message board home
Next
2/7/2011 8:46:15 PM
 
Reply
or ReplyNewSubject
Section 11: Administration Subject: Staff Flags Msg# 769700
|
||||||
|
I like your division of duties and really don't find anything there to complain about with the idea being to keep it simple. Right now in Firearms we have Allan doing strictly News because 1) he has a day job as an outdoor writer that keeps him busy, and 2) in order to get the kind of news cover we want, just doing news in Firearms is job enough. Jerry, when he is around, and I cover everything else. Now our guys won't mess anything up so I'd have no problem whatsoever having Allan with a "Flag 1," even if he wasn't asked to do anything besides news--he's not going to fiddle around with anything. From hanging around another forum a couple years ago (when asked to help with some admin issues) it looked like they had an awful lot of staffers and no clearly assigned duties. If they all had these flags, what could happen, especially as there wasn't a strong hand at the top? (I mean no personal criticism of anyone by that). My only other comment would be the ability of the Sysop to give one individual more than one flag. Also, if a staffer had all three flags, he still wouldn't have Sysop powers to make actual forum changes, home page changes, etc, correct? I would hope not. |
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: having assistants to focus on a specific task without having their own magic wand to undo a hopefully carefully set up and managed forum seems like common sense. Excellent point. I see good points in what John says as well. Rather than adding new flags, perhaps the best approach would be to decide powers granted to the flags we have now, other than the full WizopForum flag. Sysop, Host/Staff, VIP, Editor -- 4 flags. 3 flags if the vip remains as simply access to a closed section, as it probably should. Here are the basic admin functions:
How would you use 3 flags to cover the above admin items? A typical helper would not be writing a lot of articles, but could very well search out the best video on YouTube, for example, or obtain news releases from outside sources. Flag 1 - News and Articles/Features/Video Flag 2 - Messages Flag 3 - Calendar, Polls, Images Keep in mind that the admin functions granted to each of the above flags could be more restricted than the WizopForum flag in each category. For example, a user with flag 3 might be prohibited from deleting images. |
