User blog:Reyes De Luz (Albert Spark)/The Administrative Year In Review

As we look over to start a fresh new year and begin to continue reforming and reviving this site and continue our family, I wanted to at least go over what may not seem like alot, but is, that has happened. Without a doubt this year is probablly one of the most hectic and hellish years this site will ever come across and many good things came out, but lets not forget the bad things too.

Promotions
We started off thinking, this wont be the year of promotions. That changed in a hurry though, with the resignations off Stpehen & Katbluedog our then President and Vice President, things changed quickly. While some our not with us today there were many promotion blogs this year, possibly I might even go to say the most ever seen in this site's lifetime. In the past year here is who we promoted: While Jim, Goldylocks, Dent, and Jeremiah aren't with us today, they still do roam this site. Our site without a doubt has gone through many changes and along with promotions there is also the sad thing called demotions.
 * Rollback - Reyes De Luz (Albert Spark)
 * Rollback - Nults McKagan Note: Passed but later resigned.
 * Bureaucrat - Parax.
 * Rollback - Captaingoldvane2 Note: No vote held, Presedential Request.
 * Chat Moderator - Reyes De Luz (Albert Spark)
 * Administrator - Jeremiah Garland
 * Administrator - Reyes De Luz (Albert Spark)
 * Chat Moderator - Jim Logan
 * Chat Moderator - David McMartin Son Of Sparrow
 * Chat Moderator / Rollback - Nults McKagan
 * Chat Moderator / Rollback - Dentface
 * Rollback - Johnny Goldtimbers
 * Rollback - David McMartin Son Of Sparrow (Now Chat Moderator/Rollback)
 * Chat Moderator/Rollback - Bobby Moon

Demotions
Including SSC Requests we begin the year starting to look at the activity of our Administrators too, leading to eventually one of the busiest years we have had, even with the spotted no activity at all and all time low visiting times. While some were disappointing to lose due to inactivity or because they did not want to be here anymore, we at the same time will see more in the future and more from those active and intend to continue to contribute which will ultimately (hopefully) get the result we have been searching for in a while.
 * SSC Request: (x2) Demotion of Voxelplox Note: Did not pass however eventually lead to his resignation
 * SSC Request: (x3) Demotion of GenLawrence & Jarod Pillagebane Note: Did not pass however lead to their resignations
 * IAP:Lord Matthew Blastshot
 * IAP:Jack Pistol
 * IAP:Dentface

Resginations
Let's not forget them either. In ways unseen, they lead to the many promotions mentioned above.
 * Resignation of Katbluedog
 * Resignation of Stpehen
 * Resignation of Captaingoldvane2 (Admin)
 * Resignation of Jarod Pillagebane
 * Resignation of GenLawrence
 * Resignation of Jim Logan
 * Resignation of Jeremiah Garland
 * Resignation of Captaingoldvane2 (Rollback)

Reforms, Features, and more
While this Administrative Year was filled with promotions, demotions, and resignations there is also the reforms, the new features, new processes, new responsibilities that have been passed.

The Beginning of the Revision of the IAP
Starting all the way back in Januaray 13, when I requested the IAP to be revised and reformed we would see the continuation of it being reformed by others such as Lord Andrew Mallace. Eventually it will have been Revised in June and later in November. Yet the reformation of it that could even possibly lead to other things as well is still on-going into the next year marking 1 entire year of seeking reformation for this Policy enacted in 2011 by Tama63.

Tolerance Policy
With the first proosals on the Old SSC Format, Voxelplox would begin the soon to be continuing call for reformation on leniency and our tolerance towards Users as a whole. It would call for a more Zero Tolerance Policy than the lenient one we had. Eventually not only would this be enacted, but further expanded with U1W introduced by Jeremiah Garland and Parax.

New SSC Format - Forums
This was eventually turned on, forums, to be able to make the organization of The Seven Seas Court much more efficient and reduce the length of the page tremoundously. While Forums is only ever mainly used for The SSC and Wiki Oscars nowadays, it still has shown its efficiency and continues to enhance our site.

New Rollback Responsibility
After reviewing Rollbacks aren't really completely prepared to moderate things when they become Admin, in order to give them the experience a request was tacked on to the Forums intiation so that they moderate Forums. This would mean that they would for the first time have a job moderating something unless they are Chat Moderators.

Minor Rule Addition
One of the first rules introduced to more so comfort newer users than anything else, the inability to speak of hacking in any sort of way was outlawed period in June.

To Be Finished - Still more to go :3