, so if for some reason your (as in whoever reads this) name is mentioned, I hope it's not taken negatively, and if so I'll do my best to rectify any mixed feelings or aggression. This paragraph may be unnecessary in the long run.

So, to start with, the biggest part of the issue: if memory serves this blog was made because of a presumed lack of admin communication, admins being left out of discussions and things like that. But in making this blog, it feels as if that's being ignored when you go and suggest such a big rearrangement of how things operate without discussing with all admins first. Really, that's my (and while I don't really intend to speak for DWAS in this comment I think it's also his) "big problem" with this blog. It's the supposed hypocrisy moreso than the actual rules outlined in the blog. While I 100% doubt that any hypocrisy was intended (why would there be?) the order of events that happened in the making of the blog makes it come off a bit like that.

Speaking of the actual suggested rules, I think what you've proposed is honestly pretty good, and something we can, if not build upon, discuss and develop more as a community/staff group. I just didn't like the methods that were used in originally discussing it.

But, continuing with the problem at hand, taking issue with this is currently being frowned upon, and in some people’s opinions whining for no good reason. Anyone who’s found an issue with this “proposal/suggestion/idea” or any descriptive word you feel like using is being either ignored or given the same response multiple times but merely rephrased. That’s no good, and part of why it would have been nice to look at this before going public.

This is especially problematic when similar “lacks of communication” have occurred in the past and those responsible have been called out with little repercussion. How is it that when one admin doesn’t tell another some information at one point in time it’s a problem, but when a different admin doesn’t disclose fully to another admin it’s no problem and in fact perfectly okay and what is wrong with us for wanting it otherwise?

Regardless of anyone’s stance on this, I don’t see how it’s a debatable point that, 3 weeks into the new admins’ governance, there's a lack of real back and forth with the admins, and this blog is a perfect example of why we need to work on fixing it. Hopefully some of what was done yesterday can be the jumpstart to that.