i've been wanting to help out and i've thought a few times about submitting something/etc, but right now i'm pretty busy and ifind it hard to concentrate. i'M tryIngto make improvements in myself and maybe in a few weeks i'll try to help out, but as far as my mind is pretty much mush right now.
i know i never said anything before but trust me i'd like to help! I just can't because ::

Can I change your name back?

Blah, you're always doing stuff like this when I'm ASLEEP...

With Steel out of action I've been doing my best to actually MOTIVATE people but as far as it goes our staff are working under OK IF I DO SOMETHING THIS WEEK I DON'T HAVE TO FOR ANOTHER WEEK mindset and it's almost impossible to break, as far as things go we are always looking for staff and over the next couple of days there WILL be some layoffs due to people who have written no more than a single sentence since being appointed staff (some even less than that).

I'm as angry as Steel is here when it comes to this because personally I found it less stressful to just write an article every now and then, Editors aren't even supposed to write articles, they're supposed to observe the staff, assist them with their work and fix up any errors after their work is submitted, I'm doing this along with my weekly article (believe me, this week on GW is a tedious 1-2 hour job of copy pasta, it's awful), and I'm still managing to do interviews and get them up as well, even our mod team are writing more articles than our staff and while I welcome this with open arms; IT SHOULD NOT BE.

Basically for everyone reading this I want to say that the door is never closed for applications, you're always free to apply for a staff job and even if you don't we might pick you out of the crowd when you're just submitting articles if they're good enough.
As it stands we are shooting for an article per day and aside from the odd hiccup where we sometimes have TWO up on a single day, we are struggling to keep this pace, we literally have nothing in our inbox to work with, they almost go up on the same day that they are submitted.

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Awesome

hey its a climbtree post thats not serious.  thanks man *rubs face with your post* ahhh how refreshing

Also Carius, editors still need to write articles!  You're not just a manager because this would be a useless position, it is like being HEAD STAFF but still staff nonetheless so content generation is still part of your job.  You still write articles yourself as an editor and all of our editors minus Sarevok have while they were in the position, and he was just kind of a lazy shit all around, so I dunno where you got that idea!

Also Carius, editors still need to write articles!  You're not just a manager because this would be a useless position, it is like being HEAD STAFF but still staff nonetheless so content generation is still part of your job.  You still write articles yourself as an editor and all of our editors minus Sarevok have while they were in the position, and he was just kind of a lazy shit all around, so I dunno where you got that idea!

Bah Panda, thanks...
If people think that editors AREN'T supposed to work then seeing them do work makes our lack-of-articles situation a little more real.
I know I'm supposed to write shit and I freely and willingly do, I have like 4 articles in the works at the moment but am waiting on a few things.

hahaha just a lil bit of psych for ya... seriously tho I wondered where you would have gotten this idea.  Like "hey you're a good staffer, congratulations you are effectively no longer a staffer"

Also I dunno about all this IRC NETWORK stuff.  #gwmods is useless and pretty dead from what I understand.  We only have ten staff, and most of them keep radically different hours and vary in activity.  I'm not in DEBATE MODE so much as explaining why no one has really felt the need for this so far.  I don't think staff would use it because what would you talk about?  Most staff use the staff forums to pitch their articles, comment on other people's work, and talk about general staff shit.

What is the current staff even covering btw? Or does everyone just post randomly whenever?

Don't get this question.

Also Bled if you are curious about CURRENT STAFF, just check the mod list for the staff forum.

Umm the staff forum doesn't appear for 'normals' does it?

EDIT: Nope

bled's staff