Talk:AOL Community Leader Program

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Does anyone have a list of the CL prefixes? I know I was an EAMCT... but there were so many more. This would be a good addition to the article.

Right on...I was an EAMCT as well Jmlk17 22:20, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

The prefix names were organized by forums and sometimes by channel. I was a HMTWN and later on a LDRS YGP. There were a lot of prefixes used even before the adoption of the LDRS and HOST name prefixes.


 * HMTWN was for AOL Hometown
 * YGP was for You've Got Pictures


 * BkBag - Teen Book Bag (or The Book Bag)
 * Bookpg - The Book Report
 * BkWorm - The Book Worm

Guess where I worked. LOL. --*Kat* (meow?) 05:57, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Prefixes
Back in the very early days of the Apple // product and the coming launch of the Mac product in '89, the prefixes were quite limited. There was AFP for Apple Forum Producer, AFL for Apple Forum Leader, AFA for Apple Forum Assistant, and later AFC was added for Apple Forum Consultant. Before I became AFP, I managed the ABC Forum where we had the ABC prefix (intuitive, no?). Drgitlow 03:57, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

More on Prefixes
In regards to prefixes, there were a BUNCH of them -- too many to list here. If you want a full list, let me know and I can get you one. Most of the old prefixes are now available to the general AOL membership. Only a few of the most well known and/or still used prefixes are still restricted (HOST, LDRS, GUIDE, TOS, AOL, etc.).
 * I was a "Guide" from 95-2001 over the Video Games section. I remember there being somewhere in the range of upwards of a thousand or so different terms. Each section (Apple, PC, Games, Entertainment, Midi, Music, WWF, etc) had at the top level volunteers; Guide, Leader (LDR), Host (HST), Manager (MGR), and a few more I can't quite remember. Under that everyone had a two or three letter/number header tag for the section, eg Video Games:RPG:Videos would be VGRV, or Video Games:Fist Person Shooters:audio VGSfpA that I can remember off hand. As noted above the ones for Apple are about right, each section had their own series of rules for applying the headers and extensions, and the rules were set by the paid moderator for that top level. The paid top level mods all had AOL at the front, followed by the 3 letter/number key word for the top level section, eg Video Games was AOLVGS. Most of us kept our screen names even after the downfall of the paid service. I moved over to aol.com and kept both GuideJamPro1 and VGSJamPro1. Others did the same. The only way we'll ever get a complete list is if someone who was a top-level at the time and KEPT the terms and names file releases their section's naming file, a large comma file, on the internet. Lostinlodos (talk) 01:55, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

POV/Original Research
Hey,

Although many of the factual allegations in this article are accurate, as written they are based on original research & not adequately sourced. This diminishes the overall credibility of the article. Since the article is otherwise of good quality, this should be remedied. Please see WP:NOR for information in re. Wikipedia's policy on original research

Additionally, I've tagged one section (although several qualify) as unduly POV. This section should be rewritten to conform to WP:NPOV. If none of the original authors are immediately interested, I'm happy to do this. I'll check back for replies within a week or so.

Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia and to transparency on the Internet! :)

—Adrian~enwiki (talk) 2008-09-14 08:07Z

Citation on Settlement?
Someone just wrote that the settlement was approved. Anyone got an article about it to cite? Asbruckman (talk) 00:45, 22 May 2010 (UTC)