The forums could do with a separate role called “Elected Forum Community Ambassador” which provides the community with constant feedback on various issues and relation with the community managers and developers to catalogue important issues but have no moderator functions. Although can check threads as feedback logged.
The requirements to become a “Elected Forum Community Ambassador” could be:
- Level 2 account with no previous warnings.
- Constantly active within the forum in the last 6 months.
- Elected by the community for a period of one year by a vote.
- Good communication skills.
No vote in favour from me. I don’t agree with the point, or the principle, of it.
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In that case @YearlingDeer319 definitely gets my vote - ‘Vote YearlingDeer319 in 2023, they are running on the common sense platform of not wanting to run!’ 
@AerialGuitar264 - perhaps explain a bit more on why you think this is needed and what’s currently missing (bug lists, wishlist lists, weekly summary etc)? It sounds like either adding a layer of comms or just being an unpaid Community Manager? What would this idea fix for you?
Not sure of the politics of voting people in would work, so skeptical of that helping.
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Yeah, I’d be against this too. Everyone has an agenda, even if it’s well-intended.
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I am not sure this is needed - the company probably has community comms people that are paid to do this kind of stuff.
Voting in people, election campaigns as in real life? I hope not.
Yep would be against this. Most people who have something sensible to say and give honest opinions have had numerous posts flagged.
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There are forum staff for these functions already, and YES THEY DO relay important very popular sim issues up the chain.
While the spirit of this post is good, I am not sure this role would be as beneficial as you’d think. Volunteer moderators do not have a ton of insight into the internal workings of the team, and unfortunately neither would this role as it would have to be heavily NDA’d or need access to internal MS tools. At that point you’d be a paid employee. What you are asking is essentially already a small part of Community Management. Thank you for the suggestions, however!
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