S46 PT #4 - Discord Commissioner
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The very first thing I'd have to do is hire an Assistant Discord Commissioner as well as an Assistant to the Discord Commissioner. And a bunch of Junior Vice Executives of Meme Management, Pingu- and Pokemon-Bots and other terrific people. I have the best people, everybody says so!
In all seriousness though, I would argue that the official league server actually plays a pretty minor role in the SHL cosmos, it's just too big and chaotic and unfocused for fruitful conversation to take place on a consistent basis. It's good if you need to look up a user very quickly but for virtually everything else, private servers is where it's at. Draft Class servers are super helpful for new people and also help to keep veterans engaged even if they have already gone through the SMJHL experience a couple of times, nation servers have given the IIHF a whole new level of relevance and Team servers are basically the lifeblood of the league at this point. This decentralized approach has proven to be immensely successful so having a Discord Commissioner might not even be necessary and if there was one, his role would likely be a relatively limited one. If Discord has proven one thing then that it is great at growing organically, so new developments have to be embraced by the membership, not be implemented in a top-down kind of way. Also with Discord use being widespread in all kinds of leagues now, I think that people have been starting to hit the limits of how many servers they can and want to deal with, so most kinds of new Discord interaction would probably cannibalize on the existing channels instead of creating new interaction. |
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