We put out an ad a few weeks ago looking for a junior editor/moderator. The role has been filled and let me announce the latest addition to the OzBargain moderation team — RichardL. He has been an OzBargain user for almost 8 years, and has been made a power user this year. RichardL will be helping cleaning up the deals and forum posts, making sure they are titled & tagged properly, and moderating the community.
Let's welcome him.
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DickL?
Humble much?
No comment.
Yeah congrats Dick.
I'm sure you're a great choice, I just hope you don't get a big head.
Junior editor for now. How long before Dick gets the head job?
It will be hard
He's going to love the first opening.
Will the users name check out?
Will the Mod kiss and tell
Congratulations.
"What's your profession?" "Ozbargain" . Maybe one day for me.
*Moderator
Congrats, been doing good work as a power user.
Welcome… congrats, thank you. :+)
RichardL's edits have been quick and spot on. I have been beaten by him many times since he became PU. With his help I hope the response time to reports will be significantly shortened.
Some of the pointless edits from power users have been questionable though.
Do tell us what these edits are and how we can improve. I have made big mistakes with my edits but I learnt. I have also corrected mistakes made by moderators. We are not infallible.
Ranges from unnecessary capitalisation to the way different users do their currency conversion as seen here and here. My style of posting conversions has been the same for 3 years.
@Clear: We try to follow capitalisation as preferred by the brands, and OzBargain auto corrects many brand names. In your example, I removed the extra space and OzB auto corrected Netgear to NetGear. (Nevermind the fact that Netgear prefers NETGEAR.) Another example: Adidas auto corrects to adidas.
Regarding currency labelling, that is the style preferred by scotty.
@alvian: Thanks for clarifying as from an outside perspective it looked like edits were made to keep the count up. I know that power users have lost their role in the past for not enough edits.
It's also good that scotty is flexible with the style of posting. I would probably go for your method if I ran out of room in my titles.
@Clear: Only 1 edit in 60 days is required to keep PU status, so that's not the reason. We edit because we like to keep posts to certain standards, but you are not wrong to call us pedantic. Personally I think we are made PU because we complain too much (via reports) and the mods want to reduce their workload.
Also, I disagree with scotty's method of currency labelling. He prefers USD $100, but D and $ both stand for "dollar", so his labels would read United States Dollar Dollar One Hundred.
Speaking of style, why doesn't OzBargain adhere to the lexicographic conventions of the International System of Units when editing percentages and unit symbols?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#…
The value of a quantity is written as a number followed by a space (representing a multiplication sign) and a unit symbol; e.g., 2.21 kg, 7.3×102 m2, 22 K. This rule explicitly includes the percent sign (%)
My deal titles have always had the spaces removed.
@Scrooge McDuck: University of Oxford Style Guide
Question 12 is worth 10% of the available marks.
The average height of a woman in the UK is 1.61m.
thus: 30C (85F) – ie celsius, with fahrenheit in brackets on first mention; but be extremely wary (or don’t bother) converting temperature changes, eg an average temperature change of 2C was wrongly converted to 36F in an article about a heatwave (although a temperature of 2C is about the same as 36F, a temperature change of 2C corresponds to a change of about 4F)
SMH:
Man charged over 59kg of cocaine hidden among frozen fish
This diet claims to help you lose 4.5kg in just 3 days
As for %, it seem at least AFR and The Age, use pc. e.g
Myer shares soar 40pc as investors digest new strategy
@Scrooge McDuck: Not even Physical Review Letters use a space between the number and the % sign. See for example https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12…
However, the space between numbers and SI units is used by PRL.
@alvian: See, I had no way of knowing what your rules are and that's why it looked bad from my perspective. Definitely pedantic as that's why you got the job. Perhaps having the requirements being streamlined can be added to the mod's extensive todo list. Will be less inconsistent that way.
My method is more following how currency converters like Mastercard and xe.com style it.
Personally I think we are made PU because we complain too much (via reports) and the mods want to reduce their workload.
This is exactly the query I run when finding nominees. :)
Only 1 edit in 60 days is required to keep PU status
If you lose it, we generally re-enable it when asked. It's basically about those who have an interest in fixing up deals. If there are no edits, then its assumed no interest.
To be fair, that's how I was doing currencies when I was a PU (way back when… 😂)
Except deleting the space, so it's AU$ and US$
It's how we've been doing them for a while (from when I started, which also was taking on hamzas 'style')
Do PUs edit comments which are reported for typos or is that only for moderators?
@Scrooge McDuck: We rarely edit comments (remove personal info, swearing) but if we do we'll put a note. We don't fix typos otherwise we'd be doing that all day.
Power users can't edit comments, only moderators.
I know it's nitpicking, but I thought our forefathers decided that, where possible, all moderators should only have one un-capitalised name like enya, drake, adele, ice-t and neil.
JSQUARED was all caps though, it seems like it is all or nothing.
Now I have make a decision on All caps or lowercase.
Big dick or little dick….
But in all seriousness, welcome aboard!
Grats
ozb must be raking in the cash.
Congrats mate
whats this job pay?
Yes.
And then some.
Good on ya RichardL.
Congrats Richard!
Not so much a welcome after 8 years, but congratulations on your promotion to the adminisphere.
To you from a lowly member down here in the plebisphere.
and a pay raise to go with it!! ;)
Congratulations!
Congratulations RichardL!
Whats the salary?
Tree Fiddy
Please update the faq to reflect the new editor - Who are the staff/representatives of OzBargain?
There are 6 members of staff – scotty, moocher, neil, hamza23, JSQUARED and scrimshaw that are on the OzBargain payroll. These are the only 6 users that can call themselves “OzBargain staff” and can officially represent OzBargain.
Thanks for updating it :)
Congratulations!
Welcome Dick