How to Become a moderator

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I am interested in becomming ( mor at least knowing how) to become a moderator for this site.

Anyone know how I can get involved? And what are their duties?

u should ask this about mods/alex

Message the staff.

You are new here so I doubt that they'd make you a moderator right away. If you're a member for at least 3 or 4 months and show that you're an orderly and stable person, they will make you mod I'm sure. I'm a moderator and administrator on 4 different sites (non-AS though) so I have confidence that you could eventually become one as long as you stay well-behaved.

Remember this: A site will never make a person an administrator/mod until they know the person and can trust them. If they were to make you a mod right away it would be way too risky on their behalf.

Oh yeah on here, asking to be a mod or even volunteering to be one, will definitely not make you be one. Tells Alex you are incapable of being one which I find inane because it doesn't make sense.

I don't think 'stability' is a requirement here.

Were you another member before?

How to become a mod, well its not something you ask for out of the blue, its also not given for brown nosing.

Been a moderator on one soccer forum, and administrator of my own political forum (which I later cancelled as far-right members ruined the forum with racist outings on constant basis)

In the end, you get moderator if you have been involved long enough and posted on frequent basis, been online very often, and reached a respectable number of posts that actually added value to the forum (= no spam posts or short posts, but reaching a fair number of posts while actually only posting valuable posts)

In the end it is the decision of the admins and usually they will put announcements when extra staff is needed. At least that is how many forums do it, at my own political forum as well we would not consider spontaneous applications but posted a vacancy whenever an extra moderator was considered necessary.




May I add: think well before you start. Moderating means you are expected to be online frequently, it can be a duty that takes several hours a week. On my political forum and the soccer forum where I was moderator, I spent about 2 to sometimes 3 hours a day. It can be a lot of work to read throughout all posts, you cannot skip a lot of topics because the mods have to keep an eye on a discussion even if the topics is not interesting to them.

So it is great if people show determination, but consider this well before just applying.

I don't think any of that applies here.

Asking to be a mod won't help, Alex must be able to trust those who are chosen.

When someone asks to be a mod I have to wonder why they want to be a mod because all the mods (including me, and I don't actively mod) don't see modding as something enjoyable. The members I want to be mods usually need to be prodded before they accept the responsibility and sometimes they still won't accept a moderator position because it changes how you're treated by members of the site.

i understand that you really want to help the site and that's great but we choose mods based on a variety of factors that you can't control (like time zones, online personality, etc).

Am a mod on other sites but have never asked to be one,
someone has contacted me and asked if i was interested.
Do that myself also, it makes sense when picking mods, the
good mods are often not very interested in being mods to start
with. Those who really want to be one bad, can get to eager or
something maybe. But guess this varies alot from site to site,
how they get picked.


Edit: never mind, didnt read the post above until
after i posted, bad habbit

lol, don't they'll throw their toys out the pram again