November 22nd, 2003 
Public Nomination for TC Staff Departments & Positions
Well ladies and gentlemen, as some of you know, officially this Spring, TF will make the move to forums.tutorialcentral.com, TF.com will still be a redirect to the forums, however we are going to centralize it all over.
Because of the massive change to the community, we're going to start rounding up potential staff members so we can adequately cover all areas of TC. Other things that will more than likely change is speed, I'm sure a lot of you have noticed a wish wash change in speed, somedays it's fast, other days it seems to be lagging, this had to do with some DNS entries that have been corrected, also there is still the CGI problem, but my developers and I are working on correcting this, just bare with me.
Anywho, we will list all positions that are available, requirements(some age even applies to some of it, but not all positions). Also, I am going to say right now, anyone with even 1 warning point, is disqualified. If you've ever been reprimanded for behavior, you will not be considered. This includes anyone we've readmitted to the community, if you've been readmitted, you will not be able to be considered until Oct. 17th 2004, which is the date I readmitted a lot of you.
Moving on, there will be some changes going on, for one, there will no longer be a single group for moderators. The name moderator will now be 'Mentor', and Super Mods will be known as Advisors. Also, there will be teams instead of the clashed together setup we have now. Some will be global in all of TC, some will just be around the forum, or in their designated area. Advisors are the leader(s) of a team, and mentors answer to those Advisors. Advisors have also been given special permissions to certain features in their own CP to deal with usergroups we allow them to, including those in their own usergroup, allowing them to manage their own staff.
Another change, Administrators will now be known as Directors, you will also see inactive admins not in there, however they will 'still' have administrator capabilities, this is to solve confusion around here, who wants to contact a director that doesn't even check their PMs? They may just be around to do maintenance work, or do behind the scenes work, we don't want to expose them right? Currently, the only directors are myself, Dave, Rob, and Brian(I think), I will have to talk to Brian, he's not the most active director.
CoAdmins will be known as Managers from now on. This is also to help a major role of Directors. For one, there will only be 3 non-area managers. These are Darthy, who is our staff and member relations manager, she deals will staff inactivity, problems, as well as any member concerns that involve a staff member. Fred is also another one, he is the TC development advisor. No new skins, hacks, etc. will be allowed to be used unless he verifies them to XHTML compliant, he will also be converting current skins to XHTML compliant, as well as current hacks we are using and any future hacks we may use. He will also be verifying all the new areas, like the gallery, tutorials, etc. to be compliant, without his approval, it doesn't go up. He will have his own team which we are unaware of, so that position will be there also for him to consider. Those who are on Fred's team are not given mod abilities other than being able to chat with staff in the staff forum and access to our channel on IRC. At this time, we have not selected a manager for IRC, we are going to need someone who we can trust with IRCOP, as well as being mature enough to deal with issues, and increase areas of the IRC so popularity will be more fluent. They will also be incharge of the TC account at Veonex, our provider for IRC, and incharge of irc.tutorialcentral.com or chat.tutorialcentral.com, we haven't decided. He will be incharge of maintaining it, and setting up interactive features for members for the channel #central. This will also be included in the available positions list.
New managers will also be the developer(s) of the new areas. For instance, the Gallery, EvilGenius will be promoted to Manager status, and he will be incharge of all staff for the Gallery, meaning anyone who makes his consideration list, he's the one you'll want to talk to if you want to be a mod, smod or whatever other usergroup he determines for the Gallery. Ares will also be moved to Manager upon completion of his Yearbook system. There will be many new managers, all to allow us to know who does what, who's incharge of who, etc. -- Non-staff will not be considered for Manager position except for the IRC deal.
Advisors are not open, those are promoted interally, there is no jump to. However, those qualified may be pushed to Advisor or Smod since they will be new areas.
Anyways, lets get on to what all of you want, available positions and their requirements. Please remember, that you may post your own resume, and we encourage you to, please see next post of mine for the expected submission style.
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Internal
IRC Manager
-Must be atleast 18 years of age
-Member of TF for atleast 6 months
-No warning points
-1+ year of knowledge of IRC, 2 or more years preferred
-Excellent organization skills
-Recommendations by atleast 2 peers who have atleast 3 months of registration and has been active.
Compliance Advisor(Fred's team)
-No minimum age
-1 year experience in XHTML compliance, 2 or more years preferred
-No warning points
-Work history / Portfolio of XHTML compliance work
-Recommendation by atleast 1 other peer who has atleast 2 months of registration and has been active
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Forums
Forum Mentor
-No minimum age required
-Member for atleast 6 months
-No warning points
-Recommendations by atleast 3 other peers who have atleast 3 months of registration and has been active.
-Able to check forums 3-4 times a day, and keep informed with staff.
-Must apply for the team that suites your knowledge, anything you do not know, you will not be considered for there.
-Active in the forum you are applying to be a mentor of.
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Gallery
Supervisor
-No minimum age required
-Member for atleast 6 months
-No warning points
-Recommendations by atleast 2 other peers who have atleast 3 months of registration and have been active.
-Ability to check newly submitted entires 8-10 times a day, all new entries are moderated, and cannot go through until they are OK'd.
-Must apply for a category / section that you are familiar with, whether it is skinning, coding, or designing.
Global Supervisor
-Must be atleast 16 years of age (Some exceptions 'may' be made)
-Member for atleast 8 months
-No warning points
-Recommendations by atleast 3 other peers who have atleast 3 months registration and has been active
-Ability to check 'all' categories atleast 6-8 times a day and help clean up any backlog.
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Tutorials
Supervisor
-No minimum age required
-Member for atleast 6 months
-No warning points
-Experience writing tutorials(In any category)
-Recommendations by atleast 1 peer who has atleast 3 months registration and has been active
-Must apply for a category / section that you are familiar with, whether it is skinning, coding, or designing.
-Ability to check new submissions 8-10 times a day, all new submissions are moderated and cannot go through until an approval by a supervisor.
Global Supervisor
-Must be atleast 16 years old
-Will be determined through those who apply for Tutorial Supervisor and who have understanding of 2 or more categories / sections.
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CodeBase
Supervisor
-No minimum age required
-Member for 6 months
-No warning points
-Understanding of code and open source, as well as knowing GPL, royalty, etc.
-Able to check new submissions 4-6 times a day, and verify they are original, and not duplicated / stolen to the best of your ability.
-Recommendations not required, past help history is required, we will review you for that.
Global Supervisor
-Minimum age of 16 required
-Will be determined through those who apply for CodeBase Supervisor and who have understanding of 2 or more categories / sections.
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eMarket
Supervisor
-Must be atleast 17 years of age
-Understanding of business and marketing
-No warning points
-Member length not required
-Able to verify any templates / designs / programs being sold are original and not being resold under violation of their retailer's policy.
-Recommendations not required, but you will have to prove to us your understanding of this kind of business
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Articles, Reviews, Interviews
Editor
-Must be atleast 16 years of age
-Intermediate proofreading skills
-Able to organize a team to get projects and get them to meet deadlines
-No warning points
-Recommendations from 3 peers who have atleast 3 months of registration and are active
-Member for atleast 6 months
-Available 1-3 hours a day to review new assignments and assign them to your staff, also to approve any turned in assignments
Writer
Do you like writing articles? Read a lot, and want to express your opinion on something related to the tutorial world? This is the place to do it.
-No minimum age required
-Excellent English skills
-Always up for finding new material
-Able to meat deadlines
-No warning points
-No member length required
-No recommendations required
Reviewer
Like reviewing computer products? Hardware? Games? Websites? Designers? Programs? Anything related to the world in which the tutorial world operates around? From the leisure to the work, you'll be working in a field of reviewing helps critique others, and overall, show readers new things they didn't know before that could give them the edge.
-No minimum age required
-Excellent English skills
-Able to review atleast 1 product a week, assignments will always be posted, you can elect which one you want to do
-Able to meat deadlines
-No warning points
-No member length required
-No recommendations required
Interviewer
Probably the most exciting field found at TC! Want to interview today's top developers, designers, skinners, community owners, etc., or even the small guys who are making a big impact and be able to publicize it for all to see? Those with this job will be incharge of seeking out and setting up interviews with anyone and organizing it to be submitted.
-No minimum age required
-Excellent English skills
-Atleast 1 interview a month
-No warning points
-No member length required
-No recommendations required
-Great social skills
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News Team
Editor
-Must be atleast 16 years of age
-Intermediate proofreading skills
-Able to organize a team to get projects and get them to meet deadlines
-No warning points
-Recommendations from 3 peers who have atleast 3 months of registration and are active
-Member for atleast 6 months
-Available 1-3 hours a day to review new assignments and assign them to your staff, also to approve any turned in assignments
News Writer
-No minimum age required
-No warning points
-No member length required
-In-tune with news around the tutorial community
-In-tune with any news surrounding the tutorial community that doesn't directly involve the tutorial community.
-Weekly submissions
-Able to get exclusives, news that isn't even posted on the site you are talking about
-Available atleast 1 hour a day during the week
Newsletter Organizer
-No minimum age required
-No warning points
-No member length required
-Able to organize together important events around TC and sum them up into a weekly newsletter to keep all of our busy members informed who may not always make it here to see what's up.
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Yearbook
Personal Page Supervisors
-No age limit, but maturity is needed
-Member of TF for atleast 6 months
-No warning points
-You need to be able to check the yearbook personal pages 2-3 times a day. The job consists of making sure that personal photos are apropriate (this is easy, theres a list view) and checking personal information to make sure it does't get out of hand. They will have the ability to suspend yearbook accounts, deal with members that are out of hand (maybe?)
Vote Deck Supervisor
-No age limit, but maturity is needed
-Member of TF for atleast 6 months
-No warning points
-I'm going to automate when nominations / votes start and end, but I need help to make sure nothing offensive is nominated, and to check vote logs to make sure we aren't getting multiple voters (although I WILL put up a few safe gaurds). They'll have the ability to nullify votes, deal with members.
These are positions that are currently available, more will probably open up as we become more aware of what else we have to prepare for. If you'd like to apply for one of these, see the post below for the proper submission form, it doesn't have to be used, but is preferred.
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