Thread:Love Robin/@comment-43970416-20191006005056/@comment-366087-20191006142210

I saw you asking about becoming a Councilor. Allow me some tips.

First, although a global group with no actual *authority*, Councilors are nonetheless seen as experienced users. In looking to invite new ones to the ranks, Staff looks for someone who is helpful to others and constructively upbuilding. All without coming off as judgemental.

This is a fine balance between being blunt about how FANDOM does things, and providing hope beyond what we can promise. For example, one of your adoption responses was so overly positive, the User could easily thought they're definitely going to be approved.

Problem is, Staff has access to Tools which give them information about users and wikis which only they can see *across the entire FANDOM network. There might be something which makes "Approved" problematic… And here we've made it sound like it's a done deal.

So to be optimally helpful, we need to moderate the tone of our responses. Like, "looks good as far as I can see, so keep at it and good luck." And of course, we should actually look around the wiki in question to see what we *can* see. Activity of the community, are there active admins, has the user been currently editing, etc. Even for admins inactive in *that* wiki, are there any links in their masthead we can check to see their last activity dates. Like, one admin had been inactive in a wiki since 2014, yet on 2 of their other wikis they were active that day… advice to message them resulted in them promoting the user that day.

To be an effective global-group user is more than just telling others "how it is", it is also serving them some (to show how old and cheesy I am) "Chicken Soup for the Soul" and how to improve the enjoyment of their FANDOM experiences.

G'luck.