VIP Editors

[Yoshimitsui]

"having a social life" is a stupid excuse. If he doesn't have the time to do the job, hire more people or get someone else to do it.

No it is not! All the staff do their jobs as volunteers. They are not expected to be on the forum 24/7 at the beg and call of a thread. You should try being and ADMIN doing that job along with other things.

[splatttt]

its really not a stupid excuse

do you think its classed as normal to be glued to your computer all day everyday.....

[Plank]

Saying "he has a social life" is a stupid excuse. Everyone has a social life - but if he doesn't have the time to do it and if it takes him 4 days to do it then hiring an additional person to help is the obvious answer.

[Yoshimitsui]

Saying "he has a social life" is a stupid excuse. Everyone has a social life - but if he doesn't have the time to do it and if it takes him 4 days to do it then hiring an additional person to help is the obvious answer.

You should read the thread before you dig yourself any deeper. Nick explained he had been away for 3 days and thats why it has gotten behind.

[Plank]

You should read the thread before you dig yourself any deeper. Nick explained he had been away for 3 days and thats why it has gotten behind.

Maybe you should try reading the thread. I've already looked through VIP features thread and the majority of the time it takes him 72 hours to add features. With another person to help, this time could be reduced.

[nvrspk4]

The usual excuse is :Too many editors will cause a stir. This is aload of bull poo. If something needs changing, one of the editors will change it and if the other editor comes along to try and change something, they won't, because they would notice these changes. If someone wanted Green VIP, it'll be there etc etc etc. If someone has ordered a months of VIP, it will be there. Perhaps if it makes it easier, tell the members to state how much VIP they currently have if they want to extend their membership. It's not hard :/ I doubt they will lie, unless you don't give editors the power to see who had what before the VIP changes

I love you and all Gomme but when the people who were around when we tried it say that it was confusing and difficult, I think you might be the one spewing bull poo

For clarification since not many people understand, there are two VIP editors. However we split the labor into seperate spheres, I take care of VIP subscriptions and forums and Nick takes care of Features and Name Changes. With this division of labor each section should be a one-man job. And Nick does a bang-up job, he's just away sometimes If you put more men on the job they end up sitting around and doing pretty much nothing.

[Mint]

A way of sorting this out would maybe be done by getting someone who already has a job that doesn't take up to much time and let them have the job. Then even if they didn't need to do anything for there VIP editors job they would always have there other job to do.

I love you and all Gomme but when the people who were around when we tried it say that it was confusing and difficult, I think you might be the one spewing bull poo

For clarification since not many people understand, there are two VIP editors. However we split the labor into seperate spheres, I take care of VIP subscriptions and forums and Nick takes care of Features and Name Changes. With this division of labor each section should be a one-man job. And Nick does a bang-up job, he's just away sometimes If you put more men on the job they end up sitting around and doing pretty much nothing.

[graffiti]

Saying "he has a social life" is a stupid excuse. Everyone has a social life - but if he doesn't have the time to do it and if it takes him 4 days to do it then hiring an additional person to help is the obvious answer.

This is sorta true.
Ive had a thread to change my name for like 2-3 weeks now and it aint been changed :rolleyes:

[Nick-]

I know Nick does an awful lot, but it's been 4 days since peoples usertitles and rep has been changed.

3 of which I've spent away.

Thing is, you could do them all and then people will post more for the rest of the day or during you doing them. They are always stacking up, and to keep doing each one every time it comes in is time consuming and frustrating.

Another factor is that the staff are hired to work when they can and not to a schedual so to do it at a certain time is out f the question.

You have no idea how annoying that is, especially in the VIP features thread, it's infinitely irritating when I post the updates assuming its all done when someone else has posted between when I finished the requests and prepared the post of updates. Its even worse when someone who I've just updated changes their mind and makes me change it back or to something more complicated that needs huge amounts of HTML.

"having a social life" is a stupid excuse. If he doesn't have the time to do the job, hire more people or get someone else to do it.

Saying "he has a social life" is a stupid excuse. Everyone has a social life - but if he doesn't have the time to do it and if it takes him 4 days to do it then hiring an additional person to help is the obvious answer.

That's an atrocious opinion to have. Are you seriously saying that I should favour volunteer work on an online forum where I'm dealing with other peoples requests day in day out and complaints via PM about missing VIP which I don't deal with over my own social life? :S
I would strongly recommend changing that opinion because its very selfish and verging on arrogant.
I don't often give out -rep because I deal with the issues thread so its unfair on the person but I think an exception can be made here.

This is sorta true.
Ive had a thread to change my name for like 2-3 weeks now and it aint been changed :rolleyes:

If you're going to lie about your situation at least make it challenging to prove you wrong. It isn't hard to go to the VIP name changes section and see that your name change request has been active for just under 5 days not 2-3 weeks. I can see it, Management can see it, even other VIPs can see it to prove that what you've just posted is entirely fabricated.

[Plank]

How is it an atrocious opinion :S I have nothing against you personally and I know you deal with lots of things on here, and the fact is it does take you longer than it used to to update features. If an additional person is hired things might get done quicker. You may well have a "social life" but I'm sure there are people out there with more time on their hands.

And no, i'm not saying that you should favour volunteer work on an online forum over your social life - you're the one that said that.