Organisation of the forums

[Ludens]

At the moment the moderators are reorganizing the forum. There used to be four ranks: junior patron, senior patron, member and senior member. Now, they have merged the two patron ranks into a new rank: junior member (to make it more confusing: the member rank used to be junior member). Due to the reorganization, I don't know what the exact restrictions are for each rank. As far as I know there is no forum restriction anymore like there used to be (a recently saw a junior patron start a topic in the watchtower). I guess the junior members have a larger post restriction (meaning they have to wait longer after posting before they are allowed to post again). After a probation time on the org, they are promoted to full member. Post count has nothing to do with the promotion process: I have seen senior members with less than a hundred posts and senior patrons with thousands. What matters is how you behave.

Full members have less post restriction and can edit their posts. Senior member is a honourary title that comes with no extra privileges (except for more storage space for private messages). You become senior member by doing special services to the community, though in my case I am not entirely sure what my special service was. Having a relation with a moderator also helps .

Assistant Moderator is a special rank created for the story-telling forums: the Mead Hall and Throne Room. These forums require no constant moderator attention, so they are moderated by two members that got chosen in an election amongst the members. They got the special rank of assistant-moderator. Later, other forums got AM's too. An AM is a sort of lesser moderator: they have some, but not all, of the abilities of a full moderator.

The administrators actually run this forum: they take care of the software and the promotions. The moderators do not promote anyone, they sent the list of 'to be promoted' members to TosaInu, who then promotes them.

I hope I was able to answer your questions.

[CBR]

Yeah We AM's get to clean the staff toilets


CBR

[Morat]

I hope I was able to answer your questions.

Thanks very much, Ludens. Much appreciated.