An open letter to the executives

May I bring up some evidence related to the VJ incident? I was suspended, but had access to the Senior Admin boards for up to a month afterwards because people didn't know how to handle suspensions for some fucking reason. The entire mishandling of this incident was when my support for some of the executives went out the window, because most of them are inactive and abusive if they ARE active. You want to know why I still haven't reinstated? Because I would be annoyed that the second I make my reinstatement someone in the executive team, knowing the fuckup that they caused, would force other admins of lower rank to vote object on my reinstatement application. I would even be active and a helpful player were it not for the fact that even as an OP, I feel like every movement I do is watched, even when no admins are on whatsoever. I don't feel like I have any privacy. I feel like Total Freedom is North Korea or China every time I join as an OP. It only becomes America when you become Admin. I could even go so far as saying this whole thing started way back when OpWatch was a thing. I mean for fucks sake, OpWatch? The name gives it all away.

The point is, I have been inactive because I am scared that I would never get admin again, because "the past never goes away", as SOMEONE would bring it up, and it is usually a higher ranking admin who worked WITH me, or showed up AFTER I go away for some stupid reason. I know that I still have enough experience to train admins and manage the admin applications way more fairly than anyone I've ever seen manage the applications (apart from Mark as he did it well enough), and I haven't been regularly active since 2016! Why, you ask? Because I know how businesses work, how democracy works, and how strategies change, or are completely different, in similar communities. Ever since I first became Executive Creative Designer, I have wished to make the server more Democratic (holy shit we're going to the Moon again, this concept has totally not been done before!!111one), and have even made a few posts, remarks on the server, and even a couple of threads, but all fell under deaf ears at the time. During the brief period of time in which I was also a forum administrator, the same rank as Infamas, some of the threads I saw in there literally had zero posts, and yet were in the "Recycle bin"? What the absolute fuck.

The most important issue is that by making the forum admins have the most power, equal to the owner, chaos and corruption are bound to occur. It would make sense, then, for a democratic "Board of Directors", which would be elected by the popular vote, which would solve all of the issues. If they fuck up, another election to strip their power would be held. This would go the same for admin applications, perm ban appeals, etc., although it is kinda close to that now. This is the other reason, apart from staying on an edition of Minecraft which is inferior to the one everyone else is playing, that people don't show up on Total Freedom anymore.

TL;DR (Although I really hope you read the rant to understand the full story): Transform the equal power and picked by Elitist vote administration team into a form of "Board of Directors", picked by the people, for the people.

I agree. To be honest all the server needs are two ranks, the Board of Directors, and Admins. No need for admins to increase voting power by being a higher tiered admin.

I agree with this statement, especially since corrupt Senior Admins will sometimes use their power to bail out buddies when they do wrongdoings or form circles that are used to shoot down potential candidates for higher ranks because they don't like that person. You can't physically remove bias, but merging ranks can prevent some of those frowned upon circles of admins that often prevent otherwise good candidates from advancing up the rank ladder. And for the board of directors role, it would be given to people who are trusted by the community (ops and admins alike) and I would think that their job is to handle what the executives do now.

It would’ve been nice as my time as an admin officer to close admin applications for an unknown amount of time, purge the inactive admins and ones that consistently abuse, you know.... stuff that would make the server better.

you can remove your rank on the server...

I also did leave my executive position for a few reasons. Aside from having more real life stuff to worry about, serrif is in fact correct at what I attested to. I felt like I was wasting my time being an admin officer, because any changes I could’ve possibly suggested to be made, would have not been implemented by my superior. I just knew that, so I figured why waste my time trying to make change when I know for a fact that the superiors just have too hard of a skull with stubbornness to make change? Change is good, especially when it’s necessary, and in this case. It is.

That’s not the point. The point is that both times they haven’t and didn’t care about my inactivities both written and non-written. I also didn’t remove myself because I was less busy and I went on more. We need actual active execs.