55 replies to this topic 8 votes

[Colin-uk]

Couch Potato, on Jan 21 2008, 10:43, said:

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.

[Rob]

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

[Matrix XII]

roadgeek9, on Dec 24 2007, 07:50, said:

What do you get when you are a Subscriber?

A cool badge!

[Wannes]

Colin-uk, on Jan 21 2008, 13:46, said:

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

Its not official or made by staff.

Rob, on Jan 21 2008, 19:23, said:

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

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

[Cata34]

Great work - Thanks for very clear rules.

[TheVestel]

Thank you, Neowin.net Staff!

[CCl]

Thanks for all the new infromation.

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

[Sean Bradford]

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

[roadgeek9]

RebelSean, on Nov 13 2008, 10:34, said:

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!

[Crazysah]

Yeah admins, please update this thread.

[joeblogg]

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.

[Wannes]

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

Neobond, on Dec 20 2007, 17:46, said:

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

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.

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.
This is now "Managing Director".

Managing Editor
Explanation comes here. ( PR )

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.

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.

Editor-in-chief
Explanation comes here. ( Head of news team )

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.

[Crazysah]

Thanks for the update.

[Barney]

Updated the original post as best I could. Managing Editor and News Staff should be edited shortly.

[Maple Arrow]

Neobond, on Dec 20 2007, 11:46, said:

+Most Valued Contributor

I thought MVC names were blue. O_o