Zellonia Participant Role Restructure
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Zellonia announces a participant role restructure, splitting Participants into four Advanced specialties: Tropical Meteorology, General Meteorology, Geophysics, and Astronomy. The update clarifies specializations, allows multiple role assignments, and aims to improve topical channels and help threads. Rules-and-info was split into separate channels and an updated tropical TCOS graphic was added for clarity.
Good evening !
The moderation team has just finalized the latest Participant review, where we go through the current list of Participants and see who we feel is best to keep in the role, add into the role, and remove from the role.
This announcement though is mainly to address some changes made to the structure of the Participant role that were made during this review period.
The biggest change that a lot of you have probably noticed by now is that there are now 4 separate roles each of which define a field that any select participant specializes in. The new roles are as follows:
- @Advanced Tropical Meteorology
- @Advanced General Meteorology
- @Advanced Geophysics
- @Advanced Astronomy
All of these are pretty self explanatory, though General Meteorology is a bit more broad overall, this contains topics including Severe Weather, Winter Weather, Fire Weather, and Climatology. Participants can hold more than one of these roles if they do specialize in more than one of the fields described.
This splitting was done to allow users to see what each Participant specializes in, and the hope is that it may help with #channel for example.
There is also a more updated and in-depth description of the Participant role in #channel, as we did feel the old description was a bit vague and didn't fully explain what we look for in Participants.
Another small tidbit that I'll add onto the end here, the old rules-and-info channel has been split into #channel and #channel as it did become clear that there was a lot of information kept in that one channel, and splitting them apart makes it less overwhelming and easier to read through. Alongside that, an updated graphic showing what to expect in tropical chats with each TCOS code has been provided, hopefully clearing up any confusion there was with the old description in the channel, as that was a bit vague.
Have a great weekend everyone!
