When you register as a Trainee, you get allocated to a Mentor.

This will be the Mentor with the highest status who has the least number of Trainees at present. This ensures that each Mentor gets one Trainee before one gets a second one, while we always assign the most experienced Mentor when the number of Trainees is equal.

The Trainee is given the name of their Mentor when they register.

The Mentor receives an email informing them that they now have a new Trainee, and asking them to get in touch immediately

The main form of communication between Mentor and Trainee should be the Internal Mail (this is going to start soon, not later than on Monday 5th Feb). In the meantime, chatrooms and Bulletin Boards can be used.

Please do not exchange personal email, telephone numbers or messaging addresses: this is not safe, particularly since Junior Members (by definition) have not been in the club long enough to be well known by us.

Our Internal Mail is the safest way to communicate privately to another member: it is available only to members, it is automatically filtered, and can be checked by Helpers in cases of dispute.

The reward for the Trainee is graduating to Full Member, and also gain new friends.

The reward for the Mentor is the feeling of having helped another member to enjoy the club as much as they do. If the Trainee graduates to Full Membership in at most 2 month from registering as Trainee, the Mentor will also get up to 500 points and a Mentor Icon. When the Trainee graduates, we'll ask them how helpful their Mentor was to them: according to their answer, we will give up to 500 points (for extremely helpfulness).

The proper way to terminate the Mentor/Trainee relationship is, of course, for the Trainee to successfully graduate to Full Member.

However, it can also be terminated for other reasons:

1) if any of the parts is exploiting the relationship to be abusive, to pester or to take advantage in any other way

2) if any of the parts is not participating actively in the process, especially by not answering Internal Mail messages whenever they can (although of course it must be remembered that different people have different patterns of internet access)

3) if any of the parts is banned

If you feel that your Mentor/Trainee relationship is becoming unhealthy in any way (eg pestering, jealousy etc.) then please inform us immediately by clicking here to contact us.

If you are experiencing other kinds of difficulties (eg poor communication, non-achievement, personality clashes etc.) please try to talk to other Mentors or Trainees to solve your problems.
If the problems persist, contact us or talk to a helper.