This is a discussion for changing the way promotions and staff recruitment work, as well as the creation of a new team.
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FOREWORD
It is no secret that staff have a bit of a recruitment crisis. We have lots of bottlenecks, with some teams being carried entirely by one or two people. This proposal aims to man the decks, so to speak, and introduce a bunch of fresh blood to keep our system pumping. This is not only a proposal for policy change, but also for a new team! The Promotion Team! (PT)
SO NOW WHAT?
This proposal would see the PT replacing all current recruitment threads with a few more specialized ones, and would work as a fast track system from normal member to jstaff. As we all know, jstaff is meant to be a low-risk, brisk, trial role where we see if the user in said role is capable at what they do. If they are, they are promoted. If they're not, they are either kept around for another cycle to allow their skills to develop, or are removed.
Sub/Captain will be presented with candidates for their teams, and PT will be in charge of communicating with candidates on whether or not they have been accepted. Teams that will not be affected by this include: Admin, Anti Harassment, Disciplinary, and Internet Outreach for what I hope are obvious reasons. Internet Outreach is a bit of a special case, but it requires special vetting, so it might still go up for open recruitment. Anyway, in order avoid certain problems, all jstaff candidates will be required to be site members for at least 100 days before being considered for staff.
HOW WILL THIS LOOK?
It will be a little different than current promotion systems, but it will remain similar. Sub/Captains will still have final say, but candidates will be suggested to them by members of PT who actively keep track of the threads for jstaff promotions.
One minor thing, MAST will no longer be in charge of promotions, thus shifting a bit of priorities from the team and lessening their scope. It will work exactly the same, with all candidates being submitted to a team member who will collate everything into a promotion master post.
WHAT HAPPENS IF WE DON'T DO THIS
Shit stays as it is. This system may not be perfect, but it's better to try something new than nothing at all and choke ourselves out because we miss out on potentially good candidates.
MORE SPECIFICS
So to summarize, the scope of this team will be as follows:
- PT members will monitor staff recruitment threads for new candidates
- PT members will be required to be familiar with Team Sub/Captains
- PT members will ping Team Sub/Captains in a new channel in Staffcord, creating a new thread for the candidate where the Sub/Captains will discuss and ultimately approve/deny the candidate.
- PT members will communicate with new jstaff members and invite them to Staffcord
- PT members will provide new jstaff members with the usual orientation given to every new jstaffer by Nico.1
- PT members will be in charge of gathering promotion candidates and tallying votes.
I, Nico2 , will be captain of this team and will be looking for volunteers within staff and outside to staff this team. I have asked Bread to join, since they are the usual person who runs promos, and I would be thrilled to have them on my team. Autorickshaw for life.
Threads will be more geared to asking questions forwarded by Team Sub/Captains or asking questions such as "What are your qualifications for joining this team?"
POSSIBLE PITFALLS
"But wouldn't this increase bureaucracy?"
Eh? Not really. Team Sub/Captains are too busy doing actual work to look at the promo threads. Think of this as lighting a fire under their ass to actually respond.
THE END
Thank you for your time.
Special thanks to Prismal, Ari, and Aster for reviewing this and Harry for being my friend.
Discussion will go on for 1 week.
