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 Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 7:05 pm
Akura 2012
What have you done to help the guild's development?
At the time being, I am able to claim responsibility of making the guild survive to where it is right now. No, I did not create the guild. No I haven't made any systems for the guild, no I haven't been a crew member even for half the time people like Greg have, but I can claim responsibility for picking the guild up when literally no one was posting. Around 11 months ago, give or take, the guild was at a total stand still, where comparing it to the way it is now, it could be said that currently, this is an active guild. Greg didn't post for an extended period of time [ because his computer had a virus, no this is not an attempt to discredit my running mates, i would never do so ] and overall the member and crew base had done nothing, myself included until one day i decided that enough was enough, I came here and made a member's sign in thread, all of this while being just a member of the guild. I took over the profile approval thread for a few days until Greg came back and over all breathed life back into POTS. So you can be the judge of if I have done something important for the guild. I am aware it wasn't for its development, but it was for something more important; the life of the guild itself. Odds are if it wasn't for my inspiration that day, we wouldn't have this thread, or any of the campaign threads for that matter.
What are your plans for the future of the guild?
Well, I can assure you my plans, and my running mates are, in paper, the same, but in execution, very different. I for one plan on placing things in order of what needs to be done, from systems to aesthetic changes to the guild, and as a matter of fact I already have two people that are willing to aid in this change to make posts not only systematically appealing, but also visually appealing to the possible new members. One of the people that agreed to assist me, would I become captain, agreed that she would help me re-work the bloodlines and demons and re-organize the guild to make it more pleasant for the eye. ' We don't need shiny new toys, we just need to fix our old ones ' is something someone said to me about the guild, and that is half right in my point of view. I propose we integrate our ' old broken toys ' with the ' shiny new ones ' that people offer. POTS has been known for a hard place to bring change into. I want to challenge that. Back when Hark was a crew member here he tried to innovate the guild but was often shot down because his ideas where ' too different ' or they just clashed with a system, even though the ideas where good. I want to change that. Just because an idea is ' too different ' or it clashes with a system doesn't mean it can't be done. It just means that the system isn't complete or isn't as broad as someone would like it to be. That's something i want to change. The most successful Naruto guild in Gaia, Hidden Villages, has that title for one reason, and one reason alone. It's innovative. It has things, so be it systems, ideas, concepts, arcs, ect, that no guild has ever thought of, and that's what I want for POTS; innovation.
My future plans for the guild aren't change, they are improvement. Take what we have, make it better, and then work on it from the ground up. Branch it off in ways that have never been explored before in a naruto guild. But in order to do that, we need to go back to step one; making it happen.
What experience do you have that qualifies you for this position?
Well, I've been crew in POTS for around 6 months to a year, give or take. I was A VC in both Shinobi Legends and Great Nations, both under Soren and Hark. So I have a general idea on how to run a guild and how guild politics work. Furthermore I have inside information, both from my personal knowledge, and second hand knowledge from people that where in the crew once, as to how the POTS crew works, so I believe that I have enough experience, both from my own, and from second hand accounts, to serve as a captain in POTS.
What is your vision of an ideal guild?
Honestly, my vision of an ideal guild, is POTS. Now i know what you might be thinking, that I might just be saying that to win you over, that I don't really mean it, ect. But that's just the thing. This isn't POTS. This is just the ashes of what was once a great, bustling, active guild. With happy, experienced and great Role Players, and an okay crew. POTS was essentially a family. That is what an ideal guild is to me. A guild where it's members can trust in each other out of the RP, where its members essentially treat each other’s like brothers. THAT is POTS. a place where people go and are happy, feel alright and are willing to just post in the chatroom while they wait for someone to respond to their posts. Writting this i remember the times where the POTS chatroom was always the thread with the newest post, and all the threads under it where ALWAYS different, or at least in a completely re-arranged order, that's how active this place was, and that's my goal with the activity in the guild. I want to make this place, not POTS, but a family once more, the family we once where.
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Do you contribute often in the crew subforum?
I'll be honest with you. Not a whole lot. Not now anyways. I was just recently re-instated back to my crew status after an unexpected leave due to internet problems so I haven't been on the crew subforum, though there isn't much going on, just work half done. Which is something i want to change in this place. A good active crew that won't drop a project until its finished, although no one is at fault of that other than ourselves, the crew.
How often can you get online (And on POTS)?
Depends. During summer, if I wake up at 11 am I'm checking POTS and gaia on my kindle fire at 11:05 after texting good morning to my girlfriend, and so on and so forth. During school, as soon as i get home I get online and check Gaia, and POTS, to make sure everything is running smoothly, so the best answer here would be every time I can, and every time I am on a computer.
SO MEMBERS OF POTS, LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD; ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT MY CAMPAING OR IDEAS, PLEASE POST THEM HERE!
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 2:27 pm
I've noticed your campaign speaking a lot about the members of POTS as a family that trusts each other. Could I ask you to go into specifics regarding your member privacy policy?
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 2:32 pm
Hikaro's time to nitpick. Don't worry they'll get worse later on.
The really nitpicky question, could you please spell check your application? A typo in the first sentence really looks bad.
You say you want to bring the old POTS activity back up, but that is a lot easier said than done. This would involve bringing new members in (because like it or not we lost most of the old members) and it would involve making everyone feel welcome (much easier for the most part). How would you make this happen?
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 3:09 pm
Member Privacy Policy? You mean what you said the other day of not posting personal details within the subforums of the guild and such? Personally I think that one must draw their own boundries, so long as they are within the ToS of Gaia and the Guild. And of course as Captain of the guild it would be my job to not only look after the guild, but the well being of the members. So as such any activity that I see, or is brought to me, that I believe could jepordice the well-being in real life of one of my members gives me the authority to come down with the full power of my possition within the guild, as well as with the help of a Gaia mod, and bring the party that is at fault to justice. Of course I am aware that there are people of young age in gaia, I myself joined POTS when I was 13; I didn't know what my boundries could be, and as such I didn't know what was best for me in any given situation. What I would advice to the members is to put their own personal well being first. [ I didn't trully understand your question Greg, if you would like for me to go into more details please rephrase is into a form where i can give you a more in detph answer. ] Okay I just fixed that typo, and the few others i found, man that first one was... wow. Anywway Hikaro let me stop you right there. We haven't lost most of the old members. They where driven away. Earlier today, and late last night, I was talking to two of said members, one of which was the one that actually talked me into running for guild captain, because as I told both Greg and Hinote, it wasn't in my plans to run for captain. They both said I'd return if I became captain of the guild. The problem of the old members isn't the fact that they won't come back because they don't like the guild or something like that. It's that they can't. I am going to quote one of them, and please excuse me Greg, this is in no way an attack on you or your candicacy: Quote: " The reason why I, and my group, left the guild was the gregocracy that had enveloped the guild. We didn't leave because we grew tired of the guild. We left because we got fed up with the way it worked. Quote: I am not joining POTS. I don't like the new management, and the thought of Greg being captain just makes it worse. Now, from these two accounts, of members that will remain unnamed [ unless you want to know who they are Greg, ] We can see one thing that keeps the old members away. It's not that they will not come back, its the fact that they believe tha things haven't changed, and that there is still a sence of ' gregocacy ', if I may, in the guild. Now how I want to make this happen is changing the aspects of the guild. Right now, the guild itself does not look too appealing to new prospect members, but as Greg has said before, no one wants to be part of a guild that's being Overhauled, so like him, I will not do be sending guild invitations, or working on having new members, until all the work in the guild is done; or at least, the Bloodlines and Demons are reworked. And once more i say; this post IS NOT a personal attack on Greg, or his campaign. The last few weeks he and I have become close, and I hope these third party statements do not change that fact.
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 3:34 pm
You asked Greg this same question, and I'd like to know your position on it, Would you rid/edit/retain the guild of the " Kill only if both intend to kill" Rule?
If you would Edit it, then how so?
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 3:40 pm
Personally I would edit it in two ways: a) I would make it legal to kill someone of your own rank so long as there is motive, as well as someone above your own rank. You can't randomly wake up one day and start killing people for no reason, just like in a murder trial there must be a motive, some sort of stressor that made the person, well, snap. b) You cannot kill an RPC that is two ranks under you, unless that person shows killing intent toward you in a fight first. This to make sure that higher ranked Shinobi don't go around slaughtering low level Shinobi.
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 3:54 pm
Oh goody! You made the two stipulations I wanted! You're the one I'm going to vote for definitely now unless someone else makes a bold move that sways me. Another question I'd like answered if you would. If you are to become captain, would you encourage or discourage Chunin exams to be biannually, annually, or just held whenever the crew and yourself see fit? ( Because in my opinion I'd attribute some of the inactivity to the lack of chunin exams, something nearly every guild looks forward too that I've seen. )
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 4:02 pm
Honestly, it would depend on activity. If the amount of ready and able bodied genin is enough, around 15-20 genin that are ready for promotion, then biannually, if there are 20 genin ready in two months, in total, per village, then two months it is. I for one was stuck at genin for two years, I honestly don't wish that on anymore for more than a month, let alone 6. One of the things that brought this place down was the lack of Chunin exams, I agree with you Tim. The problem with genin rank is that you can only do one thing: train. Once you are done training, you have nothing else to do, and POTS was made up of almost 75% genin. Genin that where ready for a Chunin exam that never came. Something that Under my watch will not be happening.
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 4:14 pm
Yay! Another point for you! I originally quit because of that reason, and my obvious differences I had with the Crew at the time. Two more questions while I'm thinking about it. Since I've come back, I've seen at least one or more announcements that have yet to be delivered ( Like one when I had just joined said that a chunin exams was going to happen. ) would you allow things to not be delivered when they are announced? ( I say delivered as in carried out for clarification. ) How many would pass the chunin exams should there be an actual 15-21 applicants per village? ( I used multiples of 3 since I assume they'd be in squads of 3. )
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 4:33 pm
No. Period. I hate it when that type of things happen. I disliked it when I was a member and I will treat the guild like i would have liked to be treated myself when I was a new member. I'm grabbing that and adding to it the fact that crew members cannot simply say ' oh, that's being worked on ' and yet it never comes out without ant explanation or anything. Mainly because over 75% of the time, nothing is actually going on. That's something that I don't like, and want to change in this guild. What the members want is what they get, wether the guild captain agrees with it or not. I think you missunderstood me. It's not 15-21 applicants per village, but 15-21 applicants guild wide, keep in mind that they need to be able bodied genin that must be ready to battle it out, risk life and limb in the final round; Chunin Exams are not to be taken lightly. But depending on the number of prospects is the number of people that pass. While readying this I actually think of cutting it down to 2 Challenges instead of 3 since the first part is pretty much useless in my opinion. The second, which would be the first, part of the Exams would be something interactive, not some scavenger hunt across the entire guild. But the main thing is that 2 members would be chosen to judge the battles, and review your preformance in the first part, depending on how you do in those is whether or not you rank up, just like in the anime/manga. So there might be an exam where everyone passes, as well as there might be one where no one passes in this way then the battle brackets will be re-mixed and everyone whom reaches the semi-finals will recieve the promotion.
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 4:47 pm
Yay! ^.^ Only good things coming from you Aku-kun! Okay, yeah I completely misunderstood you the first time. Okay, so no scavenger hunt, I kinda liked the idea, but it did take quite some time. I'd like to see someone's their character loses an arm, but still be able bodied, so they have to fight a re-mixed bracket. That is a bad case scenario, but still one I'd like to see. xD Okay, I'm done with asking you questions now. I might be later, but for now you've earned a 5/5 rating from me.
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 8:10 pm
It would be interesting indeed. Anyway who else has something that would like to ask?
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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 10:37 pm
Some universal questions for all candidates. Quote: In the event that you do become captain. Will you remake your crew surrounding yourself with those who support you? Will you leave it the same? What are your plans about that issue? Are you open to a crew member(s) who wants to take a different approach on a project and openly says/does so.
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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 10:50 pm
No, I am not planning to remake it, but I will in fact make additions to it; two new crew members that where once in the crew and left the guild because of what was in their opinion, bad management. But where it counts, the crew remains the same; the VC count raises to four VC, Hikaro being promoted in the case that I become captain, and Jade taking a spot as a Vice Captain to help out with the bloodlines; Hark joining the crew as well. Now that i meantioned Hark i can walk into your last question. Hark is known for taking a different approach at everything. In his naruto guild instead of your chakra raising, it remains the same, and instead the cost of jutsu lower, ect. He is a person whom makes innovative systems for his guild. Its not that wwe need new things, but we need people that think outside the box; people that can be, and think different. That's what the crew is about. People that think differently bringing something to the table for the captain to work on and personally the only thing that POTS is missing is Jade's ingenuity and Hark's creativity. So yes, I'm open to crew members who want to take a different approach; and I actually embrace it.
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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 10:57 pm
Ahh. I see. So your approach is adding innovation, not removing any current moderators correct?
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