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=== Governance === | === Governance === | ||
The community made use of a non-linear rank structure, where each service had an isolated hierarchy of staff, wherein the highest-ranking members of each hierarchy reported to a group of individuals that jointly acted as the community's owners. The top of each hierarchy had ''administrators'', with each service typically having 1-3 of them at any given time, who jointly decided what happened to the service. Administrators reported to ''super administrators'', a group comprised of 4 members at its apex. The super administrators made decisions that effected the larger community and oversaw the work of the administrators. | The community made use of a non-linear rank structure, where each service had an isolated hierarchy of staff (internally referred to as ''divisions''), wherein the highest-ranking members of each hierarchy reported to a group of individuals that jointly acted as the community's owners. The top of each hierarchy had ''administrators'', with each service typically having 1-3 of them at any given time, who jointly decided what happened to the service. Administrators reported to ''super administrators'', a group comprised of 4 members at its apex. The super administrators made decisions that effected the larger community and oversaw the work of the administrators. | ||
Below administrators were ''senior moderators'', who were primarily charged with training ''moderators''. Moderators were tasked with the duties typically expected of a moderator for an online service. | Below administrators were ''senior moderators'', who were primarily charged with training ''moderators''. Moderators were tasked with the duties typically expected of a moderator for an online service. | ||
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== History == | == History == | ||
=== Chronology of events === | |||
==== 2019 ==== | |||
On December 23, a vast majority of management, leadership, and other members from the community Hydra Gaming leave simultaneously, resulting in the creation of Lunarys. | |||
Between December 24 and 31, the community creates the ''Minecraft'' division, and applications to apply for staffing positions are made available. | |||
==== 2020 ==== | |||
In January, divisions are created for ''SCP: Secret Laboratory'' and ''Garry's Mod,'' with the latter running the gamemode Trouble in Terrorist Town. In the same month, a handbook for the staff team is released. | |||
In February, the senior administrator position is introduced, bots displaying the active player count for the ''SCP: Secret Laboratory'' servers is launched, the ''Minecraft'' division transitions to being a modded server, and the administrator position becomes tied to a service rather than acting globally. | |||
In March, a public statement is released from a super administrator regarding how the [[wikipedia:COVID-19_pandemic|COVID-19 pandemic]] is affecting the staff team's performance. In the same month, a Patreon is released. | |||
=== Controversy === | === Controversy === | ||
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| General Information | |
|---|---|
| Established | 2019 |
| Owner | Sirdog |
| Registered Members | 627 (as of April 7, 2023) |
| Joining Process | Participation |
Lunarys was an SCP: Secret Laboratory community established on December 23, 2019 as a migration away from another community.[1] It was shut down on December 20, 2022 to rebrand itself as LunarysX.[2] This was following a 10-month period of inactivity after leadership of the community was transferred away on March 17, 2022.[3]
Structure
Governance
The community made use of a non-linear rank structure, where each service had an isolated hierarchy of staff (internally referred to as divisions), wherein the highest-ranking members of each hierarchy reported to a group of individuals that jointly acted as the community's owners. The top of each hierarchy had administrators, with each service typically having 1-3 of them at any given time, who jointly decided what happened to the service. Administrators reported to super administrators, a group comprised of 4 members at its apex. The super administrators made decisions that effected the larger community and oversaw the work of the administrators.
Below administrators were senior moderators, who were primarily charged with training moderators. Moderators were tasked with the duties typically expected of a moderator for an online service.
A position known as senior administrator also existed, which acted as a managerial role for administrators that reported directly to the super administrators. It was discontinued after 4 months.[4]
At the community's inception it was originally intended that the rank structure would be more linear, where administrators would jointly be responsible for managing all services provided simultaneously. The outcome of an internal poll sent to the staff team in February of 2020 showed that the administrators were dissatisfied with that decision, resulting in the structure described above.[4]
Infrastructure
The community hosted a variety of services using a virtual private server rented from the company NFO Servers. The monthly cost was $50 USD. The specifications were 8 virtual CPU cores, 8.1 gigabytes of RAM, 500 gigabytes of storage, and 4.8 terabytes of file transfer bandwidth.[5]
The services hosted included:
- 4 SCP: Secret Laboratory servers running simultaneously
- A website
- Various Discord bots
- A Minecraft server
- A Garry's Mod server
History
Chronology of events
2019
On December 23, a vast majority of management, leadership, and other members from the community Hydra Gaming leave simultaneously, resulting in the creation of Lunarys.
Between December 24 and 31, the community creates the Minecraft division, and applications to apply for staffing positions are made available.
2020
In January, divisions are created for SCP: Secret Laboratory and Garry's Mod, with the latter running the gamemode Trouble in Terrorist Town. In the same month, a handbook for the staff team is released.
In February, the senior administrator position is introduced, bots displaying the active player count for the SCP: Secret Laboratory servers is launched, the Minecraft division transitions to being a modded server, and the administrator position becomes tied to a service rather than acting globally.
In March, a public statement is released from a super administrator regarding how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the staff team's performance. In the same month, a Patreon is released.
