Title: Change language from “levels” to “roles” Read the proposal: N/A
*Authors: @frogmonkee * Date: May 20th, 2021
SUMMARY
Simple proposal, change the Level system to Roles.
Level 0 = Prospector
Level 1 = Pioneer
Level 2: Settlers
Level 3 = Outlaws
Level 4 = Gunslingers
BACKGROUND
Previously, we opened Level 2 restricted channels to be read-only for Level 1s. Earlier today, we had a 6-1 vote on removing most of the Level 2 channels, except for the one that contains PII.
I think my only consideration would be to change outlaw to… Ranger?
The narrative coordination crew may have better input than I, and I see this as explorers heading west, and for me outlaw has connotations of theft, criminal, etc.
How about trailblazer for level 2 since they are the ones working to figure things out and settlers for level 3. Level 4 could be builders or something that grows out of settling.
I also agree with @paulapivat there is no explanation on what you need to belong to one of the roles.
But honestly I don’t like this idea… you have levels still, you just call it differently.
For me there should be
Non members (you can call it in any other way if you wish)
Members
Within members there can be the distinction of contributor.
At the same time we already have the guilds, and people can be members of the guilds, so we have created groups of people that specialise in a particular area.
Agree with Kouros, this just seems to rename hierarchy and obfuscate it.
That said, I don’t like “Level” as explicit as it is. The recombination of L1/L2 as “Member” with a flag for Guild Membership could replace L1/L2 completely. Whale is whale, LP is LP. L0… I’m not sure, maybe Non-member or Unconfirmed (as we establish better routes for earning BANK and getting these folks into Membership we can revisit the name)
Additionally, in my mind “roles” become a specific implement of a job like “GitHub manager” or “Newsletter Editor”. There was some article linked in Discord about this that really stuck with me.