Neutral.
There are 3 things i noticed being here on THW:
#1 Reputation:
Everyone whines about it and stuff. I mean - are users with higher reputation also higher in the hierarchy of this board? I hope not.
I personally laugh at users who set the knowledge of other users according to their reputation.
In my opinion, reputation is rather a thing which one should get for his/her work BUT NOT a scale for users.
As a result of that, people with higher reputation feel like they have more rights than others and they can blame newbies for (stupid) questions.
That is, in my eyes, not the result reputation was implemented, isn't it? (+)
#2 Administration
Being an administrator is a hell of work. So, active administrators have my full respect concerning site-management, server-upkeep, keeping all cats 'in form' and stuff.
As far as i know, the purpose of an administrator is on the one hand the things i wrote above, but on the other, an administrator also has to maintain the relation between himself and the 'normal' users and that means treat everybody the same and not thinking 'yeah, i'm the admin and you, folks, are lower-valued'. For heaven's sake, i did not notice such a thing here significally..
I know, having priviledges is a nice thing but once someone receives priviledges such as -rep, banning, ect.. this 'someone' must also care for his 'new" position, which leads to #3. (-)
#3 Managing a forum with such a huge diversity is a really unthankful job.
That's why god has given us moderators and global moderators. But it's always the same song, people get to tend to lay down on their position being a (global) moderator.
To have a maximum efficiency, this forum shall contain at least 7 global moderators and another 29 moderators -at least (one global for every category and a moderator for every subcategory) only for the board section, so resource-mods have to be recruited too.
So, who can get up the to manage his/her section (e.g. tutorials) day by day?
Few people, i suppose.. so, i think the so-called maximum of efficiency is VERY hard to reach (~)
C'mon, flame me :D
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PS: Don't blame me for my english pleeeease :)
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