Well met, Passive-ist,

I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce you to a new group, which will exist as of 16 July 2008, outside the realms of Order and Chaos whose members will be making the early lives of Shoats much easier.

These are the Stewards.

Stewards are players who volunteer their time, patience and sanity to assist new players getting acquainted with PMOG, and also help to ensure the Community Standards and Expectations are being upheld. They are entrusted with some abilities above and beyond the normal PMOG citizen, including the ability to close threads, or remove inappropriate comments from missions.

For example, if a Steward comes across an especially helpful post in the forum, they can pin it. Conversely, if they come across an especially unhelpful, hate-filled post in the forum, they can lock it until a Trustee can further address the issue.

Stewards not admins, and should not be viewed as such. Complaints, general help requests, feedback for the developers, reports of abuse, and so forth should still be directed to the normal avenues of communication. Instead, Stewards should be seen as community representatives who have demonstrated a knowledge, dedication and willingness to further better our community.

You will be able to identify someone as a Steward by the designation that will appear on their profile or beneath their name on messages they post on the forums.

For the time being, becoming a Steward is a closed invitation-only process carefully considered by GameLayers. The Stewards report directly to Joe (@burdenday) Wagner, PMOG's Player Support Liaison. Any/all future concerns regarding a specific Steward should be addressed to @burdenday and will be kept in confidence.

Please join me in welcoming the "first five" Stewards:

pixielo
lehall
chetyre
salmontickler
emberdione

Please use this thread to express your comments, concerns, congratulations or questions. Or, if you'd prefer, you can PMail me directly, or e-mail feedback at pmog dot com.

Welcome, Stewards!

Yours,
Joe
@burdenday

I cant think of anything to say.

a picture is worth a thousand words.

Thanks to burdenday, the other Trustees and the PMOG community for this opportunity! I'm proud to take up the Steward mantle, and I promise to work tirelessly to better the community and spread the word of bacon far and wide.

I declare this thread - full of win!

Congrats! Great idea!

Yay! Thanks so much to burdenday and the Stewards. :)

Oh this is a BRILLIANT idea! *Cheers*

*curtseys...

Thanks everyone! lehall pretty much summed up anything I could have said so I'll just do this instead:

Congratulations guys!

congratz to the new Stewards. And thanks!

WOOO! many congratulations to all.

.. incidentally my tray table isn't stowing and I'd like another blanket if its not to much trouble. Also can i have some earphones or do i have to pay extra for those on PMOG air?

:)

Power... how nice. Now maybe I will stop being a slacker and finish LM huh?

Would it be too much to ask that it be a convention of stewards to lock threads marked "[CLOSED]" by their creators?

Lol

I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

Also, excellent use of "Well met."

Congratulations (and good luck) :D
*sigh* I wish I could use 'Well met' in more sentences...

Hooray for the stewards and stewardess!
From now on, do your best to help the shoats!

This thread has way too much awesomeness. Can it handle it?! I think not. Things are gonna spread and then there'll be trouble.
Also, Congrats Steward people. They appear to be good choices as well. The word Steward makes me think of Lord of the rings. Lets not find any silmarillions in any of your towers. Thank you.

I am the rightful King of Gondor

My family has kept the stewardship for centuries.

Isn't the human mind funny.....when I read the word "Steward", my first thought was " horse racing" LOL ( Don't ask me why, I've never even bet on the Melbourne Cup!)

Anyway, word association aside....congrats to our new Stewards.........break a leg ;-)

Congrats to all the stewards-you're all awesome people! :)

Sounds like a plan. Shoats could use a guiding hand now and then.

It appears to me that congrats are in order for

Chava.

I don't see other mention of it, however his avatar among the forums is showing Steward status.

Congrats Chava.

@torchfire
http://pmog.com/forums/pmog-news...

:D