Introducing our "Director of Content" at Nexus Mods

[Bess]

Welcome, Paul! :D

I just read the introduction Paul wrote (and completed his survey, too) -- This all sounds like another exactly right decision by Dark One. Man, I love this place!

[MotoSxorpio]

Welcome to the Nexus, BlindJudge. Now, get to work. :D

[pintocat]

In response to post #27205569. #27206869, #27209044 are all replies on the same post.

Nimboss wrote: Interesting, a Dark0ne2? :)

Welcome Paul!

Gruftlord wrote: a DarkTwo ;)

Tanker1985 wrote: Every Master has an Apprentice, after all.

Welcome, Paul!

Darktw0

[ThomasDarkhope]

Welcome Paul!

 

Should we call you DarkTw0? :P

[Galadreal]

Congratulations. And I am glad that The Nexus hires people for positions that need to be filled, not just tries to fit their current people into doing work that has nothing to do with them. Maybe that is an American thing, but still, it is good to see you doing it, and glad that this fortuitous turn of events happened to help out the site and Paul. Random blind luck is always nice.

[niceguy]

Congratulation and welcome. Did you have to have to duel to the death with the last contestants or have they gone soft recently? //silly of

[DJNInja88]

congrats and welcome

[geekminxen]

Good deal. Often someone coming in from the outside can see things that "insiders" don't, or don't any longer. I already like the site, so I really look forward to seeing how things change!

[Qessanea]

In response to post #27204344. #27204779, #27208494 are all replies on the same post.

Qessanea wrote: *waves* Hi, Paul! :dance:

BlindJudge wrote: Hi ya... *waves*

setiweb wrote: And Qess gets the wave back! Figures it would be you. :P

*smug grin*

[NeoNord]

In response to post #27204274.

Dark0ne wrote: Back in March we put up a job posting for a Community Manager position at Nexus Mods. I was looking for someone who was a part of the modding community who could be a friendly-face on the sites and would handle a lot of the PR and community side of things on the Nexus which has been lacking in recent years.

Over 400 people applied for the position and over the course of a couple of months I whittled down the applicant list to a "short-list" of 30 people, and then further down to a shorter-list of 4. Before I contacted these remaining 4 individuals, however, I met up with a close gaming friend for lunch one day. His name is Paul.

Paul and I met several years ago at StratLAN, a relatively small 100-150 person LAN event that takes place a few times a year at Stratford-upon-Avon racecourse that is run by Multiplay here in the UK (the same people who run the large Insomnia series of LAN, which I also go to, and who also did this year's Minecon, whose staff I know relatively well). Paul and friends were playing the Game of Thrones board game around a big table and, over the course of many hours and many drinks we all got to know one another. We now all meet up regularly, despite some long travel distances for some of us, to play board games and go to LANs together. When we're not LANning or board gaming we're often online playing games with one another. A good 15-20 of us are close friends now, of which Paul is a part, with a further 10-30 I've come to know and like a lot. Paul and I sit next to each other at the LAN events and he sometimes watches me as I do some Nexus work in between gaming sessions. He regularly offers advice on things he'd change on the Nexus site or asks questions about why I haven't done this or that. He tends to be quite astute!

When we met up recently Paul and I got to talking about our individual situations and, long story short, I saw a place for Paul working at the Nexus. He has a passion and drive for this sort of work with prior experience working on sites and in graphic design with a keen eye for the challenges facing the site and the work necessary to get the Nexus back up to scratch. I say up to scratch because I definitely feel like the Nexus could be doing more than it is right now in almost all areas, and the reason we've dropped the ball a little is because of me. Paul's coming in to streamline our operation and work just below me (no innuendo) to not only help with the decision making process but to help micro-manage the implementation of new functionality both behind the scenes, working on streamlining our work process, and on the front end that users actually see. Basically, he's another me, who will have the time necessary to really do what's best for the sites and this community. It doesn't mean I'm going anywhere, it just means I'm now getting some help on the sites that I really needed. And quite importantly for me, Paul is someone I know, who I can go and visit and who I can trust implicitly (indeed, he's sat a couple of metres away from me right now working away at his desk, migrating our internal bug tracking system over to a much better and more efficient system).

Paul will be making himself known and getting straight down to work in his own news post to follow. In the mean-time, I would still like to hire on a dedicated Community Manager. I held off on finalising any choice of Community Manager based on the applications received while Paul was brought on and acclimatised. we've both decided that a Community Manager is still very necessary and would be very worthwhile to the sites. I'll continue that work soon .

Welcome Paul, I hope this doesn't mean the Dark0ne will have more time to write long rambling missives exposing his inner darkness to us all and probably infecting us with his curious affliction but based on this one, you sound like a reasonably sane and healthy sort. We'll be trying to corrupt that as quickly as possible, it's what we do best. Oh and tell the Dark0ne,TMI. The fact that he runs this asylum is all we really needed to know heheheh.