Forum Assistants
Forum Assistants
Forum assistant are here to help all the members get the most out of the forum as a place to share information. In the Petopian Guilds forum, for example, a forum assistant can sticky information threads, update posts about who to contact to join the guild, or merge two threads about the same event.
Forum assistants are not responsible for enforcing forum posting rules or keeping the peace between community members. If you see a post that violates the rules, please report it with the report Post button (!) and it will get dealt with by a global moderator or me.
We don't plan on adding very many forum assistants - certainly not one for each forum. The Petopian Guilds forum, however, seemed like it could benefit from some more organization from people involved in the guilds.
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to send me a PM or e-mail me at mania@wow-petopia.com.
Reason: Clarified terminology.
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Re: Forum Aides
So, Saturo is a Forum Aide for the Petopian Guild forum (I'm guessing that Ryno will most likely become one as well). Any other aides that we should know about?
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Re: Forum Aides
I also exist on DeviantArt.
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Re: Forum Aides
But, seriously, now that Saturo mentions it, I'm afraid that I'll have to change my mind (mostly because now I can't think of Saturo being a forum aide without thinking of her having forum aids )
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Re: Forum Assistants
Cialbi: I've asked Azunara to help organize the Role-Playing forum, but I haven't actually set that up yet. I think those will be our only two forums with Assistants at this point.
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Re: Forum Assistants
I also exist on DeviantArt.
"I'll probably be some kind of scientist, building inventions in my space lab in space!"
Moderation note: Saturo is banned from all forums except the RP forum, and only allowed there until the current RP thread ends.
Re: Forum Assistants
Zzzgrbt. You make me feel more useful than I really am! >.>Saturo wrote:Great choice! Was thinking about suggesting her, but you seem to have beaten me to it! ^^
And really, I never would've caught on to either of those sport drinks or disturbing diseases until it was pointed out. *rather innocent?*
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Re: Forum Assistants
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Re: Forum Assistants
For example, the Roleplaying forum could almost be considered a mini-community on its own. There's a core group of members that regularly utilize that board, and it's largely left to its own devices. Having Azunara as the designated assistant will allow her to easily help that community in terms of organizational needs and guides/stickies that they might want to create.
The Guild Leaders/Officers of the Petopian guilds were given privileges in that section so that they could easily manage matters which pertain to the in-game guilds such as new members, questions, organizing events, etc. It just makes things easier as a whole.
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Re: Forum Assistants
So it only just dawned on me that this kind of implies that the rest of us are really just Veph's, Golden's and Kalli's pets... Hmmm!Vephriel wrote:Stable Masters
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Re: Forum Assistants
*offers Anyia a tasty pet biscuit*Anyia wrote:So it only just dawned on me that this kind of implies that the rest of us are really just Veph's, Golden's and Kalli's pets... Hmmm!Vephriel wrote:Stable Masters
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Re: Forum Assistants
A Forum Assistant can do:
* Sticky threads.
* Lock threads.
* Merge and split threads.
* Edit posts.
* Delete posts.
This is where I get lost.. The "Stable Master's" can already do this in any section of the entire forum. So what can the Stable Master's do that the Forum Assistant is unable/does not have the ability ? Trying to understand this all. Perhaps I'm just having one of my slow days.
EDIT: Either I'm loosing my mind or somehow Stable masters gained the new title of Global Moderators suddenly. I could of sworn it was Stable Master's less then a hour ago.
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Re: Forum Assistants
Also, as Mania posted previously in another thread:
I've italicized the differences for you.Mania wrote:What are the moderators responsible for?
Global moderators are responsible for responding for:
Dealing with spam.
Moving and stickying threads.
Requests to change user names.
Reminding members about the forum rules.
Escalating issues to Mania.
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Re: Forum Assistants
Ahh! Ok I fully understand now. I knew there was a difference I just couldn't put my finger on it.Kalliope wrote:Forum assistants are limited to their designated subforums. Stable Masters cover the entire forum. The advantage to the assistants being able to handle the subforums is that a Stable Master won't need to be located for every little detail, giving greater freedom to all.
Also, as Mania posted previously in another thread:
I've italicized the differences for you.Mania wrote:What are the moderators responsible for?
Global moderators are responsible for responding for:
Dealing with spam.
Moving and stickying threads.
Requests to change user names.
Reminding members about the forum rules.
Escalating issues to Mania.
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Re: Forum Assistants
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Re: Forum Assistants
*sniffs the biscuit cautiously*Kalliope wrote:*offers Anyia a tasty pet biscuit*
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Re: Forum Assistants
Re: Forum Assistants
-------- Golden, Guardian of Cenarius
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hrm, not suspicious, not one bit.*
Re: Forum Assistants
*starts teaching people cat form.*
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