Community change committe

Hi everyone,

I'll get straight to the point. The community manager idea isn't exactly working for us regular forum users. The whole approach that our forum community is at the will of a sole foreigner with hardly enough THG forum experience is horrible. (No offense intended to JustinBlue). How can you let one person take control of an entire community? We need people who understand the forum, the way it works, the bug, glitches and general gripes of the forum. We as a community need to be represented by our own, people who understand.

So here's my proposition, for the creation of a community change committee, a group of highly esteemed individuals elected democratically by the forum community themselves rather than by BoM management. A representative group of the community, designed to communicate our worries and woes to BoM and ultimately to influence the development and improvement of the forum community. People who can talk directly to their management. People who will change the face of Tom's hardware for the better.

How can we let other people make decisions for us as a community?

It's American Independence all over again!

We need to stick up for ourselves as a community. As a democracy.

We need to fight for our liberties.

We need change.

Don't like me already?

Just kidding. I don't even know if I have the job yet or not.

What if the Community Manager did just that? Formed a consulting group of the storied veterans? An advocacy group to help ensure the interests of the members are heard and considered by the higher ups.

Even if they did allow a 'community change committee' someone would need to be pointman to lead the committee and represent them with BoM. In essence, you'd end up with a Community Manager anyway but one they'd have no role in selecting.

The other issue is simply that the role goes beyond the forums. The social media aspect, forum staff meetings, contest operations, forum/main site integration, etc... The Community Manager's full role would not be covered by a 'community change committee' meaning they'd still need to hire someone anyway.

Wow...AFG....never knew... those are some fighting words (ohh... the irony..IIRC you are part French?),eh? Anyways, +1 for thy idea.

I wasn't going to say it but that came to mind almost instantly, lol.

This wouldn't be the first time I've created a Forum Representative system.












I still need to be hired though. Come on BoM. Not fair making me wait all weekend to find out. This is your cue to inundate your BoM leaders with a recommendation on someone's *coughminecough* behalf.

Oh c'mon we are the community for goodness sake.

If they kill the community, Tom's will die.

I dunno.

Will it matter if someone they choose or someone we choose does the job?

They still have to pay them anyway. Right?

How many companies do you know that aren't involved with the hiring of their own employees? Outside of outsourced temp staffing I mean.

EDIT:
Concerned Community Change Committee - C4.

Well, it's more like you're building a charity a PC. It's not for yourself, it's for the community. It's a totally different issue.

You'd let the charity tell you what THEY want from the PC, what software they will run.

Your analogy is taking the whole thing out of perceptive.

I think the best you can hope for is a community manager that will take suggestions (seriously), or possibly even let a community group form to choose the best recommendations for him/her to look through.

I do now.
Guess I won't be helping you guys after all.

Good luck with whomever they selected.

Hopefully if things don't work out too well with the new guy they'll reconsider.

I welcome anyone with the interests of both BoM and the community. Any person not actively involved can consider themselves bypassed by me when I need to send messages upstream though.

He didn't? Well in that case I have no idea who got the job, and that's even more disconcerting. I wonder if he's french.