Hierarchy/Roles and Titles

Bigass tables with, hopefully, acceptable descriptions for the different Roles on the Discord Server.

This is written for personal enjoyment, and attempts to poke fun at everyone equally.

List sorted by how titles are sorted inside the discord. Does not reflect actual seniority or power bestowed in the rank. Does not confer authority over lower ranks inherently.

Roles

@Role	Short Description and Links to More Info
@Staff Overseer	Biggest, tallest staffer. Likes eating eggs. Responsible for all Staff and Crew affairs. One of the three Head Admins.
@Policy Head	Corp reg sweat. Fist fights in policy channels, spends 30 minutes over a smoothie deciding the phrasing of single lines. Keeps the writing important. Second of the three headmins.
@Development Overseer	Balancer of the large mound of spaghetti atop the plate that we call BYOND. Grand Reviewer of Pull Requests. Lead game designer and dev. The final headmin.
@Head Committee	The above three people, acting as a council. Extremely stinky when crammed into the small room of their voice chat. Exist for organization
@Head Admin	The above three people, but as their leadership roles. Still stinky, but at least they're standing apart now.
@Staff-help Lead	Oversees the most complex of tickets. Drama appreciator, our most unbiased party. The radical centrist.
@Lead Access Request Manager	Literally all they do is gatekeep and decide how we gatekeep. Handles difficult or special applications. Trains others on how to gatekeep.
@Sysadmin	Eats cookies, blows dust out of the filesystem. Realizes we could've been doing something better all along, easily, and then does that.
@Lore Committee Head	Worldbuilder. Crafts stories like you would shape a shrub. It takes time and LOTS of effort.
@Staff Manager	Middle managers. Typically like working on one thing and one thing only. Do that thing very well. Sanity checks the other admemes.
@Announcer	Can announce. Does so for ridiculous reasons. Stop pinging me-! oh that's actually interesting okay.
@Senior Maintainer	Sous-chef. Helps cook the spaghetti, does a good job of it. Tries not to spill the spaghetti. Handles meatier development projects or complex bug fixing.
@Maintainer	Line chef. Prepares lots of spaghetti. Makes lots of garnish. Sets the bug traps. Eats the bugs.
@Assistant Maintainer	Culinary Artists. Just joined the restaurant. Sometimes spills the spaghetti. Occasionally comes up with new forms of pasta.
@Maintainer Team	The above four groups of people plus @Development Overseer. Official Staff Coders, collectively the kitchen staff. Cooks relentlessly. You swear you've heard the hats of each of these people squeak when you brush by them in chat.
@Head Chat Moderator	All things Discord Server. Provides rulings for Discord Server rule infractions and drama. Like the Staff-help Lead in a way. Won't call you kitten.
@Administrator	Assistant Managers. Effective wildcards. Event nerds. Slightly cooler game assistants. Slightly.
@RP Event Committee	Makes sure you actually roleplay when we're all deciding we're gonna roleplay. Crafts cool social events. Handles all the weddings.
@Action Event Committee	Gives guncargo a reason to exist. Keeps the stakes high. Thrillseekers. Probably has Rimworld installed on their computer and wanted to be a Storyteller.
@Staff Trainer	Specifically indicated to make sure staff are performing appropriately. Wags a finger and very sternly says, "Don't make me tap the Sign." which reads Staff Operations Policy
@Senior Access Request Manager	Actively practicing gatekeeper. Probably knows all the new people at the bar, is cool enough not to let on that they do.
@Head Mentor	Teaches people how to be teachers. Does lots of teaching. Seminars. Knows niche things, doesn't have an excuse for it. Makes sure important issues are well known.
@Game Assistant	The common admeme. Sasses you in prayers. Plays music of debatable quality. Answers your policy questions. Literally the voice in your head. Tries their best, usually comes through.
@Moderator	Currently deprecated. Used to exist as a stepping stone to GA, axed because it wasnt necessary. Held by cutemins.
@Round Threat Management	Actually wants to make the round worse for your character by making sure the Syndicate hires criminals consistently. Fabricates space horrors when they don't get their way.
@Policy Party Official	Debate Club moderator. Actually represents a part of Nova's policy. Fought tooth and nail to make sure that forty-two characters of text were put in exactly that way for one reason.
@Policy Commission	Debate Club participants. Develops and proposes new policy. Fist fights @Policy Head and @Policy Party Official routinely. Wins said fights frequently due to numbers advantage.
@Senior Chat Moderator	Handles more complex drama. Took a de-escalation course. Helps people not walk themselves out the door.
@Guest Maintainer	Friendly code visitors, like birds on your windowsill. Occasionally leaves gifts and trinkets.
@Staff	All Community Staff, from Game Assistants to the Head Admins. An exceptionally dangerous ping. Cream of the crop weirdoes. Reads and memorizes policy for fun.
@Trial-Staff	Greenmins. Stuck in the doorframe. Learning staff culture, still sets the dinner table wrong.
@Chat Moderator	Probably subscribed to r/amitheasshole. Makes sure society functions by reminding people that they live in a society. Also probably won't call you kitten. Probably
@Notable Retired Staff	Greybeards. Have opinions about problems from years prior, voices them. Did something important at some point in time. Probably did too much work and gets not enough remembrance for it.
@Staff in Hiatus	Driven insane to the point of taking a vacation. Got a life. Probably the only people getting laid. Probably showers. Possibly the most sane individuals in the hierarchy.
@Head Wiki Maintainer	'Hello yes I would like to speak to your manager.' *spins around once in the office chair, putting on a very serious tone.* "Yes, how can I help you?" Master procrastibator. Has more unfinished ideas than finished ones.
@Senior Developer	Arrives in the kitchen a handful of times a year to invent new dishes with new types of pasta. Probably wrote an entire system that no one realizes they are using. Smirks at their screen often. Uses only imported knives.
@Developer	Weekend line cooks. Seasonal workers. Helps keep the kitchen afloat, has no work expectations.
@Intern Developer	Learned how a datum works four weeks ago. Talks about this grand idea for a new dish, hasn't sharpened their knives enough yet to prepare it.
@VC Restricted	Shutting your mouth for you. At least when you're typing you have a moment to think about the things you are saying.
@Issues Manager	Tries to expedite the kitchen, suffers as people try to re-invent tomato sauce instead. Tells the front of house to not bother the kitchen. Haunted by the ghosts of 6 different bug reports for the last year. Tastes the spaghetti.
@Wiki Maintainer	Sisyphean creatures. Permanently stuck documenting other people's work because they are not required to do it themselves. Six edits in a row for formatting. Leaves comments on edits longer than the edit itself.
@Event Contributor	Certified quality participant in events. Gets to have an opinion on events. Presents good ideas for events 6 out of 10 times. Probably feels like a main character, some actually are.
@Wiki Contributor	'Oh I wrote the guide on that.' for the fourth day in a row. Helps keep the news agencies abreast of scientific developments.
@Lore Committee	Has a very strong opinion on tabletop games. Has a very strong opinion on on either the Warrior Cats series or Warhammer universe. Tries to rationalize why fictional things are possible using real world science. Invents new words because they can.
@Contributor	Headpat rank for people that have assisted with developing the game in any fashion. Must be asked for. Does the science. Probably didn't stop to ask themselves if they should do the science or not.
@Roleplay Mentor	Has made alignment charts for their characters. Probably claims to be an empath irl, definitely has at least one character with the quirk. Knows how to fit more meaning into less words.
@Mentor	'So my special interest is blahblahblah.' Teaches people about how spaghetti is made, how to eat the spaghetti, and how to use your fork and knife. Might tell you to cut your pasta, might tell you to spin it around your fork.
@Chat Banned	Duct-tape.
@On Vacation (Self Exile)	See @Staff in Hiatus, but for crew.
@Active Donator	Regulars at the bar. Job havers. Keeps the lights on. Buys the spaghetti.
@Donator	Bought spaghetti at some point. Thank you!
@Veteran Crew	Pasta connoisseur. Consumes so much pasta they applied to have an approved pasta consuming identification card. Knows something about eggs. Has an extremely long argument about why what they're doing is not powergaming, survives judgement by being good roleplayers. Encourages people do what they're paid to do, claims not to be lazy by doing this. Definitely is not on their best behavior for exclusively sinful reasons. Has at least one oversized character.
@Punished Rodent	Rats in a rubber room.
@Artist-For-Commission	Realizes your paragraph long OC description into a meaningful visual. Suffers your nitpicks. Probably does not charge enough for their talents. Has undo and redo bound to a single keystroke or pen button.
@Development Team	The entire non-staffed code division. Supports the main kitchen.
@Good Faith Coder Guest	Museum visitors. Sometimes provide artifacts or modernist sculptures.
@Development Banned	Gave someone food poisoning or could not stop shouting at the kitchen staff.
@Access Request Manager	Door bouncers. Practicing gatekeepers. Puts that little x on the back of your paw with a sharpie. Squints at the contents of your bag. Ignores your slurred speech.
@Ready to Whitelist	Got past the bouncer, stuck standing outside the front door texting their friends. Literally just has to walk inside the door once, doesn't. Gets told to go home after standing outside the restaurant for seven straight days.
@Crew	Describes every single person who consumes Nova Sector brand pasta.
@Voter	Decides on new types of pasta and house rules. Was given a receipt with details asking them to review their experience at the restaurant, throws the receipt in the trash can by the front door.
@Announcements	Gets newsletters about new kinds of pasta, or about why the plate manufacturer is using a different kind of ceramic now. Marks the newsletter as read, moves on with their life.
@Game-Alert Nova Sector Main	Gets text messages letting them know the restaurant is open. Volunteered for this. Specifically asked the hostess for this.
@Event Notification	Gets spam mail inviting them to come eat pasta with other people.
@Town Hall	Enjoys ted talks. Waits patiently to be asked to come on stage, asks the presenters off topic questions.
@Denied	Gatekept.
@Temp Denied	Come back in two weeks, sober. Thanks.
@Devblog	Listens to the chefs discuss advancements in pasta and flour making technology.
@Security	Screams about failure to CI for the fourth time this week. Asks to be hurt, complains that they were hurt too much. Will pull an 'Uhm, ackshually' without a hint of irony. Asserts that convoy loading a shotgun is not a form of powergaming. Forgets to look in criminal boots. Didn't use a forensic scanner on the busted open door. Arrives to the crime scene after the janitor visited.
@Engineering	In a love-hate relationship with a rock. Sniffs exotic gasses for entertainment. Builds a hotspring in an absolutely ridiculous place. Contributes to the necessity of the Crimes Against Reality Corporate Regulations.
@Cargo	Claims not to do drugs, does them. Smells like cardboard. Says "They're minerals!" even though Breaking Bad came out over 540 years ago. Enables criminals everywhere, somehow aren't criminals themselves for doing so.
@Medical	Masochists. Tries to roleplay after revival, watches in dismay as their patient wakes up from a fresh cauterization and runs off without a second word. Probably has a second monitor with six tabs of wiki pages and the crew monitor window open on it. Reformed powergamers. Either has an extremely long history playing antagonists or has never once touched them.
@Service	Makes and sells drugs, including the legal ones. Turns a single piece of meat into 12000 seconds of food buff which somehow doesn't leave your food meter full. Rolls the cuffed, field executed antagonist's corpse over to clean their blood puddle. Creates the most beautiful displays of flowers you have ever seen, dies inside when a gravitational or bluespace anomaly destroys their work. Asserts that the railgun noises their plantkin make is normal. Pretends to be a therapist.
@Antagonist	Sadists. Argues conflict is healthy and important for personal and character development. Is correct. Forgets to CI for the seventh time that shift. Is left cufflebucked in solitary over possession charges, has to ahelp.
@Command	Veteran masochists. Either knows exactly what to do or couldn't help you if they tried, no inbetween. Spends 40 minutes of every shift arguing on Command comms. Slips while holding their department remote, forgets they were holding it and loses it in maintenance. Will not publicly admit to having autolathe'd their PDA and ID.
@opfor-ers	TV grade villians. Coin-flip on if they know how to write a proper OpFor or not. Writes some of the best, and worst, stories on the server.
@Policy-Update-Hearer	Gets newsletters about how pasta is legally allowed to be consumed.
@Silicon	Linguistic rope bunnies. Enjoys their AA and long arms. Deadbolts the airlock behind them. Has strong opinions on borg models. Needs a buff and a rework three years ago. Gets shafted by upstream constantly. Professional rules lawyers.
@Captcha-verified	Not @silicon
@Gamers	Variety gamers.
@LoreBlog	Cant wait for the next Lore release, waits for an unspecified amount of time. Permanently left on a cliffhang. Eats popcorn.
@ashwalker	Are not real. Do insane rituals that put modern heretics to shame. Live on the outskirts of a demonic society. Is abducted by outworlders routinely. Found a pair of mesons once and it changed their life.
@tarkon	Offstation guncargo. Refuses to trade their neat tech. Run by some of the most skilled individuals in the entire community.
@catwalker	Meow meow meow meow meow. Has to be reminded they aren't part of the station.
@DS2	Antagonism without the mechanics. Goes insane from working alone.
@Interdyne	Exiled scientists. Make the best drugs you've ever had. Does everything you can do and more in 1/10th of the available space. Corners the market on life saving drugs. Embodies capitalism.
@Black Market Dealers	Has lots of contraband, either sells a lot or cant sell any of it. Makes a display of their wares in the bar. Gets arrested multiple times. Is drunk while asking for boarding permission. Gets their ship stolen.
@Server Booster	Subscribed to nitro nearly a decade ago.