Moderator Application
 

The TFP is looking to take in 2 or 3 new moderators on an interim basis. We're looking to keep the new moderators for up to 6 months before rotating in new heads. Possible permanent positions on the staff would be available pending any openings in the future.

Moderator duties include:

Welcoming new members
Instruction on board policy
Directing discussions toward civility and growth
Counseling for members
Keeping the board clean of spam

What we're looking for:

Extensive membership and participation
Level-headed discussion skills
Not allergic to Tilted Politics
Love for the TFP and what we do.


Application:


Username:
Real name:
Age:
Reason for applying:
What do you like about the TFP:
What do you want to improve about the TFP:
Which of your children would you sacrifice to ensure the TFP lives on:
Any other info you'd like to add:

Please fill out the application as well as possible and send it to me in a PM.

good luck to the applicants!! I'm sure you'll get some good ones Halx...

not allergic to politics? thats a good one

Yippie... New people to pick on...


I don't wear pants that often...

I can think of several people that would make great moderators. I hope they step forward. :thumbsup:

I sense a great disturbance in Halx's inbox.

Elphaba, if you or anyone else, thinks they know someone would be a great moderator, please send them a quick PM to suggest it to them.

Sometimes all it takes is a little nudge.

Will do. :)

Let's see, no rashes and no children to give up. I'm on it.

Absolutely.

Good luck to everyone... it's always so hard to pick 2 or 3 people from all the responses we get. But, like Halx said, they will be temporary positions- so in another 6 months, there will be another rotation of new mods, and another chance to pick more people.

This will give people the chance to become more interactive with the way things go. The best way to get "real" input on decisions that matter to the community, is to really get the community represented in those decisions. By rotating basic moderators every 6 months, we will always have fresh ideas, and we will always have a fresh look at the "pulse" of the board- what people want or don't want, what works well and what doesn't, that sort of thing.

And every once in a while (as often as we ever have), when there are openings to fill on the permanent staff, we will promote from those who already spent time as moderators. This means you get people promoted to permanent staff who already did the job for a while, and we were so impressed with their diplomacy, their ability to interact with members and perform mod duties, that they got taken on as a position on the actual staff- this would be the Super Moderators and Administrators.

So once again- good luck, and I can't wait to see who we hear from! :)

Wouldn't this sort of position be best filled by nomination rather than application? Or is application preferable because of the time commitment involved?

Application is preferable because of the time - but if there's someone you want to nominate - by all means - send them a message and get them to apply.. I've done it in the past...

Welcome to

(drumroll please.....)

Moderator Idol!

;)

I agree with mal and would add that stepping forward with an application brings with it a greater degree of commitment to the task. I was nominated at another forum once, and declined because I didn't believe myself up to the task. When I accepted a second nomination, I proved myself right. :no:

Still looking for more applications.

Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my TFP family for a term as your Moderator.

Im ineligible to apply due to my allergy to politics....thats something my epi pen just wont work on :lol:

well I'm not allergic, I'd love to help moderate, but i don't have the time now, between school, work, building my business, wooing a wonderful woman, and coming up with alliterations, my time is tapped, maybe in 6 months.

~dil

Daaaamn...
Sherman really did make an impact on you guys. :D

:lol: :lol: :lol: Sorry. But that was true.

8.5/10

You would have received a 10 if you had used "assembling alliterations" for an assonance :D

yay a B! But it only matters if the wonderful wooed woman worships my whimsically wittiness.

Does that mean we can have a Simon to publicly humiliate applicants?

We have.
They cried.
It wasn't pretty.


We don't do that anymore.

I publically nominate Elphaba for the task.

PS I am not up to it myself because I have no time.

But think of the ratings! ;)

publicly 2nd-ed.

Sherman? Yes, yes, right. Step into the Wayback Machine and we'll travel all the way back to 1968 where the initials L, B, and J stand out for some reason. Perhaps he was a man of some *moderation*

(threw in that last part to avoid a threadjack citation from Big Kahuna)

Doh!!

You are, of course, and as usual....correct.

I, on the other hand, stepped into the Way way Waaay back Machine, and recalled Gen. William T. Sherman's immortal words; "If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve."


Oopps.

yesterday was the 116th anniversary of Sherman's death

Is Valentine's Day the anniversary of nearly everything?! :D

off course not!! today is the 165 anniversary of the first adhesive postage stamp in the US


/Im going to hush now since I have nothing more to add to the moderator application discussion :lol:

it's also national gumdrop day :D

tomorrow is the best holiday of all though :D

If EVER a thread needed moderating.........

So...apply! ;)

Pardon my ignorance... but what's tomorrow?

Friday...duh. :rolleyes:

it's Do A Favor for a Grouch Day :D

i expect lots of favors to be done for me :D

Ahhh, right. I forgot that office people have parts of the week which are designated as workdays and other parts designated as restdays. ;)

Damn I wish we celebrated that here. You guys get all the good holidays! :D

it can be an international holiday - go forth and celebrate it :D

So I have the right to be grouchy? I can't wait! :D