@.grey: > Provence said: > > Nah, not a good idea. An...

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2016-12-19T17:09:19-05:00

Provence said:

Nah, not a good idea. An absolutely bad idea to make something like that. That will only cause a commotion, because users are thinking that they are fulfilling this role quite well, but in the eyes of the moderators, they don't.
It is better to keep that open for Contributions to this site, so that no misunderstandings will happen and let work users (Builders) together with the moderation team.
As you can see by this years's promotion activity, I think this is more than ok and on that section, we dont need a seperate guideline. We have howto:contribute, howto:tag, howto:rate, howto:dtext (for Translations maybe important) and some other howtos.

Eh, yeah, I agree with you there. Contributor status is something you're going to have to show your worth for patiently -- no point being blatantly obvious about your intents. I forget that howto:contribute exists sometimes, although that page largely helps out for members that are potentially looking for builder status. Some of the same tips apply to potentially getting contrib though. I aggressively groomed the hell out of my own uploads and contributed to as many of the places I could, so I'm definitely more of an outlier (as in, don't look at me for an example to get contributor unless you're crazy like me).

I'm still grateful to Wypatroszony for my early promotion and I'm definitely not thinking of squandering it anytime soon. I worked my butt off pushing my quota to the absolute limit every day!! Even during finals week! Aargh!!