kind of an addendum to my previous post, but vip isn't really good enough since they need a staff member to put up events, which in the past has proven to be next to impossible (read: why impromptus never happen anymore)
I think that is pretty unfair. I've answered every request for event announcements that I have received/seen, except for two (counting for the past 3 or so months), one of which I missed because I was sleeping. Multiple times I've even gotten out of bed and done announcements for people in the middle of the (european) night.
Putting the blame for lack of impromptus on staff isn't right, I think the more believable reason is that people who used to initiate impromptus aren't around anymore, and no one is picking up from where they left off. Every time I got a message about impromptu events, it was always someone from the same small pool of people, which now is empty.
Because if people were actually trying to get a event announcement, I should've been getting a lot more messages both on IRC and steam.
The people who requested the events are gone, it's not because of missing group officers. IMO.
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We are expanding on the site staff/group officers, thats the entire reason for this thread.
But steam is so wonderfully stupid that there is no middle group between: 'ALL the power' and 'no power at all', so of course steam event creation is always going to be a issue, but so far it's not a major one. I'm just saying that, the vast majority of event requests that I receive, get answered, and that I'm not getting nearly the same amount I was say 1 year ago.