Announcements: Moderation Team

[jamescfm]

Following the appeal for feedback that we launched at the end of last month, Moderation has now implemented changes to section 8 of the Game Rules. The new rules formalise the positions of Third World Coordinator and World Congress Coordinator. In line with these new rules and as mentioned in that previous post, Moderation would like to invite players to apply for these positions.

If you are interested in either position (the responsibilities of which can be found in section 8) then please send a forum message to both Moderators that includes the following information: the position that you wish to be considered for, a brief summary of your experience in the game, and a statement of your objectives or proposals for the role if you are appointed. No more than a few sentences will be necessary in these applications.

No hard deadline has been set for applications and we will not appoint a player until we are confident that we have a candidate capable of fulfilling the duties outlined in the Game Rules however we are setting an initial date of 30 October 2020 for players to submit their applications. After this time there is no guarantee that you will be considered for either position. Players are welcome to apply for both positions though you may wish to state a preference.

If you have questions then please contact a Moderator, good luck to all players who seek to apply.

[jamescfm]

For the sake of everyone involved, I will keep this as brief as possible. Following an incident in the middle of last week, I have decided to resign from the Moderation team and cease playing the game indefinitely. From even before Auditorii was appointed as a Moderator, myself and a group of long term players have made clear that he is totally ill-equipped to manage this community but our advice has been largely ignored.

In the past eight months, Auditorii's behaviour has alternated between mildly frustrating and actively damaging to the game. Last week things hit a new low though, when he openly rejected a ruling I had issued dismissing a role-play law in Dorvik and suggested that it was the result of "suspicious circumstances". Behaviour of this kind from a member of the Moderation team is absolutely unacceptable.

If you believe your co-Moderator has made a bad decision then the right thing to do is either to raise the issue with them directly, or to take the matter to the game's creator Wouter. In the time since this incident, Auditorii has never retracted his comments and has not even acknowledged that he did anything wrong. When I took the matter to Wouter to request that he deal with it, the response was that no action would be taken against him.

Despite having very well-known objections to working with Auditorii, I have done so for several months on the basis that it was in the interest of the game and the community. In this time, I believe that I have brought positive change though I will not pretend that the overall position of the game has improved since I was appointed. When it became clear that this flagrant disregard for the basic rules of the game was going to be tolerated and that Auditorii would receive no sanction for his conduct, I felt I had no choice but to resign my position immediately.

No doubt some players will welcome my departure, not least of all Auditorii himself, but it is just not worth my time or energy to continue to deal with this mess. Though I would like to see this game rebuild, that is never going to be possible if members of the Moderation team can ignore the rules whenever they please. Hopefully things will change in the future but for the mean time, I wish everyone in the community well.

[Auditorii]

Greetings all,

As you may have noticed the Moderation Team has some vacancies. While this is an "application" process the ultimate authority to appoint Moderators rests with Wouter. In a means to assist him, I'm opening "applications", which are more notices of interest. Please PM me (Auditorii) your notices of interest and when Wouter and I can, we'll discuss those that are interested.

In-game name:
Discord username:
Link to current party:
E-mail address most commonly checked:
Country of residence and time zone:
How long have you been playing Particracy?
List of countries you've had an active party in:
What changes would you like to see in Particracy Classic?
What do you feel that you bring to the table to the Moderation Team?

Thank you all. I'll leave applications open for a few days while Wouter and I discuss going forward.

[Auditorii]

Greetings all,

I’d like to announce that Vesica has been appointed (or re-appointed rather) by Wouter; he’ll be joining myself and another in the future on the Moderation Team.

Let’s all take a moment to welcome our new Moderator, Vesica. He’ll have a green name soon enough.

Thank you!

[colonelvesica]

Greetings my friends,

I would like everyone to join me in Welcoming Chitin as the newest Moderator on the Team!

Wouter will get to the masking within the next few days, but I would like everyone to welcome him in the meantime!

Congrats Chitin.

[colonelvesica]

Hello all,

I am here to announce the resignation of Auditorii has from the Moderator as of this morning. I'd like to thank him for his service.

Chitin and I will in time begin looking for a Third Moderator to join the team, and we will alert the community when this search begins.

Thank you.

[colonelvesica]

As an Update to this, the Moderation Team will be making a final decision on the World Congress Coordinator Position by April 1st, 2021.

[ChitinKal]

Hey everyone,

Unfortunately, it's my job to inform you all that Pragma has decided to resign from her post as RP Coordinator for the FBCs. She will certainly be missed from the team.

With that, Vesica and I will be looking for someone to fill the now vacant FBC Coordinator position. If you have any interest, please message both me and Vesica on the forum with an application.

-Chitin

[ChitinKal]

Salvete Omnes,

Moderation will finally be moving forward with appointing our new roleplay coordinators. Without further ado, I welcome the following two to the team:

Forum Based Countries Coordinator - jamescfm
World Congress Coordinator - jrandle8

Congratulations both of yall!

On the topic of appointment of the third Moderator, we continue to await Wouter's approval, so hang tight on that.

[colonelvesica]

Effective immediately, Jrandle8, aka, Jack, has been removed effective immediately as the World Congress Coordinator.

The application process is being opened up again for one week. Interested players, please message Chitin and myself with the following here on the forum.

Your forum and Discord name, brief summary of your experience in the game, and a statement of your objectives or proposals for the position should you be appointed.

Thank you.

If you have further questions you may send me a Discord DM, PM here on the forum, or put a comment in the Moderation Queries.