The Ownership Policy - A Question & Many Thoughts

I'm hoping to get some feedback from current members of the community, I suspect this thread will cause drama and likely the return of folks that have been inactive, and while I value your views, my interest is in what the current active TF community feel on this matter.

As part of the recent change in the Freedom Game-Mode's ownership, I wanted to start to tweak policies so they made sense in the new context, a lot of our policies have always been written with the assumption that we are and will never be more than just a Freedom server, and over the last year that has changed, and will continue to change as we launch the plots game-mode and launch other game-modes into the future.

The ownership policy as a policy continues to be a tricky one, because in it's current format, it's no longer enforceable and arguably not really going to achieve what it was originally intended to do, when Mark was custodian of the domain it gave the policy some teeth and was seen as the generally accepted way we would future-proof TF's existence as a community, with that no longer being the case I want to re-visit with the community the scope of the policy and where we go from here.

My original plan had been to re-work the ownership policy to apply only to the Freedom Game-mode, which Steven now owns, that felt in keeping with the spirit of the original policy, and still gives the community some power over the big decision of who owns their server, it did however end up removing nearly everything that made the ownership policy useful, and felt like it would just water it down to the point of being pointless.

It also meant there are issues that would remain unresolved, especially if I were to go inactive / anything like that, but equally now there is nobody external owning the domain name, I couldn't think of a good way to address it, this is the first time since Mark handed over to Windows that the owner of the server has also owned the domain and had actual full control over things.

Under Seth's ownership I was very vocal about the fact that the ownership policy was the only thing that actually gave him legitimacy as the owner of the server, and I don't think that's changed today, but the fact of the matter remains that the policy is no longer enforceable / able to be invoked without me agreeing due to the domain ownership, and as such it in it's format today, is totally pointless.

I guess my question is what are peoples thoughts, do you care about having an ownership policy, if so what are your thoughts on how to make it useful and meaningful?

↩  DragonSlayer2189 The executive roles were generally re-scoped because we don't have many other active game-modes, and the existing executive roles were ultimately written and designed around the Freedom game-mode. Some of these roles in the future may move to be cross-network, some will naturally remain specific to the game-mode to which they are assigned, but right now as per this thread the executives were changed to reporting into Steven and by extension are currently scoped to the Freedom Game-mode.

The main reason for this is that a lot of the comments around executives were that they didn't understand their scope or didn't think X, Y or Z were the right things for the network, this way (Unless otherwise tasked) executives report to Steven and he makes the final call on who is appointed / removed going forward.

↩  Tizz So my view on the totalfreedom.me domain is that it's something I plan to keep and maintain for as long as I can afford to keep things running, even if we killed all the game servers, I'd very much like to keep whatever forums and other online resources we have still accessible for many years to come, given how many older members of the community would know that domain, I'd be very unlikely to consider giving it away to anyone as I value the longer term historic value and archiving of TF above saving the £10 a year it'd save me.