Fall Promotions 2024
Mainsite Mirror
See Promotions-Policy for how promotions are to be handled.
This discussion is open to all users. Please feel free to leave your thoughts. This is NOT a voting post.
Rules and Decorum:
This thread exists to allow commentary and criticism on candidates as candidates. All comments should be addressing one of the following:
- Concern or support for a candidate's ability to perform their duties after promotion.
- Concern or support for a candidate's character only in so far as it will affect their ability to perform their duties or their standing as staff.
What is not allowed in this thread:
- General complaints that you don't like a candidate for reasons that would not effect their ability to perform their duties.
- Comments that contain neither concern nor support for any candidate. A totally neutral stance does not need commented.
- Vehemence, rudeness, and incivility. While this is a place to post concerns, it is not a place to attack candidates.
Replies to comments are allowed but not required. Any user may respond to any concerns or support, including the candidate in question. All of the same rules apply to replies.
Staff will be monitoring this thread and will issue orders to stop discussion only if they have passed into unproductive vehemence. Staff will remove any comments that are extremely rule-breaking.
This discussion will be open for two weeks. After which time it will move to a staff vote.
Operational Staff Candidates:
Below is a group of suggestions regarding Junior Staff who Team Captains have nominated to be voted upwards to Operational Staff. Please read the commentary provided in order to help your judgement regarding these staff.
| Junior Staff Member: | |
| Captain/Team: | Discord Crit ( |
| Why: | Queerious joined Discord Critique Team fairly recently, but has become a major part of the team (and other teams) since. Queerious, in her time since joining Discord Critique Team, has shown incredible passion and drive towards making Deer College a better place through patching holes in policies, improving communication between staff members and those who use our critique spaces, and being a driving force for new ideas that benefit the critique experience in Deer College. She has taken the initiative and led the effort to rework many of our documentation standards, processes, and created systems to help both the users, as well as support the rest of Critique Staff. She was also responsible for updating the greenlighting standards, leading the creation of the #specialized-critique channel, and has become a consistent presence within Deer College. As well, Queerious has joined the Discord Moderation Team and has worked to advance our interteam communication effectiveness. This drive to improve within and beyond the boundaries of teams is what I believe will make Queerious a fantastic person to give powers of policy voting to. Given all of the above, the promotion to OS will only give Queerious more room to grow, and she has clearly shown that she is ready for it. |
| Optional areas of improvement: | Before writing this statement I asked Queerious to tell me what she views as her own areas of improvement as an OS and this is what she said: "While Queerious has a strong handle on procedural processes, I would like to see her continue to find a healthy balance between her assorted roles, as well as being better at coordinating efforts. She has demonstrated the ability to execute on her own, OS will give her the opportunity to grow further into more leadership-adjacent opportunities." (which I agree with). As well, I would like to see Queerious think outside of the teams more often and act more as a holistic staff between the teams. |
| Junior Staff Member: | |
| Captain/Team: | Curations ( |
| Why: | Queerious has taken rewrite by storm ever since her addition to the team. She has helped push out articles that were languishing in the pipeline, helped me ( |
| Optional areas of improvement: | N/A |
| Junior Staff Member: | |
| Captain/Team: | Community Outreach ( |
| Why: | steph has become an indispensable person on the contests team, from her art contributions on hubs to the input she provides on how running contests need to be adjusted. Her feedback is as flexible as it is important, responding accordingly to the ever-changing landscapes and sentiments that contest induce. |
| Optional areas of improvement: | N/A |