Admins may decide one or more new moderators are needed for a particular forum.
A thread is started in the relevant forum. with a one week time limit. Members then use this thread to suggest candidates.
Candidates may include active staff (i.e., who moderate other forums already).
In the case of the debate forum, the thread is placed in The Soapbox forum.
Admins check that all nominated candidates are willing to serve.
Admins select the candidate(s) who have the most in-forum support in their judgment, with any discussion taking place in the Admin Open Discussion forum or the Staff Discussion forum. A "none of the above" verdict is allowed.
If, in the admins' judgment, fewer candidates have any forum support than there are positions, those selected are appointed and the procedure is restarted to fill any remaining positions.
Staff may veto the winning candidate(s) by majority vote if they deem the selected candidate(s) unsuitable.
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It's all good fun until somebody loses an eye.
i'd nominate el guapo but i seem to remember him not really doing anything when he was a mod. though, this is mathematics so maybe it is more his speed?
Math is such a quiet forum, it's not a big deal to mod. I'd nominate myself except that having a list of four forums looks bad even when one of those forums is nearly dead. (If we end up putting someone other than me in philosophy, then I'd be happy to take math.)
Did I mention that I placed 48th of all contestants in this competition, 25 years ago?
__________________ Requiem: Everything we humans do is fully deserving of ridicule and mockery. Without a God to laugh, it falls to us enlightened fools to make up the difference.
__________________ Requiem: Everything we humans do is fully deserving of ridicule and mockery. Without a God to laugh, it falls to us enlightened fools to make up the difference.