however, I'm not a cat, so I'm not too worried.

Anyways, my question thing that I'm curious about is why only admins and global mods can sign up a forum for forum of the week. Some members, although not officially staff, are much harder workers and beneficial to the board then some of the admins.

Just curious...

Thanks.

I would imagine that the rationalisation for that is much the same as for the rule that allows only board administrators and/or moderators to post adverts for their RPs.

"Only board staff really know what's best for their board", to paraphase an explanation that was given elsewhere.

*shrugs*

More or less... if you're not board staff and you want to help your board out in an extensive way - like putting it up for a Forum of the Week - you're out of luck, unfortunately.

Mmm, I think it's mainly because advertising someone's board without their permission might bring them an amount of members they didn't want. Like someone might have just wanted a small community RPG and then for someone to advertise it and all the suddent them receive tons of members and be unable to care for their site or get overloading with people joining would probably make them drown without them being prepared for a rush of members or even possibly wanting to have that many members.

If someone really wanted to help someone advertise a site that wasn't their own, they'd tell the admin possibilities to advertise their site, so not only would the staff be notified but they'd be ready for it. As well as some people might have a RPG that might be private for just them and their friends, and then to advertise it, would wreck the hold idea the admin had in mind.

These are just some possibilities as to why they could've chosen to do this, regardless if the admin really wanted new members they'd advertise it or set someone in charge of advertising their site. Well that's my opinion. o.O

Pretty much Keijukainen hit the nail on the head. Only the board owners are really in the know about what is good for their board. Also, in the advertising sense, you need ACP access to put our button up on the board and then there's just a whole slew of stuff that should just make decisions like that up to the board owners.