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[Righty007]

I became a member of the CBn Forums this Month. I am currently a "Recruit". Can someone tell me what each ranking is and how many posts someone need's to get a higher ranking?

[Dr. Tynan]

Well with 1000 posts you become a 00 Agent.

With 500 posts you become a Secret Agent (I think).

And certainly with less than 130 posts you become an Agent. Though what the number is, I don't know.

That's all I know.

[Johnson Galore]

Originally posted by Dr. Tynan
Well with 1000 posts you become a 00 Agent.

With 500 posts you become a Secret Agent (I think).

And certainly with less than 130 posts you become an Agent. Though what the number is, I don't know.

That's all I know.

Agent= 100 posts

[Dr. Tynan]

Cheers.

[BONDFINESSE 007]

I AM GLAD I HIT THE BIG 5OO, I HAVE HAD A LOT OF FUN SINCE I HAVE BEEN HERE, THIS IS A GREAT PLACE TO BE

[Righty007]

I need 49 more untill I become an "Agent"!

[Righty007]

Does anyone know how many posts you need to get one of those blue and yellow CBn picture bars that goes where your signature does?

[Blue Eyes]

Those are only available to staff members.

[Righty007]

Is Staff Member just a ranking or do they actually work for CBn?

[Tim007]

They do actually work for CBn

The Staff Members are:

• Blue Eyes
• Dave
• Mister Asterix
• Blofeld's Cat
• mrmoon
• zencat
• mccartney007
• Shocktroop22
• scaramanga
• Xenobia
• Icephoenix
• freemo
• Greg
• Tim007

Have I anyone left out?

[jwheels]

what do you have to do to become a staff member

[Righty007]

I have the same question. What do you have to do to become a Staff Member?

[Righty007]

Does anyone want to answer the question jwheels57 and I asked?

[Tim007]

First of all, you need to have good connections to Eon Productions, MGM and so on. Then you need to be a professional web designer. If you can bring the telephone number of either Pierce Brosnan or... oh wait. We've got that one already. But the number of Sean Connery we're still looking for. Additionally, you need to have a lot of money to make it to the Staff Member Meetings, which are held every month in another town in the world. Hong Kong is next, and in May it will be Mexico City. And last but not least you have to be either a womanizer or your name is Barbara Emanuele. Easy, isn't it?

[Loomis]

What's the salary?

[Righty007]

Okay, thanks Tim. I'm not qualified to be a Staff Member.

[Blue Eyes]

You're so sarcastic sometimes Tim

[Xenobia]

Tim...you are real hoot sometimes!

Seriously all you need to do is answer these three simple questions:

1) What is James Bond's London address?
2) What is James Bond's middle name?
3) What is Moneypenny's first name?

If you can get all three questions right, on a day when there is a lunar eclipse, you are in!

-- Xenobia

[Righty007]

Thats not funny, Xenobia. Does anyone want to tell the truth?

[Mister Asterix]

Originally posted by Tim007 (edited)
Have I anyone left out?

• White Persian

[Mister Asterix]

Originally posted by jwheels57
what do you have to do to become a staff member

Seriously, if you want to become a staff member you need to do several things. First, convince us that you would be a valuable, contributing member of the staff. Convince us that you will be a good fit with the rest of the staff. Convince us that we need you. Show us that if you joined the staff that it would allow us to raise our standards even higher. The CBn staff are all volunteers and do what we do because of our love of James Bond. And while we always would love to add the right people to the staff, we don’t just want the staff to get too big. And we don’t want to add the wrong people to the staff.

I’ll tell you what I did to get on the staff (though it wasn’t my original goal), I submitted things for the staff to use (mostly artwork). I tried to write insightful posts in the forums. I became a major member of the forum community. I made suggestion to the CBn suggestions forums.

It was when I wrote a post about how I thought CBn should mold the literary section of the site that I was made a staff member and put in charge of the Literary section.

One thing that I think helped me to be seen as a person who could be a potential, valuable staff member was that my goal was never to become a staff member, rather my goal was to try to help this fantastic Bond website that I enjoy so thoroughly become even better.

I would suggest any potential staff members to take a similiar route. If we see that adding some person on to the staff is going to make this site a better place and that they share our passion for Bond and for CBN then that person will be asked to join the staff.

[Xenobia]

Righty...I am sorry I was so glib. I wasn't sure of the answer, and was just marking time until someone who could put together an answer did so.

I guess the bottom line to what Evan said is prove to us that you would be useful as a staff member, and more importantly would remain so after you have earned your stripes, and you have a good shot at it.

-- Xenobia

[Simon]

Evan's rermarks about his being handed the reigns for the literary section raises a question then. Do each of you have very specific areas of responsibility?

If so, outside of Daniel's and Evan's area of concern, where do the rest of you fall into the mix?

Cheers.

[Mister Asterix]

Originally posted by Tim007
Have I anyone left out?

Oh and:

• Dunphboy007
• RossMan
• LeChiffre

[Righty007]

Who do I talk to about becoming a Staff Member?

[Righty007]

?

[superracer0022]

Originally posted by Xenobia
Tim...you are real hoot sometimes!

Seriously all you need to do is answer these three simple questions:

1) What is James Bond's London address?
2) What is James Bond's middle name?
3) What is Moneypenny's first name?

If you can get all three questions right, on a day when there is a lunar eclipse, you are in!

-- Xenobia

1) 61 Horsen Ferry Road, London S1
2) He don't have one, seriously he doesn't
3) Ah forget it I give up

[Mister Asterix]

Originally posted by Righty007
Who do I talk to about becoming a Staff Member?

Dave or Daniel would be best. Or me if you’d like to be part of the Literary team. But actually it doesn’t hurt to talk to any staffers. (Except possibly zencat whose about the busiest man in the world and might just hate you if you bug him at the wrong time. )

[Mister Asterix]

Originally posted by Simon
Evan's rermarks about his being handed the reigns for the literary section raises a question then.  Do each of you have very specific areas of responsibility?

If so, outside of Daniel's and Evan's area of concern, where do the rest of you fall into the mix?

Cheers.

Well, yes and no. Staff members have their assignments and their expertise but it never procludes them from doing something for any other area. Freemo, for example, specıalıses in and oversees the humour section but that does not keep him from writing serious Bond articles or news stories. And just because my focus is the literary Bond it doesn’t stop me from doing something for the films or games sections.

[jwheels]

Mister Asterix, I enjoy the Fleming books section on the literary page, are you going to be doing the same thing with the Benson novels.