Hello everyone!
As you may know, we recently
announced that we were looking to close down the Ethereum Forums.
This decision lead to a great deal of discourse within the community, and it was made clear to us that there exists a vibrant technical group who are very keen to continue using the Ethereum forums as they are, mostly for troubleshooting and technical assistance/discussion around mining.
We were hoping to help consolidate the useful mining information within the Ethereum Stack Exchange so that it can continue to grow to be a one stop solution for Ethereum tech troubleshooting (we’re working very hard to help people access Ethereum documentation). However, we understand that the Stack Exchange is not quite as permissive of discussion as the forums are. It's also not very good for
posting pictures of your rigs!
With that in mind, we've decided that it is best to keep the Ethereum Forums open for use.
We’d also like to announce a call for community moderators who are interested in helping us maintain this corner of the Ethereum ecosystem!
This process will likely take a few weeks, and ideally we’d like to assemble a positive, efficient and polite team of upstanding individuals from various places around the world (the more timezones the better!).
If squashing spam, telling off trolls and being neighbourly to noobs is something you’d like to help us with, please leave the following information in a comment below:
- Username
- Timezone/geographical location
- Relevant experience
- Previous examples of you helping the Ethereum community (links)
Finally, please feel free to nominate others who you feel would be well suited, and if you don’t want to publish your information publicly, feel free to send me a PM.
Comments
I'm sure there are plenty of people who are active at the forums who are willing to help out (moderate) and will be mature enough to handle it in such a way that this great forum can and will remain as good as it is.
I'm from Europe, i have enough experience (my own opinion of course ) and i've helped out plenty where i can.
Although, i would only be interested if there isn't enough interest from others.
So in short, if there is a need for someone extra and no one "capable" can be found, i'll be here to assist.
Greetings.
@dlehenky & @work get my vote for mods
I would be willing/interested in helping to moderate.
Username: work (ofc)
Timezone/geographical location: PST, Canada
Relevant experience: Have moderated mid-sized forums in the past
Previous examples of you helping the Ethereum community (links): see post history?
I'm happy to mod but will be effectively offline for August. I've been here since Dec 14, am in Australia at TZ +10
I'd mod if I didn't think the power might go to my head; and if I was here as often as I'd like.
I say Give @o0ragman0o and @ordoe (but he's changed his name) the keys.
Thanks for keeping the lights on.
Also, I wouldn't mind being a moderator.
Username: Agent412
Timezone: EST, Pennsylvania
Experience: I've built a few mining rigs
Helping the Ethereum community: I guess you can check my post history, through private messages I've helped out a handful of people setting up their rigs and step by step instructions to start mining.
And I'm on this site all the time, I'd like dropping the hammer on spammer/trolls.
Ideally, I'd like to bring around 5 new mods on board.
It was your puppy. Don't let it mess the new carpet. Delegation is the first bastion of good leadership. You need to be more aware of your surroundings, you wouldn't last long on the battlefield.
Oh!... and sorry i said you didn't look old enough to shave,
it will soon pass. Still think your a Rupert though.
Anyhash, I vote work to be a mod.
@work i voted you, remember, i voted you
But... I also think forum mod should be a paid position! Without good moderation it will all got to hell and you will want to shut it down again.
You get what you pay for. Step up!
6 month contract?
Contracts can go out to tender twice a year and any hat can bid.
You could give them a badge even.
You are clever, how lucky we are to have a Boss with your incite. Ethereum will be massive. I am humbled.
Great change of mind!
Have already connected briefly with @Work, but would like to organise a call none the less. Also, we'll setup a mod chatroom so we can start getting things done.
Thank you everyone for your comments so far.
These types of forums are strange places with odd characters. That's the nature of fringe science, it attracts those on the edge of lunacy and genius.
Often miners feel isolated from the the project as they don't enjoy the interactions that other team members can take for granted. Communication is key and bottom up thinking an invaluable asset in this changing world we live. As asset classes go, "bottom up" is about to have its day. Be ahead of the curve.
Good luck @GeorgeHallam, good luck @work .I hope others will soon follow and we can get on with promoting Ethereum.
I've been speaking with a group of rather excellent individuals over the last week or so in regard to building the new mod team!
We're essentially almost ready, and I'd just like to properly induct the last 2 of the 4 guys. Once everyone is up to speed, I'll introduce them all to you in a formal post, though you can probably make an educated guess of who they are already.
I've also been looking at how we can tidy the forum up over the next few weeks, things like making it more efficient/pleasurable to use, creating a new rule set and the like.
It's going to be an iterative process, so expect some small changes in look/design over time.
Most importantly, send over your feedback as we move fowards!
also; @G416G it does no make any difference about nationality.
You cannot exclude anyone on the basis of race.
If you imply that they may be a spammer that is different.
There are spammers in UK, Canada as well as Nigeria.
There are Islamic jihadis in Israel as well as America too.
If i catch them, i will stitch them into a pig skin sack myself but you cannot stop them from becoming a moderator just because they were born in a country that you do not like.
You cannot discriminate on Gender, Sex, Race, Religion, Nationality, and Age.
You can however discriminate on class and cast.
I would prefer if you were more accepting of Gender, Sex, Race, Religion, Nationality, and Age and more hostile to the ruling classes please.
We need to be united against the common enemy, (the ruling classes) if you really want change.
It is the ruling classes that want us to fight amongst ourselves and turn on each other.
Have your own mind man and stop letting your government fill your head up with sh*t
Remember: more young people have been killed in Chicago by their own kind this year than US Soldiers have died in Afghanistan. Wake up. The middle class are under attack as well as the poor you know. You will be next.