Question about the GM "kinds"

Started by ~~T~~, Jul 24, 2008, 11:16 PM

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~~T~~

Okay, I know a Event GM do event, Scripter fix Bugs, Web Designer make the website, etc.
But what does the advertiser do? He post on forums his server? He add the Server at Server tops? He call his friends to join?


Ansuz Isaz

Essentially, yes. o.o; The advertisers simply find different ways to get the name out there. A lot of GM advertisers like to come here and roam the server seeking section of RMS, and offering the server as an option when they see something that fits with their server.

Other ideas involve social sites - both general, game, and I've seen RO placed in an anime-based social site - and various social forums. Gaia Online comes to mind.

So... Yes. xD It's not a horribly hard job, but I kind of get annoyed when people try to find people who have never played their server to advertise for them. Any advertisement for a small server should be done by the owner of the server itself, and then if they really feel like they need an advertising GM, they should get him from a batch of the players that are still playing from the opening of the server.

~~T~~

Quote from: Ansuz Isaz on Jul 24, 2008, 11:22 PM
So... Yes. xD It's not a horribly hard job, but I kind of get annoyed when people try to find people who have never played their server to advertise for them. Any advertisement for a small server should be done by the owner of the server itself, and then if they really feel like they need an advertising GM, they should get him from a batch of the players that are still playing from the opening of the server.

Makes me wonder what does the administrator does. Thanks for the answer.

freakyred

if you would like an answer to the administrator part ... I think (not sure on this) that the admins will be the ones paying for the server and editing it also making the websites ... basically they are the ones who made the server

Reyn

Admins do anything from scripting, to DB editing.
And everything in between.

Pandora

Some admin do a ton of stuff, while others barely lift a finger. I played on a server for almost a year and only saw the admin twice, he was busy with real life, and his GMs were handling the server.

Technically speaking, an admin should be able to do just about everything, in addition to paying for the server and building it from the start.
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Mamimi

'Advertising GM' has got to be the worst GM ever, imo. :x [Welcome-Newbie GM is a close second XD]
If you[a player] enjoy playing on a server, you should be telling people you know to join/advertising on social networking sites. There's no need for a GM solely based on telling people to join the server. x.x

Auroraâ„¢

I don't think there's anything wrong with have an advertiser, but I do think that giving an advertiser an actual staff position (i.e. powers in-game) is just silly. That's begging for corruption, and abused powers. The most I would do (I'm not a server owner though, mind you) is give them a fancy title on the forums, to let people know that they contribute.


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Poki

The administrator does everything that they can possibly do.  (If they do) Once they hire an amount of different types of GMs, they will become the judge of the court.  Basically, they're only there to hand the final verdict and create a decision upon certain things.

That's how an administrator works in my world.

SinX7

just advertise the server etc.

like post a topic explaining the server info etc..
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asdfqwerty123

"Advertising GM" is a BS position.  It takes at most 10 minutes to do all you would need to do in a month being an advertisement GM.  You're either make a whole new position for it because you're too lazy to do it yourself, or you just want to make your staff list look full.

Guest

lol being an advertisement GM, as zairik said, is nothing more then a joke, so what you can go broadcast something asking people to go vote, anyone can do that, i mean everything that this "advertiser GM" is suppose to do takes about 2 seconds

Pandora

Yeah agreed, advertisement can be part of the job description of a gm, but in itself it's not enough to occupy 1 gm job.

I don't have strict job restrictions for my gms, I require that they all do a bit of support, bot check and be active in forums. I have no "event gm" per say, they are all free to host events, some are more into it and will host several a week, while other gm will only make event once in a blue moon. As for advertisement, I do it myself.
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Rehael

Being a GM is a joke. only an admin is needed and it seems to please my guys http://valiantro.com :)
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yC

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is the advertisement-gm the same as the "public relation gm"?  or at least i thought so.

It's not useless at all imo, if you have someone that got a lot of time and don't have anything to do but would like to help.  Getting him/her as a advertisement gm / public relation gm who will be dedicated into finding places to advertise the server, analyzing the effect of the advertising campaign, plan or negotiate advertising deals, build network with sites/ppl/advertisement places, keep track of server growth etc. 

It can easily be a full-time job if the person is taking it seriously.  Of course it also depend on the admin's budget (if any) or could just find free places but not spam.  If the admin is busy with life/server already, someone taking the route to advertise is always good.  IMHO that is.

However, do keep in mind you need someone mature enough to no to spam and not to get bored ... so this makes it hard to find.  Also he/she has no real in-game power except maybe to boardcast, so who would take this dirty job ..

Actually I have always been looking for someone that can do this kind of job for my other sites so they can grow faster and yet it never happened xD.