Announcment: New Heralds

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Note that Heralds are not Moderators. Heralds are basically permanent Super-Regulars.

@wincenworks

Heralds and Moderators

In order to help make this community the best it can be and encourage members to be their best selves while here, I’ve created a new group for people who staff have identified as being exemplary members and called them Heralds. It’s a small group and has a lot of overlap with moderators right now, but I hope to see it grow. You can identify Heralds by this piece of flair:

Unlike their namesake in the game, Heralds do not have any particular responsibilities but I would like to urge people to consider them examples of what we like to see at the forum. Membership will be referral only, so if you’d like to be a Herald - just be awesome.

Moderators on the other hand, can be identified by this small shield between their names and their titles.

Moderators do have a responsibility to maintain the forum and set clear expectations so if you find yourself wanting to tell one of these people you don’t care their ideas on how the forum should run or what is and isn’t acceptable: Please reconsider.

Though Heralds do have some powers otherwise only moderators have:

• Edit all posts
• Pin/unpin topic
• Close topics
• Split and merge topics

And some more obscure things, see Understanding Discourse Trust Levels at “Leaders”