LVP Crew Evaluation

[George]

Name: FateTrip
Rank: ?
Evaluation: The "administrator" FateTrip has played in LVP for a total of 205 hours. He was last seen online on July 28, 2015. Further evaluation cannot be processed due to the fact that I have never heard of this admin. His position is most likely a mistake.
Recommended Action: Fix the mistake

FateTrip was an admin a couple years back, and then stepped down. He recently re-joined, started playing a lot and carrying out duties accordingly. It's worth noting that he now goes under the nick [SWK]Steven: http://sa-mp.nl/players/77276/swk-steven.html . He was re-promoted by Joeri around 3 weeks ago, at the recommendation of myself and several other admins (thread in crew section). There is no mistake here.

Name: Gibbs
Rank: 7
Evaluation: The administrator Gibbs has played in LVP for a total of 46 hours. He was last seen online on August 16, 2015. Do not be alarmed, community. We did not promote a random fool because he was funny-looking. Gibbs has contributed a lot to the server, however, 98.7% of the time he does so undercover. We thank Gibbs for his continued service.
Recommended Action: Keep his position

Gibbs reset his stats not too long ago. His hours prior to that were in the thousands. I'd also like to take this opportunity to say a big thanks to Gibbs. We spent a great deal of time together (and shared many a bromance) and he was also responsible for me becoming a crew member. With this said, he is no longer with us as of yesterday, Monday, as he's taking some time away (couple months) from LVP to go travelling. I don't feel it's my place to say too much, so feel free to PM him and maybe he'll respond if you're interested.

Name: Luce
Rank: 6
Evaluation: The administrator Luce has played in LVP for a total of 740 hours. He was last seen online on August 17, 2015. Weird name... Luce. Can't tell if guy or girl. I do not interact much with this admin as there is always someone else that is more fun around. However, I guess with 740 hours this admin must have at least banned a few hackers. So good job, I guess.
Recommended Action: Have him/her clarify whether guy or girl

I'm having trouble understanding a few things here. You state there's always someone more fun around, yet you haven't interacted much with her? Normally how things work (at least, for me) is that you get to know someone first before you start having "fun". I don't just walk up to random people on the street and immediately start having fun with them. Furthermore, in my mind at least, there really isn't any detective work required to ascertain that she does a [very] good job for the LVP community. Me and Luce were promoted to crew at the exact same time, as it happens, and we both wanted to try and clean things up a little (since, let's be honest, the community has been abandoned for far too long). Shortly after joining, Luce spent a whole weekend auditing the property system and taking notes of props to rename, reprice, move or delete. Matrix also contributed to the cleaning up of props, and we now have a much better balanced economy. Then there's the fact she actively participates on Trac (*none* of the other admins do this, except for Matrix and development) and testing on the LVP dev server, compiled with the many cruises she's led, and support offered to players in-game. Whilst I'm aware you didn't comment on any of these points, what prompted me to bring this up was your uncertainty: So good job, I guess.


What needs to happen (in my opinion, at least) is that there should be a new requirement to maintain admin status:

- Login to the server and forum at least once within a 6 month period and spend at least an hour or two in-game.

For those people who do not achieve this, they should be given VIP status on their in-game account (even if they haven't donated) and the Former Crew badge on the forum, along with Voice on IRC (rather than halfop/op). Whilst we're of course all volunteers and help because we want to help, any volunteer in any organization will still have rules they need to abide with. That 6 month period is being very generous, as well. Right now we have 20+ admins and a good 3/4 of those haven't actually contributed anything in the last few months. The only active crew (excl. management/veterans) right now are Mr.JT, Luce, Matrix, Holsje, Overdosed and Steven.

I sincerely hope that action is taken to remove those who aren't interested (or perhaps, lack time) in order to strengthen the crew and bring us together in an organized fashion.

A lot has been achieved over the past month (game mode updates, forums refreshed and looking fabulous, etc) and this community can easily become popular again, a big part of that will come from continued support from both developers and administrators.

For any demoted admins that wish to return, it doesn't take much to regain their status since we already know they're trustworthy and just need to see them online a couple times per week. I don't think the proposed demotions are unfair for this reason.

What's more, I'm glad that this thread is out in the open. Our community has been criticized for too much backstage talk (e.g. crew only) and transparency in any operation is the key to success. I've learnt this very well over the years.