... why does Adam have to be in charge of the blog for his articles to be on there? Any person could run the blog and post submissions from him. The person running the blog shouldn't necessarily be the Best Article Writer, but someone who competently and diligently works with articles, from multiple people, on a regular basis, actively committed to the whole site without creating more friction than necessary.
Great question. I agree, ability to write articles is helpful but not the most important thing for someone to be helping ruin the DS blog. Writing articles is one of the ways I could contribute, but TBH I think I'd be much more helpful in other ways.
The blog needs to be run by multiple people. This is because in order for it to succeed, it needs to have a regular schedule for when it releases new content, and that's too much to ask of just one person. So if there's going to be a team of people, I think I would be one of the best choices for someone to add to that team. I'm not interested in doing it all by myself.
I know more about the audience of the blog than anyone else that's been mentioned for this. I've spent a lot of time as someone still very involved in Dominion, but not necessarily a part of the "F.DS community" which I think is one of the biggest reasons in support of adding me to the group of people who run the DS blog.
The best teams have as many different perspectives as possible and you're not going to get my perspective from anywhere else; the italicized part of what I quoted there fits me perfectly and to be frank, I think my position as someone both inside and outside of the community would be much more useful than someone who fits the description of the part after the italics.
I don't think there's anyone who's taught Dominion to more people than I have. I've taken people from learning to play the game to being competitive in tournament play multiple times, I've heard the questions they ask, I've seen what confuses them, and I've seen what makes the light bulbs turn on for them. I know the kinds of articles they want to read, I know the terminologies that make sense to them and the ones that don't. I had game designers approach me at Gencon, asking me to make "how to play" videos for their games (these are trendy right now) because they saw what I made for Power Grid and Dominion and it was the best thing they've ever seen.
I was more involved in the official (RGG-sanctioned) competitive scene than anyone on here (maybe even DXV) even before the championship this year and I think I've put on more IRL Dominion tournaments than anyone else in the world. The feedback from them has been unilaterally and overwhelmingly positive. I know how to take competitive Dominion and grow it and it may surprise some people to hear this, but the reason people come back is because of how I treat the players and how well the tournament is run.
As for the "drama" and the "team player" concerns that people have been saying. Well I'm not going to directly address them other than that I want to say that the narrative that I'm this jerk who wants to rule with an iron fist or just have a platform to complain from is simply not true. It's been a long time since all of that and I've had multiple opportunities to just not come back, but instead I've been creating content. I don't have the time to waste on trolling people who are tired of me; the fact that I'm here and willing to put in my own time and money into the DS blog after a couple of years away from the community isn't consistent with the whole "Adam is a jerk" thing that seems to be going around. In fact I haven't seen any reasons at all against me being part of this that don't boil down to "Adam is a jerk."
If whoever else is going to do this thinks I'm being a jerk, they can just kick me out. Whatever you're afraid of me doing to make your lives miserable, just don't give me the power to do it and we're all happy. I just don't see any of that as a reason to not let me be part of making and publishing content for the DS blog when it's pretty clear I have a lot more to offer that group than pretty much anyone else.