Mahek_The_Assassin_Silent_Killer
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This thread is honestly probably going to be quite brief, but I do want to converse with staff on a few topics (both because I am running out of thread or conversation ideas and because I want to learn more about the machinations and workings of the community, staff and platform):
1: What defines a "highly trusted member"? Has any criteria been explicitly stated regarding who is "highly trusted"? Should there be a role assigned to people who are considered "highly trusted" so we know who is eligible to partake in discussions alongside staff?
2: Mr Bambu has already mentioned: "The main country users are from is invariably the United States of America, followed by Brazil, the Philippines, Russia, UK, Canada, Turkey... we're active around the world. If you want to standardize, I would say mostly American (South and North) and European, but that probably only accounts for just over half of the userbase, maybe two-thirds."
That being said, what about staff? I am mostly curious and concerned about whether the staff have the capacity to do "shifts" with regard to timezones to allow for 24/7 monitoring (though within reason due to all of us having other life priorities outside these platforms/communities), particularly cause that may present a (albeit easily rectified via wiki activity and history monitoring) gap in security that rule-breachers could possibly exploit. Are there any other additional countermeasures beyond monitoring and protecting of pages?
3: Do the staff across the 3 wikis stay within the bounds of their own wiki or do they coordinate efforts between each other's wikis?
Again, this could be complicating in terms of dealing with rule breaches, regarding possible policy differences and rule differences between the wikis and forum sections, which could pose a problem since if manpower is limited in any way in any or all three of the wikis and/or forum sections (which could be exacerbated by the above time zone issue), staff would need to familiarise themselves with the idiosyncrasies between the separate wikis/forum sections/platforms, even if they are merely variants (with small tweaks or permutations on certain rules) of the original ruleset.
1: What defines a "highly trusted member"? Has any criteria been explicitly stated regarding who is "highly trusted"? Should there be a role assigned to people who are considered "highly trusted" so we know who is eligible to partake in discussions alongside staff?
2: Mr Bambu has already mentioned: "The main country users are from is invariably the United States of America, followed by Brazil, the Philippines, Russia, UK, Canada, Turkey... we're active around the world. If you want to standardize, I would say mostly American (South and North) and European, but that probably only accounts for just over half of the userbase, maybe two-thirds."
That being said, what about staff? I am mostly curious and concerned about whether the staff have the capacity to do "shifts" with regard to timezones to allow for 24/7 monitoring (though within reason due to all of us having other life priorities outside these platforms/communities), particularly cause that may present a (albeit easily rectified via wiki activity and history monitoring) gap in security that rule-breachers could possibly exploit. Are there any other additional countermeasures beyond monitoring and protecting of pages?
3: Do the staff across the 3 wikis stay within the bounds of their own wiki or do they coordinate efforts between each other's wikis?
Again, this could be complicating in terms of dealing with rule breaches, regarding possible policy differences and rule differences between the wikis and forum sections, which could pose a problem since if manpower is limited in any way in any or all three of the wikis and/or forum sections (which could be exacerbated by the above time zone issue), staff would need to familiarise themselves with the idiosyncrasies between the separate wikis/forum sections/platforms, even if they are merely variants (with small tweaks or permutations on certain rules) of the original ruleset.