Originally Posted by
DrPop
Sounds good. Beginning to draw up some plans. This question might be for Hankey, Tera, STM, Bok - anyone with good VBulletin experience:
How much can we automate the administrative side of things? For example, I would think EVERY single person who signs up on our board, should have access to the "Reserve Division" forum. That would be a good jumping off point for anyone, even someone from another team checking us out.
Could we make the other division forums "access level only", like the groups are? If we could, someone could request access to a certain division forum, and the leader of that division could allow them access. Kind of like the group thing we have going on now. For example, someone wanting into BlackOps "joins" and then I am sent an email saying "your group needs administrative action", and then I am taken to a page that I can accept or reject that individual's application. All this happens without the Admins having to step in and waste their time on it - they have more global issues to deal with.
If we can get something like that sorted out, then each division having 2 captains, like was suggested above, will really speed the process along. Odds are, at least 1 of the 2 will have 'Net access at any give time, and all this division overhead would be solved by a few individuals interested in their division - something they would enjoy doing, and offloading a potentially daunting task from the 2 global admins each year.
EDIT: I think TM must have something similar to this with their SpecialOps section, but I'm not sure how much is automated, as I think the admin approves each one there.