[1] I am smart and fair-minded and a forum veteran.
[2] I have the best interests of the website at heart.
[3] I will stop posting on the forums aside from word games and sharing music.
[4] I work long hours at a computer so I will often be on call.
Expressions of support will mean more to me than disapproval. But post as you see fit. I am willing to answer any questions in a candid way.
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@fmf saidAre you not happy with the present mods?🤔
[1] I am smart and fair-minded and a forum veteran.
[2] I have the best interests of the website at heart.
[3] I will stop posting on the forums aside from word games and sharing music.
[4] I work long hours at a computer so I will often be on call.
Expressions of support will mean more to me than disapproval. But post as you see fit. I am willing to answer any questions in a candid way.
@great-big-stees saidI want to emulate and augment them.
Are you not happy with the present mods?🤔
@the-gravedigger saidThanks for your support.
Excellent idea. The site needs you. Thanks for your sacrifice.
@fmf said(5) A great way to get rid of people I don't get along with posting.
[1] I am smart and fair-minded and a forum veteran.
[2] I have the best interests of the website at heart.
[3] I will stop posting on the forums aside from word games and sharing music.
[4] I work long hours at a computer so I will often be on call.
Expressions of support will mean more to me than disapproval. But post as you see fit. I am willing to answer any questions in a candid way.
Do you really think you even have a remote chance?
How many people you figure would leave because you were a Moderator?
-VR
@great-big-stees saidIf it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, odds are pretty good it is a duck. 🙂
I am not normally a negative kinda person but I sense…well… self interest.🤔
-VR
@fmf saidI have no idea how one becomes a moderator at RHP, but I’ll wager that virtue signaling at the GF is not the highway to that august position.
[1] I am smart and fair-minded and a forum veteran.
[2] I have the best interests of the website at heart.
[3] I will stop posting on the forums aside from word games and sharing music.
[4] I work long hours at a computer so I will often be on call.
Expressions of support will mean more to me than disapproval. But post as you see fit. I am willing to answer any questions in a candid way.
29 May 22
The trouble with becoming a moderator is that you're required to read everything on the alerts list, and spend time analysing the intentions of people who may be simply bored or intoxicated. It's a bit like working as a sewer unblocker. It's one of those tasks assumed by people who want to do good and make a difference. It's an odd ambition.
@kewpie saidI am ready, willing and able.
The trouble with becoming a moderator is that you're required to read everything on the alerts list, and spend time analysing the intentions of people who may be simply bored or intoxicated. It's a bit like working as a sewer unblocker. It's one of those tasks assumed by people who want to do good and make a difference. It's an odd ambition.
@fmf saidApparently you think the post of moderator is something like a job you apply for by presenting your list of qualifications or a cv. Well then, let's look at your 'qualifications', shall we?
I am ready, willing and able.
[1] I am smart and fair-minded and a forum veteran.
This is actually three claims which need to be addressed separately:
You claim to be smart. You think other people here are not smart? Anyone who can master the rules of chess is smart. More to the point, moderating forum content isn't about smarts. It's about something else not mentioned in your 'cv' at all.
You claim to be fair-minded. I beg to differ.
You claim to be a forum veteran. I won't dispute that.
[2] I have the best interests of the website at heart.
I do not believe that. Before you claim to have the best interest of the web site at heart, demonstrate that you understand the principles upon which this site monetarizes users. The best interest of this web site consists in keeping people on board and renewing their subscriptions; attracting new people to sign up for subscriptions; and offering advertizers server stats how many 'hits' the site generates -- those are the means by which revenue is generated. Russ isn't Mother Theresa, you know; this is not a charity.
Pssst: it is about providing features people like -- such as likes and dislikes, forums, live speed chess, a wide spectrum of options not every user will want or use.
[3] I will stop posting on the forums aside from word games and sharing music.
O, what a grand gesture, what a stupendous sacrifice you are willing to bear to serve this site with your ... um .... selflessness. You can stop posting any time you want; in fact, if you want your 'candidature' to be taken seriously, why not stop posting right now, today, and remain silent until site admin anoints you?
[4] I work long hours at a computer so I will often be on call.
One does not set the fox to watch the henhouse just because he has a lot of experience doing it.
Ready, willing, and able.
You're much too eager. As Plato says in the Republic, the only people who should be in power are those who don't want to be.