Freedom Game-Mode Executive Policy

  • Total Freedom's Executives comprise six main ranks and are as follows,

    Executive Purpose

    The purpose Executives serve throughout TotalFreedom and the TF Network is to hold delegated authority from the server owner and to fulfil a sub-set of the duties which the server owner would normally be responsible for managing.


    Executive Admin Officer

    Manages and maintains administrators. Handles their respective applications, and administrative policies, and enforces the administrator's conduct policy.

    Executive Creative Designer

    Manages and maintains the Master-builders. Handles their respective applications, and master-builder policies, and is in charge of any master-builder-related project.
    Manages server art (not necessarily creating it)

    Executive Lead Developer

    Oversees all the development activities for the TotalFreedom server, leading the development team and working with the owner and other executives to ensure the server is stable and bugs are being patched as appropriate, while also working to ensure we're running the latest server versions we can be. This role unlike the majority of others does not have a concept of assistants, and all developers are deemed, assistants.

    Executive Ban Manager

    Manages our current indefinite ban process for the server, and as we start moving towards a network is also responsible for liaising between the various game modes we have running to ensure those who should be banned across the network are banned on all servers, this is especially important while we're running a number of stand-alone servers.

    This individual will hold sufficient access throughout the TF Network to enforce and apply bans for the Freedom game mode. This may be through direct server access where appropriate, or through admin/staff roles on the specific game modes. Where specific server access is granted, it will be logged and tracked on another thread along with all individuals with such access.

    Executive Community Manager

    The Executive Community Manager is responsible for the health and overall "vibe" of our community. This individual will be responsible for managing server events, engagement with the community and helping to bring suggestions to the wider leadership team which will benefit the server and help to run the server's social media presence.

    This individual will be expected to work closely with our development team to help agree on priorities for features that the community are looking for, and will be expected to work closely with the Executive Marketing Manager to ensure a joined-up strategy to ensure a healthy and growing community. This individual will ultimately be responsible for the health and well-being of the community as a whole across our various platforms as we grow.

    Executive Marketing Manager

    The Executive Marketing Manager will be responsible for the overall advertising and promotional strategy of the TF Network, bringing players into the FreeOP Servers, and any other game modes we launch in the future. This individual will be expected to represent the community externally (And by extension representing ATLAS Media Group) with the end goal of bringing more players to us and retaining them going into the future, ensuring the TF network grows at a steady and sustainable pace.

    This individual will also be expected to lead, coordinate and execute our social media plans, alongside other individuals as appropriate and to work with the Community Manager and Lead Developer to agree on priorities for new features, game modes or anything else that may help attract & retain players. This individual will also be ultimately responsible for things such as voting, which will likely play a key part in the advertising strategy. This individual will be responsible for helping to maintain the community on all of our platforms (In-Game, on the forums, on Discord and anywhere else we may deem official in the future) and is expected to work closely with the Community Manager to ensure that the community we are maintaining is healthy and in a good state to grow further.


    Beyond the duties listed above, Executive duties include keeping a log of their and their assistant's actions beyond normal administrating. This log must be posted on a public board and be updated in a timely manner.


    Executive Appointments / Removals

    All appointments and removals from executive status are the sole responsibility of the server owner. Executive positions may be added and removed as the owner sees fit, and as appropriate additional executive roles may be created in order to fulfil the growing requirements of the server.

    If the community feel an executive is not fulfilling their duties as an executive, their first port of call should be to raise this with the server owner, where a sensible discussion can be had.

    The owner will where practical hold a formal application process for appointing new executives where the entire community will be encouraged to post feedback on the candidates who are applying for the role(s) in question. Where this is not practical (As deemed by the owner) executives can be directly appointed.

    Community Instigated Removals

    ONLY In the event that engagement with the server owner has failed, the community may choose to instigate a vote-off. It is however expected that the complaints are initially addressed to the server owner, and a minimum of 2 weeks is allowed for the owner to resolve the issue that has been bought forward.

    In the event this dialogue has failed an executive community removal can be instigated, this will require an active executive, and 2 active senior admins to be in agreement that the vote-off can be instigated. Unless the Executive Admin Officer is the executive to be removed, the executive agreeing to the vote-off must be that individual. In the event, that a vote-off is agreed to be instigated a thread will be posted in the admin lounge by the original instigator with a poll asking if the executive in question should / should not be removed.

    Voting Process and requirements.

    Executives will no longer be voted in and their appointment has been covered earlier in this post. The owner may choose to hold a public vote to confirm an appointment of a new executive, or to help choose who should therefore be appointed, this vote will not necessarily mandate the final decision made by the owner.

    Executive Assistants

    As a general rule of thumb executives should look to avoid appointing assistants to assist in their day-to-day duties, especially as often the executive role will be the primary responsibility of the individual in question. Where an assistant is deemed required by the executive, they may appoint no more than 1 assistant. An executive assistant may at no point also be an active executive, the individual who is being asked to act as both assistant and full executive will have the choice as to which role they wish to take on.

    Restrictions on Executive Assistants and their appointment may be imposed by the server owner as they see appropriate. Executive Assistants are not deemed to be of a higher rank or status on the server beyond their standard administrative role.

    Voting out Executives.

    At the owner's discretion, they may wish to hold a poll to establish if the community feels that the executive has been fulfilling their duties. There will not however be one automatically.

    Wild1145

    Network Owner at TotalFreedom

    Managing Director at ATLAS Media Group Ltd.

    Founder & Owner at MastodonApp.UK

  • Changelog 15/11/2020:

    • Fixed some formatting to make this easier to read after the copy / paste in.
    • Removed the "Forum owner & manager" as right now that's me, so doesn't make sense to have an executive role for myself...
    • Added Executive Lead Developer role
    • Added Permban Manager & Cross-Network Ban Manager Role.

    Wild1145

    Network Owner at TotalFreedom

    Managing Director at ATLAS Media Group Ltd.

    Founder & Owner at MastodonApp.UK

  • Changelog 28/12/2020

    • Re-named Executive Server Liaison to Executive Evangelist to better reflect the role they should be doing.
    • Removed community voting and clarified that executives will be appointed by the server owner.
    • Added information on the scope of this policy.
    • Cleaned up the roles which never did have voting as well.
    • Un-Re-Named Executive Server Liaison to Executive Evangelist to better reflect the role they should be doing.
    • Re-defined the Executive Server Liaison role to better clarify the role
    • Re-Named Indefinite Ban Manager & Cross-Network Ban Manager to just Executive Ban Manager as that's more appropriate.
    • Explained why Exec Ban Manager needs forum / discord admin.
    • Added clarification on owner appointment
    • Added option for community removals of Executives.

    Wild1145

    Network Owner at TotalFreedom

    Managing Director at ATLAS Media Group Ltd.

    Founder & Owner at MastodonApp.UK

  • Changelog 24/04/2021

    • Removed Executive Server Liaison
    • Added Executive Community Manager
    • Added Executive Server Evangelist
    • Clarification on how voting can / may work when it comes to execs
    • Minor clarifications around additional duties of an executive beyond role specific duties
    • Added policy around executive assistants and the discouragement of having executives. (To clarify on this - If at the current time an executive has multiple assistants, these will not be removed, they will simply not be able to appoint any more than 1 going forward).
    • Various thread formatting tweaks and clean-up's
    • Re-Named the Executive Server Evangelist role to Executive Marketing Manager
    • Clarified that you can no longer be an exec and assistant exec.

    Wild1145

    Network Owner at TotalFreedom

    Managing Director at ATLAS Media Group Ltd.

    Founder & Owner at MastodonApp.UK

  • Changelog 27/8/2021

    • Minor corrections from when the Evangelist title was changed
    • Changed scope of the community manager role to focus more around community health and the running of events cross-platform
    • Changed scope of the marketing manager to ultimately also be accountable for player retention.

    Wild1145

    Network Owner at TotalFreedom

    Managing Director at ATLAS Media Group Ltd.

    Founder & Owner at MastodonApp.UK

  • Changelog 29/8/2021

    • Added clarification around exec ban manager access to confirm they will have appropriate access to enforce and manage bans across the network.

    Wild1145

    Network Owner at TotalFreedom

    Managing Director at ATLAS Media Group Ltd.

    Founder & Owner at MastodonApp.UK

  • The following sentence has been removed from Executive Ban Manager:

    Quote

    Due to the nature of this role the individual will be issued with Forum and Discord administrator privileges as they may be required to collate evidence and review various appeals / ban statues throughout our network and various communications channels.

    This is mostly for the sake of limiting permissions where access is not strictly necessary. Of course, I am not trying to cripple any future Ban Manager: the second paragraph above still says that they will have sufficient access to enforce and apply (and therefore review) bans across the network, and they will still be able to work with the Admin Officer to investigate complex situations.

  • The title of this thread has been updated now to better reflect the scope of the policy.

    Wild1145

    Network Owner at TotalFreedom

    Managing Director at ATLAS Media Group Ltd.

    Founder & Owner at MastodonApp.UK

    • Official Post

    I've made some changes to this policy mostly around formatting and readability.

    I've made some changes also to the ban manager role to make it slightly more clear on the bounds of responsibilities (hopefully!)

    Wild1145

    Network Owner at TotalFreedom

    Managing Director at ATLAS Media Group Ltd.

    Founder & Owner at MastodonApp.UK