Medora said:
You have a low post count. It is my understanding that your post count should increase easily enough with your participation in staff forums and in Review HQ, but even if you are not a staff member are you used to posting a lot, or do you tend to submit few posts at the forums you frequent? Relatedly, I assume that the fellow reviewer and you who just joined the Review Team are being encouraged to increase your post count. Does it come easily to you to post a lot, or does that take you out of your comfort zone?
I do post a lot usually, it really does depend upon the forum I am on/working at. I'll be honest, when I first joined here I was actually quite embarrassed sort of. I entered the world of FP upon the advice of a friend who said I could make a few dollar posting for people (Which I did at first) but then I started realising there was a lot more on this website but whenever i view the topics people where spouting terms i've never heard off and stuff like that so i though "Yeh, i'll just stick to what I know" and didn't post much but then over time I found a fair few forums via this site and posted there instead of here. posting alot doesn't take me out of my comfort zone at all though, depends on the topics and forum niche.
🙂 I wouldn't say we are being encouraged per se more like it is sort of expected to build it up a bit, that said i believe their is a package team member with around 100 posts. As long as they do the job though, I'm sure our team leaders don't mind.
Medora said:
The new Service Guidelines for reviews were just posted. What do you think of the splitting of the quick and full review for forums to small, medium, and large? And with the large being the only type of forum review to offer scoring from now on? Did you play a part in encouraging either of these changes?
Whilst I am use to the Full/Quick sort of reviews from other sites I have worked on, I can see how these new ones are more, specialised in a way. They help narrow stuff down for us reviewers and what we can talk about. Larger forums need much more detailed help than a small forum in my opinion and these new packages allow us to do just that. As for scoring, I personally am quite happy with that! When I fist joined the team earlier, my main worry was "Oh heck, how will I know how to score properly" but then I saw these new guidelines and I just went "Yay!" inside, haha. I believe it was all down to Tindris and THT though.
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Medora said:
So you typed up your own featured articles. Were they all about forum management? Which of your articles are you most proud of, or think most informative and worthwhile for readers? Which article read but not written by you did you think most informative and worthwhile?
They were not about anything related to forums at all! I mostly wrote articles for people who came to me with far out subjects and wrote articles for them for their blogs which in turn helps them gain money from their blogs I believe. They were only short articles but I did do a fair few of them. Some of the random areas I had to write articles about included "Limousines in Houston", Aquariums and Runescape related articles. Although at one point, I did write guides for a Runescape forum I worked at. I'm never proud of any of my "articles" mainly because I always think I can do better. As for reading, I wouldn't be able to say as I don't tend to read other peoples articles, haha.
I hope that adequately answered your questions.
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