Attention: FFR Administration and Staff

[Kanzas]

I don't play SM or anything like that, and back in the day, this was my go-to site for after school fun. I would seriously be depressed if it shut down for good

[TC_Halogen]

Right now, the best thing that we as a staff can do is try to engage the userbase a bit more. Not sure if anyone has noticed, but there were actually three staff members added last night:

Silvuh/DossarLX ODI - they have been promoted from the Simfile Judgment team to the Game Management team, where their activity and diligence can be effectively applied to improving the batch system while actively adding material for the game.

Additionally, psychoangel691 was readded back to her post as head of events, given that she handled a ton of events in the past and was actually the person who created the Event Staff team, which was quite functional until I got added as event manager to take her place.

I know that some of you have poor opinions of Dossar/psychoangel, but I'm asking you guys to trust me in trusting them.

Before these adds, the GM/EM teams were really hurting.

on the game management side: Rob was by far the most functioning GM but his time is getting limited due to his educational studies; I have absolutely no intentions of staying GM because I'm failing to get the job done, and I too want to focus much more heavily on my studies rather than worrying about the large number of you guys expecting things to get done. You guys are great, and should expect things to happen by staff -- I take full responsibility for that on the GM side because I was supposed to effectively be a replacement for bmah, and I did not do a great job for that long.

The events team was no better, and honestly, I take even bigger blame for that than I do game management -- there was a Skype group created for the purpose of events management to discuss and delegate events, and I am sad to say that the activity of that chat was next to nothing. I've been told that as a manager, I shouldn't be responsible for getting the team to do anything, but if there's no morale from the top part of the team to do anything, what is going to make that unit do things?

I have faith in these guys to get things done, and I'm really hoping that as users, you all do too. I sent a message to get these three added on roughly a week ago because I felt like the situation was critical on both sides, and as users, you all have seen that.

EDIT: also, don't mind Kayla having the GM badge under her name -- the only reason why she has it is because the EM forum group was consolidated into GM (it's not much of a group with one user), she is in fact handling events and not the game-related stuff.

[gold stinger]

interesting update halogen

[Ghakimx]

Originally Posted by hi19hi19

The troll comments just show that, for the average user, this issue is completely out of our hands. It's all up to Synth and the people who can/will contact him.
So people get bored and troll. If anything, the existence of troll comments should be positive-
It's the sign of wanting to contribute something but knowing there's nothing concrete you can do, so let's just say some stupid shit instead.

I correspondingly concur complete.

Here's my 2 cents while I write this from my bed.

When I joined the site in 2008, it seems like it was already starting to fall apart. A great idea handled by a poor management. It was a business that had great staff, minus the boss. I didn't know what I was expecting but hey, expect the unexpected. I wanted to contribute somehow but I knew I couldn't do much because I was a new guy. Even now, I still feel this way.

I've been on many forums and I have to say, I think this is what are some causes and effect of certain staff members:

If admin does his job but is like a ghost (darkspyro.net):
- Admin actually does his job
- Moderates regular
- Doesn't participate in majority of topics

The admin of the site actually did his job, wrote the site and forum from scratch, took suggestions and improved the site in a way. However, from the existence of the site from around 2006 to now, he only implemented the use of moderators around last year! WTF?! Now at least, the site is better managed but he seems even more like a ghost than before. Though he does his admin stuff anyway.

But back to FFR, when Tass finally threw in the towel, everything just really went down from there. What happens to the batch, the tournament, legalities? They, in a way, died, until L did his best to keep things alive.

Synth is like a stubborn donkey that refuses to change. He doesn't want the site to change the way it was from its original inception since like what, 2003? He lives in the past while his mind is in the present. While we all use our smartphones to do everything, I bet he still uses some invincible Nokia phone.

His decisions or rather lack thereof is much like leaders or dictators of the past. The Americans and French had a revolution, so maybe now we're going to start the Flash Revolution, because simply put, WE ALL want a change.

And while we're here, can someone please make this forum available for reading through Tapatalk or other smartphone forum reading software?

[Red Blaster]

If Kayla needs help with the event stuff, I'd toss Zenith up as a potential candidate. He's got 6 or 7 user tournaments under his belt. I'd be interested in helping as well, not as a mod or anything as I don't have the time to commit to be a good one, if needed.

Yosh would also be another person I'd throw in there as well.

[psychoangel691]

Originally Posted by Red Blaster

If Kayla needs help with the event stuff, I'd toss Zenith up as a potential candidate. He's got 6 or 7 user tournaments under his belt. I'd be interested in helping as well, not as a mod or anything as I don't have the time to commit to be a good one, if needed.

Yosh would also be another person I'd throw in there as well.

I don't think you were active before, but I was the events manager (actually was an admin too) and I stepped down and had AJ take over for a while. I already hired an events team back then which consists of prawnskunk, yoshl, and foxfire. Trust me, there were a LOT of events that were going on at that time.

Plus I also put up an application (there's note of it on front page as well) already http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/....php?f=14&a=64

This was something that was already in the works before this thread popped up it just wasn't totally in place yet.

[Xiz]

[Red Blaster]

XD

[Wayward Vagabond]

i applicated

[Trumpet63]

Originally Posted by Ghakimx

we're going to start the Flash Revolution

Dat pun though

[hi19hi19]

Originally Posted by hi19hi19

It's all up to Synth and the people who can/will contact him.

Pack's cancelled.

[gold stinger]

has stuff happened yet to prevent the website from exploding

[Netjet!]

i know i'm late to the thread but i think it's awesome to see that so many people still care about this place :')

[Xiz]

Originally Posted by gold stinger

has stuff happened yet to prevent the website from exploding

Well the obvious change was the application for new staff, which is a great great start and will help so much.

However, in regards to backend stuff in regards to Synth, I have yet to hear anything if anyone has legit tried or what not.

[j-rodd123]

I can be a good mod cuz I'm not afraid to bring the hot takes

[One Winged Angel]

j-modd

make it happen

[j-rodd123]

[hi19hi19]

Ya know, I'm still a little concerned about this even though the topic has died.

Did anything actually come from this thread? Forward motion, contact with Synth, anything?
Besides of course the additional FFR event staff, which is great but hardly addresses the core problems that were brought up in this discussion.

[PrawnSkunk]

Website's cancelled.

[choof]

i think at this point we just need to brace ourselves for ffr going down again for years

hopefully we'll all be too old to give a shit if it gets revived again