With this change, we are opening ourselves to the possibility of international Top Contributors. This will certainly help our international categories in the long run, by allowing members to evolve regardless of their chosen language.
That’s actually something I hadn’t thought of. Having top contributors spread through different languages would probably really boost engagement and participation in international categories. Good catch!
With this change, I can see these titles being a lot neater. By the way, nice title “Community Sage”. This is a good change and a step forward for titles that truely identify a member’s contribution and responsibility.
I can see exactly why the Top Contributors are no longer going to be responsible for nominations of New Members becoming full Members with the automated promotion system taking place. I think people in the program did get a lot of noise and were probably asked a lot of questions by people of the forum even if the Top Contributors were not responsible for certain things in the forum, people of the forum still asked them these kinds of questions regardless, possibly giving a lot of stress to them. Now seeing the title name, it should be obvious that Top Contributors are top contributors to the community and should probably cause no confusion.
By the way, from the while change with adding a new group “Post Approval Team” is nice, glad to see a division of groups with different responsibilities meaning there should at least be more of an obvious view for who to contact when your post is in a different category instead of what it should be in.
They actually won’t. What happens is all is automated, except a staff member must evaluate and review to make sure this member is suitable with the title. So really, it does a lot of good, it gives less of a hassle for staff to need to invite a few people and review them anyway, they get the help of automation and only need to review them.
I was unware that this was the case. In that regaurd it’s still good to see the role being acknowledged, as it seemed to have slipped by the wayside previously.
It will be interesting to see which members eventually do cross into Sage territory, as it seems some vaugness around the role in general has been cleared.
Sorry if this doesn’t sound as important and rather nit picky but I feel the forum badges Sage and Post Approval fit in the “Community” category rather than “Other”. Might wanna move those badges there?
Since they are invite-only ranks that will not be automated, they are in a separate category. They are community-sourced ranks but they are not mandated by the community as a whole like Member / Top Contributor is.
I love the new title!
“Community sages… the elite wizards whom control the robloxian universe…”
I also support the automation of the top contributor process, as it may shed light on even more developers who happen to be a bit more obscure and truly enjoy contributing to the community.
It requires, as mentioned in the post, a high level of activity and helpfulness to others, as well as a manual check of your history on the forums by staff before being granted the title and flair.