Volunteers Popular Post Sydno Posted December 1, 2017 Volunteers Popular Post Share Posted December 1, 2017 On the first day of the new month, someone from the Contributor group will post a thread providing a summary of discussions that were discussed in the Contributor section during the previous month. This is to allow the community to be more informed and have a better understanding of the Contributor group. These logs will be closed for the time being. If you do have any concerns or suggestions that you would like to be brought to the attention of the Contributor group, message any of the Contributors and I'm sure they'd be happy to bring it up for discussion if deemed necessary. Due to the important amount of ex-contributors who left in early November, concluding some discussions has been harder than usual this month. Even though it did affect the group operations since we had to recount some votes, we managed to conclude quite a few topics and new ideas regarding the representativity of the group were brought up. Concluded Discussions These topics are concluded and are no longer being discussed. If you have any concerns about the conclusion of these topics, feel free to send a message and I'll see what I can do to help you. Tidings unblock request Spoiler The main owner of Tidings chat has asked contributors whether or not it was possible to have his website unblocked to appear on the first page of his chat. Since the main owner had no bad history with xat and was only coming with good intentions, the group decided to allow the domain for the first page of the chat. More image providers for promotion Spoiler It has come to our attention that xat is lacking in image provider options when it comes to promoting banners (Tinypic was previously the only one). To solve this issue, we listed a few alternatives that could be added such as Hızlı Resim, Imgur, Postimage, Uploads.im and Cubeupload. Another suggestion was to allow users to upload images from their own devices. Ultimately, 16 Contributors voted in favor of adding more image providers, and 3 voted no. Of these image providers, Imgur (12), Postimage (9) and Cubeupload (15) received the most votes, being the most well-known and reliable. These three are recommended to be added. Meanwhile, 6 Contributors voted yes to uploading images from their own devices, which is outvoted by 13 who said no. We are currently in discussions with admins regarding this change. Social auto promotion Spoiler More than a month ago, Social was removed from auto-promotion and Chat was added instead. Social manager brought this concern to the contributors and asked whether or not it was possible to give Social back auto-promotion (and was also willing to know why it was removed in the first place). Despite the fact admins were asked, no one managed to understand why Social was removed. However, and since Social activity was decreasing, the contributors discussed on what chat(s) should be given auto-promotion for the English language. The different options were Chat, Social or Chat & Social. The discussion lasted more than a month due to lack of information and because of the resignation of an important part of the group. At the end, the group decided that only Chat should be given auto-promotion and so that Social won't be added back to auto-promotion, at least for now. Make people apply for contributors Spoiler We discussed the possibility of allowing users to submit applications to become a Contributor (it is currently invite-only). The main supporting argument was that it might help us to discover exceptional, motivated users who may otherwise go unnoticed. It would also help to dispel the myth that Contributors only hand-pick their friends for the role. The opposition view, meanwhile, was that Contributors should remain invite-only - a system based on who WE believe deserves the role, not the users themselves. 17 Contributors voted in total: 7 said yes, 4 said no, and 6 were neutral. The possibility of a dedicated subforum/topic was also raised, though was largely opposed: 1 said yes, 11 said no, and 5 were neutral. We will soon update you on how to submit an application. Ongoing discussions xat Facebook Spoiler xat is always willing to develop its facebook page. This is why we tried looking for new ideas of content for the facebook page. Hopefully, we found one! This is going to be a long-term project and we didn't advance much on it this month. We are still open to new ideas so feel free to send contributors a message about your thoughts on the page! For now, you can also start thinking about what could be a good xat mascot. The xat facebook page currently has about 750 likes. Contributors representativity Spoiler Two other threads were opened in November regarding the group representativity. As they are not concluded yet, we will not disclose any of the opinions for now. The first thread is about to pick and change contributors randomly each month and the second one is about making groups of contributors based both on their language and on their interest on chats. 1 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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