Volunteer Positions Needed to Usher in a New Era at Factnet

Factnet has to evolve its operations model to become more volunteer labor driven. This means we need to immediately recruit a group of unpaid volunteers willing to put in at least 2 hours a week to help the Factnet permanent staff, most particularly in the moderation of the discussion board areas.

In addition to the critical discussion board monitors (2-6 hours per month for a particular section of the discussion board) we also need to recruit the following volunteers to help Factnet grow to its full potential and become the Amnesty International of psychological torture and human rights abuses:

To volunteer read the more complete job descriptions below and quickly email us your information.

1.) Volunteer Discussion Board Monitors (Factnet’s Top Priority)

The qualifications for the non-paid board volunteer monitors are:

Trustworthiness, Good computer skills, balance and good judgment, a sincere empathy and understanding of cult victim recovery issues, a minimum of 1-2 hours per week available. Particular knowledge or experience in some cult or mind control area helpful but not critical.

To volunteer and help others please send a description of how you meet these qualifications, any verifiable references you have that would make us feel comfortable that you’re not a cult member or agent on a covert operation and, any other reasons why we should trust you to help make the site and boards better. Email this information to Wollersheim@msn.com with Volunteer Moderator in the subject line. In the first line of the email state which area of the discussion board you would like to moderate. It may take up to a week or so to verify references and get back to you if you are accepted to begin.

Here is the type of work you would do in the discussion board as a moderator:

1. Delete commercial spam

a. conventional advertising like "Online Gambling" stuff
b. disabling stuff, like huge chunks of text from books
c. irritating cut-and-paste, like repetitively quoting Bible passages without actually discussing anything

2. Tell board administrator which spammers to block.

3. Handle "innocent" spam. Warn the more innocent offenders (like the repetitive Bible passage quoters who do not actually discuss things.)

4. Manage and Sort your board area (keeps it from becoming dysfunctional)

a. people creating Topics where they should not
b. people posting into the wrong Topics

5. Create new Topic hubs - or sub-topic hubs - when there appears to be a lot of discussion surrounding a new topic - or subtopic - that does not currently exist on the board.

:: For example they might create a thread that now has over a 10 posts in it. Big threads are not good. For bandwidth reasons as well as user ease-of-use reasons. So one would want to create a new topic, or subtopic, where they can create multiple threads.

6. Deal with personal abuse complaints

a. Check out the actual text that people have posted (Send a return email to the person who lodges the complaint and ask them to quote the exact text, and URL where the text occurs. (If they have not done that in the original email.)
b. If necessary, delete the posts
c. If necessary, warn the poster
d. If necessary, block the poster

2.) Discussion Board Administrator

The qualifications for the non-paid board volunteer Discussion Board Administrator is:

Trustworthiness, Very Good computer skills and/or web site maintenance skills, balance and good judgment, a sincere empathy and understanding of cult victim recovery issues, a minimum of 1-2 hours per week available.

To volunteer and help others send a description of how you meet these qualifications, any verifiable references you have that would make us feel comfortable that you’re not a cult member or agent on a covert operation and, any other reasons why we should trust you to help make the site and boards better. Email this information to wollersheim@msn.com with Volunteer Discussion Board Administrator in the subject line. It may take up to a week or so to verify references and get back to you if you are accepted to begin.

Here is the type of work you would do as the discussion board administrator:

Deal with the technical aspects of people who say that can't log in or can't activate their account

Have they made a typo in their response email address?

b. They might have forgotten their username?
:: Both of the above entails going into the admin panel and looking at their actual accounts.

Block spammers (including 4 hr month spam handling)

a. Block their account and often
b. Block their IP address as well

Deal with the technical aspects of people who say that they can't see the website

a. Is their IP address being blocked?
b. Is an entire netblock of IP addresses being blocked?
c. Is that actual user meant to be blocked?
d. If not, then the IP address - or netblock - probably needs unblocking.

Forward service fee and non service fee work emails to various section moderators. Keep them acknowledged and occasionally review a difficult board abuse issue. After being trained, train moderators to keep the board a safe health place of dialog and education.

Run a recovery/repair command if the board gets corrupted (Rare, but it happens.)

Additional Volunteer Positions Available at Factnet

Fund Raising Volunteer

Qualifications: successful fund raising experience to help us get our donations. Trustworthiness, balance and good judgment, a sincere empathy and understanding of cult victim recovery issues, a minimum of 1-2 hours per week available.

To volunteer and help others send a description of how you meet these qualifications, any verifiable references you have that would make us feel comfortable that you’re not a cult member or agent on a covert operation. Email this information to wollersheim@msn.com with Volunteer Fund Raising in the subject line. It may take up to a week or so to verify references and get back to you if you are accepted to begin.

Graphics Person

Qualifications: be able to help us with quarterly newsletter and web improvement ideas. Trustworthiness, a minimum of 1-2 hours per week available.

To volunteer and help others send a description of how you meet these qualifications, any verifiable references you have that would make us feel comfortable that you’re not a cult member or agent on a covert operation. Email this information to wollersheim@msn.com with Volunteer Graphics Person in the subject line. It may take up to a week or so to verify references and get back to you if you are accepted to begin.

News Editor Magazine Editor

Qualifications: be able to help us with quarterly newsletter and location and selection of home page news stories. Trustworthiness, balance and good judgment, a sincere empathy and understanding of cult victim recovery issues, a minimum of 1-2 hours per week available.

To volunteer and help others send a description of how you meet these qualifications, any verifiable references you have that would make us feel comfortable that you’re not a cult member or agent on a covert operation. Email this information to wollersheim@msn.com with Volunteer News Editor in the subject line. It may take up to a week or so to verify references and get back to you if you are accepted to begin.

Alliance Builder with other Cult and Mind control education organizations

We need a volunteer to work with building better alliances, co-education and co-event promotions with the other cult education organizations around the world. This is a dynamic and very interesting opportunity.

Qualifications: Some familiarity or experience with building business or non profit alliances a real plus. Trustworthiness, balance and good judgment, a sincere empathy and understanding of cult victim recovery issues, a minimum of 1-2 hours per week available.

To volunteer and help others send a description of how you meet these qualifications, any verifiable references you have that would make us feel comfortable that you’re not a cult member or agent on a covert operation. Email this information to wollersheim@msn.com with Volunteer Alliance Person in the subject line. It may take up to a week or so to verify references and get back to you if you are accepted to begin.

Factnet volunteer co-coordinator

The volunteer co-coordinator will assist in the selection, training, support and honoring of all volunteer staff. They would also head the Factnet cyber volunteer operations advisory board in which the Factnet volunteers would advise Factnet management staff and directors on needed operational policy changes and any other improvements needed at Factnet to provide better information and service.

Qualifications: A people person able to communicate and keep volunteers motivated through positive recognition and good support and training. Trustworthiness, balance and good judgment, a sincere empathy and understanding of cult victim recovery issues, a minimum of 1-2 hours per week available.

To volunteer and help others send a description of how you meet these qualifications, any verifiable references you have that would make us feel comfortable that you’re not a cult member or agent on a covert operation. Email this information to wollersheim@msn.com with Volunteer Co-coordinator in the subject line. It may take up to a week or so to verify references and get back to you if you are accepted to begin.