Jeff Hoard

He's just a very active community manager, keeping the world safe from plagiarism :)
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My vote goes to Jeff Hoard (http://www.mahalo.com/member/jeffhoard ). I've found him to be a very involved community manager, who maintains an upbeat and helpful attitude. When there are issues, he's right there to provide a fix or temporary workaround until a permanent fix is put in place. He also posts very interesting and thought-provoking questions. Finally, when he thinks an answer is especially well-crafted, he's been known to tip the answerer whether or not the answer gets selected as Best Answer.
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It is a tough call every staff member here has been extremely helpful.

I will have to go with the Mahalo staff member that first urged me nicely into page management. @allisonh (I know she is now a former staff member)

Back in June I was a purple belt with brown tip and on the way to getting my brown belt. Those of you at this juncture know how exciting this stage can be.. on the verge of becoming a tested member of Mahalo. Very cool.

Mahalo 2.0 was coming out on the 2nd of June and page management was new. The original plan was for there to be a page management requirement(5 pages) in the Brown Belt test. This scared me.

I at first told myself I would be happy forever purple with a brown tip.. page management was not for me. Hmmmph.

However in the coming week I watched as more and more questions and answers were being tossed around with page management as the subject and I got curious... maybe I could do this.

I decided I would just try a super niche topic page (something nobody would search) Cannibalism. I made a page... sort of and got an immediate response from @allisonh and she was so super supportive with the ***total mess I made of the entire matter*** Allison moved me along with just a bit of encouragement and I got my feet wet..ahh the page management water was not so bad after all.

With that I was off and the very next page I made Nashua NH won the Mahalo Archive Page of the Week a day before my birthday June 24th 2009

http://www.mahalo.com/answers/mahalo2/june-20-nominate-your-page-for-mahalo-archive-of-the-week-episode-iv

***thank you @jeffhoard and the rest of Mahalo Answers for that opportunity.

I credit this experience with Allison as the one event here at Mahalo and Mahalo Answers that really turned me and my confidence in my ability way up so I could now really try to be a top notch user here and for that I am very thankful.
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@mithrandir

A great person of mahalo. He helped me so much to continue on mahalo little bit like @buddawiggi's allisonh

When I come on mahalo then felt very nervous and bored in mahalo answers. Do you know, may I earned my first tip from answering 30/40 answers!! So that I take a little look at mahalo tasks but failed to be approved my task.

I could not understand my feedback but didn't know where to ask. Truly saying then I was not know who is the community manager. Then I made a thread to help me and left there my personal email address.Then mithrandir contacted with me and his first sentence and advice was "I noticed you that you are not a native US speaker, no worry I also not but you can use microsoft word, it is helpful, it can check grammar and spelling both".....and explained what I told in my feedback.

After that when I submitted more tasks I run to mith, I emailed him 2/3/4/5 mails in a day!!! But he answered all without being disturbed. Then a long story...............

You can definitely say if there is no mithrandir on mahalo to help me then there would no safi to answer you question. :D
When I got any success I expect a congratulation from him. Because my all success is indirectly depended on him. I not only like him, I love him. (Don't say to his wife :P hahaa)

I like many many members here who helps me in various way like budda bunny, shinju, jeff,lesliec,camilla,ssmcd,rob and too many. But Crisis bores (mithrandir) is special one forever.

Thanks
safi
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