Valdštejn wrote:To clear things up - Mods don't need to stop playing the game. I'm not sure who told you that, but it's wrong.
I think Jack said that it's Wouter who told him that.
Valdštejn wrote:the problem with the idea of volunteer assistance is that in order to perform these functions, you have to have access to all the moderator functions.
I figured, but wouldn't you notice certain things, and can't you check, from which IP address (and from the login times of the forum accounts), who did what?
Valdštejn wrote:And, quite frankly, people whom I don't trust to be good full-time mods, I wouldn't trust with these either, because they're easy to use to your advantage.
That's why we don't go for most time online alone when we look for mods, because they need to be people whom we can trust.
I'm online a lot, and I applied. You can't trust me?
Valdštejn wrote:Nevertheless, there are certain candidates we will interview as soon as I get back to regular internet access, and I hope we'll have a new mod by the end of the week.
You didn't interview me after my applications, when you appointed Holdit or Rapax; 1 leaves very shortly after being appointed, then the other (instead of helping things to go faster) locks the Final Draft Approval Thread in the Creating the Law Subforum. Am I allowed to question your judgement in moderator appointment? You didn't even have the courtesy to respond to say "We received your application, but it has been rejected," or something of the sort. It's not like you had many; you admitted you had very few.
Valdštejn wrote:Also, most of the people favoured in this thread never handed in an application,
I'll beg Aquinas to hand in an application.
Valdštejn wrote:the ones that have and show enough inter-personal skills to not immediately antagonise the forum will be interviewed.
This seems like an attack on me, though I will argue that moderation's inactivity is the antagonist here.
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As another suggestion, I think that the community ought to elect someone to represent them in these moderator appointments. By that, I mean they would have someone representing them to help with appointing a new moderator. This elected person wouldn't be one of the applicants, or a moderator. I would favour veteran players to take this job, like Farsun, Zanz, SelucianCrusader, etc. (hoping that there are no IML/ATR biases).
And why has this idea (below) been ignored?
I think there could be more accountability, and reasoning transparency (ability for other persons to judge why a decision is being made, after seeing who made it) if Mods' identities were known, like the days when GreekIdiot or Bean were mods.
This whole secret identity thing just gives them more room to slack up. Imagine only 2 IML mods being on the team... They would probably not appoint another mod unless that Mod is IML as well, and we wouldn't know this. They could also defend their in-character interests by abusing Moderations' powers.