Scratch

RedRocker227 wrote:

imsosuperswell1 wrote:

I think to decide the intermediate rank we could have like occasionial elections for the extra rank, with requirements to deem if they aren't evil or not. Plus there should be an age limit, cause we can't have 7 year olds with Experienced Scratcher rank can we?

Why not? Sportsdude6 is only 8, and he's extremely mature.

8 is greater than seven 
But I don't think we should have an election for it.

To mirror what others have said, before this change I didn't really care about my post count, but know I really want to post 10 more times to get to the +500 level (which hopefully will be today    )

RedRocker227 wrote:

schusteralex2 wrote:

RedRocker227 wrote:

Why not? Sportsdude6 is only 8, and he's extremely mature.

8 is greater than seven 
But I don't think we should have an election for it.

Yeah, well there's not that much of a difference 

And I agree with you. Otherwise, people would only get the opportunity to become one, say, once every month, or however often the elections will be.

I got a new idea. Maybe every 3 months the Scratch Team selects three people willing to become the extra rank depending on factors to make it un-biased and to prove if its the best people or not, then after 3 months they step down and can't do it again and the process starts all over again. Like curator or something.

This is my 500th post. I thought it was fitting to post it here 

And this is my 502nd post. Now I have to get to 1000 

veggieman001 wrote:

RedRocker227 wrote:

This is my 6703rd post c:

and this is my 13640th 

Dear god, how does your keyboard still function 

schusteralex2 wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

RedRocker227 wrote:

This is my 6703rd post c:

and this is my 13640th 

Dear god, how does your keyboard still function 

i don't use a keyboard
my mind is hardwired straight into the scratch servers

veggieman001 wrote:

schusteralex2 wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

and this is my 13640th 

Dear god, how does your keyboard still function 

i don't use a keyboard
my mind is hardwired straight into the scratch servers

Wow, that must've taken a while to program.

joletole wrote:

I think I can answer some of those questions.

Yes the first couple of Experienced Scratchers would be picked by the Scratch Team, but then they go off and see who can get the position to. So the Scratch Team wouldn't have to do all that.

Well the Experienced Scratchers would probably spend 75% of there time on "Questions About Scratch" Forum. Also they would get the privilege of moving stuff around. But they are not allowed to close any topics.

I think there should be more people getting the rank then the Community Mods. There should probably be around 20 of them. And right around when the election for community mods is going on, they have an election for the experienced Scratchers. The way the election would go is, one of the experienced Scratchers would go out and find about 30 people that seem right for the job, then only the Experienced Scratchers would vote for there favorite one.

And the way they would get the rank is if they answer a lot of questions on that questions forum.

Those are some good ideas!

One thing I think would be useful is some kind of priority notice that they would be send, to have to get a Scratch Team member or Community Moderator's attention. There have been occasions when I think a post from a Community Moderator or Scratch Team would be useful, especially when there are questions relating to the development of Scratch or administration that would be better for them to answer than normal users. Sometimes I'm tempted to use the Report button for things like that, but I'm not particularly sure if that's the right thing to do.

Liru wrote:

The thing is, would the experienced Scratchers have to be like mods?

Mods at the moment seem to have a very distinct pattern in sentences, and their posts are rarely just talking like they're a usual member of the forum, I only really see them answering questions and closing/moving posts/threads.

Haha - they're like zombies!

Nah, I would assume that experienced Scratchers would still be themselves. Since experienced Scratchers would have to be mature to get the rank, and assuming they were chosen for the rank properly, then their behavior shouldn't have to change. 

Lucario621 wrote:

One thing I think would be useful is some kind of priority notice that they would be send, to have to get a Scratch Team member or Community Moderator's attention. There have been occasions when I think a post from a Community Moderator or Scratch Team would be useful, especially when there are questions relating to the development of Scratch or administration that would be better for them to answer than normal users. Sometimes I'm tempted to use the Report button for things like that, but I'm not particularly sure if that's the right thing to do.

Why don't you report the post and find out?

RedRocker227 wrote:

Liru wrote:

The thing is, would the experienced Scratchers have to be like mods?

Mods at the moment seem to have a very distinct pattern in sentences, and their posts are rarely just talking like they're a usual member of the forum, I only really see them answering questions and closing/moving posts/threads.

Yeah, I agree. Apart from maybe MRN (who never comes on anymore), all the mods talk really formally 

Nah, not all of them.

veggieman001 wrote:

they're formal at times but there are also times when people like harakou, cheddargirl, and paddle2see are just like regular members of the community taking part in discussions and the like

And Lightnin, and coolstuff, but the other mods usually act modlike just about all the time.