Hey, everyone! You can tell what this thread is from reading its title, so I'm going to keep it nice and simple. Sorry for taking so long to get around to it!
PX, HT and I convened and came to an agreement about who we will be promoting to expert, and which names we'll be putting forward to Pokemaster as new editors and mods.
Experts
The main criteria for experts is a long history of quality posts that show the ability to improve the standard of content across the site. They should be experienced, active and trusted users of the main Q&A, and should have community involvement through the Meta section or external platforms like our Discord and Showdown servers.
Accordingly, we've decided to promote Staka and Jimmy to expert. As of submitting this post, they've each been given their titles. Congrats! We also want to properly congratulate StellarLucario for reaching expert through the traditional 6000-point benchmark. You beat us to the punch, really – well done for being the probable last person to ever get expert using points before we promote them anyway. :P
We also want to ask if there is anybody else you believe should be promoted to expert. If you keep to the criteria above, we'll grant the wishes of the community if there's enough support!
Editors and mods
Editors (and mods) should be enduring members of the community who make significant contributions to the Q&A and the community as a whole. They should be responsible and effective communicators who are willing to run PokeBase with us using the staff Discord server.
It should come as a surprise to absolutely nobody that we want KRLW890 to become an editor. If I'd been less negligent and made a promotion thread at any point last year, we would have suggested this promotion then, as well. Way overdue.
The second editor we'd like to add is sumwun, who has amassed a huge quantity of posts in all areas of the community and become one of the site's most important contributors in recent times.
I'd also like to put both Hellfire Taco and PX forward as new mods. They can lend me a massive hand during my many Australian off-hours, and begin taking matters into their own hands as they've both shown they're capable.
...And that's all I've got this time! I have plenty of ideas for things we could do as a new staff lineup, so you might hear from us again sooner rather than later. Thanks for reading :)
EDIT: I promise to do another promotions round this year. Promise.
