The TIP team has reviewed your TIP records and have decided to allow you to graduate, congratulations.
The next step is a waiting game. Your TIP records and notes from the TIP team will be reviewed by the Community Management team, who will decide whether to invite you to be a Supervisor.
The Community Management team is very busy, so please be patient. Showing signs of impatience can put them off you. It will take longer over weekends, for example if you graduate on a Friday, you may not hear anything until the next week.
Yes you can join The Initiates Program if you are a Premier Answerer.However, if you graduate from the program and accept an invitation to become a supervisor then you will lose your Premier Answerer status.Contributors can only be a Premier Answerer or a supervisor and not both.
If for any reason you feel you would like to leave The Initiates Program, send a message to your TIP Supervisor or the TIP Leader.
No. They have the same abilities and tools as every other non-Supervising contributor. Their use of them is being assessed and sharpened by The Initiates Program in preparation for them potentially being invited to the Supervisor team.
No, you will not lose any of your current badges if you join The Initiates Program. However, if you are promoted to Supervisor when you graduate, the TIP member badge is removed from your profile, since by graduating from the program you are no longer a TIP member. Also if you are a premier answerer, you will lose the premier answerer badge when you become a Supervisor, because due to technicalities you can only have either the premier answerer or supervisor badge.
In the Answers community, TIP stands for The Initiates Program. It is an official program which prepares contributors for the role of Supervisor in the community here.
The abbreviation of The Initiates Program is TIP.
The leader of The Initiates Program is Jsarino.
No. TIP Members do not have any supervisor tools or any authority over other contributors. Impersonating a supervisor is a violation of the Terms of Use.
TIP Supervisor working question for Xnicola / Skullcandy88 Other Supervisors: Please do not split alternates/edit/etc. Thanks.
Judy Olmsted is recorded in the TIP records of being the first TIP graduate. She is now a Supervisor.
The first member in the TIP records is Judy Olmsted. She is now a supervisor on Answers thanks to TIP.
No, you do not gain any extra tools by joining The Initiates Program. You are trained in using the tools you already have as a contributor. This is an opportunity for you to excel in all areas of the site before graduating and hopefully being invited to become a supervisor. Ideally you should be proficient in all the tools you have available before becoming a supervisor and gaining extra tools.