Congratulations to rickbig41!

[minifrij]

As some may have noticed, a new member of the Staff team has been promoted - rickbig41. Congratulations!


Not to discredit or disrespect this event, however may I ask why this user has been promoted rather than others? It seems like a somewhat bizarre choice from my perspective. Congrats regardless!

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[FFrankie]

As some may have noticed, a new member of the Staff team has been promoted - rickbig41. Congratulations!


Not to discredit or disrespect this event, however may I ask why this user has been promoted rather than others? It seems like a somewhat bizarre choice from my perspective. Congrats regardless!

I have never seen someone with no trust feedback get promoted to staff nor have I ever seen anyone get promoted to staff but I think it is pretty cool that they are pretty new in the bitcointalk community judging by their account activity and they are now staff it gives me hope that this fourm will grow by having new individuals become staff and not just people with 1k+ activity. 

[DarkStar_]

I'm quite surprised too. Maybe that user had a lot of reports recently?

[layoutph]

Wow congrats, anyway, how to become a bitcointalk.org staff? Is becoming a Bitcointalk.org staff has a salary?

[Quickseller]

He is someone who reports many posts (does not make an attempt to report posts just to increase his report count) and extorts very few people.

[eaLiTy]

Congrats Rickbig on your promotion ,I congratulated him in PM and i noticed his promotion while i was checking at a scammer posting fake dice site and linking to a fake seuntjie bot site .With the price rising expect these sort of scammers coming out with new techniques .

[hilariousandco]

Moderators are added when they are required. Every morning when I wake up there was often a backlog of about 20 reports to handle just on spam bots alone that had been there an hour or two and rickbig was one of the handful that was always reporting them. It was obviously a good choice because there have been zero for me to handle since he was made a mod.

[bL4nkcode]

Well, I congratulate rickbig41 for this promotion, BTW what are the requirements of becoming a staff in this forum like reports? Giving negative feedbacks for those bad guys? Or what, just curious here. Or there are some voting for this like what happen to Lauda, but unfortunately, he got demoted.

 

[hilariousandco]

Be a very active member and report a lot of posts with a good accuracy and if an admin thinks you would be beneficial they may ask you eventually. That's the only way really.

[Lauda]

This is quite 'interesting' if you look into:
1) Events that unfolded at the time that the user registered on this forum.
2) Their past history on bitcointalk.
I guess some other, already established, moderators didn't deserve to be patrollers

Be a very active member and report a lot of posts with a good accuracy and if an admin thinks you would be beneficial they may ask you eventually. That's the only way really.

Top 50 reporters from last year.

[shorena]

Firstly contgratulations.

This is quite 'interesting' if you look into:
1) Events that unfolded at the time that the user registered on this forum.
2) Their past history on bitcointalk.
I guess some other, already established, moderators didn't deserve to be patrollers

Be a very active member and report a lot of posts with a good accuracy and if an admin thinks you would be beneficial they may ask you eventually. That's the only way really.

Top 50 reporters from last year.

I am no longer active during the times hilariousandco mentioned. I am no longer as active as I used to be. Similar points are likely true for the others on the list. In this case I think it was mainly the time as ~0500-0600 CE(S)T is not a common posting time. It wouldn't have made any sense to promote me just because I (still?) have the largest number of reports. I guess this is the reason theymos refuses to post regular updates, because it will lead to 'points' like these. I would have thought you knew better, considering that you became staff mainly because of your language skills.

Id also hope that those with a large number of reports do so not in an attempt to achieve a staff position, but because they want to help the forum. Ultimatly the number of reports mean nothing, same as your time logged in. It may be fun to compare from time to time, but its meaningless as single metric to select someone for moderation.

[Lauda]

I am no longer active during the times hilariousandco mentioned. I am no longer as active as I used to be. Similar points are likely true for the others on the list. In this case I think it was mainly the time as ~0500-0600 CE(S)T is not a common posting time. It wouldn't have made any sense to promote me just because I (still?) have the largest number of reports.

Relevance? I didn't claim that you were supposed to be promoted. I don't see a reason for promoting this seemingly unknown person in particular. If the primary requirement was being active around the time, why not promote Dabs or dbshck? Are they both patrollers?

Id also hope that those with a large number of reports do so not in an attempt to achieve a staff position, but because they want to help the forum.

Doubtful at best.

Ultimatly the number of reports mean nothing, same as your time logged in. It may be fun to compare from time to time, but its meaningless as single metric to select someone for moderation.

A high accuracy and number of reports means nothing nowadays? 

[ndnh]

I am no longer active during the times hilariousandco mentioned. I am no longer as active as I used to be. Similar points are likely true for the others on the list. In this case I think it was mainly the time as ~0500-0600 CE(S)T is not a common posting time. It wouldn't have made any sense to promote me just because I (still?) have the largest number of reports.

Relevance? I didn't claim that you were supposed to be promoted.

The link points to a list where shorena is at the very top spot. It appears to imply you don't agree with hilariousandco's statement; i.e. shorena would be promoted to Staff if that is true. He explained why it is not so.

Be a very active member and report a lot of posts with a good accuracy and if an admin thinks you would be beneficial they may ask you eventually. That's the only way really.

Top 50 reporters from last year.

Shorena's total good reports is almost twice the next on the list. Difficult to see any other interpretation.

[Quickseller]

I am no longer active during the times hilariousandco mentioned. I am no longer as active as I used to be. Similar points are likely true for the others on the list. In this case I think it was mainly the time as ~0500-0600 CE(S)T is not a common posting time. It wouldn't have made any sense to promote me just because I (still?) have the largest number of reports.

Relevance? I didn't claim that you were supposed to be promoted.

The link points to a list where shorena is at the very top spot. It appears to imply you don't agree with hilariousandco's statement; i.e. shorena would be promoted to Staff if that is true. He explained why it is not so.

Be a very active member and report a lot of posts with a good accuracy and if an admin thinks you would be beneficial they may ask you eventually. That's the only way really.

Top 50 reporters from last year.

Shorena's total good reports is almost twice the next on the list. Difficult to see any other interpretation.

Lauda was implying that one of his sketchy friends should have been promoted to staff so they could move toward the kind of power that Lauda was ultimately unable to get. If you know Lauda, you should know who he is implying should be made a moderator....only that I would not take the concerns of a power-hungry extortionist very seriously.

Id also hope that those with a large number of reports do so not in an attempt to achieve a staff position

Unfortunately, it appears that one or two people somewhat appear to at least be trying to pad their report count.

Ultimatly the number of reports mean nothing,

It is fun to have bragging rights, and having a lot of 'good' reports can allow you to have a feeling that you are helping out. But no, report accuracy alone is not a good single indicator of if someone should be made a mod or not.

[1Referee]

Definitely an unexpected event, but at least good that there is more power to work on making the forum a better place. However, I would actually prefer an existing staff member to get promoted to global mod as it takes an awful lot of time to get something done when staff members don't have the ability to act as the account level from reported posts from users are too high for them. I quite often reported obvious threads that needed to get moved, but nothing was done even though global mods were quite active. Some times it takes 8-10 hours to get something done...

[Lauda]

The link points to a list where shorena is at the very top spot. It appears to imply you don't agree with hilariousandco's statement; i.e. shorena would be promoted to Staff if that is true. He explained why it is not so.

I did not add it from that perspective. I was simply refuting that said user has/had made a lot of reports and that this is a key factor in their promotion.

Shorena's total good reports is almost twice the next on the list. Difficult to see any other interpretation.

Lutpin & Shorena are close to each other nowadays, not that this means anything.

Lauda was implying that one of his sketchy friends should have been promoted to staff so they could move toward the kind of power that Lauda was ultimately unable to get. If you know Lauda, you should know who he is implying should be made a moderator....only that I would not take the concerns of a power-hungry extortionist very seriously.

Bullshit from you as always. See my response to Shorena. Coincidentally, said user registered 6 days after you were outed for the bogus escrow (4th September vs. 10th September).

However, I would actually prefer an existing staff member to get promoted to global mod as it takes an awful lot of time to get something done when staff members don't have the ability to act as the account level from reported posts from users are too high for them.

Side-effect: Eventually the majority just stop reporting

[botany]

Congratulations!
Additions to staff are always welcome, as reports will be taken care of more quickly.

[bitkilo]

Moderators are added when they are required. Every morning when I wake up there was often a backlog of about 20 reports to handle just on spam bots alone that had been there an hour or two and rickbig was one of the handful that was always reporting them. It was obviously a good choice because there have been zero for me to handle since he was made a mod.

Shh keep quite, you might just talk yourself out of a job  

Congratulations to rickbig41! , sure you will the community a good service.

[Here4Trades]

Congratz to him! Without the knowledge of beign mod reporting posts I'm tryng to do it to make a better forum haha !! cheers!

[brituspol]

Congrats to him.

Don't think complaining is going to do anything here though, I don't see anyone else reporting as earnestly as him if what hilarious described is true.