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What an accomplishment!!! Amazing, really, when you put it all in perspective. Commissioner!! WOW!!!! So totally impressive. Does he get a gold throne at the next Meet and Greet that ABM is putting together?
So super excited for NateBishop03.
Does this mean he won't lurk under his NathanB alias anymore?
Also, did he actually lobby for this honor? How was this bestowed to him over an actual decent moderator like SPD?
I'm not sure if you are looking for a serious answer but here it goes.
TrueBlueFan put up an ad in the S2 secret staff forum looking for Commissioners for the NBA, NFL and NHL.
Here is part of it:
SportsTwo has made some great progress and will continue to make great strides in the coming weeks/months/years. However, to reach our goals we need to continue to evolve. One thing we have noticed is that there is a need for individuals to be more than Global Moderators and to have more authority to use their abilities and resources to help make SportsTwo great.
With the multifaceted approach of SportsTwo, in terms of news, user forums, wiki, blogs, article writing and custom games and software for all major sports, we need individuals who are willing to step up to the plate and help lead a portion of the site. This is where the Commissioner position comes into play.
The role of the Commissioner would be to be the leader and manager of a particular section of the site. A Commissioner would have the authority, responsibility and accountability for running their portion of the site. This includes:
- Organizing/Recruiting/Managing the site staff of your section (this includes Moderators and Global Moderators). As the leader and manager of your section, you will be responsible for that portions of the site staff. This includes the recruitment and the accountability to make sure that your moderators are doing their jobs.
- Being responsible for the activity of your section of the site. This includes leading recruitment drives, boosting your posting numbers, getting new members, game threads and just overall improve the activity of your particular section. We totally recognize that some sections are starting out larger than others but our eventual goal is to have team forum communities much like our Nets community. We recognize that won't happen overnight but we are shooting for consistent progress.
As a leader and manager of your section, this means that you will be leading your moderators to help recruit posters, etc. We don't expect you to do it by yourself and that is what your team (and the S2 staff team) in general is used for.
- Developing the wiki content for your section. We believe the wiki can become a great tool not only for the S2 users, but also as a recruiting tool. This does not mean that you have to create the content yourself, but to manage your staff and posters to create and update the content.
- Identify and encourage potential staff writers and graphic artists. We want our writing program to be a significant attraction for the site as well as a source of pride for our posters. Also as the site gets larger, not everyone may see the graphics forum so getting skilled artists to interact with the other artists on the site.
- Promotions. You name it we can do it. If you want to do a rotisserie game, we can make that happen. As the Administrators we want to equip you to lead your section and help make it the best that it can. You come up with the games and we will try our hardest to implement them. The sky is the limit
Overall, this is a position of great responsibility and we really feel each of you would be a great leader on this site.
As you can see this is a hell of a lot of work.
First, let me say that Nate is an excellent choice for this. He has blog writing experience and he is very knowledgeable with all of the NBA. Also while you may not personally like Nate it's good that we have a Blazer fan first in this position. The last thing the Blazer forum needs is some outsider telling us posters and mods what to do.
As far as me in this position, thanks for the kind words but there is no way I was interested.
First, that's a hell of a lot of work.
Second, I don't really give a fuck about other NBA teams or getting more people to post in those forums.
3rd, Wiki what? Write what?
4th, I suck at being a mod, I'd really suck at being a Commissioner.
5th, did I mention that it looks like a hell of a lot of work?
Even if I did apply (which I didn't) Nate would be the better choice.

