How do i become a mod?

[JFox]

Yea, just like to title says, I wanna become a mod. I'm too awesome not to have special powers.

[pockyD]

i don't think atl north needs any more mods, since there's already like 3 active ones

[hotdogturtle]

You can't.

Seriously, new moderators are only chosen a few times a year, and the minimum requirements for applying are very steep. Even so, hundreds apply, but only a few are selected. If you seriously want to be a moderator, you'll need to be an active, TOS-following board user for well over a year to even be considered. Pestering the current moderators or administrators to become a moderator essentially guarantees that you won't be selected.

[otg]

Sometimes it's just bestowed on you. I don't think Dogy applied and he's one now.

[prog]

You can't.

Seriously, new moderators are only chosen a few times a year, and the minimum requirements for applying are very steep. Even so, hundreds apply, but only a few are selected. If you seriously want to be a moderator, you'll need to be an active, TOS-following board user for well over a year to even be considered. Pestering the current moderators or administrators to become a moderator essentially guarantees that you won't be selected.

LL in the house?

[Dazwa]

You can't.

Seriously, new moderators are only chosen a few times a year, and the minimum requirements for applying are very steep. Even so, hundreds apply, but only a few are selected. If you seriously want to be a moderator, you'll need to be an active, TOS-following board user for well over a year to even be considered. Pestering the current moderators or administrators to become a moderator essentially guarantees that you won't be selected.

posts like these are the reason boxman and I go up to you at tournaments and scream like excited schoolgirls

[Tom]

i got modded by pestering Dazwa

if you pester him enough he will mod you.

[Jam Stunna]

posts like these are the reason boxman and I go up to you at tournaments and scream like excited schoolgirls

Haha, I don't even meet those requirements.

POST #4,444!

[Thiocyanide]

I think people don't realize that there's more to being a mod than having shiny red letters.

[~ZIO~]

Wait. There are applications to that position? Good lord, do those ever get announced, cause I never seen the announcements.

I'd love to be a mod. Sure, the idea has gone through my head. The requirements I understand, sorta. I don't think you need to know html, but that would be a bonus. Anyway, I'd love to be one at any of the forums I post at, which is a good number of forums. But after, like, six years, I sorta just grew numb. I don't care anymore. :laugh:

Why am I even postin' in atl north, anyway? Cause I can, and I come from NY.

[JFox]

I'm not really perstering anyone. I don't think there's anything wrong with me wanting to be a moderator of a forum. All I'm tryin to do is find out how I would become a mod, and so far no one has really answered me.

[Tom]

The best answer is that mods are chosen by existing mods to cover for rooms that are either new, not being modded enough (read: cluttered, spammy, or just unorganized), or currently modless. If a mod retires, he usually names a successor. All potential new mods are screened for acceptable behavior, vetted to make sure they aren't immature, and must have accomplished much or previously shown that their hands are capable of running the room they will be given. For character specific or game specific, this can mean extensive character specific knowledge, respect, or previous organization in the forum; for regional rooms, it can mean a lot, mostly a good name, high activity levels, and willingness to close threads "even though your friends made them;" for sections of SWF not designed for the game, it can mean a good name and constant activity. Often, a mod from one area will also be charged with modding another area (I mod Forum Games and Decisive Games, but then I was also added to Atlantic South; someone modding Melee Doc could mod Melee Mario; Brawl Fox, Brawl Falco). The best way to become a mod would be to simply be a good name on the forums, contribute a lot, don't get silly infractions, and if the need arises, smile.

[KevinM]

Also, a lot of people see it as easy but my PM box routinely fills up with people yelling at me for every judgement call I make.

[ChRed2AKrisp]

Also, a lot of people see it as easy but my PM box routinely fills up with people yelling at me for every judgement call I make.

beat them with the flippy floppies.

[JFox]

Thanks guys. Very informative, glad I made this :)

[Vts]

best way to become a mod is to kill off an old mod, its like the town that can't have anymore people u have to sacrifice someone for someone else

[Jam Stunna]

best way to become a mod is to kill off an old mod, its like the town that can't have anymore people u have to sacrifice someone for someone else

This. Do you guys know who used to mod Melee ICs?

PRECISELY.

[Vts]

This. Do you guys know who used to mod Melee ICs?

PRECISELY.

hmmm who mods them now cus that sounds like something for me ;)

[Frames]

bein a mod is the american dream u gotta work for dat money na mean?

i got the job by replacing qdvs

[Jam Stunna]

hmmm who mods them now cus that sounds like something for me ;)

<_<
>_>

*runs*

[~ZIO~]

bein a mod is the american dream u gotta work for dat money na mean?

Like how? I've been lurkin' forums since, like, '02. I'm getting old here, bro.

[Dazwa]

Nope the only correct answer was hotdogturtle's, everyone else's answer was incorrect

Speaking of which hotdogturtle, I showed Boxman that post immediately after I read it and he couldn't stop laughing about it. Darc too.

[1 w1nged @ngel]

Also, a lot of people see it as easy but my PM box routinely fills up with people yelling at me for every judgement call I make.
Yeah you're the new mic 128. Everyone in the melee boards hated him a ton about 6-7 months ago because he closed a ton of threads. He was the original "no melee vs. brawl" argument threads.

But now he and the melee boards are tight. Like this *crosses middle and left fingers*
I hope so at least


But in all seriousness there should be a way to nominate people for mods.

Also, out of curiosity, did Ken name a successor?

[Junglefever]

I like KevinM he keeps me in line :D

[pockyD]

i'm fairly certain that there IS a way to nominate people for mods... and it's done by existing mods

which would be a great system if half the existing mods weren't incompetent and power-crazed

[Hylian]

i'm fairly certain that there IS a way to nominate people for mods... and it's done by existing mods

which would be a great system if half the existing mods weren't incompetent and power-crazed

Enjoy your 80 point infraction.

[1 w1nged @ngel]

That wasn't aimed at you hylian.

At least I don't think so.

[KevinM]

i'm fairly certain that there IS a way to nominate people for mods... and it's done by existing mods

which would be a great system if half the existing mods weren't incompetent and power-crazed

Make it 160 points and a 1 day ban!...

Wait huh?

[pockyD]

wouldn't 160 points given at the same time serve the same purpose as 6 pts, unless you specifically give them a longer duration?

[Vts]

more points makes u look cooler kind of like me getting points for my posts that show my sig when all i type is like 3 words.

nah if mods were power hungry they wouldn't be mods for smashboards they would be mods for VN boards lol

[hotdogturtle]

posts like these are the reason boxman and I go up to you at tournaments and scream like excited schoolgirls

http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/4251/shyw.jpg

[KevinM]

wouldn't 160 points given at the same time serve the same purpose as 6 pts, unless you specifically give them a longer duration?

Yeah but Pocky.. this one goes up to 160

[Dazwa]

Yeah but Pocky.. this one goes up to 160

****, mine only goes up to 11.

[Mogwai]

why don't you just make 10 louder and make 10 be the top number and make that a little louder?

[Legendaryhero]

no no no... you don't get it. his one goes to 11

[thumbswayup]

I laughed pretty hard reading all these posts.

[Vts]

<_<
>_>

*runs*

<starts chainsaw> you can get away from me tony!

i'll bite off ur knee caps!!!

[slikvik]

Requirements: Live in New England. It seems like a majority of the new ones are from that region

[ChaosKnight]

oh and make posts about becoming a mod yesss thats the way

[KevinM]

No its just you only see the new england mods because we post around here its been a fairly even distribution