(09-18-2019, 03:11 PM)woelker11 Wrote:Well, let's start by correcting my dumb mistake: I meant approachability, not accountability. Not that accountability is unimportant; I definitely believe that you should be willing to defend and feel justified in every decision you make. But I don't know that that is even an issue in this instance.haha, sorry about that. I just remember seeing you in rookie chat, hard to remember who is who sometimes.
Second, in terms of transparency, I think it's just a matter of elaborating as to how you reach decisions. I think the resim decision is a great building block for that, for instance; obviously in this case, there is past precedent you can link people reading the decision to. I think I just want to know why decisions fall the way they do, not necessarily every step of the process.
Now, to actually address approachability: I have had personal conversations with exactly 0 members of HO in their capacity as HO. I fundamentally believe that each of you is a great person, in the same way that I feel that way about much of the league. But I do not know that I would even consider coming to any of you directly about concerns I have with the league, because the HO side of HO members does not feel as approachable. Maybe I'm the only one that feels that way, but I think maybe engage with the community in your capacity as HO in a way that makes HO seem open to a certain level of dialogue is what I'm saying.
Finally: I am flattered you think I'm part of the wonderful s18 class, but I am s17.
Thanks for engaging me, Dwyer. I think this gets to the approachability thing.
transparency would be a little hard in that case. I do try and give some reasoning behind decisions, but its also kind of hard because HO can be divided. We generally agree on stuff, but not every decision is 5-0. So it would be hard for us to give our way of thinking as a whole unanimous HO because not all of us have the same line of thinking. Heck, i forget what it was, but a while back we had a decision that was a 5-0 decision but there were 3 different reasons for it. Or just some stuff i guess we just dont have a deep reason for it? like with this last punishment our reasoning was just that he leaked an IP, not much more deep than that.
For approachability, i definitely think its something we need, I just didn't know it was an issue. I try to be active in the community, mess aorund, sometimes even join a voice chat in rookie discord. I will try to be more active in the general public, can just be hard sometimes with all the chats i have to jump around into