New Group - Aces

[Peter L]

Group Name: Aces
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Group Mission: To provide quality. This is what Support Forums strives to be: a forum where you can go to look for mature and contributional opinions and discussions. This group will give new members a set of people to look up to and strive to become, and current members an incentive to work hard to become a member of the Aces.

I'm totally aware it may seem like a group for older members to circle jerk, but it couldn't be farther from that. The group is not for elitists who want the title so they can feel superior to other members, especially newer ones. Instead, the group is for members who have been on Support Forums for an extended period of time that are responsible enough to be role models for members, especially newer ones.

You might be thinking: "Yeah...well we have staff for that." Sure, that point can be argued. Staff usually are the role models for a forum, and that is one of the reasons they are staff. They know how Support Forums is run and how to be someone to look up to. But their job is still their job, and that job is to moderate the forums and clean up spam. Our job, our group mission, is to be that same idol but with one big difference. The difference is we strive to contribute positively whenever we can. Any tutorial that is missing; we'll write it. Any problem a member is having; we'll try our best to solve it. That is our job description. Any member can do this, yes. Any staff member can do this, yes. But we are expected to.

We will organize contests such as "Best Tutorial of the Month" where people vote on the best tutorial of a specific month. We'll have referral contest where members will receive prizes if they refer "x" amount of users who get "y" amount of posts in a specified period of time. Small things like this to keep Support Forums feeling alive and to make people love being here and hate being away, that's the mission right there.

Membership Requirements:

• 500 posts
  
• Minimum 1 year of membership
  
• Extensive knowledge in at least one area discussed on SF

Why these requirements? The 500 posts is set because I'd like members of the Aces to meet the requirements to have their own group before being able to join this one. Minimum of 1 year of membership is pretty self-explanatory; a lot happens in a year, and I'd like you to witness a full year of Support Forum's growth. Any less and you still haven't seen enough, in my opinion. As for the extensive knowledge in one topic on SF, this is for future plans I have to assign members to certain areas of the forum. These areas include any topic discussed on SF and multiple people can be assigned one area. There is few requirements because all applicants will be judged on an individual basis. You can meet the requirements and still be declined. This group can be rather difficult to get into. Personal grudges, if any at all, will be disregarded when you're application is being reviewed. Once more members join, there will be more people to vote on your application. Everybody is one mind and makes one decision. There is no "leader" of the Aces, in that sense.

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If there is no interest in a group like this, I understand. My intentions are only positive and I hope to see success in this group, in turn see Support Forums become a better place.