Support Team
Hello.
I"ve noticed this on all Forum Software I suggest strongly that you guys create a support team group aka moderators and pick them by there hard effort and support they give to the community.
Re: Support Team
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It's not necessary as of now, the developers themselves are supporting, and also experienced members are glad to help. The workflow here is much different from sm.org.
Re: Support Team
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The active community isn't large enough here to warrant additional people being added. Maybe in the future.
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I disagree wholeheartedly
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If you don't like groups at all and there's no need for board moderators (I think so too at the moment), maybe you can think of adding a note to your signature or profile that you are a developer or such of ElkArte? Would be helpful sometimes to know who is an official member of the dev team.
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Except there are no official developers, everyone is free and welcome to contribute. There is a small group of people that co-ordinates it, for sure, but as far as I know they don't call themselves as "official and only developers".
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I am not as much a fan of groups as I am of competent leadership. If you have a competent leader, lets say for Themes, then other members will gravitate around him or her. While that does make a group so to speak, it is not a formal group and people buzz in and out as their lives permit. The leader would be the constant in this situation.
This works in small groups and large groups fairly well as there are no badges; other than what the leader wears. Badges seem to promote jealous competition from within, envy, and other lower quality human traits. From that grows dissension, cliches, internal strife and disruption of the overall picture. It takes very 'high minded' people to work in a group and team and keep their egos out of the effort.
It boils down to ego. Can there be competent leaders in Elkarte the can suppress their ego and keep Elkarte on the 'higher path'? It starts with leadership...always leadership. Poor leadership will kill any effort, regardless of group badges or not having group badges.
My impression is that at present Elkarte has competent leadership and competent programmers.
I have watched the interactions of Elkarte since it went live. What I think is missing from Elkarte is focus. Leadership seems to have an internal, built in drive for the 'higher path', but they cannot do it all. At some point, there needs to be additional leadership that focus on such things as the theme. The theme is the showcase of Elkarte, not the mods. Potential users need to look at Elkarte and be compelled to want to work with the theme and the concepts of the theme. Potential users should not look at a theme and find 10, 12, 15 items in it that show lack of detail. Don't be afraid to modify core files if it enables a better theme which also in turn enable mods to 'look' better. It is all connected.
While that was all a bit wordy; I think that ultimately Elkarte should consider adding a few leaders and have them focus on items such as the theme, the wiki, etc. At the same time, the present leadership would need to be flexible in adapting some changes; not that they are not flexible now. But as with any growing child, you have to let it grow in ways that at first do not not match ones concept of what they want for their child.