Moderators Needed

[Dingus]

I think you should hand over "moderation" to us for some days and go on a vacation.

[reactor]

I think Dingus can handle moderating tasks very good !

[bigduke]

How on earth did i get late on this post ? .... oh wait i wasn't allowed to be on the system for long because of the surgery.
Erin .... give it to me baby ... ahan ahan ... (and all the gurlies say i'm pretty fly for a ** checks skin color ** brown guy ... ** BEATS **)

This is mah dream part-time job ... I am ready to pay you to give this to me

On a serious note, Erin you have got to let me do this .... PLZZZZZZ (kiddin)

[awhig]

Hey bigduke , welcome back. How did the surgery go?

[bioinformatics]

hock me up. i wouldn't mind moderating the GRE subject test area. eager for a reply.

[vikramkone]

Hi
Erin
i aslo want to contribute my mite to this wonderful forum...so do consider my application..
bye

[seenapanalli]

Hello Erin,

Thanks for creating such a nice forum. Please let me know if I could help in any way.

Thanks,

[ketanm]

Guys n Gals,

I read this thread from Erin's first post to the last, and sorry to say but I am kinda dis-appointed......All the posts following Erin's first post have the same content "I want to be a moderator" OR "Erin, please make me a moderator"....

What I would have loved is a discussion on some suggestions on how Erin should implement the moderatorship, without diluting the quality of the forum. (I know that Erin is the sole person to take the ultimate decision, but its like the CEO of a corporation, who has to get inputs from his team, before any major decision)

Although Erin didnt requested specifically for any such discussion, but he also wouldnt mind any (unwarranted ) suggestions from our side... sometimes a good discussion can open new doors or if not atleast help him to choose the right one..... He has some "ideas" about moderatorship which he has expressed in his first post.... and I know that there are so many talented and experienced people out here, who have been on numerous other fourms... and they can put forth their ideas and experience about moderatorship and the way a public forum like TM should go, so that it attains a distinct identity ...... I would really HATE to see TM as just another GMAT/GRE/TOEFL/LSAT forum.....(hard to even imagine that).....

BTW, I know that I might be inviting flames (which is not my intenstion)..... but I have seen many forums simply vanishing because of BAD moderators.... I am not saying that there the people were wrong..... it is just that they were BAD as moderators...... and wouldn't like to see Erin regretting his decision to have moderators later on.....

No offence meant to anyone.....

Ketan
PS: If this is being discussed in some other thread, then please let me know.

[Erin]

Hmmm... Interesting idea. It never occurred to me to ask members what they were looking for in moderators; I made this post really just to gauge the interest.

I think your idea to ask what people want in their moderators is a good one, although I suspect most people would say pretty much the same thing--someone who is fair, polite, helpful, etc.

I'm thinking now that I will start with one or two moderators to see how it goes. I've had moderators before, but not for a while. I didn't have any problems with the previous moderators, and I wouldn't choose someone I didn't have full faith in. The people I would choose for the first round of moderators have been acting as de facto moderators in a very real sense--they've been alerting me to posts that need my attention, been helping people, and have earned the respect of their fellow members.

I honestly don't anticipate problems, and you can believe that I will not tolerate any sort of abuse of power. More than anything, I respect our members and want them to have a good experience here. I've worked too many years building the site, the forum, and the local business to let ego (that includes my own!!) get in the way.

Trust me--our visitors, our fellow forum members, and my students will be treated with respect by anybody representing TestMagic.

Thanks for your feedback, Ketan.

[ketanm]

Originally Posted by Erin

I think your idea to ask what people want in their moderators is a good one, although I suspect most people would say pretty much the same thing--someone who is fair, polite, helpful, etc.

Well, I can put forward some eligibility criterion for being a moderator

1) You need to actively contribute here on the forums
2) 24/7/365 net connect
4) Patience and an INDEPTH knowledge of the forum which takes months to
acquire (this can be quantified by something like number of posts say
1000)
5) Ability to be nice (fair, polite, helpful as Erin suggested )
6) Ability to get along with other moderators (absolute essential) [I have seen
bickering amongst the mods ruining the spirit of a forum]
7) Ability to visualize Erin's vision for TM (where is TM heading)
8) Have to be extremely patient (esp with newbies)
9) Must be creative in the sense of providing valuable suggestions from time
to time....(regrading everything)
10) Must be "good" (now this is relative term) in the specific sub-forum
he/she is expected to handle (say SC, RC, CR etc etc)
11) Must be available for next one year (This is because a person
entering a B-school in next 3-4 months would be a bad choice... it would
take probably 2-3 months just to "understand" the fourm and then only
you will be able to contribute)


Ketan