Team Australia - Not a nice post

Gday everyone. I'm not happy about writing this post, but it has to be done I guess.

This post is going to cover the following topics.:

Decency, Community initiatives and Community Positions within Team Australia.

Decency

Everyone here in Team Australia is here for the common goals of mateship, community and to have a fun relaxed time. Last week, when a disagreement between 2 members in a private chat was posted to the comments section of the post those values were destroyed. Everyone in this community should feel safe to have a private conversation with someone, especially an arguement and know that its going to stay between the 2 of them. If people can't feel safe to talk to people, especially when one of them is a top 50 witness, then the community will fall apart very rapidly.
@jackmiller you done fucked up mate, and I expect a public apology to @bearone. As someone who is going for a position of trust and respect within the witness program, you should have known better. Your arguement of "keep it out in the open and transparent" does not apply as we will see in the next section.

Community Initiatives

Firstly, let me set something straight. The server we share with the New Zealanders is not a Hard fork of Team Australia. It was a chance to grow and expand the group, giving it breathing room and a way to set it own direction. Team Australia is, and always will be a part of @aggroed Minnow Support and a PAL group. The new server was never a break away from MSP, or anything like that. BUT...... this leads me to my main point. I fucked up on doing this, I didn't seek enough consultation or gauge enough community support in doing it, thus there is some resentment around it. Sure I may be the figure head of this group, but that doesn't really count for much unless the group is behind it. Even I can't just go and do something new and expect it to be recieved with open arms and rejoice.
We're all Australians here, we know that we thumb our noses at directives and demands, we need to be consulted. We have seen too many projects fail because people go off on their own with no consultation and just expect everyone to follow blindly because it says its a Team Australia project.
With this in mind, I'm seeking approval to add a new room on the TA/ANZ server for community initiatives. This will be a place people can bring an idea to the community and have some open respectful debate around the idea. Everyone can bring an idea to this place, its a safe space. But that doesn't mean every idea will be accepted. Some ideas just will not work, some ideas just wont have support. You're still welcome to run with your ideas if the team doesn't support it, but it wont be a Team Australia project and you can't get your knickers in a twist if people don't support it.

Community Positions

If there are positions that become available to promote Team Australia on a much larger scale, then I'm sorry but if can't be first in best dressed. This kind of thing needs to be discussed and agreed upon by a larger group.
@jackmiller, I'm sorry but I do not agree that you should be the Australian Ambassador for Promo Steem. There is absolutely no doubt that @mattclarke should have that role. He has personally recruited nearly half of Adelaide into Steemit, holds regular meets and actively engages the public on all matters relating to Steemit.
This is something that needed to be discussed and agreed upon before again blindsiding the group.

I'm sorry that this wasn't the nice fun light-hearted post that you're used to, but some of these things needed to be said. The big take away from this post is this: TALK TO US... work as a group and you'll be supported where ever we can, going rogue never works.
Oh and TA CAsh is just a fun nickname that @choogirl called the TA/NZ Server thanks to my cock up. Learn from my cock ups, no matter how great the server is, my implementation of it was shit and we paid the price because of it.