Open Letter regarding Communities Structure

[Chazlene]

Right... firstly I believe our activity has actually increased significantly over the past couple of months, look how many new members we've had introducing themselves, we've been getting new people on Mumble and people have just been saying in the shoutbox how many more new posts there's been recently. I agree that over the past year as a whole ATK's activity has waned, but that's only due to most of the founding members of ATK going off to university and concentrating on different things. However, now that it's the summer holidays and most of us have slightly more free time, activity is on the up again, plus things are looking promising for the future due to our partnership deal with GamerFM.

Secondly Oric, about giving certain members roles such as Deputy Leader, Server Manager, etc: People are part of ATK to socialise and have fun. ATK isn't part of our careers, so you can't force specific tasks onto people who aren't going to be online all the time. In practice I think it will work better if the same powers are handed out equally to the top few members such as Vox, Phantom and I, so that when something needs to be sorted to do with servers, the forum or whatever, the person who happens to be available at the time can fix it.

With all that said I do think more power and responsibility should be handed out carefully to a select few people, but it just seems counter-productive to be so strict over who has what abilities. Also even though I just said I don't believe that our activity is dropping, we still might as well follow some of these measures to improve ATK. I think it needs to be said as well that to help draw in more members we need to advertise ourselves more, tie in with other well known gaming websites, and produce something we can show off to the rest of the internet, whether it be films, game maps and skins or mods, but all done under the name of ATK. Anyway, to begin with so we can brainstorm some more ideas we should create a 'Boardroom' subforum to the admin caves, where moderators can discuss new ideas, with any that appear good moving into an open discussion with every member of ATK.