WE WANT YOU! [New Moderators]

paviro

Hi guys,

We are looking for some new moderators to help us maintain this forum!
There are currently 2.4 thousand registered users on this site, our moderator team on the other hand only consist out of 3 people (@MichMich, @KirAsh4 and myself). All of us have jobs and other side projects going on, so it has become impossible for us to do this all alone and that’s where we are asking you guys for help! :)

The moderator job:

Adding Markdown code highlighting to posts which don’t yet use it, as well as a note instructing the post author to do so themselves next time
Making sure new topics are in the right category
Splitting up topics if new questions get posted that have nothing to do with the original topic
Improving topic titles to clearly and on point state what the topic is about
Cleaning up the Showcase category: People needing help / having problems should be splittet into a new post in the troubleshooting category
Deleting spam messages and blocking spamming users
Watching over the community and making sure everyone plays nice with all the others
Trying to help in general
New stuff you come up with, you are part of our team so feel free to suggest your wishes

Requirements for the job:

You should know the MagicMirror framework well. Ideally but not mandatory, you have already committed some changes to the core project
You enjoy and have fun helping other people
You should be fluent in English

If you are interested, write a short text why you’d love to be a moderator, as well as telling us a bit about yourself and post it in this topic!

We are looking forward to hear from you guys! :)

in_a_days

I would like to volunteer to help moderate the forum. I’m very new here, but I have many years experience moderating and hosting football discussion forums. I host and maintain a handful of websites and I’m experienced with a lot of forum back-end management.

I spend the majority of my day in front of a computer screen and I’m here very frequently. Again, I’m still new to Github, but I’ve forked some code and shared some original modifications. I’m in the process of refreshing my coding skills specifically to develop ideas for my mirror. I enjoy helping people develop skills and answering questions as best I can.

This is a great, friendly community and I have learned a ton in a very short time. I would be happy to invest time to help keep things clean and orderly. Also, my wife is a huge Doctor Who fan. ;)

yawns

I’d like to apply too.
I am active almost every day and try to help people where ever I can. I don’t know the entire magic mirror framework and all of it’s specifications by heart, but I know where to look.
I am a software engineer and IT analyst, giving support to others is my daily business. Feedback from my real life users was always great.

strawberry 3.141

I can recommend @yawns and @ianperrin for this positions.

They helped a lot and made also some excellent modules.

morozgrafix

I would like to offer help with forum moderation as well. While I’m new to this forum I have spent last 7+ years of my career building products evolving around user community and collaboration (Yahoo Groups, Flickr and now Slack). Clear communication, empathy, courtesy and respect are some of the things on top of my list to keep building healthy and thriving community.

I’ve been following MichMich and his wonderful projects on Tumblr for a while, always wanted to build a mirror since his very initial build out. I didn’t have much time to play around with it. Then v2 came out and I kept saying to myself that I have to try it out. I finally joined community about a month ago, started to play around with core code and modules. And I got hooked. This is a really nice project with so many wonderful additions developed by people from all over the world.

My first module that I’ve built was based on a request that I found in this forum. I have a few more ideas for building modules. This forum helped me find information that I needed to understand and build things for MM. I just want to give back and help.

Thanks.

tosti007

@strawberry-3.141 how about yourself? You also seem active and always really helpful!

yawns

@tosti007 said in WE WANT YOU! [New Moderators]:

@strawberry-3.141 how about yourself? You also seem active and always really helpful!

I would recommend him too, but he is currently working on his bachelor stuff. I could imagine he is really short on time

tosti007

@yawns ah yes ofcourse. I can imagine he would be too busy, but if he has the time I think he would be a good choice.

strawberry 3.141

@tosti007 as @yawns mentioned I’m busy with my bachelor thesis and thereafter moving into another city, starting a job etc., on the other side I’m currently online anyways to support my testers. I would just behave and helping as I am doing now.

I wouldn’t say no, but also I wouldn’t explicitly applying for it.

tosti007

@strawberry-3.141 ah alright fair enough, I wouldn’t be surprised if they would ask you :) good luck with all the stuff :)

paviro

Thank you all for volunteering! We will wait until Sunday and then decide who gets the job :)

strawberry 3.141

@paviro I guess another important thing would be to cover different timezones

paviro

Would be nice yeah :)

Jopyth

I offer to help as a moderator.

Why do I think I am qualified?

By now I feel like I understand most of the project, except a few details here and there
I have previously moderated a forum for a few years (in my opinion successfully and fairly) - even though the topic (a forum for a gaming clan for an MMO) and technology (that was 6 years ago) was different, the same tasks and skills apply
I try to be as helpful as possible, whenever I type an answer (maybe my reputation rank compared to my number of posts rank (currently #7 vs. #10) between the users of the forum reflects that just a little bit - or it is just the popularity of my modules, who knows?)
I have had suggestions before (here), 80 percent of which @paviro carried out, a tiny part of me is still waiting for the other 20 percent to be changed or an answer why the remainder wasn’t such a good idea

Why do I want to?

Some of the points you mentioned in the moderator job bug me, too, and it is clear that it is too much work for you guys - so many topics with missing markdown, unfitting thread titles and error reports (troubleshooting requests) in the showcase threads - and I could not help before, but I might be able to do that, if you take me
I love the community and the project, and reached a (in my opinion) surprising amount of attention with a few of my modules, and would like stay active

Why you should definitely not take me:

I would definitely no longer call my post a short text
Also I would have more free time

In the last weeks since Christmas I didn’t have as much time for the project and the forum, I had to do a lot of stuff for university and work, but things have calmed down a bit now. In the next days I will start dealing with all the issues on my modules, since v2.1.0 came out, and hopefully also soon help with moderating the forum.

tosti007

I would like to apply too. I know I am really late with applying, but better late than never?

I am a 20 years old and from the Netherlands. I currently am in the second year of my bachelor in computer science, so writing code isn’t an issue. I already made 2 modules of my own, which is a lot of fun, and made a pull request to the main Framework (something small but it’s something).

I would like to be a moderator because I think it would be a great learning experience. I really like MagicMirror, it’s forum and community. I enjoy helping people and try to do so already, most preferably that they also learn something with it.
The additional tasks of a moderator won’t be much of a problem since I enjoy improving and helping this forum. (Then it’s actually possible to unleash the inner markdown OCD. :))

As you probably noticed by now I meet the requirements of being fluet in English and enjoying helping others. However I don’t know the framework that well yet and I am still trying to figure everything out and learn about it. Luckily I am a fast learner :). I won’t do it without mistakes on the way, but I think it will be a fun and learning experience. This is also the main reason why I am so late with applying. I wasn’t sure if I met the requirements, but I am very eager to learn and really looking forward to the experience.

Best regards,
Brian (yes that’s my real name)

paviro

Thank you so much for everyone who applied! :)

@MichMich and I have decided to appoint three new moderators.
The lucky ones are: @yawns, @morozgrafix and @Jopyth congratulations and welcome to our team! :slight_smile:

To the ones who weren’t chosen, have fun on the forum it wasn’t an easy choice!

MichMich

The decision was based on the (professional) experience, and the involvement in the project. Since we are still growing, keep an eye on this topic for future moderator positions.

Everyone that applied: thank you very much. Your commitment is very valuable to us and the project!

@yawns, @morozgrafix and @Jopyth, welcome to the team! 👍

tosti007

@yawns, @morozgrafix and @Jopyth congratulations!

morozgrafix

@paviro & @MichMich thank you for warm welcome. I’m looking forward to contributing more and helping this amazing community thrive.

in_a_days

Congratz to the new mods and thanks for your consideration!