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For more information on what a Build Master is, see PvXwiki:Build Masters.
A system-generated list of Build Masters can be found here
A category containing links to all resolved RfBMs may be found here.
The Process
Nominations
Candidates may be nominated either by themselves, or other individuals. The nominator should indicate the reasons that he or she feels that the nominee would be a valuable asset to the Wiki community, giving particular regard to why they believe that the candidate deserves the additional powers of a Build Master. The candidate should then indicate their assent to the nomination (if they so choose), and should add any additional comments regarding their candidacy (assuming they were nominated by someone else).
Instructions for how to nominate a candidate can be found below.
Voting
Any member of the community is free to indicate their feelings towards the candidate. These “votes” should indicate whether you support or oppose the candidate, or, alternatively, you may indicate a neutral position. These votes are used as an indicator by the Bureaucrats, and, as such, comments should indicate some insight into the position taken by the voter. While a reason is not strictly required, a vote that provides reasoning will not only be a more valuable tool for the Bureaucrats, it will also be cause for greater consideration and will have a greater impact on the final decision.
In order to maintain a sense of decorum on the voting page, responses to votes should be added to the nominees talk page, not on the nomination page itself.
Promotion
It is important to note that a well-supported nomination is not a guarantee for an build master position—the final decision rests solely with the current administrative team. Voting, while an important tool, is not the deciding factor. The decision as to whether a build master is required at a given time is also left up to the current Administrators. As such, the promotion of a candidate could be held off until a later date even if the candidate were acceptable.
A nomination ends when either the Bureaucrats decide to promote the candidate, or, when the voting stagnates and no decision is reached and/or the Administrative team is unwilling to promote a candidates. Candidates may reapply for the position or may be nominated again at a later date.
Active Nominations
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the nomination of a user for Build Master status. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.
Smurf Ohai (talk • contribs)
The best active user we have at the moment. Rawrawr Dinosaur 12:09, 12 September 2008 (EDT)
- Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept, I'll promise activity even if I don't get BM. Smurf Ohai 12:15, 12 September 2008 (EDT)
Support
- oboy. Godbox 12:11, 12 September 2008 (EDT)
support for BM of HB and possibly gvg.Saint 12:29, 12 September 2008 (EDT)- ....admin? ɟoʇuɐʌʎʞɔıɹ 12:30, 12 September 2008 (EDT)
- ups. Saint 12:32, 12 September 2008 (EDT)
- We don't have area specific BMs, you're either BM of all areas or none. Smurf's a friend, I'd be more than happy for him to get BM if he increased his activity and started putting more effort into explaining things on talk pages. You don't need to suck his dick that much. --Image:Tab Piplup.jpg 12:33, 12 September 2008 (EDT)
- im not here to suck his dick. hes a good player, just give him reign over gvg/HB. Saint 12:46, 12 September 2008 (EDT)
- We don't have area specific BMs, you're either BM of all areas or none. Smurf's a friend, I'd be more than happy for him to get BM if he increased his activity and started putting more effort into explaining things on talk pages. You don't need to suck his dick that much. --Image:Tab Piplup.jpg 12:33, 12 September 2008 (EDT)
- ups. Saint 12:32, 12 September 2008 (EDT)
- ....admin? ɟoʇuɐʌʎʞɔıɹ 12:30, 12 September 2008 (EDT)
- Only because pretty much any half decent player is inactive. We need more inactive scrubs to at least look like we're doing something, cuz 0,3+0,3+0,3 = still close to 1. —ǘŋƐxɩsƫ 12:42, 12 September 2008 (EDT)
- What Unexist said, less the math. --71.229 03:08, 22 September 2008 (EDT)
- --GoldenStar 17:16, 22 September 2008 (EDT)
- He makes weird builds that work quite good, so it seems that he knows something Blacksmurf McHippopotas 14:32, 24 October 2008 (EDT)
Oppose
- Almost completely inactive, rarely contributes to buildspace. If Ensign isn't good enough to warrant getting BM despite inactivity, then Smurf definately isn't. Furthermore, someone playing at a decent rank doesn't mean they'd make a good BM. BMship has fairly little to do with how good someone is at playing gw, and more to do with theorycraft of builds and ability to explain how/why things work. --Image:Tab Piplup.jpg 12:11, 12 September 2008 (EDT)
- If you had been around smurf for more than a few minutes you would know he has no problem explaining things to people. also, you theory sounds a bit off:
- "BMship has fairly little to do with how good someone is at playing gw, and more to do with theorycraft of builds and ability to explain how/why things work."
- Why would he be running it if he didnt understand why or how it works? Saint 09:37, 17 September 2008 (EDT)
- Although smurf is a great player, and a nice guy, he isn't active enough to warrent BM status especially in comparison to other current RfBM's --Frosty 12:44, 12 September 2008 (EDT)
- Active much? Selket Shadowdancer 13:12, 12 September 2008 (EDT)
- Better than Guild Wars then well, all of us, but practically no activity. -- Guild of Deals 07:24, 17 September 2008 (EDT)
- if i don't know who he is, then he's not worth nominating for. if he shows himself to be a more active user, then i'll change this vote. CABOSE(LVPoW)"Hey chicka bum bum!" 03:44, 22 September 2008 (EDT)
- Look at his contribs since accepting the nomination. - Misery Is Friendly 04:15, 22 September 2008 (EDT)
- not active at all --InfestedHydralisk(Talk*Contributions) 06:58, 22 September 2008 (EDT)
- I remember his username, but I have no fucking clue who he is. Needs to get more active before becoming a BM. ــмıкεнaшк 15:07, 23 September 2008 (EDT)
- hes good at GW... but he has these hangover periods where he doesnt do jack on the wiki for maybe 2 weeks. Id like to see more activity. Error converting thumbnail:Image:JebusSigNew.jpg Enter my contests! 22:32, 12 October 2008 (EDT)
- Not active enough--Shadow 16:40, 10 November 2008 (EST)
- sigh, smurf never got active like he promised. support pulled. Saint 16:45, 10 November 2008 (EST)
Neutral
- If I see him be active; my vote is on support within seconds. (Can't recall the last time I've seen him visiting this place tbh.) Brandnew. 12:11, 12 September 2008 (EDT)
I'd like to see the activity before I support tbh. Perhaps this RfBM is a bit early and should have been done after Smurf started contributing. - Misery Is Friendly 12:20, 12 September 2008 (EDT)- ^ɟoʇuɐʌʎʞɔıɹ 12:24, 12 September 2008 (EDT)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the nomination of a user for Build Master status. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.
Misery (talk • contribs)
Database crash. Outside of that, a friendly, active member who knows his shit. He can be soft or hard when needed (no sexual conentation intended). Guild of Deals 16:47, 11 September 2008 (EDT)
- Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:
Ok, we can go through this whole thing again. I will say, go look at my contribs on talk pages, go look at my ratings, see if I make sense or if I am full of crap, then decide. That is what a BM does, reason, remove votes, explain what is good and what isn't and why. - Misery Is Grumpy 17:15, 11 September 2008 (EDT) - Switch to decline, I am epicly bad at Guild Wars, shame on you for supporting me. Also, see PvXwiki:Requests for adminship/Misery. - Misery Is Friendly 18:51, 5 October 2008 (EDT)
Failed: user declined.
Support
- I do think Misery knows what hes talking about. When he's not trolling >.>, thats right I know what you do.----ﮎHædõ๘یíɳ 17:18, 11 September 2008 (EDT)
- I'm going to go out on a limb here. Misery cleans up this site, and he's not even admin. He's one of the more useful people on here. He honestly deserves some kind of power on here, especially for the things he does for this site. Big (<3) PEW!! 17:20, 11 September 2008 (EDT)
- Knows how to play. Knows what's good and bad. Knows what's the meta and why. It's a shame he's always sexually harassing me on GW and Vent, but I'll not let that stand in the way the build wars knowledge I know he has. - 17:27, 11 September 2008 (EDT)
- 'Nuff said, prolly. Came back from the dead just to support this goon.--☭M3atwad.. (talk) 20:42, 11 September 2008 (EDT)
- Know what he is doing, although in game he doesn't have r100 and what not, he has trolled this wiki for too long and is practically on the dot with all contributions, pretty BM like to me, plus it's misery and he has a hot voice <3 --Frosty 11:56, 12 September 2008 (EDT)
Oppose
- Rawrawr Dinosaur 17:22, 11 September 2008 (EDT)
Maybe I just have too high a standard for Build Masters. Misery's votes are okay. -at least they are better then mine.- He's about the most active player atm and knows most of his build wars. I guess it's just the fact that I have to high a standard. Brandnew. 11:35, 12 September 2008 (EDT)- ɟoʇuɐʌʎʞɔıɹ 11:56, 12 September 2008 (EDT)
- --InfestedHydralisk(Talk*Contributions) 06:59, 22 September 2008 (EDT)
- Please note, my nomination was because of DB crash, so technically it wasn't a support. Although Misery is better at Guild Wars than most of the people here, that's not much. Compared to our current BM staff, I don't know if he's up for it. I would perfer to see him as an admin, anyways, not a BM or both. -- Guild of Deals 10:44, 5 October 2008 (EDT)
- err, ur nomination is seen as a support. dont nominate when not supporting --InfestedHydralisk(Talk*Contributions) 14:52, 5 October 2008 (EDT)
- He did it because before the DB Crash Misery was nominated by someone else. --Frosty 14:55, 5 October 2008 (EDT)
- then misery should have nominated himself, nominating someone else is still considered as support --InfestedHydralisk(Talk*Contributions) 15:10, 5 October 2008 (EDT)
- You are such a tool GoD. Reread your nomination, it reads like a support. Also if I recall correctly you supported before the DB crash. I don't know why you changed your mind, but if you changed your mind, say you changed your mind, you don't have to hide previous support. Now irrelevant, but please, don't be a tool. - Misery Is Friendly 18:56, 5 October 2008 (EDT)
- then misery should have nominated himself, nominating someone else is still considered as support --InfestedHydralisk(Talk*Contributions) 15:10, 5 October 2008 (EDT)
- He did it because before the DB Crash Misery was nominated by someone else. --Frosty 14:55, 5 October 2008 (EDT)
- err, ur nomination is seen as a support. dont nominate when not supporting --InfestedHydralisk(Talk*Contributions) 14:52, 5 October 2008 (EDT)
Neutral
Needs to prove to me that he knows his Build wars before I aprove (although he is an active and nice fellow with a sexy voice). --Frosty 17:16, 11 September 2008 (EDT)- TBH he's better than most of you failures, still that's not saying a whole lot--GoldenStar 17:14, 11 September 2008 (EDT)
- I simply do not know. He's a nice guy; active and all but I'm not sure if he'd be fit for BM(yet). No offense, but still has alot to learn so I'd rather wait and let him improve. —ǘŋƐxɩsƫ 12:38, 12 September 2008 (EDT)
- He's a decent player, willing to help improve the wiki as well as to help people with their builds, and active. However, I'm not sure just how ready for BMship he is yet. --Image:Tab Piplup.jpg 12:39, 12 September 2008 (EDT)
- (EC)Maybe I just have too high a standard for Build Masters. Misery's votes are okay. -at least they are better then mine.- He's about the most active player atm and knows most of his build wars. I guess it's just the fact that I have to high a standard. Brandnew. 11:35, 12 September 2008 (EDT)
- i want to see more of misery's contribs before i decide. CABOSE(LVPoW)"Hey chicka bum bum!" 18:04, 21 September 2008 (EDT)
- I would support Misery as a sysop, but not as a build master. From what I can tell, he's not an amazing player - I haven't heard talk of hanging out in good guilds or being on "privileged" vents or anything. His dedication to the site, however, is obvious, and iirc, the forum idea was his too. He can support the build masters by helping remove votes, and aid in other sysop tasks, but shouldn't get additional vote weight. -Auron 03:15, 22 September 2008 (EDT)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the nomination of a user for Build Master status. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.
Frosty (talk • contribs • RfBM page)
- So, I'm RfBMing Frosty for a few reasons, bear with me. First off, he does actually know builds very well. Maybe he can't interrupt like Crow, maybe he doesn't know tactics like crow, but 99% of builds he can tell good from bad. He knows what it takes to do well in GvG, HA, you name it. He has obsed enough to work out what's good and what's bad.
- Second, there has been a lot of talk about BMs not being able to get respect because they don't have enough power. While i completely disagree with the talk surrounding this idea, for those worried about it this would help to resolve that situation. :By putting Frosty in power maybe people will start to respect the position more. To me, this honestly doesn't matter at all, but for those who care, it's there ^_^.
- Third, hes level headed. It would be nice to have an admin who doesn't whip out their flaming epeen every time they are challenged. His time here has shown me (and I'm sure everyone) that he almost never lets his anger get the best of him, hes very mature, and he can step outside a situation and keep his head out of his ass. A nice addition to the BM team, to balance out the fuckcockery that currently exists.
- Fourth, some people may be wondering why he needs BM when he is already an admin. His vote will be weighted (considering he's better then most on the site, he deserves it). I can't think of any other reasons, except that people wouldn't be questioning him if he tries to push builds through. As of right now hes an admin, and any build work he does will probably get second guessed by the overzealous retards who post around here.
- It's not my place to enforce, but if i can make a request, it would be to have real reasoning, whether its support or oppose.
- I hope you join me in supporting him, cherio poppets.
- Gringo 04:15, January 21, 2010 (UTC).
- Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I feel I have an extensive knowledge of HA and GvG builds and a generally good knowledge of pretty much all the game mechanics, I feel that with extra weighted votes I would be able to push builds in the direction they should be going. Besides that with the BM status behind my name people won't go saying "om noob admin removing my vote and he suqs" if you get my drift. Please vote based on whether you think I would make a good Build Master, not based on the whether the Build Master position should be here or whether it is worth it since I'm already an admin, it is beside the point. --Frosty 23:00, January 22, 2010 (UTC)
- After some deliberation I think it is quite clear that changes to how BM's (or whether BMs) are implemented. So for now I will decline this RfBM untill a more reformed version
has been implemented here. --Frosty 01:37, January 23, 2010 (UTC)
Support
- I am surprised he wasn't one already. Better than most of the people here. --Spaggage talk 04:47, January 21, 2010 (UTC)
- There's no reason not to, and there are definitely reasons to promote to BM. --BLUE LAZERSEat It 06:25, January 21, 2010 (UTC)
- I like the way he votes Smitytalk 06:51, January 21, 2010 (UTC)
- Although he hasn't played at a very high level, it makes little difference since he understands builds a lot better than most of the top 100 people I've played with. He's also more reasonable and less retarded than some previous BMs. --Crow 16:10, January 21, 2010 (UTC)
- So to clarify. Frosty has been there for every crap build that needed explination. Somehow he finds a way to explain it to the author that they understand. He might be only 19 however I think he knows this Game good enough to deserve the 200% vote. Really someone that puts up with Exo's theory crafting should be a BM...imo (how was that Gringo?)--X 18:10, January 21, 2010 (UTC)
- How can you say no? :> BenTbh 21:29, January 21, 2010 (UTC)
- After talking to Frosty on MSN, I'm willing to vote support; however, I want to point out that I do not support the position of BM at all currently and would like to see it removed. According to current policy and procedure, Frosty fits the bill for a BM. Karate Jesus 21:34, 21 January 2010
- He's obs'd enough to know what works and what doesn't, which is all you really need. He's strong at conflict mediation. Last but not least, He knows when and when not to be a douche. -- 00:44, January 22, 2010 (UTC)
- Pretty much one of the smartest people on pvx when it comes to builds. Also, quite active on this site. Meh, he is and he isn't an asshole, but as shazam said, he does know when to not be on. For that, I do support his crusade for BM. Vincent Evan [Air Henchman] 00:51, January 22, 2010 (UTC)
- What is this BM you speak of? But everyone else is supporting, except that faggot Jake, so I mine as well support too ^_^ Donte Rollins 01:17, January 22, 2010 (UTC)
- Frosty knows his builds and as Gringo said, maybe this will bring more respect to the position as Frosty is generally very level-headed and patient with new users. Even if he is only getting 200% vote weight, the fact is that a BM should be more than just tools. It should be a position that commands even a small amount of respect. I think Frosty could help with this. ----~Short~ 21:21, January 22, 2010 (UTC)
Oppose
- as good an obser as frosty that is ( and as great a game understanding as he has compared to most pvx b/c of that) he's never really been all that interested in the game/very good at it and he's never played at anything even approaching mid level gvg/HA --TahiriVeila 14:09, January 21, 2010 (UTC)
- we don't need more bm's. it's a stupid position and he can already remove votes so it hardly matters. if giving frosty bm would actually change the wiki in any single way, shape, or form, i would support whole-heartedly because, especially when compared to our userbase, frost is easily one of the smarter people around who, for some godforsaken reason, still gives half a shit about the game. unfortunately, rfbm'ing frosty won't do anything and the rfbm position is as stupid as ever so i can't, in a proper state of mind, support him or anyone else receiving a seat in such a position from this time forth. ··· Danny So Cute 17:37, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
- don't care who good I am, but Frosty isn't a "build master" in my eyes. Exo Oo 17:39, January 22, 2010 (UTC)
- - AthrunFeya - 19:49, January 22, 2010 (UTC)
- waste of time. -- Big McStrongfist 21:48, January 22, 2010 (UTC)
Neutral
Frosty used to obs a lot, but I'm not sure if he still does. I think he would be fine as a BM, but to be perfectly honest the fact that Gringo is the one who initiated it makes me a little hesitant. I'll decide later. Karate Jesus 04:22, 21 January 2010Pretty much what Crow said, although I have to agree with KJ for now. Vincent Evan [Air Henchman] 19:58, January 21, 2010 (UTC)- --Chaos -- 22:16, January 22, 2010 (UTC)
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Instructions
This simple three-step plan was adopted from the Requests for Adminship in order to facilitate nominations.
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Insert the following text in the active nominations section above:
{{{{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}/Username}}
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Proceed to click on the red link created by the 1st template, and insert:
{{subst:bm1|Username|Rationale for nomination. ~~~~}}
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Finally, insert the following templates at the top of the nominee's talk page:
{{subst:bm2|Username}}
Note: The nomination itself counts as a "support" vote.