Genuinely wish people stopped pretending they really give a shit about who holds CoD positions and staff positions simultaneously and horrifically overstating the amount of time you need to be CoD. The reality of the situation is the majority of the chief positions responsibilities is just keep us command members in check and ensures we are doing our jobs. This wouldn't even take like 3 evenings a week tops.
The position itself, whilst demanding, is incredibly overstated in responsibilities by the majority of people who are criticising it. I am in no way denoting the efforts of any previous chiefs with this statement, I am merely stating a fact. All divisions are run by their division command, all Branches are run by line managers who keep the command teams in check, The chiefs just make sure everything is running smoothly, which just takes reading our discord channel conversations and speaking to us like once every 2 weeks. Chiefs also oversee PD suggestions, which are done like once every 3 months. Admin bonuses are sent out by Tinyslayer, the chiefs just send us the spreadsheet. They also Handle disputes of IA complaint outcomes, which in this case, probably only 1 of these disputes requires any sort of effortful looking into every season as most IA punishments nowadays are for entirely as described in policy violations.
The point went completely over your head. Ellie was saying that limiting the position to non-staff members only is a terrible idea because then ideal candidates who hold staff positions, who are likely going to be the ideal candidates might I add, are either forced to resign or are forced to sacrifice their candidacy for staff positions because they don't want to give them up.
Acting like CoD takes a huge amount of effort and 150 hours a week. It really doesn't. Maybe if we wind up with someone who decides to fire the command teams and run the PD as an autocracy then this would be the case, But this won't happen. In reality the majority of the work is done by command teams. Chiefs responsibilities are incredibly mundane tasks. Everything, even policy changes, has a committee for it now. Whilst the past of the PD felt like a 3 man circus, now it has expanded back to the point where chiefs responsibilities that were previously being bestowed solely onto SMT are a shared responsibility with command members.
If we had community votes on ground breaking decisions such as positions of power, our community manager would have already been replaced by someone you know I'm referring to and some sweater that came on and spoke in a funny voice for a week. Electing someone is overall a terrible idea on the premise that the majority of players won't fucking care enough to vote. Someone should be judged on what is the set standard of competency by people with full understandings of it, not by people who haven't held any positions within the PD, have no understanding of it, and vote for someone who is making absurd promises because they think of the promised outcome as factual without considering any logistics. Could you imagine if I won that election? I came second in that. I'm going to be brutally honest, 2019 me running the PD would have been a clusterfuck and I'd probably have reverted all my changes eventually, lest we forget the majority of the other applicants in the election vanished around 6 months later, Including our chief (Not at his own volition, I hold nothing against him for that). But what does it matter if they're popular, Right?
Having a CoD election would eventually spell out disaster.
Until Community management stepped in and made them resign due to poor activity?
Literally ANYONE can lose motivation for any reason and someone who has the free time to be staff should be able to keep up CoD candidacy too? What is this logic? If someone's showing no signs of disappearing anytime soon due to their track record as staff and have demonstrated that they are responsible enough in a position of authority of such calibre, surely this should be a merit to their application, no?
Your example of this was someone who was eventually forced to resign from their position due to inactivity so I'm taking this with a pinch of salt.
Please name a single Ideal candidate you have seen who is a new player who would outshine anyone else, most new players end up spending their first 3 minutes on the server being scraped off the intersection whilst everyone laughs at their Funny IC name like "Big Ballman" or something along the lines. In the last chief decision there was absolutely no potential for Bias. Acer had been back for like 3 months, was a corporal, was not staff, and didn't have any real connections in the staff team or with anyone who made that decision to hire him at the time. He came out of buttfuck nowhere and despite my huge scepticism towards him initially, he was the best chief we've ever had and I'll die on that hill if I have to.
Constantly shifting command teams with the logic of "Mum said its my turn to use the Xbox" Impedes progress, puts people in positions where they revert great progress being made, and jumbles everything up to confuse everyone.
Everyone who gets an upper command position immediately makes huge changes. TFU as a whole is almost incomparable between the differences in virtually everything since I got command to when my predecessor held the position. RTU Changed when
@Mina became head of it. Operations services as a whole changed positively and massively under
@Mim. If we take this logic that I put for Command members, and apply it to the literal head of the whole PD, the changes could be catastrophic.
My advice for everyone would be to go for this Chief positions yourselves if you genuinely have concerns its going to go to someone completely underqualified, because if you want something done right, do it yourselves.
