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#1 Fantasy_Gamer
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Not that I will stop making news, but I just realized that FFE cannot depend on me forever in updating our homepage for news and other latest FF info. You see, like now, I want to fix all our sections (like the images, downloads, guides, etc.), but due to the overwhelming amount of E3 news and updates, it consumes all my time which I should have devoted in buildin gour contents. Someone should do it so I can work on our contents.

So now, I am opening another Mod Position. No graphic designers now, but a good news writer. Here are the requirements:

Requirements:

1. Must be present and active at FFE almost everyday... ('coz we do updates on daily basis)
2. Nice, mature and loyal
3. Someone who is taking up Journalism or engaged in news/reporting activities/course. (like a news editor in a school paper) OR one who is really good with news.
4. Not a mod in any other unions. (This is necessary because being in-charge with the news department will take up a lot of time. You will not be able to afford to take another job in another union).
5. Use any FFE signature linked to our homepage.

This is a big responsibility and I hope anyone who can help FFE with this job will apply. If you know someone who can take that job, please inform them.

Thanks.

~FG

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#2 ffxjunky06
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Dont deltete this post as it is important.

Fantasy_Gamer, it is almost impossible to find a Good News Writer (or Finder) who is not a Part of another Union as either an Officer and even a Leader. There is a Vast Number of people who are becoming Officers and Leaders of Unions and wont give them up as they think that there pathetic Unions will go somewhere.

You will have to find a person by looking about or getting one of your Officers to do it. This Task will be very time consuming and will take some time to do. You might even be waiting for a few week until you can find someone and i know you dont have that kind of time as E3 is at the present time and news is pouring out everywhere.

I do a lot of News Updates and am getting better with the time i spend on them but i wont apply as i am a Leader of 2 Unions and Officer of a few (as i just resigned from 3 positions one hour ago). I have plenty of time to do updates for my Union (SERU), post at least 100 times a day and talk to a lot of people via PM (Which i have to with my positions). I also find it pretty easy to find news of FF related games for a number of places.

Well if you read all of this then you will notice that what you want it near impossible to find with looking at the time you have. If you put the requirements to "You can only be an Officer (or Leader) of a Maximum of 3 Unions (Leader of One and Officer of 2). You must spend most of your time doing the Updates as E3 has announced a lot of Games that we will be expecting you to do Professional, Clear, Presentable and in your own words Updates for these games. You must also be an Active member here at FFE so we can clarify if you are suited to this Job".
Something like that.

Well what do you think? Do you think it would be wise to change the Requirement for the Position of News Reporter?

Oh yeah and one other thing. Check amongst your Officer to see if they could do it for you instead of adding another person to the ranks of Officer. This would be effective. Or you could ask them if they know anyone who can do this Task and can meet the Requirements of the Job.
That would save a lot of time.

Make sure you have read this carefully because i want to know your views on everything.
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#3 megamatics
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i am only part of 4 unions but i will only have time to do this in august so i sugest you get a friend who is not on gamespot and get him to help you by registering him on gamespot and making him a modification
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#4 Fantasy_Gamer
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That's what I'm thinknig, but I wonder who? Hmmm.... Tries to check my GFAQs friends.
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#5 SQUALL20XX
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Sorry FG I can't do it until I get my ADSL connection  , after that you will be amazed from me .
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#6 Chirag6
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I could try it if you want...........
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    Well I will be starting to be active (Sorry I havn't i've been busy helping get someones union starting).  I can re-write stuff, but the thing is I can't find the news.  So as long as someone suplies the site for me I can do it. And well I am nice mature and loyal.  Just ask the other leaders of unions I am an officer in.  I am taking writing classes write now and I am getting an A in that grade.  I may be mods in other unions, but I am very active in all of them, since I am on pretty much all day long.  I am on from 8:30 AM to about 3:00 PM Pacific time.  And am on again from 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM.  I have a FFE sig in my sig linked to the home page.  I might be an officer in other unions, but that just makes meexperienced.  I am not a member of The Final Fantasy Union.  And if for some reason I would not be on for several days, I would let the leader and/or some of the officers.  I might not be a high level, but I have been on GS since 2004 (on my other account).  If you need proof of anything I said above.  Just ask any of the Leaders of the unions I am officers in.  I can also be a graphics designer for the union (Since I have improved since last time).  Well I guess this all I have to say about myself.
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#8 Fantasy_Gamer
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Sorry FG I can't do it until I get my ADSL connection  , after that you will be amazed from me . SQUALL20XX

I hope you'll get your connection fixed soon... and I would really want to be "amazed" by your work as a mod. It's hard to do all things by myself.

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#9 StalkingDeath
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From what u mentioned, these are my drawbacks. Im an officer in 6 unions. Im not very good at finding news.

But on the other hand. Im an article writer in a union already. So i can compile any news for u. Im present daily. U dont have to worry about that. I can come online for a few mins everyday even if my net connection is down. I can search for any particular thing that is mentioned. For Example ......... u ask me to find somethin then im sure i can get it for u.

I dont really need a mod position for this. I'll be haooy to help u with compiling and finding stuff as much as i can :D

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#10 KnowledgeOrCred
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i must suggest that you go to DRs union and take a look at their updates and see if DR or somebody (especially disgaeamad) would offer some pointers or would become an officer at our union
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#11 StalkingDeath
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Ummm who are ya referring to??
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#12 natiko
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I would help with updates, but I don't know how your doing the updates now so I can't really do them....
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i must suggest that you go to DRs union and take a look at their updates and see if DR or somebody (especially disgaeamad) would offer some pointers or would become an officer at our unionKnowledgeOrCred
Thanks for the compliment KoC :) Yeah, i'm really good at making Updates, but at the moment, I wouldn't have enough time.
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as usual im more than willing to sacrafice hours of time to the improvment of FFE so let me know whatever it is that i can all of you
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#15 StalkingDeath
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I'll have a lot more time after may 19th cuz my entrance exams get over on that day
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#16 ffxjunky06
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[QUOTE="ffxjunky06"]Dont deltete this post as it is important.

Fantasy_Gamer, it is almost impossible to find a Good News Writer (or Finder) who is not a Part of another Union as either an Officer and even a Leader. There is a Vast Number of people who are becoming Officers and Leaders of Unions and wont give them up as they think that there pathetic Unions will go somewhere.

You will have to find a person by looking about or getting one of your Officers to do it. This Task will be very time consuming and will take some time to do. You might even be waiting for a few week until you can find someone and i know you dont have that kind of time as E3 is at the present time and news is pouring out everywhere.

I do a lot of News Updates and am getting better with the time i spend on them but i wont apply as i am a Leader of 2 Unions and Officer of a few (as i just resigned from 3 positions one hour ago). I have plenty of time to do updates for my Union (SERU), post at least 100 times a day and talk to a lot of people via PM (Which i have to with my positions). I also find it pretty easy to find news of FF related games for a number of places.

Well if you read all of this then you will notice that what you want it near impossible to find with looking at the time you have. If you put the requirements to "You can only be an Officer (or Leader) of a Maximum of 3 Unions (Leader of One and Officer of 2). You must spend most of your time doing the Updates as E3 has announced a lot of Games that we will be expecting you to do Professional, Clear, Presentable and in your own words Updates for these games. You must also be an Active member here at FFE so we can clarify if you are suited to this Job".
Something like that.

Well what do you think? Do you think it would be wise to change the Requirement for the Position of News Reporter?

Oh yeah and one other thing. Check amongst your Officer to see if they could do it for you instead of adding another person to the ranks of Officer. This would be effective. Or you could ask them if they know anyone who can do this Task and can meet the Requirements of the Job.
That would save a lot of time.

Make sure you have read this carefully because i want to know your views on everything.

I used my time to tell you the drawbacks of this matter and gave you suggestions yet i got no reply.
FG, you should really try and answer all of the members Posts if they are important. Dont just ignore. This is poor Leadership. I know you are a Great Leader as we have spoke to each other on a Great Number of times so we know each other pretty well. So why do you ignore my post?

P.S. The Officers can also answer to this if they would like. Only if they are going to be Cival.
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I've already stated my position in that issue many times. I don't feel that I need to repeast myself over and over again. Besides, that issue is a matter under the current leader's style on how and whom he want to be in his worling group.
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I've already stated my position in that issue many times. I don't feel that I need to repeast myself over and over again. Besides, that issue is a matter under the current leader's style on how and whom he want to be in his worling group.Fantasy_Gamer
Well it is better to answer all the FFEU's members questions or Suggestions on a particular matter. Dont get lazy by ignoring the members. If someone asks a question then please answer.

Oh and you still didnt answer my question. A good answer would be apreciated.
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#19 natiko
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[QUOTE="Fantasy_Gamer"]I've already stated my position in that issue many times. I don't feel that I need to repeast myself over and over again. Besides, that issue is a matter under the current leader's style on how and whom he want to be in his worling group.ffxjunky06
Well it is better to answer all the FFEU's members questions or Suggestions on a particular matter. Dont get lazy by ignoring the members. If someone asks a question then please answer.

Oh and you still didnt answer my question. A good answer would be apreciated.

Here I'll answer for him. To FG loyalty is a very important aspect in choosing officers. He wants officers he knows will be loyal and have a lot of time to spend at this union providing it with the best they can provide for it. Choosing someone who is an officer at a lot of unions or a leader/officer of other FF unions could get in the way of providing good news or whatever it is they have been made officer to provide. It is simply best for the union if things such as that were avoided so FG has a strict policy on who he will let be an officer.
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[QUOTE="ffxjunky06"] [QUOTE="Fantasy_Gamer"]I've already stated my position in that issue many times. I don't feel that I need to repeast myself over and over again. Besides, that issue is a matter under the current leader's style on how and whom he want to be in his worling group.natiko
Well it is better to answer all the FFEU's members questions or Suggestions on a particular matter. Dont get lazy by ignoring the members. If someone asks a question then please answer.

Oh and you still didnt answer my question. A good answer would be apreciated.

Here I'll answer for him. To FG loyalty is a very important aspect in choosing officers. He wants officers he knows will be loyal and have a lot of time to spend at this union providing it with the best they can provide for it. Choosing someone who is an officer at a lot of unions or a leader/officer of other FF unions could get in the way of providing good news or whatever it is they have been made officer to provide. It is simply best for the union if things such as that were avoided so FG has a strict policy on who he will let be an officer.

exactly, FG also doesnt want any conflicts of interest, it pisses alot of people off but in the end it makes sense
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Yeah. Thanks tom and mark... and that policy makes me a "bad" leader. :P
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#22 StalkingDeath
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Why dont u have a poll of some sort for officer nominations and then u can select who's worthy. just my opinion

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#23 Fantasy_Gamer
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I'm choosing officers whom I can think of will be able to work with me with less friction.
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#24 antsnail
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i'm kinda new with this whole union thing. oh..thanks to FG for inviting me by the way. just one question- are members from other unions allowed to browse through contents inside our union? also, are we allowed to join more than one union? there maybe some posts regarding my questions but then again there are like thousand posts in here and u cant possibly expect me to go through it one by one. I'm just wondering that because as of today, I'd received at least 5 invitations to join unions. It's weird because i was a member of GS since last year but nobody did bothered to message me not even once before this week. Lol!
Like I said I'm just a small time gamer :P
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#25 Fantasy_Gamer
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Check your PM ants.
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#26 RobotOpBuddy  Moderator
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i can't really be bothered to look thro all the news on a daily basis

that 4th point kinda eliminates just about everyone :lol:

i'd never accept the 5th point either anyway...

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#27 StalkingDeath
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Yeah that 4th point definitely eliminates me and the 5th point well ........ i could have a tag of the FFE in an animation but a separate tag would be nearly impossible
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Yeah. Thanks tom and mark... and that policy makes me a "bad" leader. :PFantasy_Gamer
Hey i didnt actually mean you are a Bad Leader because i know for a fact you are not but it is the way you are coming across right now that makes this come out. Right now (please dont take offence to it) you sound a little bit like a little Child. They way you deal or speak to the members (including me) and also the way you answer the questions is not the way you did it in the past. You have change a lot and IMO, not in the best way. This is all of the things that come across right now.

Oh and as for MG, please dont Swear. That is a ToS Violation and against all rules of GS.
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#29 The1andOnlyMG
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^^this is not intended to start a war or anything but the words that Tom and I use the swear ones at least are allowed here on GS, unless the ToS has changed in the last few months the use of damn and ass (i think those are all I use) are allowed as long as you're not using them excessively or directing them in a hateful manner such as flaming people, like I said maybe its changed now but I figure if those words arent allowed in the context I use them in then they would be automatically censored which would force me to censor bypass them and of course be violating the ToS

anyway I'm not trying to argue or start any trouble I figured I'd just stick up for myself and make sure I have the right understanding

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i'm kinda new with this whole union thing. oh..thanks to FG for inviting me by the way. just one question- are members from other unions allowed to browse through contents inside our union? also, are we allowed to join more than one union? there maybe some posts regarding my questions but then again there are like thousand posts in here and u cant possibly expect me to go through it one by one. I'm just wondering that because as of today, I'd received at least 5 invitations to join unions. It's weird because i was a member of GS since last year but nobody did bothered to message me not even once before this week. Lol!
Like I said I'm just a small time gamer :Pantsnail
ok I'll try to answer these questions for you (FG please don't delete my message here I know its in your mod opening thread but I'm just helping him)

yes people from other unions are allowed to view our pages and boards all they want, and yes members here are allowed to join any other unions they want, practically everyone here is a member of at least one other union most of us are members of quite a few

the reason you never got any invites until now is....i looked at your profile and noticed this is your only union, so this is how it happens, sometimes unions recruit members by looking at the member lists from other unions in their field, meaning say you started an FF union today and you needed to invite some people to join your union, you may figure on checking out other FF unions and seeing who's in them that way you know at least they are FF fans and may at least give your invite a chance, until you joined this union you were basically invisible to others when it came to inviting you to unions get used to it the invites will keep coming

hell try being an officer or a leader of a high ranked union and watch all of the crazy PMs you'll get, not to mention the tons of friend requests (i think its called tracking now), it used to drive me insane when I used to be the leader here

anyway I know I talk in circles I hope I helped you and not just confused you more

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#31 RobotOpBuddy  Moderator
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anyway I know I talk in circles I hope I helped you and not just confused you more

The1andOnlyMG
:lol: if you've confused him anymore then move it to a different topic, otherwise tho hopefully you answered all his questions so this stays on topic....