Gratz Sapience

[Maulnakh]

Rumor in GLFF is that Sapience was promoted to Developer

If this is true, gratz!

[Sapience]

Nope. Still Community Manger. Players often tend to refer to any "blue name" as a dev. Though in that context 'dev' usually means something closer to "official person working at Turbine" or someone directly working on the LOTRO project. Which I am, just not in the sense of developing the game.

I guess you could say I 'develop' the community, things like Take the Hobbits to Isengard; get the team to put together things in game that I can then use out of game (Titles for weatherstock come to mind), and things like that.

[Rugongrod]

Rumor in GLFF is that Sapience was promoted to Developer

If this is true, gratz!

Heh as if you can believe anything in GLFF. Reminds me of the commercial where the girl meets the "French Model" over the internet.

[mykidstjz]

Nope. Still Community Manger. Players often tend to refer to any "blue name" as a dev. Though in that context 'dev' usually means something closer to "official person working at Turbine" or someone directly working on the LOTRO project. Which I am, just not in the sense of developing the game.

I guess you could say I 'develop' the community, things like Take the Hobbits to Isengard; get the team to put together things in game that I can then use out of game (Titles for weatherstock come to mind), and things like that.

Has Aaron taken over Kate's spot and is Kate still with Turbine?

[hiddenfate]

I thought a community manager acted as a relay between the players and the developers which technically makes him a developer anyway :P

[Crell_1]

Nope. Still Community Manger. Players often tend to refer to any "blue name" as a dev.

The technical support team gets its own user-group color (Green). I know unlike Developers you get the option to toggle your posts on and off in the tracker. This suggests you might be able to change your color to clear this up. Are you particularly attached to the color blue? (Yellow, alas, is used in some "Special" player recognition titles and is unavailable, perhaps red?).

For the purposes of this forum, I'd consider +Rowan, to be high-enough up the chain even if only in a supervisory capacity, to be considered a "Developer" especially given comments in DDO's live-stream about how the product-managers contribute from time to time in hands-on-code fashions (assisting with build deployments, etc.)

+QA certainly has that level of feedback/interaction to warrant the same color as the Dev team.

Has Aaron taken over Kate's spot and is Kate still with Turbine?

1. Yes. 2.Uncertain, and they probably wont tell us.

[Dotlbeme]

"Dev" might be a DE-motion for Sapience.

[Sezneg]

Nope. Still Community Manger. Players often tend to refer to any "blue name" as a dev. Though in that context 'dev' usually means something closer to "official person working at Turbine" or someone directly working on the LOTRO project. Which I am, just not in the sense of developing the game.

I guess you could say I 'develop' the community, things like Take the Hobbits to Isengard; get the team to put together things in game that I can then use out of game (Titles for weatherstock come to mind), and things like that.

You just got Banenakhed.

[Maulnakh]

The technical support team gets its own user-group color (Green). I know unlike Developers you get the option to toggle your posts on and off in the tracker. This suggests you might be able to change your color to clear this up. Are you particularly attached to the color blue? (Yellow, alas, is used in some "Special" player recognition titles and is unavailable, perhaps red?).

For the purposes of this forum, I'd consider +Rowan, to be high-enough up the chain even if only in a supervisory capacity, to be considered a "Developer" especially given comments in DDO's live-stream about how the product-managers contribute from time to time in hands-on-code fashions (assisting with build deployments, etc.)

+QA certainly has that level of feedback/interaction to warrant the same color as the Dev team.



1. Yes. 2.Uncertain, and they probably wont tell us.

Good call

Hopefully he will do the right thing and change color to green to avoid future rumors and the spread of false information

[djheydt]

Nope. Still Community Manger. Players often tend to refer to any "blue name" as a dev. Though in that context 'dev' usually means something closer to "official person working at Turbine" or someone directly working on the LOTRO project. Which I am, just not in the sense of developing the game.

I guess you could say I 'develop' the community, things like Take the Hobbits to Isengard; get the team to put together things in game that I can then use out of game (Titles for weatherstock come to mind), and things like that.

I tend to use the generic "Turbinite."

[Sapience]

I tend to use the generic "Turbinite."

That makes us sound really dangerous to Superman.

[Easca]

You just got Banenakhed.

Oh god he's been at it again? xD

[tkroll]

You just got Banenakhed.

heh heh heh.....
some things never change I guess

[Edrogar]

That makes us sound really dangerous to Superman.

Nah the only thing more dangerous to Superman than Kryptonite would be Infinite Crisis ....

/ducks

[phaelan2]

I tend to use the generic "Turbinite."

Heh, that was Berephon's main character in City of Heroes (fire/fire blaster). He made the character look like him, too.

Here is Turbinite:




And in his more common pose:

[TharbadThief]

You just got Banenakhed.

I haven't been following discussions on other sections than General Discussion lately so I have to ask.. is this the same as getting "worged" in PvMP forums?

[tkroll]

I haven't been following discussions on other sections than General Discussion lately so I have to ask.. is this the same as getting "worged" in PvMP forums?

Pretty much. Surprisingly enough though it has created an amusing and interesting thread. "turbinite" gotta love it.

[djheydt]

Pretty much. Surprisingly enough though it has created an amusing and interesting thread. "turbinite" gotta love it.

/bows left, right, and center

[Neumi]

I wonder why becoming developer after being a CM is considered a "promotion".

It's not as if the 2 jobs have anything to do with each other, they require entirely different skills.
I say that being a developer. CMs deserve respect too

[Rainothon]

I wonder why becoming developer after being a CM is considered a "promotion".

It's not as if the 2 jobs have anything to do with each other, they require entirely different skills.
I say that being a developer. CMs deserve respect too

Look at it from this perspective.

Developer appreciation day has 1.370.000 hits in Google.
Community manager appreciation day has 1.300.000 hits in Google.

Becoming a developer is a promotion, therefore. By a small margin. But still. A promotion.

Either way, both jobs have nothing on the secretary, whose appreciation day has 1.980.000 hits. Just sayin'

[Neumi]

...

I still think that it's 2 different careers, you can switch between them, but you can't be promoted from one to the other.

[Flaxie]

hmmm...

Riding herd on errant bits and bytes of code.

Riding herd on errant forum-goers.

Sounds pretty much of a 6 of one, half-dozen of the other kind of situation, as far as migraine production anyway.

Thank goodness I'm in no danger of being promoted to, demoted to, or otherwise installed in, either job!

[Kittyvicious]

/bows left, right, and center

Whoa whoa...calm down. No need to go throwin' bows all over the place. Someone's gonna get hurt!