josrocket said:
I could do it eventhough most of what you talked about isnt necessary or seldomly needs to be done. Do i want too? not completly, but i would if i had to
The database for the stats system died last week and has done so several times in the last few months. You might be able to pick up enough SQL to be useful but when the *edited* hits the fan we need people at the top of their game. One wrong command on a damaged database means you have to explain to everyone why their stats or the forums just got erased.
You might be able to pick up SM relatively quickly but compared to Lemm or Liam, you’d be nothing. Hell I can barely hold a candle to either. It’s stupid to push talent we have and know is top notch to the back burner simply because they don’t live on campus. Hell Liam is on the Sourcemod development team, if that’s not a resource the club can use I don’t know what is.
Also, you can’t pick up PHP and CSS in less than a few months. I tried it, failed hard, and moved on. These forums make what I was trying to do look like childsplay.
josrocket said:
but despite that, its points like what you said above we are gonna discuss… we both know there are people on the list of admins that have no business being on there and some of the people on the list have permissions that they dont need or should not have and these need to be revised…
The list of gameserver admins isn’t up for debate as only the CLs can make that determination and their elevated access is required to do their constitutionally allowed job. The alumni have elevated permissions so they can access the private sections and give advice to the more private discussions going on in the club. I hope this isn’t up for debate, if so it makes absolutely no sense from an advisory standpoint. CL have elevated permissions as per their job requires. Execs have highest access and whenever someone is no longer in office they are lowered to the same level as alumni because their input is a valuable resource.
This leaves “root” and “semi-root” admins. There aren’t many.
Semi-root:
AMerrill – club founder
Lemm – requires semi-root to use the new admin management system
Root:
Adam Faulkner – Webmaster and club founder
NoDice – club founder
Nickname – knows everyone in ITS, can get us anything
Raven – required for implementing the new forums skin
MasterP – running the game server, needs access to root-only section for password archiving and licensing
Liam – fixes the really bad breaks
Kaz-Ka – club president
This doesn’t include the people who have access to the webadmin interface for the gameserver or FTP to either server. If you’d like I can detail those as well.
Who exactly were you thinking about revoking?