Advanced Members Popular Post Brandon Posted August 2, 2018 Advanced Members Popular Post Share Posted August 2, 2018 At the beginning of a new month, someone from the Contributor group will post a topic providing a summary for discussions that were discussed in the Contributor section during the previous month. These logs will be closed for the time being. This is to allow the community to be more informed and have a better understanding of the Contributor group. If you have any concerns or suggestions that you would like to be brought to the attention of the Contributor group, message any of the Contributors. You can see our previous logs here. General Updates The following forum smilies were added: . Concluded Discussions No topics were concluded. Ongoing Discussions Spoiler A discussion was raised about whether to allow comments on the monthly Contributor logs. The idea is to allow users to provide their constructive opinions and feedback towards the decisions being made. However, objections were also raised that it would invite unnecessary drama. It was concluded that a public poll would be opened for whether the comment section should be left open for future logs. You can find the poll at the top of this post. Spoiler A contributor brought up the idea to use statistics to help make more objective decisions for contributor applications. The idea is to collect public data such as the number of forum posts, the number of years spent on xat, the number of warning points (and many more variables) for each contributor applicant and to create a model of linear regression to estimate the probability of the applicant to be added. This model would be trained on past applicants (whether they were denied or accepted). Please note that each variable collected will not necessarily be used in the final model, so do not post nonsense to increase your post count and your chances. This will not work! In the future, this would allow contributors to have an indicator of the merit of each applicant based on objective criteria. The main idea is to quantify the "contributions to xat" of an applicant in order not to rely only on contributors' feelings. The indicator will only be communicated to the current contributors. However, the purpose is not to robotify the applications. If an applicant has a low probability of being added according to our model, this does not mean they will not be added, and vice-versa. A holistic review of each applicant is performed. Spoiler A topic was created by Sydno, the new manager of Ayuda. The purpose of the topic is to gather feedback about operational changes at Ayuda. To provide an overview, here are a couple of the changes at Ayuda that are open to feedback: (1) Owners were made moderators; and (2) Interested users will be made members. The purpose of these changes is to grow interest for helping within the Spanish community. The topic has not received feedback. Spoiler A new power has been suggested by the administrators. At this time, we have decided to not disclose details about this potential new power. The administrators are also open to suggestions for how this new power would work. Note: This discussion may never be concluded. If no updates are received about the status of this potential power, we may stop considering it an ongoing discussion. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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