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.

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.

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.

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

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

Yeah, I used to be able to move threads OUT of the D2 section, but I couldn't put them back IN.

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

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.

Sure, why not.

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.

I've been looking for that picture everywhere.