IA Announcement/December Promotions

Started by Jenson, December 02, 2014, 12:13:13 PM

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Jenson

Hello everyone,

As you might have seen in the Cabinet room, we've decided to re-work promotions and awards. The first change is that instead of presenting promotions & awards only every 3-5 months during Community Day, we've decided to do them monthly. This means your contributions to TLO will be considered and recognized in a more "real-time" basis, as your past month's contributions will be viewed instead of a long period of several months. This will take us back to our old model that gave fewer promotions/awards out at a time, but awards that were more recognizable as they note achievements that occurred shortly before they were presented.

We've also decided to change the way promotions work. From now on, promotions up to Officer rank will more or less based on the time you have spent as an active member of TLO. Awards will be more of the focus for specific accomplishments/achievements of members. Rank has never meant much at TLO--and with this new system we're trying to solidify that understanding.

This month we obviously have a lot of promotions and awards in backlog as we haven't had a community day for almost 5 months now. Because of this, this month's batch of promotions and awards will be abnormally long as we're going back and recognize achievements/activity for a long span of time. In future, promotions and awards will be announced together--but this month, they will be separate. The reason for this is that we have a lot of people sitting in "New TLO Member" or "Recruit" ranks who have been here a long time, and we want to get that straightened out ASAP. December awards will be announced at the middle of the month to allow time for the Game Commanders/Cabinet to submit their recommendations to IA. This also likely means that January awards will be more limited due to a small amount of time passing in between award announcements, but this should normalize in February.

Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.

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And with that said, I'd like to congratulate the following members on their promotions (in random order):

Shoot:

Promotion to Chief

Monroe:

Promotion to Officer

Tim:

Promotion to Jr. Officer

Mutatio Nomen:

Promotion to Jr. Officer

MStickney:

Promotion to Jr. Officer

LaBaron:

Promotion to Recruit

LPman:

Promotion to Recruit

Clinging Mars:

Promotion to Recruit

Fixer-132:

Promotion to Recruit

Quantum Novae:

Promotion to Recruit

Rodocks:

Promotion to Recruit

AlsoJames:

Promotion to Recruit

Medicman695:

Promotion to Chief

Jon Riker:

Promotion to Chief

WackyTraveler:

Promotion to Chief

John Conner:

Promotion to Provisional Officer

HeyBanditoz:

Promotion to Chief

Bahooky McTavish:

Promotion to Recruit

Ekaj-To-Tha-Three:

Promotion to Chief

ImperialOrder:

Promotion to Recruit

Rob Browning:

Promotion to Recruit

Thatonegamer:

Promotion to Recruit

nat19101988:

Promotion to Recruit

hallfire1:

Promotion to Recruit

Metalman:

Promotion to Recruit

John Peters:

Promotion to Chief

jjake101:

Promotion to Chief

Bisqwit:

Promotion to Recruit

Congratulations to you all on your promotions!  ^_^ Your promotions will be applied to the forum shortly. Stay tuned for awards, coming next weekend.