Site administrators
(the admin role)

Administrators have access to many admin-level site operations. Our current administrators also have direct access to the server and have admin level access to the forums. In addition, the administrators are responsible for the IRC bot, BitTorrent tracker, and the IRC Channel.

• adelikat - Primary administrator
• Nach - Primary maintainer of the server resources and site source code

This site was originally created by Bisqwit. He was responsible for most of the current PHP code behind the site.

Seniors
(the senior role)

This is a modifier for the Judge and Publisher roles, and in conjunction with those is considered to be a vice-administrative role. When assigned, it grants the user various admin level privileges related to managing the queue. Senior judges and publishers have the ability to assign new judges and publishers respectively, as well as exceed size ratios for torrents.

Also, a senior level user is expected to be the "go to" guy for that group. They handle disputes/conflicts and have the final say when there are disagreements amongst other judge/publishers. Senior publishers would also be expected to help train potential new publishers.

Admin assistants
(the adminassistant role)

One of the vice-administrative roles, admin assistants are responsible for site tasks that don't directly relate to the submission process.

Collectively, the vice-admins can do many but not all admin-level operations, such as assigning user homepages, deleting submissions, assigning forum ranks and user roles, etc. As such, they must adhere to the Admin Guidelines.

Judges
(the judge role)

The judges decide which movies will be published and which movies are rejected. They can replace submission files and also edit the pages of this site.

Site admins also have judging powers.

Judges follow the Judge Guidelines but also as editors, they must follow the Editor Guidelines.

Activity of judges is tracked by their Judge Counts.

Publishers
(the publisher user role)

Publishers are responsible for new movie publications. They are appointed from people who have submitted approved high-quality encodes. Publishers also have the Vested Editor permissions.

Site admins also have publication powers.

Publishers are thoroughly aware of both the Publisher Guidelines and the Encoder Guidelines.

Activity of publishers is tracked by their Pub Counts.

Vested editors
(the vestededitor role)

Vested editors have all abilities of editors but also have full access to editing publications. This includes the movie headers, classes, files, and descriptions. As such, they are also familiar with the Publisher Guidelines regarding movie files. Vested editors can also edit the submission texts as well as move and delete pages.

All staff members have the powers of vested editors.

Editors
(the editor role)

Editors are people who can edit this wiki, including pages such as this one and movie descriptions. They follow the Editor Guidelines.

Encoder
(the encoder role)

In general, encoders are the people who do the hard work of creating the best-quality media files from the submissions that have been marked as "accepted" by one of the judges. The "encoder" role allows encoders to add their encodes to movie publications, and will be assigned to users demonstrably capable of producing encodes up to site standards.

Publishers are, by virtue of their duties, also encoders.

Encoders are the lifeblood of publications, as every movie needs an encode to be published in the first place. Encoding is a very time-consuming job, and having more encoders will make the job easier for everyone as a whole.

You do not need to ask permission to start encoding. However, you should read the Encoder Guidelines. All media files encoded for publication will be reviewed by a publisher, and rejected if they don't meet the requirements.

We're also on the lookout for encoders to make new encodes for older movies. More information can be found in this topic. Remember that such encodes must also follow the Encoder Guidelines and Publisher Guidelines (apart from not being new movies, they can be treated as being new publications).