Moderator Applications - Closed

ultima333 · May 17, 2022

QQ has experienced continual growth over the past few years- and with the increase in users, comes the need for more moderation staff.

If you want to volunteer and be part of the community, we welcome your application.

Please send a PM/conversation to me answering the following questions:

1) What times are you active on the forum? (in GMT)

2) Do you feel you are familiar with the QQ community?

3) Why do you feel you will make a good moderator?

4) What do you think proper conduct is for a moderator?

5) What do you think the purpose of a moderator is?

Selection will take a while as the team discusses who we will pick, so please be patient once you've sent in your application.

Biigoh · May 17, 2022

GhostHaxStomp · May 17, 2022

ToastyMoasty · May 17, 2022

I bet theres gonna be at most 2 submissions and 1 of them is a shitpost!

Stephen the barbarian · May 17, 2022

ultima333 said:
1) What times are you active on the forum? (in GMT)

i can solidly give you from 15:00 to 16:00 most days, and can drop in from time to time otherwise.
times i'm not available are 05:30-14:30 and 20:00 - 03:00 wed-sun

ultima333 said:
2) Do you feel you are familiar with the QQ community?

i do feel that i am familiar enough with the rules, written and unwritten to put my name forward. rants is fairly good at pointing out issues that pop up, so i feel like i have a passing knowledge of those matters, however i'm fully aware that i will have to learn how it looks from the other side of the curtain.

ultima333 said:
4) What do you think proper conduct is for a moderator?
5) What do you think the purpose of a moderator is?

(answering these together)
the purpose of a moderator is to stop minor issues from blowing up in bigger problems. to set the standards of conduct and decorum on the board, and insure that they are followed. and in extreme cases, to remove those who refuse (not fail) to follow the rules.

ultima333 said:
3) Why do you feel you will make a good moderator?

i'm willing to try and willing to learn. other that all i have is my record. it's likely not the cleanest, but i am who i am.

Rakdos92 · May 17, 2022

Stephen the barbarian said:
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Dude, you need to send this stuff to him via PM.

rance47 · May 17, 2022

I just hope that the new mods will be someone with laid back and aproachable personality.
I'm not sure if this holds true for english speaking forums as well, but from my experience people that try to act all cool and collected, or take themselves way too seriously, usually end up being either way too stern and banhappy, or petty as hell.

Anon̦̦ · May 17, 2022

May the Gods have mercy upon your souls.

Otokonoko Culture · May 17, 2022

Anon̦̦ said:
May the Gods have mercy upon your souls.

As a ginger, I take offense to this.

I don't have a soul.

Darrenb209 · May 17, 2022

ToastyMoasty said:
I bet theres gonna be at most 2 submissions and 1 of them is a shitpost!

The PM method will probably cut down on the shitposting.

I'd have no problem posting a joke application in thread, but I'm not about to send a PM to busy people just for a joke.

Actually, fuck it.

1) What times are you active on the forum? (in GMT)

All the time and none of the time.

2) Do you feel you are familiar with the QQ community?

No.

3) Why do you feel you will make a good moderator?

Because I'm not about to go mad without power.

4) What do you think proper conduct is for a moderator?

Going mad with power and putting your boot down on your detractors.

5) What do you think the purpose of a moderator is?

To rule the forum with an authoritarian fist whenever they escape the horror of it being a high-stress unpaid job.

GhostHaxStomp · May 17, 2022

I am biased. I will ban people for no reason. I accept bribes. I have not read the rules.

Honestly I have no idea why I haven't retroactively been made a co-founder.

A simple world · May 19, 2022

What's the pay like? I don't work for free.

macdjord · May 19, 2022

A simple world said:
What's the pay like? I don't work for free.

You get to exercise petty authority over people.

GhostHaxStomp · May 19, 2022

macdjord said:
You get to exercise petty authority over people.

Honestly that's enough of a reason as any. No thing better than shitting downhill.

Guardian Box · May 19, 2022

macdjord said:
You get to exercise petty authority over people.

You also take on the responsibility for actions of the people under your authority.

Nicodemus · May 20, 2022

Guardian Box said:
You also take on the responsibility for actions of the people under your authority.

Eh. Only to a degree.

The Mods aren't omnipotent (yet), so as hard as they work they can't catch everything, especially with the recent userbase expansion.

Even if they got five more Mods, they can only do so much. I would argue that it's a shared cultural responsibility. The Users have a responsibility to use the report function to make any problematic issues resolved.

Grumpkin · May 20, 2022

Nicodemus said:
The Users have a responsibility to use the report function to make any problematic issues resolved.

In short, the concept you're going for here is community policing. It's an enforcement philosophy which pushes partnership between those whose job it is to enforce the rules and the community at large.

Basically make it as easy as possible for users to see the rules, so much so that not knowing almost takes active effort, then let them keep a handle on most daily business to prevent things getting out of hand, so that the moderators only have to get involved when somebody really goofs.

Not a bad way to do business.

Silvercrystal · May 20, 2022

Grumpkin said:
In short, the concept you're going for here is community policing. It's an enforcement philosophy which pushes partnership between those whose job it is to enforce the rules and the community at large.

Basically make it as easy as possible for users to see the rules, so much so that not knowing almost takes active effort, then let them keep a handle on most daily business to prevent things getting out of hand, so that the moderators only have to get involved when somebody really goofs.

Not a bad way to do business.

In my experience that's the way most boards do it, if you see a rule breaker, report it and wait for a mod to deal with it.
Or ask them to stop if it's not a big rule break (like being off topic.) and only ask once, if it continues just report, don't say anything about reporting it. (As most boards call doing that baiting, which is against the rules)

JadeKaiser · May 20, 2022

As usual, I ask myself the question: "would I make a decent mod?"
As usual, I answer myself: "Probably. Not a terrible one, at least."
As usual, I then ask myself: "Do I want the stress and responsibility of being one?"
As always, I then answer: "Hell, no."

Guardian Box · May 21, 2022

Nicodemus said:
The Mods aren't omnipotent (yet)

And they never will be unless they accept my application

d.fish · May 21, 2022

Guardian Box said:
And they never will be unless they accept my application

You'd make a great mod if you update that one story

Guardian Box · May 21, 2022

d.fish said:
You'd make a great mod if you update that one story

I don't know what story you are talking about but if I become a mod I will

magic9mushroom · May 23, 2022

I would, but I'm not as secure or as mentally well as I'd like to be, and I already mod Yandere^2 (effectively solo, and with a userbase too small to rely on reports); it's more than I can handle.

Queen Fiona · May 23, 2022

Ahem.

Fine, I'll do it myself.

Keldin · May 24, 2022

1) What times are you active on the forum? (in GMT)

3) Why do you feel you will make a good moderator?

4) What do you think proper conduct is for a moderator?

I feel like you don't want me to say "like an evil dictator".

so instead i'll meet you half-way and go with "like an absentee dictator".

5) What do you think the purpose of a moderator is?

To bare our sins.

2) Do you feel you are familiar with the QQ community?

Familiar enough to know that at least one person in the first few posts would fail to properly read your post and end up putting their application in thread.

More pertinently I'm also familiar enough with them to know that an open Announcement Thread about PM'd Applications would do a hard turn into shitposts within a few responses.

however tbf that's just normal Internet behavior.

ultima333 · May 28, 2022

Applications will close on Monday (Memorial Day for those in the USA)

ultima333 · May 30, 2022

Mod applications are closed.

We'll announce the new moderators sometime this week.

Moderator Applications - Closed

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