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Junior Staff Duties, Limitations, and General Guidelines

This is a generalized guide to clearly explain the role of Junior staff, what they can and cannot do, and cultural expectations of Junior Staff. Please note that each team may have different expectations of their Junior Staff. A member of Junior Staff should consult with their team captain first and, if the captain's word disagrees with this document, to take their captain's word. For purposes of consistency, captains are discouraged from deviating from this document unless an explicit reason is provided and listed in their specific structure pages.

The purpose of the Junior Staff position

Trial Staff

The junior staff position is a way to gauge whether a user has the temperament, teamwork skills, critical thinking ability, and activity levels necessary for a higher staff role.

What Junior Staff can do

Promotions

Junior Staff can eventually be recommended for promotion and promotions are given votes every three months. Junior Staff should defer to the team captains to determine exact requirements, if any, for promotion.

Access to 05command

The team captain decides if their Junior Staff can post or participate on 05command. Certain teams may find 05command access critical to a Junior Staff member's functionality. Other teams see their Junior Staff not needing access at all.

Junior staff posts

Junior Staff may make junior staff posts. Note that Junior Staff posts have no real weight without the explicit support of a member of Operational Staff or above, preferably one from the same team as the Junior Staff. Junior staff posts cannot call stops to conversations.

Calling out inappropriate user behavior

This should be done with oversight from at least one staff member, unless explicitly given approval by team captain otherwise. Any callouts of rule-breaking or repeated inappropriate behavior must be done with a junior staff post and an accompanying report to 05command. Any disciplinary threads created by a junior staff member must first receive the approval of a member of the disciplinary team.

What Junior Staff cannot do

• Junior staff cannot vote on deletions, nor witness summary deletions.
• Junior Staff cannot participate in any staff votes unless otherwise stated, and are explicitly forbidden from voting on promotions and bans.
• Junior staff are not granted access to Super Secret Staff Chat. Certain users and Junior Staff can be granted access upon an explicit request from at least one admin to the other admins. This is done extremely rarely and should not be done unless the Junior Staff's duties require access.
• Junior staff cannot enforce rules for new images, as enforcement behaviors are considered on the same level as a deletion vote.

The cultural expectations of the Junior Staff position.

Familiarity with rules and guides

Junior Staff are expected to have working knowledge of rules and policies regarding user behavior, with specializations depending on individual teams. At minimum, a Junior Staff member should be familiar with the site rules, guide to newbies, and the anti-harassment policy.

Sensitivity to community

Junior Staff should be aware of what is considered acceptable and unacceptable behavior. They should refer to their mentors to develop a sense of how to help contribute to the culture and community development of the site. Their behavior should be held to a higher standard than non-staff members of the site.

Posting on 05command

Junior Staff should be aware that may not understand or know all policy or greater context of existing policy. Junior Staff are recommended to only post in/create threads that are explicitly relevant to the team they are assigned to, with the approval of another staff member on their teams. Posts should be relevant, well-worded, and professional in tone. Junior Staff are expected to refrain from posting in threads that involve disputes between them and other users. Inappropriate use of 05command can be grounds for removal from their position.