The Consultant's List

Read the List of Active Consultants to see who is currently doing consulting jobs. If you need help, and what you need someone does, then you've got a good match. If nobody seems to do what you like, go to the Discussion Forums and see which forum makes sense to ask on. If none seem sensible, use the chatterbox.

You want to help?

We used to have formal staffs with chain of command and so on.

It didn't work out as well as we'd have liked, so we're trying something different.

We still have some formal positions, such as wizards that are hierarchical and with enormous in-game privileges. The helpers are a group of people who chose to help guests and gain the privilege of creating them. And of course, webmasters make this site work.

But what if you get stuck with a building command, or have a complaint about someone's behavior? You need someone to talk to now.

Consultant Privileges

• access to staff chat using the sc command
• ability to get paged strange questions at any time
• a listing on the consultant page
• the pleasure of doing a job well

The Role of Consultants

A Consultant then is a person who chooses to help the MUCK in some very specialized area. The beauty of this is that each consultant defines their own area, through the writing of a job description.

If approved (and initially, the approval goes through the Wizzes) then the person will be added to the consultants list, and their desciption will become publicly posted.

They are then an official staff position, bound by the wizard and staff policy and with whatever special in-game capabilities they need to do their job.

Thus, some consultants can suspend people (by sending them to Dark Forest), some can access DB properties, and so forth.

What if they abuse this?

Abuse is always possible. On Redwall MUCK, we've had very few abuse problems, because someone complains and the abuse is destroyed courtesy of WizPolicy #5.

So, it can happen, but it isn't likely.

Also, someone requesting the power to banish a character to Dark Forest is going to be scrutinized a lot more than someone seeking the ability to post a Message of the Day. Many capabilities in the MU are nice but not destructive. Those that can damage others are carefully safeguarded.

How Do I Become a Consultant?

There is no formal application, no required time online, no requirement that you have been a player for more than 6 weeks, etc. To become a consultant, write up a job description and post it in your home folder here on the MUCK.

In the job description include the following:

1. Your characters in-MU names that will do this job
2. What services you offer
3. What capabilities you need for those services

That's it!

Once written, post a link to it in the discussion area below. Approval or rejection will be reported to you within a few days. If you don't hear anything within a week, talk to a Wizard or send email to Otter via brianj@otterspace.com and he'll get on it.

Fair warning:

    Anyone who becomes a consultant and doesn't do as they say in 
    their writeup will inevitably be complained about by players. 
    Any valid complaint is going to put the consultant's position 
    in jeopardy. We love people who help, but we don't love those 
    who claim to be helpful and then don't.

So, if this is what you'd like to do, we'll be grateful for your passion and helpfullness. Just make sure you enjoy doing what you want to do!

NOTE

We delete the message-threads when a request is either accepted or denied! If you notice that your post was eliminated, it's not an accident! See the List of Active Consultants to see who is approved and working.