I'm starting out with the assumption that all staff will be becoming admins over the next little while because why not.
Back to the point though. I think we need a new type of staff member.
These people would be administrators in the forum software, but be given a specific rank title to denote their different rank. I’m calling them forum maintainers, but that can obviously change.
What these people can do.
1: unrestrict members.
2: move topics around.
3: close topics that have gotten incredibly out of hand to await moderator intervention.
What these people cannot do.
1: hand out punishments of any sort. They can close a topic, in case a thread gets really bad, think one of the Redspot threads, but a moderator can reopen it if it was deemed to be a mistake. If they start closing too many threads needlessly, then they’re kicked out.
2: vote on staff issues or see the main staff list.
3: speak for staff in any way.
Because they cannot issue punishments, a lot of long-time forum members who would not be comfortable with being actual mods could easily fill these positions. They would technically have the power to ban a user, because of how the software worked, but as mentioned by Jayde in another topic, anything a rogue administrator does can easily be undone. The kinds of people I invasion being in this role are people like Ethone, Defender, Ironcross, Basically any long-standing forum member who doesn’t act like a 12 year old, because they’re not required to make serious moral judgement calls and just exist to make things run smoothly.
Why, you ask?
1: we’d need less moderators as these maintainers would keep the forum running more or less smoothly on a day to day basis.
2: It would make the forum look more organized.
3: if something really did get out of hand, a topic could be closed before it went too insane, even if no moderators were around.
These stafff would be treated the same as regular members when it came to warnings and bans, with the addendum
that if they overstep their outlined role, they're instabanned for at least a month.
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