CoinTalk Ambassador System Idea

As a regular viewer and occasional poster you always notice the people who are new trying to figure out what their grandfather's or family members collection is worth or what the random 'error' they found in their change is. Although allowing to the community to respond is nice it does sometimes get old and repetitive. Also differing view points and ideas could confuse a person like this. So I have an idea that could help these people I think.

I deem we should select a group of people to be ambassadors (call it what you will) that helps these people and guides them in learning or in selling. I'm sure the CoinTalk community has information to supply the ambassadors with.

I am not saying these people can't post but it would be a more effective system than an I have A B C D.......(sometimes very lengthy) list. When there are questions posting would be find put the ambassador could instruct the person on how to post and take a decent picture or post it for them if need be.

I feel this system would allow people to have someone we as a community trust help them.

Just an idea, sorry for grammatical mistakes, and I am not sure if this should be in feedback forum.

 

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Don't we already have a "hobby ambassador"?

 

Do I detecto a hint of sarcasm?

 

I thought that position had already been filled.

 

Thanks for posting the idea.

Hello Coincast,

Thanks for posting the idea. It has been suggested several times and again, for the record, I'd be glad to be on a list of possible "advisors" or "ambassadors" or "friends" at CoinTalk in order to give sage advice. I suspect that most of the advice should be geared toward informing the new member how to present his questions and share with the forum affectively. Much of the introductory tutelage would probably just be pointing the new member to sections and threads at CT.

Good luck with the idea. Perhaps a moderator could assign the new poster an ambassador via PM and that would be all there is to it.

 

We already have an Ambassador. Are you suggesting a recall election?

 

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Some sort of screening program for new members?

 

I've never used one, but I see what appears to be a phone app available too. Not wanting to take away from the ambassadors here, but might be an option if viable.

 

For clarity I was not aware we had an ambassador. I do not know the person. I am suggesting a guide for new people not replacing anyone. It would be to cleaning up the 1 posters and help them.

 

Dont recall our ambassador. Im from Wisconsin and very tired of recalls..

 

I'll do it if anyone actually values my opinion.

 

This is a treasonous thread and should be locked. we already have an ambassador

 

In case you haven't figured it out by now, the ambassador thing is an ongoing inside joke here at CT. I'm not going to take up a lot of time explaining it. You'll figure it out after a while. It might help if you were to read some threads started by Detecto.

 

I believe the position is filled - when you join cointalk you agree to the forum rules. So every member here should be polite(always remember this is intended as a family forum) and informative as possible when posting for the newly enrolled - keeping in mind we want to encourage the hobby and individual. The problem is I think 90% of these people are in and out of the forum before you can even suggest they read the forum rules. Plus if they just took some time to do some searching or just looking at sticky threads they could probably get their answers without even posting. Just my own opinion.

 

^ exactly my point. So we have some one to show them these threads so we dot have to spend time telling them the same stuff. And then if they have real questions they can start a thread

 

Secede from Wisconsin and join Illinois. You're not that far. You'll have to pay more taxes, but what the heck.

 

Apperantly I'm not in on the inside joke. This is a "serious" thread. We can call them guides if you want.

 

Isn't that what the Moderators are for?

 

Really when everyone rips the head off of someone who posts threads like: Is this coin with the giant hole in it an error? or Is this spray painted coin naturally toned? They will learn what is appropriate to post.

 

I used to make fun of those types, then I got a bunch of points from the moderators, not I'm a psych patient comparable to that that has had a lobotomy.