[wp-forums] Promotions

[Peter Westwood]

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My 0.02p

To reply to both Podz and Skippy at the same time...

On Thu, June 30, 2005 5:58 pm, Podz said:
> In the forums, the people with additional 'rights' are Matt, Ryan,
> Carthik, Skippy and myself.
> The rights of a Maven extend to being able to edit / delete any post,
> edit the thread title, close/re-open topics. The expectations of Mavens
> is sometimes higher....
>

Ok.

> As Matt said in #wordpress-meetup: ""support mavens" on the forum are
> people who help out a ton and are suggested by podz to be mods"
> Should we have more Mavens ?

See below

> Should we have a different 'level' ? (Note this would have coding
> implications I'm sure which I know zip about)

Adding lots of levels probably doesn't help.  I don't think phpbb/other bb style levels based on post count/other
factors really help.

However maybe a level for Plugin Devs??? / People who are setup on dev.wp-plugins.org to have svn access?

> What do we gain from having more ?
> If we do, how do we 'award' it ?
>

However it is awarded should to be documented somewhere - codex article maybe - even if its just something like:

"Maven's on the support forum are wordpress community members that monitor the forums and try to answer common
questions."

> I certainly think there are helpers who deserve a formal
> acknowledgement, but equally, having a dozen mavens ? Does that help ?
> What are the positives and negatives of a more formal support helper
> structure ? (And I know I'll be called elitist by someone at some time
> for this...)
>

Maybe we can give people extra perms without making it visible that they have them - ie not calling the Mavens?


> This is not about the recent security issue posting - they are very
> rare. I'm talking generally.
>

On Thu, June 30, 2005 6:32 pm, Scott Merrill said:
> As a Maven, I can say that there's little immediate benefit to the
> title.  So far, I've deleted three threads, all of which were duplicates
> of a fourth; and closed two threads.  So with great power comes ...
> ample opportunity to do nothing special.  =)
>

Deleting duplicate threads is good.
Users have a recommended way of pointing them out by some means - IRC/this list/a special forum post would be good.

> I'm consistently amazed that our forums are as focused as they are.  We
> don't have too many trolls; we don't have a lot of abuse; we don't have
> idle chatter interrupting support threads.  People can come in, ask a
> question, and (usually) receive at least one useful response.
>
> At this stage, I simply don't think there's much _need_ for additional
> moderators.

The only reason I can think of for the need for more Mavens are:
  Overloading of current mavens
  Covering timezones that aren't already covered

westi
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