Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-27150398-20181023160735

Hello everyone, I wanted to address a number of things regarding the promotion of staff members on this wiki.

Firstly, I wanted to encourage more users to use this wiki’s Rule Violation Report more often along with the RVRs on our wiki’s Discord servers. Over the last few months the wiki’s RVR in particular hasn’t been used that much which has made it harder for me and the other staff members to find good candidates for the various staff positions. As shown by this wiki’s Staff Information and Requirements page regularly reporting rule violations on the RVR makes it more likely that you will be promoted to a staff position and it also helps the current members of the staff team identify and deal with any trolls or rule-breakers more quickly and easily so it would be good to see it used more often.

In terms of how users can get promoted, the best way is to go on the Promotion Requests page and nominate yourself or another user for a position as long as long as you or said other user meet the majority of requirements for the position in question and the maximum required number of users in that position at once hasn’t already been reached (though exceptions to these required amounts may be made depending on the circumstances but we can’t promise anything). Said page has only be used twice so far so it would be good to see more users in the community use it on a more frequent basis. I will also pick out users myself and offer them promotions from time to time as well if I feel that they would do good in a particular position but I would prefer if the community didn’t become too reliant on this method of promotion either.

Additionally, me and Wither (who came up with the new staff requirements) previously decided that if a user wants to apply to the position of Content Mod, Operator, General Moderator, Admin or Bureaucrat (or nominate someone else to take on one of these positions) they would need to have their contributions checked and the majority of the Admins and Bureaucrats would have to agree on whether they should be promoted to said positions before they would be promoted in order to reduce the chance of hostile or immature users being promoted to said positions. However, if a user wanted to nominate themselves or someone else for the role of Rollback, Chat Mod, Superintendent, Discussion Mod or Superordinate they would just need to have their contributions quickly checked in order to ensure that they met the majority of the requirements for said positions and if they did they could then be promoted.

For those who may be wondering whether or not we will holding public elections like the ones previous Admins held, they WILL NOT be held as the community is more quieter than it used to be and said elections would generally only result in the popular users being promoted rather than giving some of the more underrated users to be promoted as well.

Lastly, Simbiothero has been promoted to the position of General Moderator and BonBooker and Raiando have both been promoted to the position of Discussion Mod so please feel free to congratulate them down below. 