User blog:BobTheDoctor27/Administrative Reshuffling

Good day, gentlemen of the Custom BIONICLE community.

I speak to you, today, to address a number of concerns and proposed updates that have arisen in discussion over the past week.

As many of you may know, the unfortunate retirement of Jman98 in July earlier this year had a profound and lasting impact on the site. Jman handled the overwhelming majority of Custom BIONICLE's social media outlets and his abrupt departure has left the administrative staff juggling a number of collective balls. Since summer, the admin team has been struggling along on damage control, which explains the lack of a highly-anticipated continuation in the writing contest tradition.

Well, it is my pleasure to finally cut the cord and declare that we are no longer living in such dark ages. It's time for some much-needed change to fill the gap and set things back on track to productivity.

Recruitment
First and foremost, we're looking to reshuffle the staff line-up. With Echo1 planning to retire from the Board of Trustees and with Jareroden97 dipping into inactivity, we're coming up a little short. Positions are available primarily in the Rollback department, though we are also open to administrative nominations. Remember, to qualify for a Rollback position you need at least 500 edits and working proficiency in Wikia coding.

Click here to nominate yourself for a staff role.

Social Media
We're also looking to recruit volunteers into our social media outlets. Currently, we're struggling with the managing of our twitter and Tumblr accounts since the admin team isn't all that tech-savvy with those particular sites. While applications for these roles are considerably less formal, we do ask that applicants provide us with evidence of past experience using relevant social media. A portfolio of sorts to show off what they are capable of.

Forums
Additionally, it has been brought to the staff's attention that the forums are currently inaccessible. According to the disclaimer one gets upon attempted use of the site, the "owner has requested deletion". This action was not consented by the current administrative team, but with Jman98 being the technical owner, there's very little we can do to get the forums restored.

That being said, the mibbit chat is still operational, which is the primary reason the forums were used. It can be accessed here for those of you who still want to use it. But what would you like us to do about the forums and chat? Should we bring back the Wiki chat that nobody seems to like? Shall we go off searching for an alternative forum site? Or shall we do away with instant messaging chat altogether and keep things contained to the wiki?

Let us know in the comments below. Any and all feedback will be invaluably informative in our ongoing task to understand what the community wants.

Now go read Elegy