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There are various ways of finding out if a user is a Supervisor:
- Look at the user's profile page. In the Stats box (on the right-hand side of the page), look under the subheading called Badges. You will see the Supervisor badge if applicable.
- In the Community forum, the username is red.
- If you look at any "Question history" - under Question tools in the blue bar on the left side of the page - the word "supervisor" is listed in parentheses after a Supervisor's username.
What else can I help you with?
Can you tell when a user becomes a supervisor?
Yes. If you are not the user who became a supervisor then you can look on their profile and see the 'Floating Supervisor' or 'Category Supervisor'. You can also look in their contributions and see that they are performing supervisor tasks such as trashing and reverting. If you are the user, you can look on your profile for the badge, you should have gotten an email, and you should have an extended blue bar with supervisor options as well as warning and block options.
How do you block a user on WikiAnswers who continues to leave silly messages on your message board?
You must be a Supervisor in order to block a user. Here is how to solve your dilemma: First, ask the user to stop writing silly messages on your message board. If he/she continues the act, contact a Supervisor. The Supervisor will then step in, and if you message the Supervisor about being sent even more silly messages after the Supervisor has stepped in, the Supervisor can issue a block.
Can a Supervisor on WikiAnswers be one forever or just for a while?
The user can be a supervisor as long as he/she wants to be, or he/she is demoted.
When you are superuser all your processes run in supervisor mode is this true?
No. Regardless of what user you are running as, all your tasks are run in user mode. Supervisor mode is reserved for kernel-level processes.
When some user should be terminated from Wiki answers?
Users can have their activity on here suspended or terminated - for breaching our rules. It's up to every user to make themselves aware of what is - and is not allowed on here. Almost every category has at least one supervisor (mine is snakes) - and a supervisor can warn a user to change their conduct. If a user fails to heed the warning - a supervisor can suspend the user's activity for anything from a few hours to indefinitely.
If a Supervisor nominates a user can they just automatically become a Supervisor?
No. They must go through the process like everybody else.
Can a supervisor unblock a contributor?
Yes, they have the ability to un-block a user.
If you have caught a user spamming is there any way you can be alerted if this user starts participating on WikiAnswers again?
The only thing you can do is bookmark the user. Check back every once in a while to see if this person has made any recent contributions. Have you ever reported him to a Supervisor? If not, you should, because they can block him from using this website, or if you are a supervisor you can block the user.
Is there any shortcut to track down a message you left on a user's message board?
If you are a Supervisor or CA you can view it from your contribution page. If you are not, you can ask a Supervisor to find it and link you to it.
Who is the WikiAnswers user 'Dr.Q'?
Dr.Q is a user on WikiAnswers. He is a Silver Contributor, Floating Supervisor, and Linguist. He was also a runner up in the Answerthon Xtreme.
Can a WikiAnswers supervisor be blocked?
Yes, a supervisor on WikiAnswers can indeed be blocked. If a supervisor breaks the Terms of Use agreement for WikiAnswers, he or she is in danger of being blocked from contributing to the site - just as with any other user. A normal supervisor will not have the rights to block a fellow supervisor. Community Assistants only would have that option.
Why someone who breaks the rules of WikiAnswers can be blocked with no warning in his.her user page and with no explanatory email and therefore he.she doesn't know what was the wrong thing he.she did?
Normally, if a Supervisor blocks a user, they give that person a warning first, and if the user continues with whatever they were doing, that Supervisor will block them. It's not required to send a warning, it's just that most Supervisors do that. In some cases, if a user has given some REALLY bad answers, that are extremely incorrect, biased, offensive, or rude, they will block that person right away. But I'm not so sure why this person never said why they decided to block you. They might have been a newer, less experienced Supervisor.
