right now, its virtually impossible to become a suggestor in a reasonable timeframe, its been months since I resubmitted my application and I’ve gotten 0 response. its been said this is a symptom of the mods essentially getting bored of accepting suggestor applications, therefore I propose something different from the mods being the only ones.
Once you reach trust level 3, you can apply to the mods to become a suggestion judge, this can only be kept as a tl3 or higher (if you lose tl3 you lose suggestion judge), and the application must be directly accepted by the mods themselves. then, as a suggestion judge, you and other ones vote on suggestion applications to see who can and cant post in suggestions.
this solves the significant issue of basically nobody being able to get suggestor anymore, with even other suggestors basically smuggling suggestions from other users into suggestions.
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You cooked
Needs some tune ups, good idea anyway
Im indifferent
Inherently flawed, still better than what we have now
Suggestion Judges shouldn’t be chosen due to TL3. That’s hardly a way to enforce quality. I think Headless should ask Vetex whether it would be possible to let a few people who are both testers/forum mods and also active (which is the main issue here - none of the people with Forum Admin permissions ever seem to actually touch the forums) who can be additional suggestions judges.
I think the lack of Forum Admins in general is a decent issue here. Other than Vetex, Tech and Headless, the three with admin permissions are
Trollus (Who isn’t very active anymore)
Night (Who isn’t very active anymore)
Meta (Who isn’t very active anymore)
that’s not to say there’s even any good admin candidates because there’s like two forum mods remaining now + divanochi.
I’d rather make suggestor acceptors at least TL4
Despite activity of Tl3, we’re still just strangers here who probably have some thing behind out-backs, sure we’re more active but TL3 is by far too easy to obtain. Usually this would fall under certain contributions and leadership of the user, like Bio for example since they shown great contribution and communication throughout forum community (Including maturity)
While some people like me, you, or others aren’t exactly fit for this, mainly because we just aren’t at that criteria yet