We have room for more volunteers! There are lots of areas one could focus on. Moderation. Coding. Wiki. Fixing Maps. Many more listed
in another thread.
Basically, if you see something not happening you'd like to happen, it doesn't hurt to ask if you can help out with getting it done. We used to have a lot more volunteers doing a lot of distinct tasks, but they have not been replaced as they've faded away, meaning more things for fewer volunteers to do. Which drags on oneself. What was said about thanklessness and constant complaints, even when we're agreeing with complaints, doesn't help with the whole humans remembering negativity more easily than positivity over time. Volunteering doesn't mean you need to dedicate your life to BM. Just being given the ability to do something when you do feel up to it.
Allow me to outline the current state of BM's volunteers, and some areas given attention/non-attention.
Current volunteer development is just fixing Helpline forum bugs, IRC bug help, Wimpie checking the bugtracker, or just fixing whatever we ourselves our frustrated by and want fixed (which most recently is Wimpie making improvements to Adventurer interfaces). Basically goes: wimpie thinks 'hey this thing is frustrating', wimpie asks Anaris or I if there's a Good Reason It's Frustrating, we answer with either why its a Good Reason, tell him its a bug or unintended and can be fixed, or that it Was a Good Reason but can be changed now because Good Reason is no longer applicable. Then either its simple enough for him to fix himself, one of us answers his questions if its a bit challenging, or he bothers us to do it ourselves when its too difficult. And eventually (hopefully) one of us does, or failing that, its recorded in the Bugtracker. That's about it for the dev team.
Anaris and I share adminship of BM. We do our best to uphold Tom's Vision and confer with each other on larger decisions, try to keep each other up to speed on anything we're doing or did, motivate each other, create Portal roleplays, review dev commits, approve character and realm name requests, approve banners, and delegate/manage/admin/mentor Devs, Titans, GMs, forum, wiki et cetera. Most things are pretty simple, but some things we argue about until one of us accepts the other's position or we settle with a compromise. Anaris idles all day, but he often has busy weeks with either employment or social life. I idle for periods of time, have available time, but atrocious motivation due to some OOC !@#$ going on in life that I'd prefer not be public, so usually spend any BM time I do spend on GM activities, trying to reply to questions on IRC, this forum, or the in-game mentoring forum, helping Wimpie with anything he's doing, answering other GM questions, trying to do a list of various coding-related tasks etc. I had also been more actively managing Titans, doing Social Media, actually playing the damn game, responding on the forum, tracking various game metrics etc, but those have slipped the last few weeks.
