Forum Leaders?
 

Just like to get a 'gist of what the rest of the community feels would work out on these forums.

Picture this:

You have somebody that 'technically' isn't a Moderator, Staff, Admin, whatever, BUT they have some of the abilities, such-as Closing threads in their specific section, editing Titles, Turning them into stickies, editing Polls, whatever may be needed at the time in that specific section..


As well as being able to edit/move in their specific forum, possibly even made somewhat responsible to keep threads on-topic, in-depth threads should also be required to keep the general morale of their forum up, where-as if somebody was to be a Leader of the Entertainment and Sports section, they should provide news, analitical opinions on whatever may be posted in there, and keeping people up to par for the most part on what's going on. Etc. It's basically a Leader, there's a million and one ways to expand on this, but basically would you feel to have it be nice to have somebody step up for various parts on the forums to help out activity and keep things in-line and in order?

Vote.

oh can a Mod change the first option to It'd instead of I'd .. typo

then Delete this post? K-thanks !

Well, the people would essentially be mods of their specific forums. That doesn't mean they would be staff. In my opinion, they should just get mod powers in their forum and leave it at that.

Some suggestions:

D3v for Automotive
MJ for Science
Kagom for History

Deciding who would do it isn't very hard, in most cases it's pretty obvious.

Also, Gen Con and Chat forum and such wouldn't need mods, as our current staff frequents those often enough and there aren't really "leader" figures in those forums.

Esentially, these people would still be in the "Member" usergroup but they would have mod powers for their specific forum and would essentially be mod of that forum.

Right now, only admins can edit polls due to constant complaint of poll vandalism in the past...

Permissions I'd have no issue handing out if leaders were implemented:
Sticky
Edit thread title
Open/Close
Things I'd need convincing:
Edit others' posts
Deletion
Not happening:
Announcements
IPs
Banning
Even the super mods can't:
Edit polls
Physically delete

I'm pretty sure stickying, editing thread titles, and opening/closing threads would be enough. Perhaps moving posts and stuff like that would be necessary too. Editing other people's posts I'm not so sure, but as long as it isn't abused I don't see a problem.

Well the first few is all I'm sure the leaders would actually even need....

IIRC, you have to be moderator of the destination forum to move now (which is why there are mods of the trashcan...), so forum leaders wouldn't have anywhere to move posts to, most likely.

Yeah, all you'd need are methods to clean up the forum and such, banning and stuff like that is just completely unnecessary.

I don't even think they really need to be made "staff". Giving certain people some tools at their disposal could promote leadership in forums like the Automotive Forum, History Forum, etc, and make it easier for said people to lead.

Nope, I just moved a thread from the test forum to the staff forum and I have no mod powers in the staff forum.

Posts like this, constantly, every single day after every post legitimately make it so that nobody can ever take you seriously.

Willkill, try to keep stuff like that out of generally serious threads like this one, please. Post trashed.

Ah, sorry. I'm not taking this thread too seriously. What will having "forum leaders" do for the forum in general that the moderators cannot already accomplish? If said moderators do not have the time to invest then appoint 1-2 more. The only saving grace of this idea is that if people are more hands on they may make more of an effort to recruit more members, I guess.

Well, for instance, I don't have much interest in cars, and I don't know that anyone else on the staff does either, so it's not like I'm in the automotive forum making sure everyone is following the rules and closing threads and such.

If we establish leaders for these specialized forums, and give them some responsibilities, they'll be more likely to post good content, keep stuff up to date, and make the forum more presentable than if nobody is doing it except the mods when requested.

For instance, all of the threads that are stuck in the Automotive forum and such are stuck because D3v asked us to stick them. It makes sense to instead give him the power to do it himself and make him the "leader figure" in that forum, since he's the one posting most of the content and he's the one who suggested the forum in the first place.

Make D3v a supreme mod =).

No thanks.

What powers do Supreme Mods have that WW didn't offer to forum leaders?

Well if you would've read his post you could've seen

Seems like a novel idea.

I didn't see the "things I'd need convincing on". My bad.

I just think that D3V wants to have some sort of power on this forum, but I will agree that this is a good idea.