A suggestion that suggests stuff.

Jin Kazama wrote:

To Amy: You don't see a lot out of me, but here's how it is right now - you've got two or three Admins taking care of everything. I've found a niche in being the representative to staff, replacing those inactive with new ones, ensuring that they are taken care of. Staff have needs, just like users. I'm sorry I'm not more public with what I do, but it comes down to this - if you bring it to my attention, I will handle it.

You were always a kind of admin from behind, but you did what you take as responsibility and that is not a problem at all, however for others i got absolutely no idea what they do or did for this place in past few months. All i got is this:

1. codes became past after removal of my codes. meaning no one continued this work. if there is no one to do this or if you think this is not a necessary thing anymore, then why have a person responsible for it?!

2. design. last design was complete. though, being full of codes made it almost impossible to use after codes removal so a new design was promised to members. a very great designer was chosen to do the job. maybe staff can fool some newbies but i did skins myself loads of time and i know what is a design that is done with 100% effort and customization and what is a simple punBB skin with few orange lines added here and there. post profile is a mess, things in many areas of the forum are out of place or with non-matching color, last skin was referred as "plain grey skin" and this one is now different lol? maybe we got different understanding of the word plain then. Portal was promised to be finished soon, months ago though, same as banners that will replace icons again and yet just few of them were done, enough to make mess out of the forum and then it was left there. So, we hired an admin to do this and it's not done. Months have passed, I'm not talking about days. This is not a case of not having time, this is more like the responsible person just has no motivation to lift a hand on this anymore.

3. Salader. Sorry to take your name here pal, but other than white color, I'm afraid that maybe just some close friends of yours know what you do as admin here. This is not meant as offense sorry. Maybe I'm not following DA much lately but this is how it is from my point of view. Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not counting things that moderators can do though. I'm just speaking of admin duties, duties that cannot be completed by lower staff.

4. Happenings on the site. The events and all those things that spice up the activity here. Other than spam and a tourney per month that always fails including the new one, we don't see anything happening here (edge of shadows was a success but the 16 ppl tournament is not something to be very proud of, especially when people did not even care to duel for 3rd place). Only thing I can see that happens constantly is topics to get tested. This my friends is totally killing the place. This is the heart of academy and its not pumping anymore. So people are left to decide to roam and spam on forum or just quit.

5. Professors and Assistants. As far as I could tell these groups now just test people and that is it or am I mistaking something here? The teaching portion of DA was always responsible for the ygo portion of DA, aka deck garage, articles, lessons, pro decks etc. No pro decks are being made, no lessons or articles were made as far as I know. The only thing that was done is deck discussions and that was done like by enigma who is an ordinary member. He proposed the idea, he has shown how its done and yet its only him that did it right. no support from staff whatsoever to continue this, and this was teachers' job to support it and guide ppl how to form a template for it.

6. The future. There has to be a plan for the future, on how to get more members here. Advertising is not an option of course because there is absolutely nothing you could advertise now in DA and benefit from it, you can just get embarrassed. Without spreading the word and recruiting somehow, this place has no future. Now, it lives on our old fame, we are relevant in google still so people find us time to time. But, that number is not so big.

7. ABD dorm. Correct me if I'm wrong but I have a feeling this dorm will stay empty.

8. Anzo. I know you tried, but not your best, not near. There were times you were so fired up for things here and now it's just not the same old anzo. You took responsibility to guide and lead the new admin team few months back. If you are not motivated enough, the whole admin team is being affected by it.

9. All this inactivity and failures in this academy are still enough to be the top academy? Now this tells us something about academies in general at this state. If this is still the top academy in forumotion ranks, I don't even want to know what happens in other academies lol. This is bad because we got no competition. If there was a competition, we would be more motivated to stay on top for sure. It seems like people are getting away from academies, to sum it up and that is pretty bad. No innovation in years of course must lead to such result.

So, fellaz what are we going to do now? I know you got plans in admin section, but let's be realistic, let's not hear about your plans let's hear what can be and will be done in just few days from now, not months of promises n stuff. No need to discuss problems further, here we are staff on one side, we members on the other and let's do something together now to stand up and shine again

correction: ABD isnt empty, im ABD. The only ABD.
Also, I have an idea. Make me admin.

Rika Furude wrote:

Also, I have an idea. Make me admin.

Which already 100% guarantees that you're not going to be made an admin.

UniqueHope wrote:

Sigh.. w/e Naito, i don't care, just don't want to see posts not relating to the problem and no, as you keep proving time and time again, you are not staff material N.


Being the only assistant here it's a bit hard to do everything, but if it's ok with assistants making lessons then so be it, I'll do that as well. Seeing how if I start to move others will too.

You are way to new to make a statement like that. I've been  Teachertwice, assisant once, and Mod nce, and was mode for almost a whole year, and when I was Teacher, Iwas also Teacher for nearly a whole year, and did an excellent job as all 3: making a bunch of great articles, and getting Mod ofthe Year, and there was alot of mods and DA was active when i got mo of the yearr I wouldve been mod alot longer, but I retired bc I was too busy.
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 Ive been here doing shit since 2012, and you've ponly been here like 2 months, how can you make that statement?
So how the hell can you make a statement like that?

I'm locking this, I can see this going out of hand.

I didn't bother reading any of them posts, because I don't need to.

Last time i checked you left DA dead, Amy, absolutely dead. We had less than 30 member to recover from. The place was almost vanquished from the internet. As far as I'm aware, we did save DA, we did get our activity back, and we got our No.1 place on forumotion back as well, all that in two months? Yea, if you ask me that's what we call "slowly coming back", which is what we said is going to happen.

I said this before to everyone, and I'll gladly say it again: If you see there is no hope for DA then step aside and stop inflecting this place with your negative ideas, because you're not being helpful in any way possible to this place, you're not contributing to anything or anyone by making such posts. This is not directed only to Amy, it's to everyone else to made a comment in this topic saying DA is beyond saving or some other stupid phrase that indicates the same thing.

If all you have left for this place is negativity then please pack your stuff and leave? I have nothing else to say to such people. Otherwise, let us do our work.

~Locked.