Staff

Administrator
This should be obvious, there are 4 administrators on Neowin, 2 site founders Marcel and Myself, Daniel (was the first staffer we took on and was promoted to this in early 2001) and our American investor Brad Wardell aka Frogboy

Supervisor
The Supervisor group was created just over 2 years ago to take the load off the admins, the staff selected (usually a group of no more than 5) are long term trusted staff. They are given administrator permissions and can make operational decisions without fear of being over ruled by the admin group. This group also has an ops forum and many decisions are talked about and decided between admins and supervisors with the help of developers.

Public Relations
This group consists of one person, that is Marshalus. He is the voice on most legal areas and the first point of reference when contacting third parties on behalf of Neowin, he is also communications officer and has setup our Jabber system for staff Instant Messaging service.

Development
This group consists of coders and developers for all aspects of behind the scenes work at Neowin, including image creation. This group has exclusive access to our servers.

Global Mod
This group is another name for "Super Moderator" meaning that anyone in this group can moderate anywhere including news comments.

Moderator
This group contains staff that are usually new to the staff and have been given a specific forum or number of forums to moderate exclusively, they cannot moderate everywhere so we try to keep this group small. They also have permissions to edit News comments.

News Staff
This group is our news editors, anyone in this group may not moderate the forums unless they have been given a secondary group which allows this.

Chat Mod
This group is for IRC moderators.

Non Staff

Veteran
This is where ex staffers go that have contributed a lot to Neowin. Not all ex staffers go here, if they leave on bad terms or simply did not deliver while on staff then they are instead returned to Registered.

+Subscriber
The people in this group paid for additional privileges and enhanced service, or just to support Neowin financially!

+Most Valued Contributor
This group was selected exclusively by the Neowin staff, it is a group of members who the staff felt have been model members and very helpful to existing or new members of Neowin.

Shift Linux Team
This group created the Linux Distro that has been put together entirely by Neowin members!

Hmm, I don't ever remember seeing a Supervisor yet (other than Fred), but I have seen most ever other type on the forums. Thanks for making them so clear cut Neo, this will help many newer users (especially with the newest created class MVC).

If you go to the Forum's main page, there's a legend at the bottom of all possible groups at Neowin.



Those are links and if you click on one of them, a new page will open with a list of all members of that specific group

There are currently five Supervisors

Sweet. I've pretty much had a good idea of what they are, but it's nice to see the explanations in writing. For example, I didn't know what kind of power Supervisors had; now I know who not to **** off

It's nice to see a clear list, I always found it a bit confusing when it came to working out who does what etc. I'm sure this will help newer members even more.

The supervisors run around but don't post all the time, they still have to do their work. Fred is indeed here the most but Joel (silly_walks) tends to come along once in a while with his dry humor.

What do you get when you are a Subscriber?

A blog, no flood control and access to a special section.

Access to the hottest forum, plus you turn orange

You forgot the infamous badge everyone is talking about nowadays.

Don't forget: You also get the warm and fuzzy feeling to have supported the site and its community.

Oh Yes, plus theres an welcome party

you weren't supposed to mention that...

I know this is a slightly old thread, but I do have one question about things like this...
What are the user rankings?

in the profile? The profile is any member or staff can go in to a persons profile and rate them. It does get abused a lot imo. may sites have disabled it.

as for those stars, those are based on your post count and the user titles.

Sometimes they show rank as well.

Welcome to the forum man

yeah the rank in member ship - less starts mean the lest you been here or posted. as the more stars the more postings. But tis not about post count its all about quality

thanks for the warm welcome

I am asking about the stars, for example 3 = Neowinian3 and 5 = Resident Elite


I am asking about the stars, for example 250 = Neowinian3 and 1,000 = Resident Elite

Oh those are the stats/ "pimps" any site that has ipb or even mybb can create and edit their own. This includes how many stars each person gets.This is something neowin came up with. nothing really, just shows your place on then forum.

I've always wondered where supervisors stood , good post.

Yes, I'm pretty sure he gets it, he's just asking for a list of the titles and how many posts you need to get each one.

What about this other group I see...

Restricted (chat)

Maybe clarify these groups for people who don't know.

are these badges even real?

Unless you're proud of being restricted I don't see them being real. Neobond could also have created a shame pole but I don't see him doing that. Err ... or would he?

Those would just be plain embarrassing!

There not real, well I'm guessing there not. maybe the av if soe user isn't allowed to change their av, but still, doubtful.
Just people trying to make a point, possibly because they feel that have been treated unfairy by neowin or some Admin.
I personally think it's kinda childish.

hah, I was about the ask about the restricted ones....

I'm guessing it means they are banned from the IRC server, considering that your neowin account info is required to connect to it.
The badges are probably spoof's

I remember seeing a different type of Restricted on here which was "Mac".

Members can be restricted from the Mac forum, from the Gamer forums, from RWI & NFN (Real World Issues and Nerd Free News), from NeoBay and from the Subscriber forum. We use this with some who than can be decent members outside of certain sections where they cannot seem to resist flaming or trolling.

Members can also be restricted from their own profile if they repeatedly abuse their privileges by choosing not to respect our Avatar and Signature Guidelines.

Nope only Banned and Restricted (Chat) are banned from the server from memory.

Thanks for the heads up but what about that avatar/signature combination a few posts up?

I'm guessing it was made by a disgruntled user.

Its not official or made by staff.

Under no circumstances will there ever be official signature/avatar combinations released that highlight a member's indiscretions.

A cool badge!

Good to hear that. I still think assigning such combination set would have the same affect as a shame pole.

Great work - Thanks for very clear rules.

Thank you, Neowin.net Staff!

Thanks for all the new infromation.

As a new user i find this very helpful for me so thanks!

Shouldn't this be updated with the new edtions to staff groups, color changes, rearanging or senior staff, etc etc ?

I was just about to say that!

Yeah admins, please update this thread.

Good that makes it a lot more easy to understand. Before on forums i was used to only two ranks: Administrator and Moderator. So i was confused what is the difference between global mod and mod. and i never knew supervisors had admin privileges.

The color in the original post are not the same anymore. These are the new colors:

Thanks for the update.