How does the moderator selection process work?

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05 Dec 2018, 3:47 pm

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05 Dec 2018, 3:52 pm

We have to do everything in moderation.

Excessive immoderation can be bad for the continued wellbeing of random squirrels, ferrets and yaks.


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05 Dec 2018, 4:04 pm

envirozentinel wrote:
Ah, ferrets can be dipped, can't they?


Try it squirrel features , I have armour piercing teeth :lol:

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05 Dec 2018, 4:52 pm

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In my experience based on many forums, the staff chooses good candidates and then one will send a PM to whoever is at the top of the list. Most who are asked if they want the job turn it down. I was asked here once upon a time believe it or not and turmed it down. Can't remember by who. Maybe cornflake. That was before I made the mistake of entering into political discussions.



I think the vast majority of members who post regularly in the PPR forum won't be getting an invitation to be a moderator anytime soon.

I wouldn't want the job, anyway. I've been one before and it's not for me.


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05 Dec 2018, 5:53 pm

Someone from the staff. Forget who. Did pm me and ask me if I ever thought about "moding" like a year or two ago.

I said that I was warm to the idea, and they happily reported that up the chain of command. But never got back to me about it. I guess the position got filled without me.

Or... maybe I ….visited the PPR one too many times after that. Oh well.



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05 Dec 2018, 7:20 pm

I was a mod on a few other forums in the past. Some were sites for posting pix & I posted aLOT of pix & was on the forum a lot so I was made mod. They were small sites so there was only a couple mods besides the admin & I was the only mod on one site(I asked to help out). One of my main task was deleting pix of lower quality when I found better 1s. I also organized things(moved posts & pix to other places) & dealt with spam.


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05 Dec 2018, 8:51 pm

VegetableMan wrote:
EzraS wrote:
In my experience based on many forums, the staff chooses good candidates and then one will send a PM to whoever is at the top of the list. Most who are asked if they want the job turn it down. I was asked here once upon a time believe it or not and turmed it down. Can't remember by who. Maybe cornflake. That was before I made the mistake of entering into political discussions.



I think the vast majority of members who post regularly in the PPR forum won't be getting an invitation to be a moderator anytime soon.

I wouldn't want the job, anyway. I've been one before and it's not for me.


I was a mod on a sub-forum called Island of Misfits.



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05 Dec 2018, 10:09 pm

we need more administrators.

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When moderators are doing their jobs right, they will be hated, scorned, cursed, insulted, and accused of bias, incompetence, and personal vendettas.


oh the biggest fun was to be threatened with having the throat slit, having a voodoo spell cast on some of us, not to mention being threatened with the US legal codes, since you know, issuing someone a warning here is an excruciatingly important matter of national security. not to mention being accused of wanting to send an armada to Spain, since really, we've nothing better to do but to collect the novices for the army, and send them whenever the need arises. did i mention that of course, we're monsters, who else would bother to moderate here? :P

on one other forum i was a bitchy witch, oh those were the days


also nobody seems to know you're not american so their threats are moot

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I said that I was warm to the idea, and they happily reported that up the chain of command. But never got back to me about it. I guess the position got filled without me.

Or... maybe I ….visited the PPR one too many times after that. Oh well.


yeah, that happens unfortunately.

i doubt it got filled without you, we haven't had a mod appointment since spring 2015...
it's time now, i'm pretty sure.


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06 Dec 2018, 3:14 am

Kiprobalhato wrote:
we need more administrators.

Booyakasha wrote:
Fnord wrote:
When moderators are doing their jobs right, they will be hated, scorned, cursed, insulted, and accused of bias, incompetence, and personal vendettas.


oh the biggest fun was to be threatened with having the throat slit, having a voodoo spell cast on some of us, not to mention being threatened with the US legal codes, since you know, issuing someone a warning here is an excruciatingly important matter of national security. not to mention being accused of wanting to send an armada to Spain, since really, we've nothing better to do but to collect the novices for the army, and send them whenever the need arises. did i mention that of course, we're monsters, who else would bother to moderate here? :P

on one other forum i was a bitchy witch, oh those were the days


also nobody seems to know you're not american so their threats are moot



i fooled them all :twisted:



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06 Dec 2018, 3:18 am

I'd nominate krafti, but I'm pretty sure he would decline the offer.



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06 Dec 2018, 11:31 am

Kiprobalhato wrote:
in april 2015 five new mods were appointed. these were B19, Skilpadde, envirozentinel, Adamantium and nyxjord.

Cough, not terribly important but only four were made mods in April 2015: Enviro, Nyxjord, Walrus and me.
Adamantium and B19 were made mods in October 2015.


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06 Dec 2018, 11:44 am

how could i forget walrus!??!?


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06 Dec 2018, 12:47 pm

Walrus is an infrequent contributor these days.

He's probably a pretty busy man....



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06 Dec 2018, 2:29 pm

Skilpadde wrote:
Kiprobalhato wrote:
in april 2015 five new mods were appointed. these were B19, Skilpadde, envirozentinel, Adamantium and nyxjord.

Cough, not terribly important but only four were made mods in April 2015: Enviro, Nyxjord, Walrus and me.
Adamantium and B19 were made mods in October 2015.


I don't remember anyone named Nyxjord.



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06 Dec 2018, 6:59 pm

I didn't really converse with him---but I know the name.