Candidate Discussion - Spring/Summer Promotions 2025
Sping/Summer Promotions 2025
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: | Curations ( |
| Why: | Vapid has taken on the role of the Rewrite team workhorse, helping expedite a process that once took weeks or even months into one that only takes a few days, up to a week at worst nowadays. She shows a drive to help the articles improve, while still staying true to their original visions. It has also stepped up into the Anonymous Articles team, where she has helped post anonymous articles at a time when no one else was able to. Overall, Vapid has a great disposition and willingness to help, as well as take on work. I have no doubt she would make an excellent Opstaffer. —Nico |
| Optional areas of improvement: | I asked Vapid to tell me what she views as her own areas of improvement as an OS and this is what she said: "My biggest weakness is that I've only been staff for a few months. There is still plenty of stuff to learn - just the other day I was learning how to edit metadata for the first time. However I still definitely am working to improve and will most certainly ask questions if I am unsure about something or how to perform a task, as well as look over guides and resources provided to figure out how to do a task until I feel comfortable doing it." Personally, I think Vapid is comfortable asking questions and is willing to learn, so I am not worried about her not learning something quickly, and even if it does make a mistake, I am confident she will learn from it. |
| Junior Staff Member: | |
| Captain/Team: | Community Outreach ( |
| Why: | Strange Matter has been working quietly but diligently on Site News for some time now. He often writes stories which involve interviews, a very involved process that requires thinking of thoughtful questions to ask to users. His interviews have ranged from contest winners, contest runners, canon runners and GoI creators, and he is very good at asking thought-provoking questions. Strange Matter has proven himself reliable and consistently capable of producing stories, and I think it's time he is acknowledged. Plus with my current head of Site News retiring effective June 1st, I could use another hand on deck as a candidate for mod tools for posting the Site News. —Nico |
| Optional areas of improvement: | I asked Strange Matter to tell me what he views as his own areas of improvement as an OS and this is what he said: "Speaking solely as a Community Outreach staffer, I feel as though I could push further into the role. For instance, I would like to get in contact with artists or with people in other foreign branches of the site and do coverage with them." Personally, I do not doubt his capabilities as a Site News correspondent, but I would like to see him get a bit more involved in matters that aren't immediately related to his particular scope, as well as learn how the Site News posting process works. |
| Junior Staff Member: | |
| Captain/Team: | Community Outreach ( |
| Why: | Enoch is very proactive on the art committee, always having artists and artwork pieces to spotlight. They also have contributed art to Pridefest 2024 and 2025, and I generally trust them to do good. By promoting them, we can potentially run Enoch for Mod Tools, which would facilitate their role on the art committee. —Nico |
| Optional areas of improvement: | I asked Enoch to tell me what they view as their own areas of improvement as an OS and this is what they said: "I would like myself to build confidence in my decision-making. I recognize that I doubt my own judgement and seek approval for things I can handle myself. While communication is always good, I think I could take more initiative." Personally, I find myself agreeing with Enoch's self-assessment, but I am confident in their ability to grow into their new position as op-staff should they be promoted, as well as their ability to improve their self-confidence. |
| Junior Staff Member: | |
| Captain/Team: | Community Outreach ( |
| Why: | Prom is active on Bluesky and has managed the Pride features for years on its own. It is a hard worker for the Internet Outreach subteam of CO, and it is capable of making the call of what is a good post and what isn't, as well as catching onto trends as they happen. I think it's time we promote Prom for its hard work; I see a bright future of it leading IO at some point. —Nico Since joining the moderation team, Prom has been one of the most consistent, active staff present in the extremely busy chats of 19cord. Not only has Prom worked daily to ensure the safety of all users present in the chats, it has also been open to ownership and improvement in the case of any errors. We absolutely support and encourage Prom's promotion. - Ari |
| Optional areas of improvement: | I asked Prom to tell me what it views as its own areas of improvement as an OS and this is what it said: "I'd say I have trouble practicing what I preach and making commitments I can't always live up to. I'll work on managing my own expectations and being more realistic to myself and others" Personally, I feel that Prom's history as lead of the now defunct Recap team speaks more here than anything else. It took on the Sisyphean task of cataloging all the inane shit staff was saying during a time when Site trust in staff was at an all time low. It's efforts led to the opening up of staffcord to the public, as well as regained lost trust. I am confident in its ability to improve its overcommitment flaw, and am happy to endorse it as an opstaff candidate once more. |
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| Captain/Team: | MAST ( |
| Why: | Diogene_s is an indispensable member of the tagging team, constantly going above and beyond in terms of both the consistent quantity and quality of their tagging output. They've been extremely reliable when it comes to maintaining current and shifting tag standards in both new and old articles, quite often bringing to attention ones that have slipped through the cracks. By being promoted Dio could also qualify for Mod Tools, which would invariably come in handy based on their consistent interaction with the tags of older, locked articles. |
| Optional areas of improvement: | I am slightly worried about Dio burning out based on their just sheer level output in one area, and would like to see them take some opportunities to branch out in other areas of staff work, but even so this worry is fairly minimal given the consistency in their output and their clear interest in the tagging process beyond just application. |
Administrator Candidates:
Below is a suggestion regarding an Operational Staff member who the Administrator Team has nominated to be voted upwards to Administrator. Please read the commentary provided in order to help your judgement regarding these staff.
| Staff Member: | |
| Captain/Team: | Admin Team |
| Why: | Kufat has long been a driving force for improvement on the wiki. He is often the one handling Disciplinary and AI Reports, is on the front lines of Deletions, runs the Timers we as staff utilize for many things and often take for granted, and takes the time to answer questions in #help-desk on the official Discord. In policy discussions, he is always open to hearing what others have to say even if he doesn't agree with it partially or even in full, and he is always willing to hear you out and provide well-informed, nuanced counterarguments. To say that Kufat is an important, irreplaceable organ in the staff body is an understatement. |
| Self Reflection: | I think I'd be a good choice for admin because I've demonstrated that I'm responsible, helpful, and willing to put in hard work: I've had mod tools for a while now and have routinely handled deletions, attribution metadata edits, thread and page locking, etc. I frequently answer questions and handle user requests and reports in #site17, 19cord's #help-desk, Staffcord's #observer-chat, and on /r/scp, as well as helping other staffers when they're in need of assistance. In addition to the usual day-to-day tech/disc/deletions work I've contributed to everything from policy (writing the Plagiarism Jurisdiction policy and participating in the writing of others) to software (enhancements to the deletions timer tool; tool for listing empty slots with titles) as well as enhancing site security. As an admin I'd continue this sort of work, with a greater emphasis on developing policy, as well as being able to take on some of the application processing and revocation/ban workload when needed. |
| Optional areas of improvement: | One area in which I'd like to improve would be working on a way to more effectively keep track of everything I have on my to-do list. At any given time I tend to have one or two larger staff or community projects and a bunch of smaller tasks going on, and it's sometimes difficult to juggle all of them. |
| Staff Member: | |
| Captain/Team: | Admin Team |
| Why: | Queerious has taken staff by storm ever since she joined last year. In her short time with us, she has become the Acting Captain of Discord Crit, Captain of Disciplinary Team, VC of Curations, has taken over the Bright Works Project, helped create a new workflow system for Rewrite, and helped pen a new (but as of yet unimplemented) Licensing policy, all while still finding the time to do her regular staff work. She possesses an excellent work ethic, and has proven herself capable of handling high-sensitivity and high-workload tasks, as well as managing policy discussion flawlessly. If staff work represents important bodily functions of the wiki, Queerious is a cyberpunk enhancement. |
| Self Reflection: | When I think about what I want to do to help the community, I always find myself thinking about large-scale issues, or problems that touch multiple staff teams. In that regard, I have joined many staff teams, so that I can have a full understanding of what that team needs specifically, so that I can make better decisions about what would help the most. I believe that sense of staff as a whole, and trying to improve communication and collaboration is something important for Administrators to do, as a higher-level unifying force for staff, and I think I would fit that role well. Additionally, in the past months, I have repeatedly found myself stepping up to sift through a more complex, messy or controversial situation or problem, that others may be more hesitant to participate in. Given my background, I am readily able to separate myself from the objective, and know how to keep progress moving, so that we can resolve these kinds of concerns in a reasonable manner. Between the Bright Works project, assorted in-depth Disciplinary reviews, and even the rewrite workflows, I have shown that I can get a framework and system built that supports other staff taking over responsibility for it, once I have helped to resolve the immediate issue. I believe that I would be able to continue this kind of work, at a high level, to assist in dealing with the more messy, inter-staff team issues. |
| Optional areas of improvement: | In terms of self-improvement, I think the biggest aspect would be that, if I get the promotion, I would need to evaluate where I can best spend my time devoted to staff work. There are a number of responsibilities that I have already began the process of transitioning to systemic support (ie: moving 914 maintenance to Curations), so I think my biggest area of self-improvement would be to continue seeing what I can delegate from my day-to-day, so that I have more time to focus on the bigger picture issues. |