March 14th, 2018
Post by Knucks on Oct 11, 2012 1:48:49 GMT -5
11th October
Hello all Torrentans. Today has been declared the World Rex Day, where everyone huddles together to talk about Rex.
Now, Rex was promoted as a Global Mod sometime in August, after spending a year-plus as a Mod/Senior Mod for a while. He's been very hardworking in whatever position he took up, and I remember back during the unfortunate incident of Torrenta's deletion and re-building, he was the only person I could count on for upper staff help (though of course people like Knucks and Echo rendered moral and emotional support, and I'm grateful to all of you for continuing to believe in Torrenta as well). But when you're 1 clueless admin and there's only 1 other Global Mod with you, you start to depend a lot on said GMod.
Which I must confess I did, more than I should've. Somehow he became responsible (without any talking on our part) for checking through threads to ensure that rules were being followed. He became in charge of the Taco Del Pokemon store entirely. He mediated member conflicts. It became a point when I was asking him for advice and permission to do stuff because he seemed to know the answer for everything.
And this is why I've decided to promote him to Admin. It's true he hasn't spent much time as a Global Mod, and ordinarily I'd allow people to prove themselves for longer before I promote them. However, I shall say here now that I don't expect to be a head admin for long. With regards to how long, I'm still debating with myself but I shall give notice once the time comes. But at any rate, given my involvement in RL activities and school, and my rather sparse activity on Torrenta in general, it's only fair for me to pass my position to somebody whom I feel will do much more -- has already done much more -- than I have for the site. And so now's a good time for me to groom the next leader (not that I'm in any position to groom when I've only been admin a few months, but shush).
In any case, now that there're 2 admins on Torrenta, Rex shall have the power to make decisions in my stead. But of course, you may still approach Knucks as you've always done if you need anything. I don't really adhere to a very big line between Global Mod and Admin.
Hello all Torrentans. Today has been declared the World Rex Day, where everyone huddles together to talk about Rex.
Now, Rex was promoted as a Global Mod sometime in August, after spending a year-plus as a Mod/Senior Mod for a while. He's been very hardworking in whatever position he took up, and I remember back during the unfortunate incident of Torrenta's deletion and re-building, he was the only person I could count on for upper staff help (though of course people like Knucks and Echo rendered moral and emotional support, and I'm grateful to all of you for continuing to believe in Torrenta as well). But when you're 1 clueless admin and there's only 1 other Global Mod with you, you start to depend a lot on said GMod.
Which I must confess I did, more than I should've. Somehow he became responsible (without any talking on our part) for checking through threads to ensure that rules were being followed. He became in charge of the Taco Del Pokemon store entirely. He mediated member conflicts. It became a point when I was asking him for advice and permission to do stuff because he seemed to know the answer for everything.
And this is why I've decided to promote him to Admin. It's true he hasn't spent much time as a Global Mod, and ordinarily I'd allow people to prove themselves for longer before I promote them. However, I shall say here now that I don't expect to be a head admin for long. With regards to how long, I'm still debating with myself but I shall give notice once the time comes. But at any rate, given my involvement in RL activities and school, and my rather sparse activity on Torrenta in general, it's only fair for me to pass my position to somebody whom I feel will do much more -- has already done much more -- than I have for the site. And so now's a good time for me to groom the next leader (not that I'm in any position to groom when I've only been admin a few months, but shush).
In any case, now that there're 2 admins on Torrenta, Rex shall have the power to make decisions in my stead. But of course, you may still approach Knucks as you've always done if you need anything. I don't really adhere to a very big line between Global Mod and Admin.
