can I volunteer as a moderator?

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I agree with this. You should see the ones that get on the HOA Board. Same thing. They volunteer for the job and once they get on they bring down the whip on everyone they don't like and look the other way on their favorites breaking every damn rule in the book. Then they just go spending the HOA money free-willey on stupid crap like summer pool parties and liquor when we need that money for decks and repairs. Power definitely goes to their head.

You can't volunteer to become a moderator. In fact, just by posting this thread, you've guaranteed that they will never pick you to become one. Usually, it's the current moderators that look through the posts of members and make suggestions to Alex who to appoint as a new moderator and they will generally send you a PM to ask you if you're willing to do it but that will never happen if you've tried to volunteer first.

Ok, ok, point taken. Let's wait and see for more vashakiran then

Btw does anyone here except of Edenthiel has any sense of humour?

It just so happens that I have an excellent sense of humor!

I've often thought there should be some sort of anti-spam team that does nothing but zap adds and such without otherwise moderating, but I'm not sure how you'd implement something like that.

This is starting to sound like the popularity games NTs play.

Let's cut it out . If someone asks if help is needed......be gracious about it. I was irritated as well with the Sanskrit spamming that seemed to stay around for awhile and impede access to threads.

I moderated an Asperger's dating group on Facebook for hundreds of people over the course of a year. Compared to a lot of other forums I've used the moderation required a lot of care and more tact than usual in my replies/actions. I think the same would apply to WrongPlanet and I don't know why anyone would outright volunteer or offer to do it.

I find it is better when the existing moderators or the admin trusts someone enough to go "Hey...this place is kind of a mess. Mind helping us out for a while?" as the trust already exists there and (unless the person is a complete nightmare) all the previous posts from the user(s) aren't a front in order to gain mod status.

Person who made the topic - do you feel your solution is truly what mods should do? Someone upset you, so you just remove them? Fair enough the person you are on about was yet another spammer but I want you to think about what you offered to do and what motivated it. An emotionally charged moderator is a dangerous one in my eyes.

very easily, lots of forums have simple moderates then global ones or super mods. It's really just as simple as creating a new user group and giving the appropriate permissions which are completely customization. You can make all types of different user groups, some purposely unpleasant to be apart of above being banned and being suspended is just changing your usergroup I think. I screwed around with vBulletin quite a bit, Alex really should switch over to it as it has active supports, way more features, far more customizable, and I imagine easier to use and learn than this PHP forum which had issues for years now.