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Rye Lee
You're a moderator emeritus.
You don't have to apply, you moron
You just have to say "make me a mod again, asshole"
Welcome back.
Applications are still open for 1 (or three? we are discussing this) more mod. I'll be PMing a few of you with requests for more information.
Ezo, are you active again?
I thought that's what I did! Only in a much more diplomatic and friendly manner, hahaha!
I would like to suggest that anyone interested in being a mod might want to consider that what
I think is the most important part of moderating, isn't dealing with drama, isn't being strict, forcing people to follow the rules, or anything like that at all.
I believe the most important part of being a mod, is being an excellent role model and leading by example! That means something different to everyone of course; what is a good example, right?
1) Well on this forum I think that being open to discussing something even if you disagree with it personally and it is against your own belief systems but it is important to someone else.
2) Doing your best not to violate any of the forum rules (it happens, we're not all perfect and when I've broken the rules that I helped create, I do my best to be humble and accept the criticisms of others).
3) Doing our best not to say negative, hurtful, personal attacks, or tell people things that may damage their progress.
4) Always doing your best to learn, grow and share that growth and understanding with those around you who desire to hear it. If someone doesn't want to listen to what you are saying, or they completely disagree and your continued discussion will only create "drama" and conflict, then being the bigger person and walking away. I have not always done this; I have had incredibly long and drawn out discussions that I could have stopped but thought I needed to impart value on others who didn't truly want it.
I personally would like to see if we can expand our moderator section to be in the neighbourhood of 30 mods by the end of the year in order to reduce the amount of work that any individual moderator is doing and thus increase the productivity and efficiency of the forum. I think that doing this would be highly beneficial to the moderators, the forum users and the overall image of the forum. This is still up for discussion between the mods, but by creating divisions with supervising senior mods and then moderators who monitor smaller sections that they already spend a lot of time in and are "experts" in, I think the quality of everything would go up and there wouldn't be a big time commitment that prevents some of our best members from volunteering. Anyone want to support this idea with me?