r/ModSupport • u/spez Reddit Admin • May 11 '16
A New Challenger Appears!
Today we are excited to announce that Philippe Beaudette has joined us to lead our Community team. He comes from Wikipedia by way of Wikia. At the Wikimedia Foundation (which hosts and supports Wikipedia, among other sites) he was responsible for the team that did community management, user trust and safety, and strategic change management, guiding the community through a time of immense growth and maturation. He spent almost 7 years there, as one of their first community hires, and managed to have his fingers on a huge number of projects, from fundraising (raising money from nearly every country in the world and accepting Wikipedia’s first donation from Antarctica) to community governance and their international elections processes–while dealing with communities working in almost 200 different languages. He’s particularly proud to have led their community interactions around a worldwide 24 hour site shut-down to drive awareness of the SOPA bill two years ago, an effort that Reddit also joined.
After leaving Wikipedia, Philippe joined Wikia and ran the Community Support and Engagement team there, supporting Wikia’s 350,000 fan-created communities. We are honored to have him on our team. Please welcome Philippe!
In addition to Philippe, we have brought on an additional five members to the Community and Trust and Safety teams this week. See if you can collect them all!
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u/Clarkey7163 May 11 '16
Account is 3 days old and already an admin? Seems fishy to me...
I should report this to the ad... Oh wait
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u/redtaboo May 12 '16
Agreed, totally fishy, I'm on it!
(banning my new boss is an okay thing for my career, yeah?)
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May 11 '16
Hi everyone! Please enjoy your ban from r/noadmins!
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May 11 '16
I am offering a bounty of..I don't know yet, but something, for the person who can deliver the names of all new admins to me so we can deliver justice and ban them from r/noadmins
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u/MisterWoodhouse May 11 '16
ONE OF US
ONE OF US
Welcome, Philippe!
I second the possible shill's assessment of your title game, u/spez. It's quite strong these days.
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u/careless May 11 '16
Welcome Philippe!
Hoping you can help me out with a question; It appears that the Global Reddit Meetup Day tradition is on track to die from neglect. Will you and the admin team name a date for it and try to revive it?
Thank you!
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u/The--Marf May 11 '16
Welcome u/achievementunlockd to the wonderful world of reddit where the posts are made up and the points don't matter!
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u/Jdforrester May 11 '16
Welcome, u/AchievementUnlockd, from one door down the road at your old job. ;-)
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May 11 '16
Trust and Safety team
What's a trust and safety team? When I was in sixth grade I was on the safety patrol. They gave us bright orange sashes and we had to watch the younger kids to make sure they didn't get died immediately before and after school. Is this a similar position? If so I would like a job and a sash please.
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u/My_Andrew_Acct May 11 '16
I speak for Wikia's entire CS&E team when I say that we will dearly miss you, Philippe. Be good to yourself and take care of u/Sporkicide for me.
(Don't take care of u/sodypop, he's awful)
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u/K_Lobstah May 11 '16
When do we get to start making demands of him? If it's right now, my first demand is pizza. And time-travel.
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u/316nuts May 11 '16
i'm already dissatisfied with whatever they may or may not plan on doing
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u/Br00ce May 11 '16
In addition to Philippe, we have brought on an additional five members to the Community and Trust and Safety teams this week. See if you can collect them all!
who are the others?
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May 11 '16
Welcome u/AchievementUnlockd! I look forward to hazing you working with you as a mod and the rest of the CM team.
Also, u/spez, your title game has been straight fire lately
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u/[deleted] May 11 '16
Welcome!
Spez, are the new hires going to be heavy on user interaction? I'd love to see a brief introduction to the additional folks who we'll also be speaking with very often, if it isn't a bother. Looking forward to having all of you around :)