Flinn

Flinn
His Dudeness of TWC
Badges/Roles:	Citizen , Civitate , Administrator , Gaming Director , Content Emeritus , Patrician
Patron:	Finlander
House:	The Imperial House of Hader
Patron of:	Lugotorix , Lifthrasir , Socrates1984 , Joerock22 , Kilo11 , Vladyvid , Dick Cheney , phazer , Jake Armitage , Webba84

Flinn is obsessed with Italian politician Silvio Berlusconi and many of his closest friends suspect that they may be one and the same. Flinn is also TWC's resident Dudeist and is responsible for drinking more white russians (and wine!) than all other TWC members combined. He's got an insane appetite (aka Bunga Bunga) for avatars, having changed hundreds of them over the years! For the full story, just check below!

The real history!

The Beginning Flinn arrived at TWC sometime around mid 2012, but only joined during December of the same year. Like many others, he has been attracted at TWC because of Third Age: Total War mod, the glorious overhaul modification for Medieval 2: Total war, set in the Middle Earth. Flinn spent the first few months of activity at TWC at the TATW fora, making himself comfortable in that corner of the site. While there he wrote a strategy guide and mostly supported other members with gameplay and strategy suggestions, while also doing some mod testing. Every once in a while he goes back to visit his first home at TWC, and it's always exciting.

The Personal Help & Advice and the Eagle Standard It was not long before Flinn discovered his second home at TWC, the Personal Help & Advice (aka PH&A) fora; this place is dedicated to ask, and give, personal support and advice with the many struggles of real life. Flinn became active around mid June 2013, and after that he spent a huge amount of time there; for the first part of his TWC life the PH&A was his main area of contribution, where he both posted about his own struggles and helped many fellow members with their own. As of today the PH&A is still a very important part of Flinn's activity and he's a recognized authority there, also acting as the Local Moderator since 2015. During mid 2014 he joined the Content Staff, and became a writer for the Eagle Standard, the publication primarily dedicated to review and preview TW Games and modifications. It was a quick start, as early as August that very year he had his first article published and also earned himself his first Scribe's Quill (the Bronze one); by the end of 2014 he was promoted as the Director of the Eagle Standard, aided by the fact that the former Director had to suddenly resign. He served as a writer and Director until mid 2018. As a writer he wrote a total of fifteen articles himself, as a Director he overviewed, edited and published a total of twenty four articles. During this time he also managed the transition from the old forum publication to the most recent Content Management System (aka CMS) publication.

Moderation Flinn was hired as a Global Moderator on March 2016 and served as in the TW section of the Forum up to January 2017, when he was promoted into Hex. As a TW Moderator he had to deal with the launch of the first Warhammer and the following heated period, among the other things. Upon exiting the official Global Moderation team, he remained as a Local moderator in various areas, mainly the PH&A and the Questions and Suggestions and, from early 2020, he's assigned as a Local moderator at the Thema Devia forum.

Site Awards Committees Another one of the main areas of contributions. Flinn joined the Member Awards Committee during 2014 and has been part of it during a total of 7 editions. He started as a regular member, but as soon as 2015 he took the helm of the manager and started to transform the competition by reviewing the rules, this both to prevent the usual rigging of the past and also to keep them updated with the current site activity. He also created a framework for the organization and running of the Awards that has become the standard. During 2015 he also joined the Modding Awards Committee, and became the main manager as early as 2016; so far he has participated in 6 different editions. As a regular member he focused mostly in the promotion of the awards (via the Eagle Standard publication); as a manager he worked mostly in creating framework for the organization and running of the same, together with keeping them updated with the latest TW games released. New categories were also created (Tools & Resources, New/Classical modder, etc).

Content Hex and Site Administration Flinn was allowed into the Hexagon Council around the end of 2016, and he finally wore the bold red mantle publicly early 2017. Since then he has been sitting in the Site Administration, covering various roles, the first being Site Content Administrator (responsible for the publications and the other activities carried out by the Content Artist, Content Staffers and Librarians). He has been serving in the role until early 2019, when he eventually moved to fully dedicate himself to other administrative roles. Publications as Content Hex As Content Hex he worked both by himself and in team with another Site Content Administrator. During his tenure more than 50 articles were published, of which approx one third from the Eagle Standard. He also cooperated with the Scriptorium to help them promote and develop their Writing Competitions. As a rule he provided plenty of guidance, took care of editing, and worked continuously to keep up with the tight agenda of publications. The CMS Guide and the Rep and Quills Guide for Directors; other activities The Content Management System aka CMS, was introduced starting from end of 2016 and Flinn created and posted a guide on how to use the CMS (including a simple pic editing guide) which is still used as a reference as of today. He also made a Guide specifically aimed at helping Content Directors with managing the rewards (reputation points and Scribe's Quills) of their Staffers. Furthermore, he underwent a cleanup of the oldest threads as well as putting up some new stuff, such as the Communal Activity thread or the Content Support thread

Other important activities

University

my threads, the constitution