An idea to help out the Council with their workload.

[Jubei]

Here's what I've proposed to an advisor:

1) Set up a special forum that everybody can post to.
2) Only the OP and the Council can see that post - I wouldn't be able to see pipcorona's complaint about me, for instance.
3) Any member of the Council could respond or defer to those that could.
4) The OP could see any responses and reply to their thread as needed.
5) This would only be used for generic/global issues instead of PM's or emails - and only for those issues where any member of the Council could help. It obviously would not be used if somebody had a specific issue about a particular member of the Council.
6) Even if the first response was "We need to get back to you on this," people would feel as if a resolution was in the works and that it has not fallen into some black hole.
7) It would really help out the Council and allow them to spend less time fixing and more time playing. I'm sure that some members as of right now get fewer PM's and emails than others and this would help balance things. It could also help cut down on length of Council meetings about various smaller issues when they could be resolved in that thread and over a period of a few days (if it was something that could wait that long).

 

[Purple.Huskies]

That's a great idea, Stoo. It will allow the council members to play more, and enjoy their hard work instead of working behind the closed door all the time. I hope the idea can help to prioritize issues so when they meet, they deal with important issues and reduce the length of the meeting like he said.

 

[pipcorona]

[quote1203539456=Stooopid]
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2) Only the OP and the Council can see that post - I wouldn't be able to see pipcorona's complaint about me, for instance.
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[/quote1203539456]

Hey! You weren't supposed to see that complaint I lodged against you.

 

[Signe]

It's not a bad idea... I like it, really, but it means that they're either going to have to find an e107 plugin that offers that support already, go to a standard 'customer support' type application, or build something from scratch.

 

[pipcorona]

Building from scratch is always fun.

 

[Jubei]

[quote1203541403=Signe]
It's not a bad idea... I like it, really, but it means that they're either going to have to find an e107 plugin that offers that support already, go to a standard 'customer support' type application, or build something from scratch.
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A forum plugin would be best, unless e107 can do it already. That way standard mod functions like editing, moving and merging would still work. I see the sub forum tacked on under the banning forums but above the class forums.