GBAtemp hiring new moderators: we need you!

leon315 · Jun 16, 2018

weird, Where is the UNCLE SAM?? Where's murica uncle?!

No uncle no recruitment!

Originality · Jun 16, 2018

I would probably be a perfect candidate as a moderator, however I’m only really interested in the Computing section and I only dip my nose into the other sections to keep up to date on hacking trends. Like with Switch hacking, I’m holding off until the scene matures a bit more.

x65943 · Jun 16, 2018

I know it's private, but I would be so interested to read the list of applicants.

ov3rkill · Jun 16, 2018

Okay. How many goats and virgins should I sacrifice in order to get this position?

LittleFlame · Jun 16, 2018

ov3rkill said:
Okay. How many goats and virgins should I sacrifice in order to get this position?

get a lamb, go for two in one

Dionicio3 · Jun 16, 2018

ov3rkill said:
Okay. How many goats and virgins should I sacrifice in order to get this position?

Please not me

x65943 · Jun 16, 2018

ov3rkill said:
Okay. How many goats and virgins should I sacrifice in order to get this position?

One hecatomb.

If you have to ask, you don't you have enough.

That said, I think it's funny you are going off topic in a mod application thread.

LittleFlame · Jun 16, 2018

x65943 said:
One hecatomb.

If you have to ask, you don't you have enough.

That said, I think it's funny you are going off topic in a mod application thread.

it's joke

evandixon · Jun 16, 2018

RHOPKINS13 said:
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.)

As an admin for another site, I can say that having a lot of posts isn't really a prerequisite to being a moderator. Moderating is about leading the forums and guiding them forward, in a way serving the users.

I think post quality is better than quantity, and the staff here probably thinks that too.

Madridi said:
- If that person is good enough, it’s kinda impossible to miss them. If you do miss someone, they are likely not significant enough.

I guess I would like to summarize the issues by the following:
- Establish specific criteria rather than ones that can be ambiguous.
- Reduce the possibly of the selection process being less qualitative than it usually was by having stricter criteria of the way they are chosen.

Finally, I totally forgot that sectional mods exist (blue mods). I think given the influx and popularity of some sections over the other, it should be a no brainer (to me at least) that whoever is appointed should be sectional mods for now. That alone will cover a large part of whatever the staff feel they are lagging behind at the moment

1. Sometimes good candidates are out there, but don't post much until after applications are put out there. You also assume the current staff has the time to hunt down candidates, when I'd think their time is better spent improving the site.

2. This isn't a competition that needs objectivity, this is essentially a job application with the subjective requirements of being helpful and a fit to the team.

3. The position of local moderator shouldn't be considered just a lower rank global mod. Local moderators don't have to worry much about stuff outside their own forums, so their time is more focused on making those better. Plus there's more a sense of ownership that can help drive things further too. This is what makes reddit work: subreddits are basically subforums where moderators have mostly free reign to lead the sub community.

dAVID_ · Jun 16, 2018

I don't think I have the maturity or free time to be a moderator.

m_babble · Jun 16, 2018

Could probably use a few extra mods with all the alt-right garbage popping up on here lately.

AxlSt00pid · Jun 16, 2018

And now Costello's DM inbox got flooded

Good luck to everyone that applied!

supergamer368 · Jun 16, 2018

aw man, if only i had common sense and time. at the same time, i don’t feel like it

smileyhead · Jun 16, 2018

I feel somewhat concerned that the thread's icon is a ban hammer.

DinohScene · Jun 16, 2018

Good luck everyone!

Alkéryn · Jun 16, 2018

I would apply but i have way too much things to do already

Darth Meteos · Jun 16, 2018

I know I'm trustworthy, but ahhh... I'm just too much of a shitposter to win a vote. Good luck to the winner, and sorry to see you go, @Minox!

Deleted User · Jun 16, 2018

Can I get a list of moderators? I may have to talk about a certain "report-er" not doing the best job. They delete a whole section of comments for no reason.

Old · Jun 16, 2018

No more Minox, that's a real shame.

Easily the finest, most professional I've encountered here.

I can't think of anyone that I'd nominate. A few come close, but just miss the mark in a few departments. More diversity among the staff is always a plus, unless the 'good old (white) boys club' is something you're actually striving for, heh.
Someone with a bit of actual life experience couldn't hurt, either.

HamBone41801 · Jun 16, 2018

CrisFTW said:
Can I get a list of moderators? I may have to talk about a certain "report-er" not doing the best job. They delete a whole section of comments for no reason.

It’s common practice to delete entire comment chains when the original is deleted.

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