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 over-viewed, edited and published a total of twenty four articles. During his tenure "interview with modders" were introduced, a brand new field of articles that was largely appreciated by the audience. Finally, 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. He's also acting as a de facto moderator in the Coliseum and in all the threads involved in the TGC. As an Admin he usually takes care of spambots and blasts them on sight.

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, as well as working on updating the categories. 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). Serious efforts were made in order to ask the community both about how to renew the Awards and if it was or not the case to open them to mods not posted at TWC. Recruiting new committee members every edition is another important part of the job.

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

Competitions and Awards Hex, Pro-tempore Gaming Hex Having taken care of managing the Site Awards since 2016, Flinn eventually moved in full to their management around end of 2018, few months before quitting the position of Content Hex. At the same time he created the brand new position of Competition Hex, something he was tailoring with since long. In this position he not only manages the Site Award, but also takes care of some of the Community Competitions, and also gives his support and help to other existing competitions whenever needed and requested to (i.e. Picture of the Year 2018!). During the first weeks he also underwent a reorganization of the Competition fora, to make them consistent with the actual structure. Medals and rep for RPG and Hotseats Since early 2020 is acting as a Pro-Tempore Gaming Hex, mostly taking care of basic Admin activities, including giving support with the annual Hotseat Awards, as well as assigning reputations and medals (both the Gaming Staff Chess Piece and the Gaming Service Shield), for the Hoteseat and RPG (now inactive) Staff and community. The Total Guess Competition (TGC) Upon stepping in the new position, Flinn started to work immediately on ideas for new competitions, which eventually led to the creation of the Total Guess Competition. The TGC celebrated 2 years at February 2021 and at that date more than 20 members have been awarded with a TGC medal. On mid 2019 the TGC was further expanded with the addition of a new set of awards and related medals. He's actually covering the Gaming Director position. The Post of the Fortnight Competition (PotF) During mid 2018, the Curia proposed the creation of a new competition, the Post of the Fortnight Competition. After few weeks of discussion, Flinn stepped in and eased the creation of a dedicated committee; in particular he worked, together with other volunteers, to create a set of rules and all the templates needed to smoothly run it, as well as setting up and creating the PotF Medal. He also created the forum dedicated to the PotF Competition. First round was launched on December 2018, and as of early 2021 the PotF has reached round 44! He's actually covering the Gaming Director position. Lottery Early 2019 Flinn launched a Happy new year lottery. The main purpose of the lottery was to stimulate people to post suggestions for a name for a new game (which later became known as the TGC), but also to give out some rewards in reputation, and most important, in game keys. The prices were assigned after the ballot took place on January the 22nd. CMS Blogs and the CMS Blogger Award With the introduction of the CMS BlogsFlinn actively worked to crete a specific Award dedicated to active CMS Bloggers; after discussing about it he later created a new award. Furthermore, seeing the need for a new community dedicated to blogging, he created the Blogging Thread, both as a repository of all the necessary info and as a place to discuss and make requests related to the CMS Blogs. Later on he also created a Blogging Hub housed on the CMS itself, as well as a WIKI page. Graphic competitions In collaboration with the Content Art Staff: Post of the Fortnight Medal and Banner; Three Kingdoms Badges. As a Competition Hex: Modding Staff Medals; Legio 5001st Award Medal; Modding Service Award Medal; CMS Bloggers Award Medal; Troy Badges. Other reviewed awards (with no competition involved): New WIKI Medals, in cooperation with the Content Hex and WIKI Director. Milestone Award Being the Award Hex, Flinn has dedicated himself more than anyone else to look for and then award with, all the possible eligible recipients for the original TWC Milestone Award. When noticing that many other members could be worthy of this award, and in the spirit of the award itself, he proposed an amendment to expand said award; as a result, 100 more members received it. Furthermore, with the help of a friendly member, he created a dedicated thread in the Symposium, both as a repository of info about this award and to be used as a celebration spot for any new recipient.

Supporting Modding Hex Upon creation of the Modding Staff at the end of 2018, and after the subsequent resignations of the first two assigned Hex, on June 2019 Flinn joined another Hex as a temporary Modding Hex, with the idea of giving support and temporarily lead the Modding Staff as long as another assigned Hex could be found. Unfortunately, due to lack of general activity and interest, the Modding Staff was eventually disbanded on March 2020, and its duties reassigned to Moderation and Content.

Other important activities Not content with the many duties he's already carrying out, Flinn has involved himself in various other activities around the site. Blogs Flinn is the most active CMS Blogger, having posted more than 30 different blog posts since the very first one on November 2019. his blogs range from typical Italian things like wine-making and cooking, to more general stuff about being a public administrator or wild camping (aka bushcraft) and of course one about his own philosophical view of life. Content Emeritus articles for the Helios Activity as support Thema Devia my threads, the constitution University Creative Writing https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?808066-Honor-and-Bravery-a-Forgotten-Realms-story

Curia Citizenship & Large Awards Patronizations Sponsored Large Awards Curial offices