An open letter to Chalex4

Over the past few weeks, a significant proportion of the community have become unhappy with way the community is run. For the most part, the inactivity of Chalex and the major leadership of the community, regardless of if it was caused by real life situations or not, has been the main issue. This has led to a stalling of growth in the community, as well as leading to the existing community to wilter and come down to approximately 12 core members. Whilst some new members have been brought in, it has been due to the recruitment efforts of the main figures in Helix Gaming for the League of Legends team and the restart of the Show No Mercy corporation in EVE Online.

It's is now the opinion of the majority of main community members that for the continued success of the community as it stands, a substantial leadership change must take place, much more radical and drastic than those proposed by Oricalcos a year ago, which led to the formation of the entity now known as Helix Gaming.

Therefore, the people mentioned below have sanctioned this letter in order to request that Chalex shares full admin of the website with a person or persons, to be selected by a community vote of members who stand for selection, in order for the active members vision for taking ATK forward can be made possible. To make plain, this does not mean moderators of the forum or access to view server statistics – what we are requesting is full access to all aspects of the ATK website, servers and all associated entities.

It is also the opinion of the people mentioned below that if a suitable solution for this can be found, and no resolution is given for our issues, then we would be prepared to explore options outside of ATK such as founding a new community entity to be run by ourselves, again selected by a forum vote for people wishing to stand, or to find a new, suitable community. Whilst we sincerely hope that it does not come to this, we have discussed these options at length to be prepared for any outcome of future discussion, if and when they occur.

We look forward to hearing your response,

Signed,
Marshy
Calneon
Oricalcos
Col. Mitch
CILLIT BANG
Chazlene
Target
Setsoru
Joe
Ki
Vicious
Foulkez

/agree

Just for the record, I don't believe a whole new community should be set up if it comes to that... it's just really not practical, would be a pain in the arse to get a Mumble server/forums/etc set up all over again, and would be a waste of all the time, money and effort put into ATK to get it to where it is today. Plus think of the recognition we've gained through appearing at the I-series en masse and by producing some videos of the events, all gone down the drain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95SYdjRVCR0

I don't think we want a new community, theres a lot of hard work and dedication gone into creating this one, I just think that we need some change in control so that we can build on this further. In no way do I think chalex should be totally removed, after all the time and effort he has put in, although it would be nice to see him at least once a week, which I don't think is that hard to do!

I think this could be a new beginning for ATK and if we could maybe use BF3 as a platform to advance and expand the community then this could work really well...also I think we should try and expand on our interviews and lochtechmonster idea as I think this is the way to go.

Would really like to talk to you chalex about all of this, maybe not with everyone but just a few of us say Oric Mitch and Chaz or something just so we know what you think / are going to do

no TL:DR :D :D

I agree with Target that we could make BF3 a way to expand the community and get more people involved/expand and also that a new community probably wouldn't be the best idea however it would be nice to have more of a community feel to ATK as all it currently is, is a couple of forums that maybe 5 people check regularly if that, maybe a couple of group games a week or something? Just so we can all have a laugh than sit on mumble doing nothing!

i agree with this proposal

Also we really need the active members to have admin to mumble because its really annoying when random french people come on and spam the mumble and we cant remove them....

I agree with the points about sharing control of the community with another person, and I also agree with Chazlene that we shouldn't make a new community. I think this does need to be addressed, so that someone else can take on the burden and actually do things and keep things running and growing.

.... just as long as that person is not Oric :P

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Originally Posted by Target

Also we really need the active members to have admin to mumble because its really annoying when random french people come on and spam the mumble and we cant remove them....

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Bonjour! :D

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Originally Posted by ez64

Bonjour! :D

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Your never on mumble anymore though (*hint*) :D

a coup ey? /signed agree whatever +1 goforit!

Nice tO know my name was added to this without my permission ;)

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Originally Posted by Vicious Horizon

Nice tO know my name was added to this without my permission ;)

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Blame Moeshi :D I actually said to wait until we talked to you to put your name in.