The Community Advocate role is a status role for the most active and dedicated members of the PoolTogether DAO. It is not compensated and does not require any formal responsibilities. The role is meant as an official designation of people who are already recognized as helping the community.

Community Advocates are trusted members of the PoolTogether community that are willing to define, and contribute to, the community’s values, mission & vision. They help to align those with our community’s wants and feedback and ensure we maintain a wholesome and healthy vibe.

The role was formalized here and is further explained here.

As a Community Advocate you have access to a few additional channels. This is no cool kids club but a safe space to help the community.

Currently our community guidelines are still simple:

In many situations it helps to refer to those.

📌 Use pins for everything that is important or stays relevant

📂 Threads are powerful & help reduce the overall load of channels

💥 Information Overload is our enemy

Please stick to the #report-scams channel for kicking and banning scammers or users that violently misbehave. This helps keeping an overview in case we made a wrong decision.

Other helpful tools:

There is a variety of custom commands that pull up helpful information:

Community Advocates can post in #announcements.

@here or @everyone pings are reserved for very important or timely urgent matters. As they are commonly overused most users have deactivated notifications for those anyway. We want to try and keep those that didn’t!

Generally for announcements goes:

Less = More This doesn’t mean you should announce cool stuff less! Try to keep the announcement short & clear. People get tons of announcements, notifications & messages everyday, so you want to be clear on the information you put out.

Make it fun! Spice up the announcement with some emojis from the pool, use pool slang or add visuals. It’s not just about getting the message out but about making it fun to consume, too!

What’s the audience? Speak to the people and use their language. Users might need other information than contributors do. Why not use the announcement roles, too? @Announcements, @Dev Updates, @Governance, @Events & Giveaways, @Coordinape Updates, @Bounties Updates

Are there other announcements that day? Communicate with others and try combining those! Announcements shouldn’t compete with each other but serve to inform Poolers.

On PoolTogether Discord, all events are announced via Sesh in #events. Sesh is an event and poll bot. Events can be created with a slash command, or even easier with the Sesh Dashboard.

Use the command =link to bring up a link you can subscribe to in your Calendar.

The PoolTogether community is global and distributed across all time zones. It’s easy to just provide the time of your personal time zone, but using timestamps helps everyone.

The tool HammerTime helps to create and copy a readily formatted timestamp in two clicks!

Using bots got easy since Discord introduced the feature of slash commands. Simply type / for a list of available commands.

Below are some of the main bots and their features:

Everyone craves a little POAP once in a while.

POAPs are fun but also call in the farmers, that’s why it’s important to think about the distribution method in advance.

As a Community Advocate you can nominate other Poolers as advocates, too.

Before going public there should be soft consensus between the current Community Advocates to not set any wrong expectations with potential nominees.

After that, a nomination on the governance forum should make it official and public