Moderators / Administrators

[namida]

Obviously we need a couple of extras here beside just myself, so anyone interested?

Main criteria is:
- Online often. Doesn't have to be 24/7 of course, but more than once a year. :p
- Existing, established members of the forums.

For admins, I'll also give access to the site's database, FTP, etc, if the person in question feels comfortable with this. I absolutely want to have at least one other person with this access.

Of course I'll need to verify applying users are who they say, either by a PM on the old forum or talk to me on the Lix IRC channel.

Note that the requirements will be more stringent for admins than moderators.


Note that current staff members who are reasonably active will have priority. In other words, the following people have first priority:
- Akseli
- Clam
- geoo
- Proxima

[exit]

Hmmm . . .. Well, I'm fine with doing it, and I do meet the criteria, but I've only been on the lemmings forums for half a year. Feel free to put me on as one of these positions if you want to.

[namida]

I'll keep that in mind. However, do keep in mind the current staff on the existing forum - or at least those who are active - will have priority. I've updated the initial post to expand on this.

[namida]

At this point, apart from myself we also have geoo and ccexplore as admins, and Clam and Akseli as mods (as well as Simon and Tsyu as moderators only for the Lix and SuperLemmini boards respectively). I've also sent Proxima a PM to ask if he'd be interested in retaining his status as moderator of the Challenges board or even a global mod position; depending on how he responds, I may look for one more moderator. I don't think we need any more admins at this stage; as a precautionary measure all admins will have server access (though at the moment, server access still needs to be set up for geoo and ccexplore, but they already have database access), and on the staff board (which is accessible to all admins and global moderators, but not board-specific moderators) are details of how they can contact me outside the forum if it ever becomes nessecary.

Additionally, if for any reason I'm unable to continue supporting the site at some point (which is unlikely in the near future as the host used is extremely cheap), ownership of the site can be transferred very easily to someone else with at most a couple of minutes interruption to its availability and no need to re-setup anything. If for any reason this can't be done (for example, if I disappear off the face of the earth and can't transfer it), either of the other admins can as a last resort backup the database and download a copy of the files on the server, and reupload them elsewhere without having to lose any data at all. I know this sounds pessimistic, but it's more just a matter of preparing for the worst possible scenarios to minimize hassle.