Forum Guides

Stroma

It would be helpful if a forum guide was actually somebody who visited and posted here regularly, we get a lot of very old threads bumped, a forum guide who visited here could extract that post from a thread into a new one and actually close that thread to stop it being bumped again.

We have 3 guides here, crabman comes here at times, but I have never seen the other two at all ever here. I suggest and nominate Coupon Mad to be one, how can you nominate someone to be one ? That's if she wants it of course

Guys_Dad

Forum monitors are not usually high contributors to forum threads themselves as they are assumed to take a visibly objective detached view.

I would rather have Coupon-Mad making lots of posts and even being contentious than being constrained as a forum guide.

Same goes for many of the regulars.

Stroma

You are mistaking forum guides to forum moderators on here, guides don't make moderating decisions like on other boards, they are there purely to help things run smoothly. I don't get the idea of guides in a forum that they don't visit. I help run a board with a team of people who are actually moderators and are chosen on the merits of being contributing members.

Perhaps this will help you know what guides do here, this forum would run a lot better if someone who is active here would be a guide here, I can't think of anyone better suited to the task than Coupon.
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/site/forum-faqs

Guys_Dad

Stroma wrote: »

You are mistaking forum guides to forum moderators on here, guides don't make moderating decisions like on other boards, they are there purely to help things run smoothly. I don't get the idea of guides in a forum that they don't visit. I help run a board with a team of people who are actually moderators and are chosen on the merits of being contributing members.

Perhaps this will help you know what guides do here, this forum would run a lot better if someone who is active here would be a guide here, I can't think of anyone better suited to the task than Coupon.
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/site/forum-faqs

Sorry, I was thinking of moderators. Support your suggestion.

HO87

Seconded/Thirded.

C_M repeatedly demonstrates a dedication particularly to guiding newbies. She'd make an ideal guide IMO.

Fergie76

Would you not be better posting this here - http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=50

Stroma

Fergie76 wrote: »

Would you not be better posting this here - http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=50

Thanks :-) I have added a new thread about it below if anyone would like to post there

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/59314771#Comment_59314771

Crabman

Hi folks,

I've posted on that thread (and CM would be a great board guide ) but would just say in addition to what I've posted there that just because you don't see us posting doesn't mean we aren't moving posts/threads around.

When I split a post into a new thread, for example, I'll send the member a private message (PM) with a link to the newly created thread. I sometimes post on the new thread, but it seems a bit pointless if the newbie doesn't know where the thread is (remember - new members to MSE don't have thread subscriptions enabled by default so they can't easily track their posts until they've enabled it in the forum options).

It's incredibly rare that I come across a thread where a worried member hasn't received excellent advice already, so I figure there isn't much point posting to repeat what's already been said.

Also I can't emphasise enough how helpful it is when someone sends one of us a PM about a post that needs to be moved into a new thread.