Neutral, may be subject to change with further discussion.
You want an OP's perspective? I'll give you an OP's perspective.
You'll see me almost never commenting on threads that involve higher hierarchies logistics. Be it admin quarrels, executive policy changes or what have you. Do I have opinions on them? Sure - but I don't actually care enough to voice it, and I doubt most of us even care enough to have an opinion. Do they bring changes to the table? Sure, but do they bring changes of substance that affects a normal player's experience on the server? I don't think that changing one line in the policy constitutes to all of your rights being lost nor does it mean the server will rapidly deteriorate to nothingness within 2 weeks, which is mainly the reason why I often don't care enough and neither does most of the OPs.
We all know that there's constantly tons of admins actively replying in the forums. Do you know why it isn't the case for OPs? Personally, usually because of two reasons:
- The situation is silly and either that I don't have an opinion or I don't feel like giving one;
- The concern is already voiced by other people in the same thread and therefore would be redundant to repeat a point.
The biggest gripe I have with this post is that you make it mutually exclusive that an admin can never have an OP's perspective. I simply cannot count how many times admins have voiced some concern that I had in mind or even made some concerns that would only matter to an OP that I didn't even think existed. Just because a person has a certain rank does not mean they cannot logically derive the effects of a certain change on any other specific ranks.
Points are criticized based on the validity of the points. If someone suggested a horrid irreversible change to the server that brings nothing positive, people will criticize it be the person making the point you or Darth, Luke, Panther, me or any other person really.
I am frustrated at this post not because I read things from an admin's perspective, I am frustrated because you are undermining the actual freedom and power we all have that we don't utilize. You made the "first thread" on this entire forums within 5 minutes of the new forums announcement. If that isn't a testament to say how easy it is for any player to voice their concerns, I don't know what is.
If you really wanted a controlled, open environment for discussion to take place in the balance of all parties with points simply criticized for what they are, I don't think you would need to make a separate Discord server for OPs and specifically OPs to join. What you are creating is not a good environment to cultivate good suggestions to better the future of TotalFreedom. To put nicely, it's a safespace - to put it blunt, it sounds nothing less of an echo chamber.
The concept and the intention of this OP Council thing is not bad. If we really could somehow encourage OPs to give more valid opinions (unique or not) that would be amazing to the server. Sadly, your execution is very much dangerous and your true intentions seems questionable.
I look forward to what you think.