Alan
2003-01-28 03:14:38 |
Scholar Level
Although I know this may not be that good of a question but what are the "contributions" that promote a journeymen to a scholar? |
TomM
2003-01-28 20:54:44 |
Re: Scholar Level
Unless levick has changed the proceedure, becoming a scholar is not an automatic promotion like the other levels.
Instead it is a rank he bestows on those journeymen whom he feels have demonstrated that he can trust their judgment concerning the site. It began with being able to submit a puzzles live, instead of adding them to the queue (back when he was the only one who could "push" queued submissions), so that the site would remain active even when he could not access a computer to web-master it for a few days. When he added the "vote on queued submissions feature, he gave the scholars the ability to "push" the good problems for the same reason.
Altogether, it is rather like some sites where the webmaster appoints moderators for the different discussion fora. |
levik
2003-01-29 01:44:53 |
Re: Scholar Level
Thanks TomM. This is exactly correct. The only thing I want to add is that NOT being promoted to Scholar level is not in any way an indication that you're not good enough.
As TomM has said, the idea behind Scholars is the ability of the site to operate in my absense. I beleive that if there was another user with my level of access to the site, confusion would result, since communication would have to exist between two admins to ensure we're in tune. Likewise, I believe too many scholars can result in some confusion as well. For example, the more people have the power to push the problems live, the higher the odds of problems being pushed out of turn.
As it stands I am comfortable witht he number of active Scholars on the site. I AM considering adding more "power" to the scholars, and if at that point it looks like more are needed, I will go through a round of "recruitment". (The last such round was when I was leaving for a 10 day vacation.)
P.S. The ability to submit a problem live directly occured before user voting and queue. At the time, this was the only way a problem could appear on the site without my involvement. Because we have the queue voting now, there is no real need for it, and noone ever uses it. The only reason I don't disable it is because I can trus all who can access this feature not to use it needlessly. |
