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I'd be interested in being a moderator. What's it entail?
Lots of work, long hours, no pay and truckloads of abuse from passionate, bigoted arse wipes.
You had me at bigoted arse wipes
I just want the bitching to be stomped out and legit discussion to be valued. Wanna bitch? Call ya mom.
You get access to a queue of reported posts and comments, decide how to deal with each one, and mark them resolved.
You also have the ability to feature posts in the community, lock them from getting comments, and ban users temporarily or permanently.
Thank you. If no one else wants to be a mod I will do it. I only say this because I'm a single dad and don't have much time to devote to this except in the evenings.
There are multiple people modding so it's not that bad. There are occasional flame wars where you'll log in and see:
"Mod Queue (30)" and go "Oh, holy hell, what happened here??!?" but that's pretty rare. Generally it's a new troll account trying to stir up trouble.
Got it. Yea, I'll be a mod for sure.
Coolio! Fill out the app up there! ^
Done!