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 administrative contact person and site visionary.
• Nach - Primary administrator of site resources and source code

This site was originally created by Bisqwit. He was responsible for the original site vision and source code. The site continues to operate with objectives similar to those originally in-place and with a significant chunk of the original source code.

Admin assistants
(the adminassistant role)

A lesser administrative role, admin assistants are responsible for site tasks that don't directly relate to the submission process. Admin assistants typically assist the administrators with site source code and some day to day procedures that arise.

Collectively, the admin assistants 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.

Seniors
(the senior role)

Senior judges

Senior publishers

Senior ambassadors

This is a modifier for the Judge, Publisher, and Ambassador roles, and in conjunction with those is considered to be a lesser administrative role. When assigned, it grants the user various admin level privileges related to managing the queue. Senior judges, publishers, and ambassadors have the ability to assign new judges, publishers, and ambassadors 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/ambassadors. Senior publishers would also be expected to help train potential new publishers.

Ambassadors

Ambassadors take the burden on themselves to arrange various site related events and also visit game conferences and advertise the site. They handle various public relations issues and can edit most pages on the site.

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.

Primary site administrators 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.

Primary site administrators 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.

Moderators
(the moderator user role)

Moderators are responsible for keeping up moderation on the forums and live chats - keeping order, settling disputes between users, making sure that the site rules are upheld, and penalizing users that are disruptive or otherwise fail to adhere to the rules.

Primary site administrators also have moderator powers.

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.

Encoders
(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).