Ttrimm
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There are many that strive mightily to be boosters, then they become one and make a few edits or see what it is like, and jump ship. I think they should have that status removed. Sometimes, it is the only reason they want it. If they can’t boost AT ALL, they should lose that status. I am not talking about the ones who boost rarely…even a little helps. But those who just disappear.
Although others may disagree, I support this. Becoming a NAB requires passing a test, and you are given access to special tools. If you aren’t going to use them, why should you have access to them?
Ttrimm
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Or have that status…and regardless of what some may want to think, it IS a status/goal.
But you know that wikiHow is a volunteer site. If I user takes an abnormally long break, they might come back someday and ask why their status as a Booster was taken away.
June Days
I see your guys points but you’d have to KNOW that a user had good reason to stop. I agree with the idea but it has its risks.
Ttrimm
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Then if they want to, they can take an abbreviated test to get them back. There are too many that want it for the status only. I can be a bit of a hard liner at times though.
I think an abbreviated test is a good idea actually.
Ttrimm: Yes, but if they were a booster in the first place, is it fair to take away their status (Not knowing who wants the status ‘NAB’ and who is really taking a wikiBreak)? And then, if they come back, telling them they have to take an abbreviated test to be able to boost, just because they took a break? That’s really not fair…But that’s also my opinion, too. =) June Days
@Ttrimm
and I were discussing it a bit. We’re talking about the type of users that used to be active and became a booster, then tried boosting one or two articles, and bailed out. If they come back and don’t boost much, no big deal! They should keep it. We’re talking about the users that disappear after they become NABs.
system
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I have mix feelings about this. “But those who just disappear.”
- I could say the same exact thing concerning administrators before the new election method. At least half elected guaranteed just “poof” pretty much within a few days after getting the admin buttons. On the other hand, just like administratorship, there are tonne of ways to help out with NAB without being a booster. Why get the minimum requirements (and when I say minimum, people do take the test with the minimum requirementswhen their statistics are double checked) and then disappear? It’s not a title.
Caidoz
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There’s a lot more to NAB rights than boosting. What if someone gets NAB rights and decides they prefer one of the other tools that NAB rights give them access to? They may not actually be boosting, but they still need NAB rights in order to do what they’re doing, and they have passed the required tests in order to be able to do that. I don’t see what removing rights is going to achieve. As June says, this is a volunteer site. Isn’t it better to have the people who want to boost boosting, and the people who want to do other things doing other things? Are we really going to start threatening to stop people using the other tools unless they do a certain amount of something they really don’t enjoy in order to keep them? That’s ridiculous.
But they can come back. Assume good faith in a way…Even if it was honestly a thing to get the status, don’t take the status away. If they wanted to come back and start new, learn about things again, and NAB, that’s fine because they got the status in the first place. But if you took it away without assuming good faith, they could come back and actually boost, but they wouldn’t have their booster buttons. =) June Days
Agree with Caidoz. It doesn’t hurt in the long run to let them keep their buttons. If they don’t boost, that’s okay. But, if they come back and boost, and we took away the status they got fairly, that wouldn’t end well. June Days
@Caidoz
We’re not talking about JUST boosting. If they use it to use the NFD Guardian, then they should keep it. We’re talking about people that get the right, and go inactive.
It would be one thing if they abused their responsibility as NABers, but no user is under any obligation to use every tool in his/her arsenal. We don’t hold admins to the standard of perpetually using their tools, so we shouldn’t do that for NABers. I do not support.
^ But even if they went inactive, they still have a chance of coming back. June Days
Is there a way of seeing a boosters record of what they have done?
Caidoz
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The way the initial suggestion was phrased suggested that if people never boost, they should lose booster rights. I guess I just don’t see the point in this. It sounds like a quick road to creating extra, unnecessary work, and a whole lot of drama.
