Members that wish to post beta on Rivers Pages!
For those of you that have wanted to submit beta or details around runs, here is how! All you need to do is log in and then select a rivers page. At the top of the page is a button that says EDIT or Create New Feature. Both are options you may use. Simply fill out the river form and a member of the Stream Team or an Admin will review your submission and post it. This is automated with Email support!

Members that have been busting the beta move!
We need people to join the Stream Team. All you have to do is let me know via PM or a post in this thread. Once approved you will have permission to approve beta submissions and make your own changes instantly. PLEASE NOTE, this is not a special treatment or feature, it is only for Members that have been making a lot of beta submissions and understand this process. It sometimes takes me days to approve submissions and I don't want it to hold the process up for those members that have done such a good job helping build our database.

Once a part of the Stream Team you will have a new Icon at the top of each page along with an alert tool to let you know when new Beta has been submitted. Your user Icon in the forum will also be changed.

The downside is that Stream Team members will no longer have the rivers they personally update listed on the homepage. The goal is to motivate people to join in. I look forward to building the Stream Team and our Beta!!!!

Thanks
~ James




Edited by James - 03 Dec 2009 at 11:21am

James, thanks for leading the way on this. I think it must be time.

Edited by jP - 03 Dec 2009 at 12:57pm

Gadzooks - I got alot of great PM's and Responses in and outside of this thread to help with the Stream Team. (for Leif AW uses the term "Stream Keeper" not stream team. We can easily change the name to shut you up, but I doubt that would solve the root problem)

First I apologize for posting this thread and then jetting when the questions and responses came in but my world is rather hectic right now.

So here is a bit more detail to elaborate on this system and why it is being setup with a team:
- First and foremost the team is going to begin as two people right now, JP & JoesKayak. The reason is simple, outside my work, together they represent 98% of the beta submissions for our community. They have single handledly put weekly submissions into our betabase and thats RAD and nice for all you that enjoy reading and using the information. They both understand the format and system so they have a reason to start the team off.
- The stream team is here to make the rivers pages clean and usable not just ensure beta is accurate since many submissions may be on runs they have not done or have changed since etc.
- The team is here to ensure that long periods of time do not pass before submissions are approved and posted.

I will be responsible to add new members into the team and it will only be done by the request of jP and Joe right now. Together they will be seeing who is active and truly interested in participating on the team. I have recieved many requests already from people that want to make a submission on a river, or watch a river for new submissions. That's not what the team is for, thats what our river pages are for, you to participate by making submissions. The team is for individuals that are helping at a level that becomes apparent they should be offered the opportunity to accept more control / functionality. The last thing we want is to decrease the number of people helping with submissions, so don't think that, it's just that the purpose of the team is not for submissions, its for the approval of them. Thanks
 

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