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I made this post about promotions in January. Little has changed since -- we haven't got promotions, we still need promotions, and I still think the same people are deserving of spots as editors. Again, very quickly:

  • !'•-Indigo-•'! has been active for the best part of three years and has made substantial contributions to the community, with over a thousand answers and another thousand comments. She could lend Sempi and I a hand covering Asia-Pacific timezones.
  • Astronautical has been a consistently active and high quality contributor for over two years, and in that time has made several thousand posts. His timezone can help fill the gaps left by some of the less active staff members in North America.

New editors would help tremendously with the admin load as well as actively moderating the site. Much of our current staff members are busy with tertiary education and work. Individually, I am doing much of the mod work myself; I can remember decisions I made about virtually all the hidden posts in the admin. That should change.

As mentioned in the original post, I think we need more frequent and less stingy promotions. We need to take advantage of good quality contributors as staff members more often, so that situations like this don't occur.

Editors are first priority, but please also take a look through these two threads I posted if you get a spare moment. Also, there are still some Gen 7 moveset questions that have not gone up yet. We've also gone ten months without a name change thread, I think it's well and truly time a new one goes up.

(Pokemaster if there's any way we can help you with these kinds of things, we'd be willing to lend a hand. For example, you could give mods the password to MovesetBot or let us manage the name change threads as well.)

I'm not going away until this happens. ;P

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I totally agree.
Fizz lowkey getting mad Meta points from promotion suggestions.  

Seriously though, yes please.
Is it possible to learn this Meta power?
Fizz, I think it might be a better idea to wait until Pokemaster comes back before bumping this suggestion.
Astronautical, you can start by spamming tournament ideas and getting easy up-votes from there.
I don't know when Pokemaster is "back", I think now is as good a time as any to bump. He'll see this whenever he next gets around to posting some answers.
And I'm willing to post answers on this question to bump it to the front everywhere, should it come to that.
Just spam answers, suggestions and memes for 4 years. That's how i got 3500 points without being auth.
Is it ok if I post links of old yet important questions so that we don't have to repost/bump them seperately?
There's already a list. Just click on "questions" and then "most votes". The unanswered questions on the first two pages is the list.
Astronautical deserves it. He is almost always active as well as helpful to a majority of the active community. Indigo should get the promotion as well. +1
@sumwun
Does Pokemaster ever check that?
He did say something about using unanswered questions as to-do lists, but I forgot when he said it.
New news post on the front page which I'm pretty sure wasn't there when I last logged in a few hours ago, so maybe Pokemaster is reading this right now?

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Looks like this post is dropping toward the bottom of the activity lists. So to improve its visibility, I'm bumping it up with this answer on the off chance Pokemaster might miss it otherwise.

This is not something I'd normally encourage since it would flood the front page pretty quickly, but this is a pressing issue and it has needed a response for a long time. So I'm going to keep pushing for changes. Again:

I'm not going to stop until this happens!

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Guess who's back.
Back again.
Pokemaster's back.
Tell a friend.
I can't wait to feel the ever-present sense of judgment all day tomorrow.
So...you'll be attacked by a 100 base power 100% accurate special attack? Better get some good special walls.
The real question is what Type-Plate he's holding.
If she has a Chansey, then that shouldn't be a concern. Chansey can take fighting type judgements with ease.