Announcement : Gmc Senior Members
Andrew Cockburn
Jun 27 2007, 05:06 PM
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Dear all,

It gives me great pleasure to announce the following new GMC initiative.

We have a few members that have been around GMC for a while that have been making above average contributions. These people have encouraged, led by example and used their knowledge to help others progress in many different ways.

Kris has decided that we need to recognise these people and mark them out as Senior Members for two reasons - Firstly we want to show people that their contributions are valued. Secondly, we want to show others the kind of behavior that we want to foster on GMC. This site is an incredible place to hang out, and the members being recognised have played a huge part in that. We want to encourage that same attitude in others.

Senior members will get the following benefits:
  • Free membership
  • Custom title
  • Badge Attached Image
  • Free GMC Senior T-shirt
  • Access to the secret Seniors board
Senior Members are being picked out by Kris - when we discussed this we came up with a list of the type of qualities required so that others will know what they need to do to get Senior Member status. Since the GMC site is all about you the users, if anyone feels strongly that a particular member deserves this honour feel free to PM me, and I'll try and convince Kris that they are worthy, if I agree smile.gif

In order to be considered as a senior member, you will need at least the following:

1. Good Attitude


GMC is a great place to hang out, and we want to keep it that way. People who start arguments or are deliberatly objectionable need not apply. However, please note that reasoned disagreement is very much encouraged, and is a very positive thing when coupled with politeness. We will not consider anyone that has been in trouble with the moderation staff.

2. Has something important to add, or has shown leadership

Everyone has their own sweet spot or area of expertise. Using this knowledge to help others, or provide information to the community at large is a defining attribute of a senior member.

3. Be around for more than 3 months.

Some people seem to pop up, post for a while then disappear - I am guessing when their first subscription runs out. We want people that have staying power as Senior Members.

4. Posted a reasonable number of times.


Senior Members are people on the board that are familiar to all of us, and have posted sufficiently that we have a feel for their character, personality and interests. Five posts definately won't do it - maybe 50 will, depending on the content of those posts, maybe it will take more.

5. Good Communication skills.

We like to encourage clear, well written language, and good expression of ideas. This is not about how good your English is - a large number of members use English as a second language, and we absolutely will not take that into account. This is about not using slang, or abbreviations, it is about using paragraphs and punctuation.

Anyone who conducts themselves on GMC in this way stands a good chance of being made a Senior member eventually smile.gif

On the flip side, we are also looking for GMC Senior Members to exercise a little bit of additional responsibility in keeping GMC a great place to hang out. You will be the people that the other members look up to (in fact you already are, we are just formalising it!). We'll be asking GMC Senior members to be on the lookout for flame wars, bad language, copyright violations, and anything that doesn't fit with GMCs philosophy, and report it to the appropriate board moderator. Thankfully at GMC this sort of thing is extremely rare!

The first few Senior Members will be contacted in the coming days, and I'll announce their arrival on this thread.

Regards,

Andrew

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Smikey2006
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Eddie is awsome biggrin.gif thats what some metal guy at my school has nicknamed me haha,, well he calls me commander Eddie biggrin.gif

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Congratulaitions The Uncreator - your reviews rock!! smile.gif


--> GMC Senior members now have badges, check it out! biggrin.gif


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My Congrats MickeM!!

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I love the Badges smile.gif

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Congratulations to all our senior members! You did great job guys! Keep it up!

Also congrats to Kris and Andrew for organizing the whole thing! The badges look great - in style of GMC!

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Great idea! Well done Seniors! Way to make this a great place to hang out and learn!

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Aaron
Jul 3 2007, 05:29 AM
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i would like to become a senior member but i havent been around long enough

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I have just one question - why is the GMC and senior member guitar the red special? At least, I'm pretty sure it is. Just curious how that came about laugh.gif

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I dunno but Brian may is pretty awsome! biggrin.gif

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Kristofer Dahl
Jul 4 2007, 04:33 PM
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Time to announce the next GMC Senior Member...


KANEDA



Congratulations!

Kaneda has shown evidence of exceptional knowledge on many music/guitar related topics. Not only that - he is also working on giving us a highly advanced and costumised flash scale application...hats off for Kaneda!

You might also notice that we aren't completely consistent with the three month limit, the decision here was however very easy! Also - it is good illustration that we want to choose the GMC Senior Members on merit, not because someone has been around for a while!

Believe it or not, but the first thing Kaneda replied to my pm was - "no that's not fair, I haven't been around for three months yet!" wink.gif Seems like I convinced him though - his costume title of choise is "Other side of the coin" biggrin.gif

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Congrats Kaneda!

Very well earned and deserved even if you haven't been here for your 3 months biggrin.gif

You rule smasher you! *shakes fist*

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Congratulations Kaneda!

Richly deserved - you have been helping me out handsomely with the theory side of things, and I pretty much always learn something new from your posts smile.gif

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Congratulations Kaneda!
Very well deserved smile.gif

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I knew you were gonna get it. Good job Kaneda!!

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Congratualtions Kaneda!!

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Congrats Kaneda!

A well deserved honor! I always enjoy your theory posts...they are very good by the way. Congrats again!

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Congrats man! You really deserve it. All your posts are detailed and very well written, and plus you have offered GMC many interesting tidbits on music and music theory. smile.gif cool.gif

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Thanks Kris and Andrew - and everyone else biggrin.gif And yeah, I did point out it "wasn't fair", as Kris said... laugh.gif

Another thing that made it not fair was that I didn't even know about this "award" until Kris messaged me about it...

So I'd better also say congrats to MickeM and The Uncreator - both of whom have like a googolplex more posts than me (did I miss anyone? In that case, congrats too any other "seniors" too smile.gif)

And yes, "Other side of the coin" is very much a cliché - except to me. It's a very specific Sandman (the Neil Gaiman comic) reference which has stuck with me for almost 15 years, very much fits me in countless ways, and was also the title of the first song, very personal and very outthere, that I wrote for our band. Might end up in the upload section when I end up actually being able to play it on guitar myself wink.gif

Someday I'll learn to keep my posts short too (and learn to do things right the first time, rather than constantly edit).

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Congrats! your theory lesson footnotes are half the lesson for me. laugh.gif keep up the good work! cool.gif

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