WE WANT YOU! [New Moderators]

[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.