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4) Promotions above Commander shall be made taking into consideration Club Tenure, Performance of OOC duties, Recommendation of fellow club leadership, and Time in Grade. We feel establishing a Promotions Task Force to develop these guidelines will make promotions even more meaningful and obtainment of new pips even more special. This we hope will provide incentive for members to engage more in the STF community as a whole.

What do you find inadequate about the current guidelines for promoting?

Inconsistency. Many times, members are promoted thanks to having time to hangout in chat/Discord and not on the body of their work. I don’t think the current guidelines are the least bit effective and leave gaping holes for personal bias. A formal system should be in place to ensure members are properly recognized for their contributions to the community as a whole.

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Adam W.

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Thanks,
Jerome

Is that really the case? Here’s a list of promotions starting with Jack’s las term (I used that as a starting point as that was when you were promoted to Fleet Captain):

Jack Dipper’s Presidential Promotions:

• Jerome Davis
• Ty Napier
• Daniel Lerner
• Robert Archer
• Jen Herr
• Joe Fahey

Kat Dedul’s Presidential Promotions:

• Harry Shires
• Thomas B
• Julia K.
• Daniel Lerner
• Steve Johnson

Robert Archer’s Presidential Promotions:

• Joe P
• Matthew Kleinman
• Nicholas Villareal

Lindsay Bayes’ Presidential Promotions:

• Adam W.
• Ray Branch
• Sharon Millern
• Joe P
• Kat Dedul

Jeremy DeSpain’s Presidential Promotions:

• Lindsay Bayes
• David Shotton
• Matthew Kleinman
• Thomas Bates
• Matthew Bernardin
• Amber DeSadier
• Owen Morgan
• Tyra Schroll
• Joe P

Daniel Lerner’s Presidential Promotions:

• Kenson Koth
• Steven Sigle
• Adam W.
• Matthew Bernardin
• Thomas Bates
• Lindsay Bayes

Adam W’s Presidential Promotions:

• Owen Morgan
• Calé Reilly

James Sinclair’s Presidential Promotions:

• Krys McLean
• Sarah Hemenway
• David Shotton
• Kate O'Neill
• Daniel Lerner

While certainly some of the people on the list have been active in Discord, that certainly cannot be said about all of those promotions. And many of the people promoted would not exactly be considered “BFF”s with President who promoted them. (In fact, I think you ran against Jack in that election :P ).

I would also suggest most if not all of those promotion edicts go into the details of what the contributions were since the last promotion that led to the promotion.

Can you therefore please clarify the statement you made above: “Many times, members are promoted thanks to having time to hangout in chat/Discord and not on the body of their work.”?

Thanks,
Daniel Lerner