New addition to the administration team

[Zoop 8,384]

As the community continues to grow, the existing administration has found their attention being constantly tugged away at from numerous different directions all at once. With that in mind, after a bit of discussion and hair-pulling (for those of us with hair to pull, that is) it was determined that the time had come to bring on another Community Administrator. 

 

And who better for ensuring the continued harmony of this wonderful community than a bloke named...

 

Chaotic Discord

 

Though recruited as a moderator relatively recently, Chaotic Discord has proven himself an invaluable resource from both a moderation standpoint, and more importantly from a project management standpoint. CD's boundless enthusiasm and energy have proven important beyond measure in getting a couple neglected projects back on-track for integration and deployment. 

 

By elevating CD to an administration position we've given him access to the tools he needs in order to get things like the mythical "Octavia's Hall Critics" initiative dusted off and ready to go, allowing him to serve as an unofficial project manager of sorts for the team.

 

Given CD's proven track record of good judgement and even-handedness we have no doubt that he will perform admirably in his new role.

 

TL;DR: Less work for Zoop. Zoop approves.

[Harmonic Revelations 8,837]

Wow, I'm surprised. I wasn't at all expecting an extremely active, helpful, and kind moderator to be promoted. What kind of world is this? I didn't know that doing good things got you rewarded.

Edited January 17, 2013 by Harmonic Revelations

[Doctor-Whooves 288]

Congratulations, Discord. You're definitely deserves, and have the skills required. I hope you still do a great job. Good luck in all your future endeavors and godspeed.

[Zoop 8,384]

Wow, I'm surprised. I wasn't all expecting an extremely active helpful and kind moderator to be promoted. What kind of world is this?

 

I know, right? It's complete and utter nonsense. He needs to be demoted down to a sectional moderator for his transgressions against all that is good upon this planet.

[Dusty Soul 2,614]

COngrates Chaotic, you deserve this.  I won't say I'm surprised by this.  I'm happy to see a hard working mod getting promoted.  Always good.

[Standard User 2,127]

I always knew good ole' Discord would be put into a position of (even greater than he already had) power...

Now you have the chance to overthrow Zoop and control the internet bring even more joy and smiles and happiness and kittens to this site. 

Edited January 17, 2013 by Kolth

[Shanks 10,817]

In the short time I have been at this site Chaotic Discord has been fair and even handed moderator and a pretty cool guy so congratulations to him.

[XUNUSEDXXX 3,460]

I remember the silly filly was only a Unicorn when I first joined. How the times pass.

 

Anyhow, this man completely deserves it. His hard work on the forums, his dedication, and his past experiences in forum administration, for me, see him completely fit for the job. Not to mention he's a jokester and loves to welcome newbies into the forums.

 

Congratulations mate!

 

P.S. also had thorough disappointment when I saw that the thread title wasn't something to do with Star Wars

Edited January 17, 2013 by Scootabloom

[Scootalove 10,692]

Congratulations, Discord.

 

I know your like one of the dedicated members of the staff, and now your on the Administration team.

Even though your name means Chaos and Disorder, you earned it.

A really huge accomplishment.

[Wubsie 1,123]

Even though I already told you this.

Gratz CD. This rank is obviously fit for you. I knew you were going to become an admin one day. 

[Marcato 2,144]

To say the least, I am not surprised. Not in the slightest. Even before ~CD~ was a Global Moderator I thought he'd make a great staff member, then he became a moderator. And only a week ago I thought to myself "CD's been doing a whole ton for the forums, I bet he'd make a good administrator." The thought crossed my mind, however I brushed it off as I thought "Nah they got enough admins."

Clearly, I was wrong.

 

I've been told enough to know that administrators of all types have their work cut out for them, and even after the additional admins of "Trainloads Episode II" I should have guessed things would still be crazy.

 

~Chaotic Discord~ is an amazing choice as a community admin and no doubt will bring this forum far. From what I've seen of him and his maintenance throughout the forums, from moderation duties to completely cleaning things up and doing the things most people would rather not use their time on. His motivation gives him the strength to complete anything he feels will help something he loves. In this case, the forums.

 

Although I can't help but find it a little unusual that there is an equal number of Global Moderators as there are to Community admins... Perhaps I'm just OCD, but the even number of members per staff group pleases me greatly. Yes, Silver like...

 

Anyways, I'm happy to see Discord got the position he truly deserved. My congratulations to Chaotic Discord! I wish you good luck in the future.

 

TL;DR

 

EDIT: I'm sorry I cannot contain my walls of text, they just have a habit of exceeding my control point.

Edited January 17, 2013 by Silver Arrow

[3005 332]

This is an incredibly smart move on the staff's part in my opinion. From what I see, Chaotic has the dedication, vision, and skill-set to rise higher up as an official on the site. Looking forward to see what kinds of things MLPF can achieve under his tenure. 

[Pinkie D Pie 1,036]

He's even closer now to his takeover his forums, Wont be long now until he controls this place and it is filled with endless days of chaos, and chocolate rain.

 

Jokes aside, congrats Chaotic. I figured you would get a promotion like this soon. Even while you were just a moderator, you got things done, and were already it seemed like an admin to most people. So I say congrats and I raise a glass to the soon to be chocolate rain covered forums!

[Doctor XFizzle 8,672]

It brings a tear to a mentor's eye when he sees his pupil moving upward onto greatness. Well my pupil in the sense of epic brohoof collecting until I fell off the wagon and my brohoof well ran dry. 

 

Congrats CD!

[featheredone 56]

Yeah, I thought my eyes were decieving me when I first saw that CD was an admin.

 

But yeah, congratz to him and I hope he administrates well.

 

BTW, you guys plan to replace CD with another mod (since I'd presume that this means that there's a spot for a mod vacant?)

[NavelColt 22,884]

 

What a time for the Draconequus to get promoted, hmm? Four days before the next episode of MLP airs in which you know who has you know what happen to them

 

Much like with my staff ascension the first round, I had a vague idea that this might be happening at some point in the future. Unlike the previous time though, in which I had it narrowed down to a matter of days due to some hints, this came out of the blue and I was completely taken by surprise and blind-sided. I had passed out at eight after work, woke up at midnight to go poni online for a bit, went on Skype, and something along the lines of the following occurred:

 

Hey. Got some time?

 

Possibly. What does thou require :3

 

The Feldlympians have been discussing your swag levels. We have all come to the unanimous agreement that Mount Feldlympus requires that omniscient presence of yours in our God Mod team. I speak on behalf of all of us when I ask, U game?

 

Hmmmm, why yes, I believe I have room in my schedule for some more chaos spreading opportunities. By which I mean spreading harmony among the community's members, of course...naturally. (crossed fingers)

 

~Only minor paraphrasing, I assure you.

 

I'm happy that I can now be far more self-sufficient. Once I become fully comfortable with the curious ACP controls and where things are located, I'll hardly have to bug the Zooper, chicken or Feldster himself for when I need to accomplish something through the CP. I'm also pleased to see that I have yet another unofficial title for myself. Unofficial Maintenance & Project Manager. Sweet.

 

The eternal feedback loop of work, friends, do good work, rewarded with a broader scope of work But hey, if it means Zoop now has more time to shine his head and cosplay Mr. Clean instead of losing his marbles further over Mod Disputes that I can now help with (you're all screwed, run), then I'm happy to take on the role.

 

Here's to fun times ahead :3

[Zygen 6,066]

I know, right? It's complete and utter nonsense. He needs to be demoted down to a sectional moderator for his transgressions against all that is good upon this planet.

SMITE HIM ZOOP! BEFORE HE BECOMES TO POWERFUL!

 

*Ahem* I mean ChaoticDisocrd is the most wonderful moderator hail Discord!

 

No but seriously congrats ChaoticDiscord, you totally deserve the position! You've done plenty of moderating! Way beyond what you had to!

 

Not to mention your a really awesome guy!

 

Good luck and have fun Abusing your power helping to further the community!

[Betez 1,735]

I'm happy for you, CD. I'm sure the forum will reach new heights now that you are part of the community administration. (and it already has.)

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,828]

Way to go Chaotic Discord! I knew this day would come. You've proven yourself to be one of the best moderators on the mlp forums site.

[Radiance64 7,059]

Well this is certainly... expected. The guy works his butt off for this place, for every one thing I do I see him do like ten things.

Anyway, this is very well deserved, congrats you seedy Draconequus you!(c wut i did thar)

[NavelColt 22,884]

 

 

Chaotic Discord

By the way, Zoop, I know you didn't plan this at all obviously, but I find the coincidence here utterly funny.

 

I have a goatee myself that I'm growing. No mustaches. They're stupid. But I often stroke or play with my goatee with a finger or two when I'm focusing on doing things, or doing something of that nature. No, I'm being legitimate here. Not even kidding.

[Akemi Homura 7,682]

 

So I guess it's time for me and my friends to find the elements of harmony before he starts ruling MLPForums in an eternal state of unrest and unhappiness.

[Neikos 968]

Well, given what he has done for the community I find it only logical to give him the tools to be even more useful!

I wish you the best of luck for any future projects

[Evilshy 5,093]

CD definitely would've been my choice for ascension to adminhood. Now instead of having to bother admins to get approval for all his good ideas, he can just do them. Awesome

 

 

Although, I dislike Zoop's implication that Sectionals are a bad thing

Edited January 20, 2013 by Evilshy

[TailsIsNotAlone 3,697]

I support this 100%. When I joined he was still just a regular member making cool posts and naturally supporting all things Discord. As a moderator he didn't change a bit and performed his duties admirably. On a recent occasion when things were getting out of hand in a thread and I didn't think anyone was watching or helping, he was there when we needed him.

 

Congratulations, CD. May you excel in this new position and take just a little more of the weight off Feld0's shoulders.