WE WANT YOU! [New Moderators]

[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)