Hi there, I am curious how some of you name your various levels of staff. Our current model: Admins Super Mods Mods Bees <--- people who do various organizational things but are not mods. We have decided we do not like the term Bees anymore. And what we would like our new model to look like Admins Super Mods Mods Section mods Site org people Special project people (i.e., someone who runs and promotes the use of blogs) Our conundrum is what to call all these various levels. So I figure with all the experience out there, someone would have something creative. Our market is that we are a fanclub. We call the whole staff "The Team".
yea,,, i wanted sum new ideas also... Hey.what is your forum about exactly...then maybe we can give u sum better ideas.
Our forum is rather unique in the way we rank our staff members. We feel that all our staff should be equal, but use different talents for different things. We divide our staff members into two categories. Managers and Mentors. Mentors are equivalent to global moderators but have some admin tools to help them moderate, managers manage the forum and decide everything that goes on as well as having the power to change them. This system works very well I find.
We have:- Admins 'Global Mods' (all forums) Mods (various forum groups) Trusted Advisors (people that are known for posting good advice and lots of it, no real role, but they do know the forum well, most are old members when the forum was new, and they'll often be found reporting posts etc) TilersForums Arms Members (the first teir after being a 'normal' member in the normal usergroup. TF Arms (like a pub) have access to a 'pub' forum where they can swear and moan about customers or suppliers etc. They have to provide us with their business details after posting a certain amount of posts. This is to ensure they're not a supplier or customer posing as a tiler to get in that area which is used and promoted quite a bit - they have no 'jobs' but they normally know the forum rules and stuff by the time they're in there, so we don't usually get any grief off them - so I like to keep the group for that reason) - that was waaaay too big to be sitting in brackets by hey-ho, what's done is done.
This is the current setup on my forums.. Admin- Self Explanatory Global Moderator- (All forums) Moderator - (Single forum, there's none atm though) Competitive Organizer- (Organizes tournaments, contest, etc. and provides ideas on what kind we should have) Graphic Designer - Creates artwork and other gfx like banners for the site Colors and even the name of the position may change in the future... I will add more position as needed in the future too.
Our system is fairly simple: Administrator Moderator Helper All moderators on my site are "global" moderators (moderating all sections). Helpers are members that assist with the management of various aspects of the site. We have Helpers that manage the weekly Noble Perch Prize, one that manages the Member of the Month, one that upkeeps the blog and its posts, and when we had a newsletter, all of our newsletter team members were deemed "Helpers". On my forum, we refer to the Moderators and Administrators collectively as the "Staff Team" -- the ones who make site-related decisions and maintain its direction.
Admin Super Moderator Moderators Club Coordinator - Moderators the forums/calendar for the Club they are president or staff of.
