[wp-forums] Building a Team

[Podz]

Another target of this list was to try and build a larger team of people 
to help on the forums. While we have a core group who keep returning, we 
could do with more people.

- How do we encourage people to assist ?
- How do we acknowledge the continued contributions that someone gives ?
- How can we try to make people stick around ?

There may be many new people wanting to answer a post but do not do so 
for some reason - and this is without any 'titles'. can we halp that 
situation ?

We NEED more help - more and more people are using WP every day and on a 
release, the forums get very very busy. We seem to be answering a very 
wide range of questions on all things Internet - because we have a 
reputation of fast accurate responses.

And we need people who won't click away when they see yet another 
"Headers already sent" error - sure, we've seen it a zillion times but 
for that person it's an obstacle. (Let's not get into searching...)

Would a title - a formal acknowledgement - help this process ?
If you write a plugin, your name is in lots of code. If you contribute 
to the wp core, you get to go on a Codex page. If you answer questions 
in the forum ........ ? (This is another thread I know but it's 
important to this discussion too).

So.......ideas ?

P.