[wp-forums] Promotions

[Peter Westwood]

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On Thu, June 30, 2005 9:08 pm, Podz said:
> Peter Westwood wrote:
>>>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?
>
> I can't see what this would achieve ? Potentially, someone could answer
> 2000 forum posts, yet someome else writes a plugin and in the forums
> they are accorded a different status even though they may have answered
> nothing. Seems a touch unfair.
>

The one major problem with post count based things is they tend to favour people who BUMP!  I do agree that giving
someone extra status for just writing a plugin does seem unfair...  Maybe it was a bad idea.

>>>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 feel something more tightly worded would be necessary.
>
>>>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?
>
> I'm not sure what this means ....
>

What I meant here was.

At the moment to give someone the extra permissions to edit/delete etc. they are made a Maven, which I assume is
modeled with bbPress as a different type of user, people could be given extra permissions to enable them to help out
without a visible display of this extra status.

E.g. User "bob" gets given "delete thread permission" but still appears to everyone else to just be a "Member" not a
"Maven".

westi
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