[wp-forums] Volunteer Titles

[Peter Westwood]

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On Fri, July 1, 2005 2:33 pm, lorelle at cameraontheroad.com said:
> Regarding the discussion of titles, I would like to suggest that some
> form of distinction be made for Support Forum Volunteers and "members".
> This is not to make one person "better" than another but to recognize a
> volunteer as someone who understands the "rules of conduct" and "is here
> for something beyond their own self interest". I think these people
> should get the "title" of "Volunteer" under their name on the forum.
>

Sounds good.

>
> Now, who gets this qualification as a Volunteer and not just a member?
> Here are a few ideas.
>
> * A Volunteer is "recommended" by two or more other Volunteers to Podz
> or one of the mavens.
>
> * A set of criteria is established, like X months on the forum, X
> postings, or whatever method there is a "counting" a person's contribution.
>

Time / Post count don't always correlate with contribution.
If we had some way for the originator of a post to hilight the answer/s that they found helpful and thereby give
people karma which led on to the possibility of being a "Volunteer"

Maybe a tick box against each post to enable it to be identified as helpful?

> * Or Podz or one of the mavens just hands out the designation to whoever
> they feel deserves it.
>

I would think that if we want to recognise people well we don't want a single path to becoming a "Volunteer" but a
combination of the suggestions above - probably the status change should require the support of more than one
Volunteer/Maven

westi
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