I've made a recent change due to the change of the shoutbox. I've removed the usergroup "USERS TO MOVE TO SB". This was an usergroup of members who made a post and rank qualification for shoutbox access. Once in this group, they got individually selected to be moved to the "SB USERS". Here they would have access to the shoutbox and the article staff. This is no longer true. Now we only have Article Users. As of now, there is no way to do a automatic promotion basis.
I'm trying to figure out if we want a automatic promotion system with possible combination with a selective system. We could have an automatic promotion that would move users to a new usergroup called "Users to move to Article". This would be similar to the old system explained above, and we can make minor changes. Another idea could be a nominations and voting system. This would be very similar to the Hylian Knight promotions. Finally, we could have an open application system. This would have users fill an application to join article staff and be voted/discussed. I'm very curious what you guys think.
On a side note. I want to do a new icon for Article people (similar to Administrators, Moderators, etc). I believe this icon will give some award or our article staff. As of now, we don't add article people to the staff. We do this because a person may only write one article, and we may get lots of new article users. However, I believe we need some sort of method to award our article users and keep them motivated. If we do agree with this route, I believe we'll need some sort of standards to receive and keep the icon.
I'm trying to figure out if we want a automatic promotion system with possible combination with a selective system. We could have an automatic promotion that would move users to a new usergroup called "Users to move to Article". This would be similar to the old system explained above, and we can make minor changes. Another idea could be a nominations and voting system. This would be very similar to the Hylian Knight promotions. Finally, we could have an open application system. This would have users fill an application to join article staff and be voted/discussed. I'm very curious what you guys think.
On a side note. I want to do a new icon for Article people (similar to Administrators, Moderators, etc). I believe this icon will give some award or our article staff. As of now, we don't add article people to the staff. We do this because a person may only write one article, and we may get lots of new article users. However, I believe we need some sort of method to award our article users and keep them motivated. If we do agree with this route, I believe we'll need some sort of standards to receive and keep the icon.