Posted by Russell Watt in Draft Mentor’s Policy - Updated Numbers

Posted by Katherine Dedul in Draft Mentor’s Policy - Updated Numbers

Posted by Russell Watt in Draft Mentor’s Policy - Updated Numbers
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I’m thinking the post is doing some weird with the numbers because I was copying and pasting, so this is the repost, using plain text....

1. Per Lerner Bill #2, mentors generally must be members of the club for a minimum of three months. Exceptions must be approved by the Academy Commandant and will be determined under the following criteria:

a) Posting Effort, this includes both the frequency and quality of the posts (General guidelines are located in the syllabus: https://www.star-fleet.com/acad/syllabus/). Generally mentors must be able to maintain a consistent presence on the ship they have agreed to mentor on.

b) In the opinion of the CO of the ship they have requested to mentor on, they would be appropriate to be assigned as such.

c) In the case of the Academy, the ship’s CO, XO and CNS have requested this individual be graduated from the Academy to Department Head and such a request is approved by the Academy Commandant upon review of the cadet’s graduation evaluation.

1. The Academy shall ideally seek to identify mentors for each ship in the main fleet that accepts new members. It is noted that Department Heads on Academy ships are automatically mentors for cadets assigned to their department. When agreeing to act as mentor, the Academy and the mentor will identify which ship(s) the mentor has agreed to mentor on, as it is not required that a mentor stand as mentor for all ships to which they are members of. – I’m not super fond of the wording, so any suggestions to clean it up would be appreciated)

2. Mentors must commit to contacting new members assigned to them within 72 hours of them being assigned. If they are on LOA and it is unmarked, the Academy reserves the right to re-assign that new member to another member who is not currently on LOA. The recommended welcome email is available on the resources page (to be created). Mentors must also copy the Academy when doing so.

3. Mentors must also periodically check in with their mentored members, if only to touch base and make sure there are no issues to address. Some example emails are found in the resources section.

4. Generally, there are three ways a mentor may leave the program:

a) Requesting to be removed.

b) AWOL, leaving the club or being removed from the club for breach of other policies (including, but not limited to the Terms of Service, for example).

c) Removal by the Academy Commandant for breach of the above-noted items in this policy.

Hopefully this makes it a little clearer.....

-Kat

Okay no......I’ll correct it later, I have to run some errands, I’ll figure out how to correct it later, there has to be some weird formatting somewhere.....

-Kat

I reported this as a bug through the report an issue.

Russell

Thanks Russ,

I miss the preview post button.... lol

-Kat

I never used to use the preview post button … lol … so didn’t notice it was missing until you mentioned it here … lol

I have had a response from TECH about this, their response is here:
The current behavior is mostly compliant with the Markdown specification. If there’s a newline between text in lists, they get treated as separate list items. We use the sane lists extension, which also says if the two items are of different styles, they get treated as different lists (the default Markdown behavior is to merge everything into one big list of the same type). If we want to change it, the way to do it might be to remove Markdown lists as a feature entirely. It’s something we’ll have to think about, because you’re right that it’s not very predictable here, and there are many cases where we want to do fancy nested lists. We will meditate on this further.

So in short, it’s the nested a. b. c. in what is your original 1, Kat, that’s messing up your numbers. This is how the Markdown specification is meant to operate.

Running the a. b. c. into the list item of 1, might be a temporary workaround. Let’s see how that works. lol

1. Per Lerner Bill #2, mentors generally must be members of the club for a minimum of three months. Exceptions must be approved by the Academy Commandant and will be determined under the following criteria: a) Posting Effort, this includes both the frequency and quality of the posts (General guidelines are located in the syllabus: https://www.star-fleet.com/acad/syllabus/). Generally mentors must be able to maintain a consistent presence on the ship they have agreed to mentor on. b) In the opinion of the CO of the ship they have requested to mentor on, they would be appropriate to be assigned as such. c) In the case of the Academy, the ship’s CO, XO and CNS have requested this individual be graduated from the Academy to Department Head and such a request is approved by the Academy Commandant upon review of the cadet’s graduation evaluation.
2. The Academy shall ideally seek to identify mentors for each ship in the main fleet that accepts new members. It is noted that Department Heads on Academy ships are automatically mentors for cadets assigned to their department. When agreeing to act as mentor, the Academy and the mentor will identify which ship(s) the mentor has agreed to mentor on, as it is not required that a mentor stand as mentor for all ships to which they are members of. – I’m not super fond of the wording, so any suggestions to clean it up would be appreciated)
3. Mentors must commit to contacting new members assigned to them within 72 hours of them being assigned. If they are on LOA and it is unmarked, the Academy reserves the right to re-assign that new member to another member who is not currently on LOA. The recommended welcome email is available on the resources page (to be created). Mentors must also copy the Academy when doing so.
4. Mentors must also periodically check in with their mentored members, if only to touch base and make sure there are no issues to address. Some example emails are found in the resources section.
5. Generally, there are three ways a mentor may leave the program: a) Requesting to be removed. b) AWOL, leaving the club or being removed from the club for breach of other policies (including, but not limited to the Terms of Service, for example). c) Removal by the Academy Commandant for breach of the above-noted items in this policy.

   For the sake of completeness, please note that I have done the same for the a. b. c. in your original list item 5 as well :)

   -Russell

Because I am an html and cut and paste tribble, who doesn’t always double check his html codes, I forgot a / in the code to cut out the italic at the end of my copy of the tech response. So I’ve now added that in and have reposted.

Apart from that it looks like that has sort of achieved what we wanted it to achieve. :P

-Russell