Moderator Applications Opened - FOREVER!

[Skull132]

Okay, as per a discussion had with the moderators and admins today, we are no longer doing cyclical recruitment of moderators. The recruitment of moderators will be continuous, which means the board will now only be closed whenever we literally have too many mods. Which is never!

Anyways. Same deal as before. Read the prerequisites. Read them, understand them, yadda. Then, go and make an application on the boards here!

As always, if you have any questions, feel free to post them or ask them from staff either ingame or out of game!

[Owen]

Yes!

[Guest]

oh god no

[Skull132]

Also, now that it's not 3 AM, some insight as to why we're swapping out for continuous recruitment as opposed to doing cycles.

The first point is to address the large amount of applicants that get binned purely because they applied at a point where we had already gotten the desired amount of new moderators. With cyclical recruitment, there is always the expectation for the cycle to end, and a limited timeframe. It has been a consistent issue where we simply cannot tend to all applications in that amount of time, so we have to hedge our bets on cherry picking. This, obviously, is not the most ideal way to manage it, specially considering that we have also been relatively withdrawn in actually putting what I described as a reason for denying applications. With continuous applications, once we're past the initial wave, we won't have to tend to a massive cluster of applications and can, instead, roll with a (hopefully) semi-regular stream of them and thus give everyone a fair amount of attention.

We're also hoping that this will make the process a little more relaxed for all sides. While it removes the driving motivator of, "If I don't apply now, I might have to wait 3 more months before the next chance," it'll also remove the same thing as a barrier. You can apply whenever you feel ready for it, and can talk to mods and admins about it whenever and get tended to, on that count. It will also make dealing with applications a less of an all-consuming task for current mods and admins, as we don't expect to have literal bucketfuls of them past the initial opening wave. (Though, please do try to prove me wrong on that count; it would be a pleasant surprise.)

So yah, those are our main reasons for this swap.

[Butterrobber202]

Mod you say? "Calls hacker friend" "SEND THE BALDIES"

[Skull132]

For an update regarding the present apps. We've inducted the first round of Trials, we'll see how we can manage them, and then continue moving on the next ones. I know there are a few I still want to interview.

[Scheveningen]

I'd suggest unpinning this from global announcements as it's not accurate given the apps are now closed.