11-29-2022, 10:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-29-2022, 10:17 PM by Norm Minder. Edited 2 times in total.)
This post is from a community member who at the time would like to stay anonymous
"First, starting with positives: I feel that mostly everyone can acknowledge that Reina is THE single most active staff member on the Discord Team. There's a legitimate reason there's a joke about her being the only discord staff member floating around. She's a very type A person in the sense that when she sets her mind to something she gets shit done and quickly. She is helpful with people who have questions and she can dismantle arguments in discord quite effectively MOST of the time without killing the overall vibe.
Moving on to the concerns:
My concerns with Reina being an admin would be her ability to trust others to do their job. During a time when we were acquainted, she would make several comments that were along the lines of "If I don't do it, I do not think anyone else will and then people will get mad at Discord staff if I stop doing it." I fear that she isn't going for Admin to actually be a leader who works with the team, but rather a pure authoritative figure who lays the hammer down, and that is why I fear she would be burn herself out. If this is no longer an issue, then that's great; I haven't spoken to her on that level since around September anyway so things can change, and I hope they have.
If this still is an issue, she needs to have more faith in her teammates' ability to accomplish things.
My second concern with Reina is how she will deal with people she has a disagreement with or just outright doesn't like. Similarly to what Battons said, I fear that she can be too nonconfrontational at times and will complain about that person in other places rather than directly dealing with the issue. If someone says something that she isn't a fan of, she can come across as belittling them in an attempt to "ratio" them which can be frustrating considering how she usually can keep her head on a swivel. Nobody is perfect in terms of dealing with people they don't like, it just is something that isn't really becoming of one going for a top leader position.
since this is anonymous, this is merely giving feedback."
"First, starting with positives: I feel that mostly everyone can acknowledge that Reina is THE single most active staff member on the Discord Team. There's a legitimate reason there's a joke about her being the only discord staff member floating around. She's a very type A person in the sense that when she sets her mind to something she gets shit done and quickly. She is helpful with people who have questions and she can dismantle arguments in discord quite effectively MOST of the time without killing the overall vibe.
Moving on to the concerns:
My concerns with Reina being an admin would be her ability to trust others to do their job. During a time when we were acquainted, she would make several comments that were along the lines of "If I don't do it, I do not think anyone else will and then people will get mad at Discord staff if I stop doing it." I fear that she isn't going for Admin to actually be a leader who works with the team, but rather a pure authoritative figure who lays the hammer down, and that is why I fear she would be burn herself out. If this is no longer an issue, then that's great; I haven't spoken to her on that level since around September anyway so things can change, and I hope they have.
If this still is an issue, she needs to have more faith in her teammates' ability to accomplish things.
My second concern with Reina is how she will deal with people she has a disagreement with or just outright doesn't like. Similarly to what Battons said, I fear that she can be too nonconfrontational at times and will complain about that person in other places rather than directly dealing with the issue. If someone says something that she isn't a fan of, she can come across as belittling them in an attempt to "ratio" them which can be frustrating considering how she usually can keep her head on a swivel. Nobody is perfect in terms of dealing with people they don't like, it just is something that isn't really becoming of one going for a top leader position.
since this is anonymous, this is merely giving feedback."
