Subreddit Announcement: Moderators
The topic has been raised recently that the community is starting to become upset owing to a lack of moderation and verification activity. We moderators are not ashamed to admit that our level of attention has waned quite considerably recently and we have not been verifying nor passing legitimate content through the filter as fast as we should have been. This will soon change:
Presently, our current plan is to bring in an influx (anywhere at the moment from between 8 to 20 new mods) of both seasoned trusted moderators from other subreddits as well as a large selection of ‘fresh blood’ into the moderation pool. Moderators will be vetted based on the criteria at the end of this post. We hope to select a wide range of users from a wide variety of timezones and countries so that the subreddit will be always maintained. With moderator-ship comes a few responsibilities, so you must be able to handle these well. Among these responsibilities there are included:
- Commitment to the task
- You must have an easy way to be contacted, be it e-mail, reddit or IRC
- Willingness to debate policy with other moderators
- Fairness and objective views to situations you would otherwise have strong opinions on
- Linked with the previous point, respect for opinions and views that you do not share in
If you think that you would be suitable for this job, please send an email to [email protected] or send a moderator mail to the subreddit. You must be willing to provide a few examples of your trustworthiness and motivation to moderate. We do not simply want those who want the power under their belt.
Our largest potential concern is that a moderator whom we may add could end up being malicious and end up distributing sensitive confidential information of a user who has submitted personal information for the purposes of verification. This is why moderator addition remains a sensitive topic, so please appreciate our hesitation on the subject.
In your email or moderator mail for the application please include the following items:
- Your primary reddit user-name
- What communities you moderate (if any)
- Why you feel like you would make a good moderator
- How important you feel verification is to the community
- Your opinion of censoring comments
- Your opinion of removing posts that have been deemed ‘uninteresting’ yet are still valid
- How active you feel you are on reddit
- Whether you feel like you can commit to communicating in a calm and professional manner or an informal one
- Your timezone in (GMT±X)
- Your active hours in browsing reddit
- How many hours you could give per day to modding reddit or how many days you could suitably say to visit the moderating activities
I know it seems like a lot but this subreddit is one that can potentially hold information vital to the jobs of our users and also to their personal safety. We will continue our no-tolerance policy on witch hunts or personal information being broadcast in the public forum even by the owner of this information in the interests of consistent policy; however, a common-sense approach will remain our best option to interacting with the readers.
Hopefully we can all together make this subreddit a better place for both content providers and those who ask questions.
Moderators who have contributed to this post include: BritishEnglishPolice and 32bites
NOTE
Do not post your applications here or message individual moderators, they will be ignored.
edit: uh someone asked for proof so here.
**notice: we will stop taking applications at 23:59:59 PST (GMT-7) on 2011-07-14. **
Posted Jul 12, 2011, 9:15 PM UTC · edited
I like how this post is Confirmed true
Well at least we got one in the past week.
lawl
CORRUPTION!
Needs spaces.