How do you become a mod
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Ezzy
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First become known as a serious poster in one or more forums, stick around for a year or two posting on a regular basis.
Bring points that need attention to those who need to know.
When help is asked for make an offer to help.
Be prepared to not get the job.
If you do get the job as a mod be prepared to be attacked be 25% of any forum, ignored by 70% of the forum and praised by 5% of the forum.
If you can spend 20 unpaid hours a day on "duty" so much the better, but 4 or 5 is more often the case for most mods.
So if you are still around next year and you have done all of the above to the best of your ability, you may have become a mod!
Bring points that need attention to those who need to know.
When help is asked for make an offer to help.
Be prepared to not get the job.
If you do get the job as a mod be prepared to be attacked be 25% of any forum, ignored by 70% of the forum and praised by 5% of the forum.
If you can spend 20 unpaid hours a day on "duty" so much the better, but 4 or 5 is more often the case for most mods.
So if you are still around next year and you have done all of the above to the best of your ability, you may have become a mod!
Elizafairy
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Why do you have to wait a year? 
I have been here a whole month and look how many posts I have and how many ppl I have helped on my helpful avatar shop thread.
I have been here a whole month and look how many posts I have and how many ppl I have helped on my helpful avatar shop thread.
Ezzy
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Elizafairy said:Why do you have to wait a year?
I have been here a whole month and look how many posts I have and how many ppl I have helped on my helpful avatar shop thread.
Heck my comments are just a teensy wittle bit sarcastic!
I have been here 5 years and you have passed my 5 years of posts in just 1 month.
But being a mod is a little like being given the keys to the kingdom on a forum. You get the power and responsibility to make or break a forum. It is not so much the amount of posts, rather that you haven't just blown in on a whim, posted "x" number of posts, become a mod, wreck a forum, then blow out when the shit hits the fan, leaving chaos in your wake.
If you want to mod a site and have the time to commit to one, I am sure if you make the offer enough times you will be taken up on it.
The trust factor is normally built upon a time factor, not a numbers factor, though there are times (like soon after the start of a new site) when the first person to post more than 100 posts is a mod.
Having the admin responsibility enables you to be a boon or a bust, you can move, edit, delete other peoples posts without leaving a trace that the ordinary member can see, there can be nothing worse for the ordinary member, than to log in and find their every post has been messed with.
If you think things like that haven’t happened on sites in the past, think again, they have. I have seen moderators abuse their power as well as use their power, they don’t stay mods for long though, just long enough for the site owners to find out what they are doing, most of the time.
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silverwhisper
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as ezzy intimated, it's about the powers that be knowing that you're someone that could be trusted w/ the power to edit someone else's post and generally not abuse that power. post count is irrelevant: it's all about the signal: nose ratio in your posts and whether the existing mods and admins think you're someone who would be able to do the job in the way they think it needs to be done.
if you really wanna be a mod (on any forum), you gotta become part of the community. your posts are your resume, basically. so they gotta know who you are, have a definite feel as to the kind of person that you are.
all of this however just makes you a good candidate, if they like what they see. but the rest is filling an opening: after all, they gotta need someone before they look at prospective new mods.
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if you really wanna be a mod (on any forum), you gotta become part of the community. your posts are your resume, basically. so they gotta know who you are, have a definite feel as to the kind of person that you are.
all of this however just makes you a good candidate, if they like what they see. but the rest is filling an opening: after all, they gotta need someone before they look at prospective new mods.
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