GBAtemp needs you!
The GBAtemp community has just lost one of its most valuable supervisors Minox who decided to step down after years of incredible service at GBAtemp. His presence and dedication are already heavily missed, if you're reading this Minox - I really mean it and I'm sorry you decided to go.

It's time to inject some fresh blood into our mod team! If you think you have what it takes, send me a PM. You don't have to post in this thread to apply. For your information, hiring decisions are made by staff consensus, I won't be the one to decide.

So you must be wondering: why would anyone want to join the mod team on these crazy forums? Well there are quite a few incentives:
- first you get a shiny badge, and access to our secret staff forums
- become part of the GBAtemp mod family and join our secret group chat
- get free games and hardware for review (you're free to choose the games/stuff you want to review)
- weigh in on important decisions concerning the organization of events and the future of the site
- early access to new features/skins and beta testing
- climb up the ladder to become a supervisor with full power over the entire site

What we're looking for before anything is level-headed persons with good common sense, if you've submitted valid reports before you literally get bonus points. Also, if you're familiar with the 3DS and Switch hacking scene, we're looking for moderators for these areas in particular.

Interested? Shoot me a private message! Your application will be reposted on our staff forum where the staff will render their verdict. We will inform you when decisions have been made.

 

[McWhiters9511]

In all seriousness though, I kinda regret not being more serious about my postings so far. Being a mod sounds fun, but I don’t think I’m remotely close to being a contributing member at this point. (Probably doesn’t matter anyway, only 17)

im in the same boat man.

 

[DKB]

In all seriousness though, I kinda regret not being more serious about my postings so far. Being a mod sounds fun, but I don’t think I’m remotely close to being a contributing member at this point. (Probably doesn’t matter anyway, only 17)

I still applied. I say a lot of dumb shit often but being serious myself; looking around, there is a lot of glaring issues that need to be addressed in this forum, and they can b easily fixed. Hopefully they pick the right person to do it though.

 

[HamBone41801]

I still applied. I say a lot of dumb shit often but being serious myself; looking around, there is a lot of glaring issues that need to be addressed in this forum, and they can b easily fixed. Hopefully they pick the right person to do it though.

I think I’ll save myself the embarrassment of being left on read this time around. Maybe next year when fewer people think I’m an asshole kid.

 

[Chary]

...Was he the one that EXTREMELY upset at staff for choosing a certain person for winning a event on here..or something? Or was it like..voxel..or something..

Vipera blew his load over Patreon and had a freakout over it. Then he came back as 330 and decided to write a 20 page essay full of pure froth and salt at me...for...existing? One of the pissiest members this site has ever had. Smileyhead was the one who spiraled out against Voxel.

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Anyways, I wonder who the new blood will be. Is this the return of Blue mods? There's some potentially interesting choices I've thought could make good mods, so it'll be exciting to see who applies.

 

[HamBone41801]

Vipera blew his load over Patreon and had a freakout over it. Then he came back as 330 and decided to write a 20 page essay full of pure froth and salt at me...for...existing? One of the pissiest members this site has ever had. Smileyhead was the one who spiraled out against Voxel.

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Anyways, I wonder who the new blood will be. Is this the return of Blue mods? There's some potentially interesting choices I've thought could make good mods, so it'll be exciting to see who applies.

Who do you want as a mod? I kinda hope vinscool gets it.

 

[RHOPKINS13]

I would like to be a mod, but the job will probably go to someone more qualified. I'm 30, I've been a member for almost 10 years, but I've been reading these forums for much longer. I may not have a ton of posts, but I have received a good amount of likes, and a lot of my posts are giving advice to other users about their modding adventures.

I lurk around here almost constantly, except when I'm sleeping (roughly midnight to 8 AM, EST.)

 

[Madridi]

@Costello

I can’t help to wonder, but why change the way you ran things? I mean, the mentality has always been “if you are a person who asks to be a mod, you’re probably never get it.” .. right? I personally was In favor of that method of picking staff. Over the 10+ years that I spent here, I can honestly say that (with the exception of one or two staffers that I particularly didn’t agree with), I feel that gbatemp has done a good job picking people out. They are mostly cool people, who are level headed, regardless of their performance as staffers. I am not sure why you would want to change that..

I do have concerns about people applying to be a mod, and having significant power over the site. It would be better if staff nominate people after agreeing upon themselves that the specific and then have staff approach that person directly on whether they are interested or not.

Also, this is no disrespect for anyone, but a lot of people on this site (including myself) have seen some issues with gbatemp over the years. While this isn’t the fright place to discuss this, the one issue I would like to raise that pertains to this, is the forums seems to be filled with kids, who either get triggered quite easily (rather than just walk away), like to troll and offer almost no contribution, or simply engage in unhealthy behavior of picking one team, and berating Any other team that they don’t agree with. Numerous examples exist for this such as:
Cfw vs flashcart
Cfw A vs Cfw B
Hacking method A vs Hacking method B
Modchip vs free solution

Because of the above, I believe any mod nominated should not have the tendency to do such a thing, and look at any issue objectively rather than what they feel on the issue.

Finally, forgive me if I somehow missed this, but I don’t see any concrete requirements mentioned for applying (level headedness and common sense is somewhat vague requirement without an accurate measurement). Some easy requirements can be:

- How long a Member has been in the site in relation their post counts. This site has been around since 2002 or so. I think people who have held accounts for less than 3 years should be on waiting lists of a sort for further mod appointments later, but priority should be given to those have been here for a lot of years. I am also not a fan of having post count as a criteria, as “shitposting”does exist, but I think looking at both criterias at the same time rather than one or the other can give you some sort of measurement.

- Warn level: I think people who were warned more than once should automatically be disqualified. This does gives you the kind of indication on the character of that specific member. Giving them the opportunity to mod would more likely only feed their power hungered ego than them doing any actual good to the community.

Obviously, staff can waive any requirement if they feel the good outweighs the bad.

Either way, good luck with this process, and best wishes to Minox.

Edit: Oh boy, this wasn’t supposed to be as long lol. Maybe a PM would’ve been better. Sorry for the wall of text.

 

[DKB]

-snip-

You were supposed to send a PM, not do it here, lol.

Edit: Ahhh, sorry. Should have glanced at least before saying something.

 

[McWhiters9511]

@Costello

I can’t help to wonder, but why change the way you ran things? I mean, the mentality has always been “if you are a person who asks to be a mod, you’re probably never get it.” .. right? I personally was In favor of that method of picking staff. Over the 10+ years that I spent here, I can honestly say that (with the exception of one or two staffers that I particularly didn’t agree with), I feel that gbatemp has done a good job picking people out. They are mostly cool people, who are level headed, regardless of their performance as staffers. I am not sure why you would want to change that..

I do have concerns about people applying to be a mod, and having significant power over the site. It would be better if staff nominate people after agreeing upon themselves that the specific and then have staff approach that person directly on whether they are interested or not.

Also, this is no disrespect for anyone, but a lot of people on this site (including myself) have seen some issues with gbatemp over the years. While this isn’t the fright place to discuss this, the one issue I would like to raise that pertains to this, is the forums seems to be filled with kids, who either get triggered quite easily (rather than just walk away), like to troll and offer almost no contribution, or simply engage in unhealthy behavior of picking one team, and berating Any other team that they don’t agree with. Numerous examples exist for this such as:
Cfw vs flashcart
Cfw A vs Cfw B
Hacking method A vs Hacking method B
Modchip vs free solution

Because of the above, I believe any mod nominated should not have the tendency to do such a thing, and look at any issue objectively rather than what they feel on the issue.

Finally, forgive me if I somehow missed this, but I don’t see any concrete requirements mentioned for applying (level headedness and common sense is somewhat vague requirement without an accurate measurement). Some easy requirements can be:

- How long a Member has been in the site in relation their post counts. This site has been around since 2002 or so. I think people who have held accounts for less than 3 years should be on waiting lists of a sort for further mod appointments later, but priority should be given to those have been here for a lot of years. I am also not a fan of having post count as a criteria, as “shitposting”does exist, but I think looking at both criterias at the same time rather than one or the other can give you some sort of measurement.

- Warn level: I think people who were warned more than once should automatically be disqualified. This does gives you the kind of indication on the character of that specific member. Giving them the opportunity to mod would more likely only feed their power hungered ego than them doing any actual good to the community.

Obviously, staff can waive any requirement if they feel the good outweighs the bad.

Either way, good luck with this process, and best wishes to Minox.

Edit: Oh boy, this wasn’t supposed to be as long lol. Maybe a PM would’ve been better. Sorry for the wall of text.

yea i can agree with the uncertainty with this method but they can just strip the role if someone acted out, but i doubt theyd ever pick someone who really would. im sure till work out fine

 

[Madridi]

You were supposed to send a PM, not do it here, lol.

Read my edit lol.

Also, this isn’t about me at all

 

[Chary]

I feel like opening applications is fine in this instance. Me and Prans were hired onto magstaff when an application for Contributors was going on. As far as other warn level things and such, that's a bit of common sense imo, though perhaps it should be fully noted just to cover bases. Post counts shouldn't really matter either, @porkiewpyne barely has 2000 posts over 10 years and yet he's one of the best mods the site's had. Sometimes the quiet ones are the best ones.

Applications, I think, work, because it gives the Mod Team an idea of who wants the role. I trust their judgement to argue out the ones unfit. Offering power as a feature of being a mod sounds a bit...awkward though, and you can only really be allowed to write reviews and get game codes if you're a good writer. Actually, I think only @Issac from the mods/supers staff is a current reviewer at all.

 

[HamBone41801]

I feel like opening applications is fine in this instance. Me and Prans were hired onto magstaff when an application for Contributors was going on. As far as other warn level things and such, that's a bit of common sense imo, though perhaps it should be fully noted just to cover bases. Post counts shouldn't really matter either, @porkiewpyne barely has 2000 posts over 10 years and yet he's one of the best mods the site's had. Sometimes the quiet ones are the best ones.

Applications, I think, work, because it gives the Mod Team an idea of who wants the role. I trust their judgement to argue out the ones unfit. Offering power as a feature of being a mod sounds a bit...awkward though, and you can only really be allowed to write reviews and get game codes if you're a good writer. Actually, I think only @Issac from the mods/supers staff is a current reviewer at all.

So do you have mod powers now?

 

[Chary]

So do you have mod powers now?

huh? when did I say that lol. I meant hired on during like, 2014, for Magazine Staff, I was drawing a parallel that this idea worked in the past.

 

[HamBone41801]

huh? when did I say that lol. I meant hired on during like, 2014, for Magazine Staff, I was drawing a parallel that this idea worked in the past.

I was just asking. I didn’t know if reporters had such powers.

 

[Chary]

I was just asking. I didn’t know if reporters had such powers.

We can lock threads, move them, have access to a few Staff subforums, sticky threads, change titles, edit all posts, and front page other threads.

 

[K3Nv2]

I vote psionic roshambo

 

[TheZander]

I think this was coming for awhile look at the activity spike in the switch forums today. Everyone there is constantly taking about mods and stuff. Personally i like forums run like Biff's alternate future but there is only going to be more stuff happening soon which will even garner more traffic so stocking up on mods now is a good call. Anyway i wanted to have some kind of preamble to this

 

[SomeGamer]

We can lock threads, move them, have access to a few Staff subforums, sticky threads, change titles, edit all posts, and front page other threads.

And edit posts without the edit notice at the bottom.

Indeed

EDIT: brb applying now

 

[JellyPerson]

I signed up, because why not? I got nothing to lose, other than my time. But hey, I got an abundance of that anyway, so let's see.

 

[LittleFlame]

well @VinsCool now's your chance