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[Neobond]

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Our staff are mostly from Europe (3 of the 4 Admins) and US/Canada; but the remaining staff groups are purposely split between EU & US timezones to try and cover a 24 hour period.

Site Operations

Administrator
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Forum Operations
Color coded from green.

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 6) 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.

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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. This group includes the Chat Moderators.

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Color coded from red. News is submitted both in UK & US English, depending on the location of the poster.

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[+Mystic]

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).

Edited by mystic54, 20 December 2007 - 17:31.

[+zhiVago]

mystic54, on Dec 20 2007, 11:54, said:

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

[gigapixels]

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

[Laura]

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.

[Wannes]

mystic54, on Dec 20 2007, 17:54, said:

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).

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.

[roadgeek9]

What do you get when you are a Subscriber?

[Rappy]

roadgeek9, on Dec 24 2007, 14:50, said:

What do you get when you are a Subscriber?

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

[Shof]

Access to the hottest forum, plus you turn orange

[Wannes]

Rappy, on Dec 24 2007, 15:54, said:

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

You forgot the infamous badge everyone is talking about nowadays.

[+Mephistopheles]

Rappy, on Dec 24 2007, 15:54, said:

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

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

[Rappy]

Mephistopheles, on Dec 24 2007, 14:57, said:

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

[+StevoFC]

Rappy, on Dec 24 2007, 10:58, said:

Oh Yes, plus theres an welcome party

you weren't supposed to mention that...

[roadgeek9]

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

[windows7]

roadgeek9, on Dec 31 2007, 19:11, said:

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.