Thread:Mystic Monkey/@comment-8-20200124175559/@comment-679780-20200125002032

I'll give it a ★★☆☆☆ because mostly I dunno how it's suppose to work.

At first I was concerned if I'd be overhwlemed with responding to 3-5 Message Wall threads asking for help over things that were already covered in the wiki's help pages, but so far all I've seen are the occaisonal threads that say "Greetings from @so-and-so" with a bot posing as @so-and-so writing an automated message under their name. This actually spooked someone who had such Greetings thread made. I guess it would be less personal and more polite if these threads were placed on the greeted mods message wall instead so that the user can talk to the advisor more directly.

Also, I'm not familiar with most of these advisors. Only a few of them have responded to their own thread and checking their post history the only activity they had is in that thread. Does SNN has reserved higher-up users I'm not aware of? That's confusing.

Eitherway at first I wasn't sure how this advisor program operate which is why I was forward to give it a go. I don't imagine myself a teacher to many but I'm still willing to help out anyone if they ask.

Thing is though... they can just do exactly that. Just ask. I don't really see the point in this advisor program thing when new users can just make a thread on discussions or on a message wall if they want to ask something. I know not all wiki's have discussion boards so I imagine the Advisor Program would be more benefitial to wiki's with less than 1,000 or 2,000 pages or lack discussion boards, a way to encourage communities on barren or abandoned wiki's while for thriving communities like SNNs not so much need for it.