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May 21, 2013 | 2:38 pm

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Originally Posted by lin821

This page should give OP some ideas about who they are: View Forum Leaders. Under the Administrators Section, every one is a paid employee.

BTW, perhaps admin can consider adding ambassadors to the group list since the group of ambassadors are currently "unlisted?" One TBer also suggested such a list in another TB Topics thread not too long ago.

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Originally Posted by MSPeconomist

Thanks for noticing.

In principle, one can search for a forum's ambassadors by looking for the welcoming announcement, but I'm not sure there is one in every forum with ambassadors. Plus, as the OP noticed, in some fora such a search would bring up a long list of threads focusing on "ambassador" level benefits in that program (SPG, IC).

IMO the forum ambassadors should also be listed at the top of any Please Read First, FAQ, or Newbie sticky threads. It should be easy to identify each forum's ambassadors (if any).

I agree with your opinion, but that's not how Randy (FlyerTalk's founder and previous big cheese) first set it up when he enabled the ambassador function and the initial newbie threads. In fact, as the Alaska Airlines moderator, I posted a follow-up post to his welcome just giving a few extra tips about the Ambassador program and what the thread was to be used for, and he summarily deleted it with the comment "no intros required. Q/A only, thanks."

And for the longest time, I didn't even know who the ambassadors in the forum I moderate were! It's only been in the last few months that I got a complete list, which is (just as of last week) now posted at the beginning of the thread (as it should be).

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