The Admins have been planning and programming changes to the hosting system. These changes will go into effect very soon, probably tomorrow (assuming that everything goes according to plan). Here's what you need to know:
The Hosts Forum will now be for Forum Hosts only. We observed that Group Hosts rarely use this forum to discuss Group hosting issues, and also that it was frequently counter-productive to have Group Hosts engaging in Forum Hosting issues and vice versa. Therefore discussion of Group hosting issues will now have to take place via DU Mail, email, or whatever other system that Group Hosts may wish to set up for themselves.
There will no longer be a different set of Hosts for each forum. Since there are a couple of very busy forums which generate a lot of alerts and a number of forums which just don't have as much for Hosts to do, we decided to create a single set of 30 Hosts whose job is to deal with all alerts from all forums. To repeat: those 30 Forum Hosts will be hosting every forum, not just a single forum. So if you are a Forum Host, you are responsible for Welcome & Help, Latest Breaking News, Good Reads, Video & Multimedia, Politics 2014, General Discussion, and the DU Lounge.
The first 30 slots will be given to the longest-serving Hosts (regardless of which forum you are currently serving in) and there will be a single Wait List.
To serve as a Forum Host, you must maintain a 100% chance of serving on a Jury. If you are serving as a Forum Host and your chance of serving on a jury falls below 100%, you will lose your slot and a new Host will be called from the top of the Wait List. If you are on the Wait List and your chance of serving on a jury falls below 100%, you will be removed from the Wait List and will have to sign up again.
There will be a new, expanded SOP for the GD forum.
Due to confusion about hosting in the General Discussion forum, we have written a new SOP which goes into much greater detail about what is and is not permitted. This is intended to give Hosts a much clearer idea of what to do with threads in GD.
I think that's everything for now. We'll update you with more news when we have it. Thanks for reading.
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