The Forum Helpers

**The Forum Helpers** (also known as **TFH**) is a group of helpful and mostly active users of the Scratch forums. Although it has two members that are part of the Scratch Team, this group has no moderating authority. TFH operates between two studios: the main one and the Special Actions studio, the latter of which is for handling applications and other special actions.

## Membership

### Roles

* **Managers** maintain the studio's title, thumbnail, and description, as does traditional studio managers on the site. Specific to TFH, managers are given the exclusive authority to promote users and invite users (without having them complete an application.) Managers are also given up to two objection points in the application approval process.
* **Curators** are regular members of TFH who are allowed to vote on applications, albeit with one objection point each. Curators may also assist managers in forwarding applications to the Special Actions studio if it hasn't been done yet.

### Applying

As of May 2023, the rules for applying is that users must have 100 or more posts on the forums and a clean post history within the past month. Once a user meets those qualifications, they may post a comment in TFH studio with the following answered/filled out:

1. Which forums are you the most active in?
2. Provide links to 2-4 posts you made that you find to be the most constructive (non-sticky, iTopic, or guide.)
3. Provide a link to your most recent forum post.

Additionally, users must include a special codeword in their application for it to be officially submitted and voted upon.

Once users apply, their application is forwarded to the Special Actions studio in which current TFH members vote on the application. Curators can apply one objection point and managers can apply up to two objection points during the review process. If an application receives four or more objection points, then the user is rejected from joining the studio and must wait another week before applying again. If the user's application does not reach that threshold, then the user is accepted as a curator.

Users are discouraged from posting on their own application threads in the Special Actions studio.

### Invitations

A manager may request that a user be invited to the studio to become a curator instead of having the user go through the application process. Invitees presumably cannot skip the curator step of membership.

### Promotions

A manager may request that a user be promoted from curator to manager. The curator can be promoted if they receive three approving votes from fellow managers.

### Leaving

Users may leave TFH or the forums as a whole. Users may also request that they be removed from the studio but remain a member of TFH.

Users also aren't removed for inactivity.

## Members

As of May 11, 2023, TFH has 23 managers and 89 curators. Below is an updated list of all managers and curators in the studio as displayed on the studio's curator tab.

### **Managers**

* customhacker
* banana439monkey
* DownsGameClub
* Candylanguagegirl
* bigpuppy
* Sigton
* awesome-llama
* Monkey\_Legend
* -frostyiceprincess-
* jromagnoli
* Austinato
* stickfiregames
* duckboycool
* BY147258369
* Abstract-
* Digital\_Gaming
* DominoDragon1
* ZZ9PluralZAlpha
* awesome5185
* redglitter
* WolfCat67
* Drunken\_Sailor
* QuantumSingularity
* joshuaho
* hedgehog\_blue
* -Vuton-
* YubNubEwok
* -ShadowOfTheFuture-
* Wahsp
* XCat
* PrincessFlowerTV
* Botcho\_Otkho
* FloatingMuffins
* Za-Chary\*
* -Accio-
* NilsTheBest
* Geonaut
* WindOctahedron
* EZ-Games
* CatsUnited
* E\_Equals\_EmCeCube3
* BearSlothCoding
* xXRedTheCoderXx
* Super\_Scratch\_Bros20
* Paddle2See\*
* Ihatr
* imfh
* leahcimto
* Bluebatstar
* Jeffalo

### **Curators**

* cs156175
* Adithyansoccer
* gems89
* purplewolves
* GeeTransit
* makethebrainhappy
* jakel181
* awsome\_guy\_360
* orochi67
* Slugger314
* -Lite-
* LionHeart70
* VideoGamerCanInvent
* BGMead
* PhoenixDragonBlue
* A\_Geeky\_Jawa
* \_Lillion\_
* bbciplayer
* SpaceDragon1
* wWSunPandaWw
* python\_megapixel
* 78ch3
* AfraidRacer
* nickeljorn
* rainpelt28
* adsuri
* TheRealNetherBefore
* TheAdriCoolManDude
* LuckyLucky7
* bidulule
* 54329
* BlueStarPort
* scratchinghead
* ConfusedBiscuit
* Nambaseking01
* DipLeChip

* Paigeri
* KittyFireSt0rm
* PizzaAddict4Life
* nerdiebirdy
* SausageMcSauce
* HarryPotter\_Hamilton
* LotusLavender
* -Zyte-
* MeowyTitan08
* M1mikyu
* Illusion705
* Byron\_Inc
* \_-BuRnInGfLaMeS-\_
* ThatOneWeirdDude
* mtech22
* DancingNekoGirl
* pavcato
* p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-
* pandacorn\_owl
* Arqwa
* ninjaMAR
* Steve0Greatness
* ScratchCatHELLO
* mybearworld
* dogsmakemehappy
* -EmeraldThunder-
* scratchykit5743
* 9gr
* Nezon
* nt149
* dertermenter
* -InsanityGames-
* MoreThanEnuff
* wangat
* PUNNAMOODU
* gosoccerboy5
* samq64
* Chiroyce
* han614698
* scratchieguy12345678
* DarthVader4Life
* garnetluvcookie
* linearlemur