Yeah, I'm nosy like that.

Thumperchick posted a pic said Wed, Jan 28th 2015 at 8:05pm ET

I realized that we haven't seen as much of @JonT in the forums lately and found myself wondering:
What do you do when you're not directly interacting with the community?
I know some of it is probably running reports, planning some forum shenanigans to make everyone say BATH for the next year; but what else does a community cat herder do for mediocre?

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JonT said Thu, Jan 29th 2015 at 12:56am ET:

Hey thanks for noticing. In this particular case I've been absent because I took a little vacation for my SO's birthday.

But to answer your question: like pretty much everyone at a startup, I wear many hats. My primary focus is always on our community, reading and responding in the forums and having a presence to let y'all know that we're here and we listen (and to make sure no super terrible shit gets posted). That also means keeping a close eye out for CS issues and working with @MEHcus, @hollboll, and @hart to make sure that we're aware of those issues and they get resolved. I don't have as much time as I'd like to do more planning, analysis, and events but that should change in the future.

I also spend time working with the other members of our creative team on various upcoming projects that are usually (but not always) community or forums focused. Lately this has included working on some videos in the office like Pioneers of Aviation and the semi-infamous break resistant glasses test video.

Another huge part of my job is Fukubukuro. I'm one of the people that's heavily involved in the planning and execution of it and it's real hard to do and to get right, there are a lot of moving pieces and a lot of interdepartmental cooperation - there's no way any one person could do it and I'm glad I have the awesome help I do.

Then there's the miscellaneous stuff: emails, meetings, involvement in the hiring process, telling people they're wrong about food, product testing, office clean up, lunches, etc.

I really love that I get to do so many different things and learn how different parts of the business work.

I'm hoping to get some help relatively soon with people voluntarily keeping an eye on the forums so that I have more time to work on high level community ideas and planning.

TL;DR: I don't really do anything but dick around and look at cat gifs.

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- @JonT so, you're looking for people willing to be paid in minor power over other users and adoration? I don't know anyone with that fetish.
  
  Thanks for answering my nosiness! Hope your time with s/o was great!
  
  Thumperchick said Thu, Jan 29th 2015 at 1:17am ET
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- @JonT - Glad you're back, and thanks for the glimpse behind the scenes. BTW, if your SO had a brother, would he be your significant other-in-law?
  
  kdemo said Fri, Feb 6th 2015 at 12:17pm ET
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Pamtha said Sat, Feb 7th 2015 at 6:54am ET:

Cat gifs + squirrel gif = hilarity. Not gonna end well for the squirrel

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