What makes a good manager?

[G_yoshi]

Originally posted by DarkShadows_Legend
What makes a good manager?
Someone that has experience in all fields he manages over.
scripting, level making, policing, answering questions, holding the players attention, and I guess some graphics work.
That pretty much covers each position: NAT, LAT, GP, FAQ, ET, GAT.

In my opinion if someone doesn't have any experience in any of those then they don't deserve to be manager period.

I highly disagree with the area of psuedo-staff like FAQ. To me its just a gimmic for players to feel they are special because they can carry a silly tag that says FAQ or ET around. Otherwise its a subjective prerequisite. I suppose they could be helpful, but they only require things like common sense to function. I've never worked on or for another server. None of them had anything I liked that much so I wanted to make a world of my own to share.

Its easier for me to look at the mistakes of others and learn from them what not to do than to spend time repeating the process.