Community,
As you know, we are a bit short staffed at the moment and are looking for help on selecting the next mod(s) to help us out. Our process is usually internal but we've had a hard time coming up with anyone that is agreeable to the current team. So we are looking to you for help. What we need from you - Your nominations of community members to help us mod the sub.
Please suggest anyone you feel might be a good fit for the mod team. The user account needs to be somewhat aged - no 10 day old accounts please. We need to have a good idea of the person's post history and how they've related to the community.
Modding is usually quite dull. It consists of mostly clean up work. We need people who are fairly active in the community and are willing to do the dirty work of maintaining the sub - flairing posts, removing content, etc.
Again, we are looking to you for help. Think of longstanding community members who've been helpful and we'd love to consider them for a slot on the mod team! We don't really have a set number we are looking for. We try to add slowly just to make sure we get the right fit. Aside from the usual requirements (ability to be online fairly often to mod, helpfulness, etc, etc), the most important is the ability to work with the current team. So we will examine the personality fit and make sure that the people we add can all work well together.
Thanks for your help and hope we can get some help onboarded soon!
DNM Mods
Edit: small clarification. Don't worry (or bother) about vote manipulation. We aren't using the votes at all in selecting a mod. We are mainly using this to help bring some names to mind for us to vet. While we will use community support as some factor, it definitely won't hinge on number of upvotes or downvotes a nomination receives. The person will still go through our usual vetting process. But it is nice to see which candidates receive support (in the comments part of it)
Also we are quite reluctant on selecting a vendor or anyone who derives financial benefit from the community due to potential conflicts of interests. And even if the person could separate their conflict, the accusations and mistrust from the community is probably going to be problematic.
But we are obviously opened to our friends at the Department of Justice, FBI or any federal agency really. Esp the IRS. We love the IRS.
Self-nominations will be shoveled into a corner and used for compost...