Site Supervision
WikiAnswers.com's most active and trusted participants are invited to become volunteer Supervisors. These individuals are given additional tools, known as "Super Powers", enabling them to make higher-level edits. With these powers, they can merge duplicate questions together, feature questions on the home page, block vandals, transform discussion posts into answers and trash questions, amongst other advanced functions.
WikiAnswers.com currently has two types of volunteer Supervisor classifications: Category and Floating. Category Supervisors opt to look after one or more categories of interest. Often, those interested in a certain field or hobby will request to become a Category-specific Supervisor. Floating Supervisors have all of the same tools as Category Supervisors, without opting to look after a certain area of the site. This is a more open-ended way for those without a lot of time to get started.
WkiAnswers.com also has Senior Supervisors. Senior Supervisors are drawn from experienced or knowledgeable existing supervisors. Senior Supervisors are responsible for and maintain the Top Categories on the site from which all other sub categories flow. There are currently 48 Senior Supervisors out of 1048 supervisors on their site. Senior Supervisors keep an eye out and help newly promoted supervisors when their mentor may not be around the site. Senior Supervisors may at the request of a contributor remedy very minor disagreements however there is a process known as the Dispute Resolution process for site conflicts, which are handled by paid answers.com staff known as Community Assistants.
WikiAnswers.com also has a class of supervisors known as "Advanced Supervisors". These supervisors are normally drawn from the ranks of Senior Supervisors and are considered to be the most trustworthy supervisors on the site. They have more advanced powers than any other volunteer on the site, apart from the paid members of the WikiAnswers.com staff and such Senior Advanced Supervisors are more trusted by everyone who contributes to the site.
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