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Even the most ideal self-moderating community will require the occasional policing from time to time, if nothing else but to keep the community running smoothly and enjoyable for everyone involved. Both the ArmoredLabs forum and the Discord server have been exemplary in having no more than two instances where I had to step in to give stern talks, and I literally have not had to punish anyone for anything so far.

That being said, the forum and Discord server have grown quite quickly over the past several months, with over 200 users on each end and dozens of them actively participating. There are virtually no gaps of inactivity as we have users spanning across every time zone (and some with screwy sleep schedules). I trust every user to behave themselves, but I am also limited in availability as I go to sleep in case something do happen and require my immediate attention.

 


 

ArmoredLabs is now recruiting TWO active moderators to keep our forum and Discord server orderly. The workload will be minimal as everyone are still behaving themselves exceptionally well, so this is more or a preemptive move to bring in extra pairs of eyes before we grow too big and our self-moderation start falling apart.

The recruitment process will be as follows:

June 28 - July 11
Nomination phase: each user can nominate other users (including themselves) to become candidates. There are no limits, but including reasons for the nominations would be nice. Note that nominees can either accept or refuse the nomination. Lack of response will be interpreted as implied refusal.

July 12 - July 25
Voting phase: nominees who voiced their acceptance will be placed on a poll for users to vote on. Again, it would be nice to include reasons for your votes, but you can also stay silent and vote anonymously if you prefer. Don't vote for yourself obviously, self votes will be voided.

July 26 - hopefully before August
Finalizing phase: I'll vet the winning candidates and contact them so they can get their mod tags. I know I have the final say, but I will respect the wishes of the community for as much as I can. That is, assuming your wishes aren't to turn ArmoredLabs into a circus.

 


 

This thread will serve as the nomination thread for the nomination phase, please nominate your moderator candidates here. Nominees can accept or refuse their nominations here. Discussions are welcomed of course.

 

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Not a bad plan, because eventually we're going to end up with legit bots and that one jackass that just image-dumps a ton of porn or something like that.  Definitely want to keep mod-action light-handed, though, the self-moderating community is working really well, and we don't want to mess up that vibe.

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Do moderators have to be active on both the ArmoredLabs Discord and forums? Or are you planning to recruit one for each?  I enjoy perusing through our current forums, but I often don't have the time to read all messages sent on Discord.

 

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1 hour ago, Komitadjie said:

Not a bad plan, because eventually we're going to end up with legit bots and that one jackass that just image-dumps a ton of porn or something like that.  Definitely want to keep mod-action light-handed, though, the self-moderating community is working really well, and we don't want to mess up that vibe.

That's the plan, moderation will still remain minimal as it has been so far. This is just to make sure if/when bad things happen we are prepared to deal with it, because panic and emergency mod recruitment just look terrible.

33 minutes ago, di_duncan said:

Do moderators have to be active on both the ArmoredLabs Discord and forums? Or are you planning to recruit one for each?  I enjoy perusing through our current forums, but I often don't have the time to read all messages sent on Discord.

Ideally both, but preference leans heavily on the Discord side right now due to the rapid-fire nature of instant messaging. Moderators will have authority on both the forum and Discord, because splitting them up right now is just unnecessarily complicated.


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1 hour ago, Komitadjie said:

... and that one jackass that just image-dumps a ton of porn or something like that.

You called?

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55 minutes ago, Haswell said:

That's the plan, moderation will still remain minimal as it has been so far. This is just to make sure if/when bad things happen we are prepared to deal with it, because panic and emergency mod recruitment just look terrible.

Ideally both, but preference leans heavily on the Discord side right now due to the rapid-fire nature of instant messaging. Moderators will have authority on both the forum and Discord, because splitting them up right now is just unnecessarily complicated.

Excellent.  In this case, I'd envision the mods being more as an on-call fire brigade that can be paged if something bad happens, more than trying to filter and read everything said.  When the spambot or porn-dump-Lenticulas shows up, general users can drop a mod-call and get them there to clean it up.  More a response-team to outright messes than classic "moderation."  

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Based on his contribution(s) alone, I believe @TeyKey1 would be a fitting and appropriate choice to become a Moderator. 

Of course, he has final say over whether he would like to accept the nomination.

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On 6/30/2020 at 3:01 PM, di_duncan said:

Based on his contribution(s) alone, I believe @TeyKey1 would be a fitting and appropriate choice to become a Moderator. 

Of course, he has final say over whether he would like to accept the nomination.

I second the motion! He has a lot of wisdom, and is more balanced than a Tier 3 MBT.

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12 hours ago, Quantum_Ranger said:

and is more balanced than a Tier 3 MBT.

Glad to hear this :snrk:

Thanks for the nominations @di_duncan and @Quantum_Ranger I'll consider it then.


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Ladies and gentlemen, I am officially running for moderator of ArmoredLabs Community discord. (I am voting for myself, in case it wasn't clear).

 

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Damn this is soo cursed I'm quite sure SS would love to see this :kek:


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On 6/28/2020 at 7:05 PM, Haswell said:

June 28 - July 11
Nomination phase: each user can nominate other users (including themselves) to become candidates. There are no limits, but including reasons for the nominations would be nice. Note that nominees can either accept or refuse the nomination. Lack of response will be interpreted as implied refusal.

Then ı want to be a moderator

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then everybody start to nominate themselve

so, hum, i want to be a mod now, ok?

joking of course

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1 hour ago, Soren said:

then everybody start to nominate themselve

so, hum, i want to be a mod now, ok?

joking of course

lol

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Lets join the nominate yourself train... 

I am sort of running as mod, so please vote for me XD... 

I totally will be the worst mode ever,  but luckily I am not cursed like Seb...

And well I am at least a bit active on Discord, so that's always a plus

And thanks for listening to my late night ramble

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Hell, I'll nominate Soren for it.  They're hella good, and have the right kind of personality to deal with it as well.  

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What thread is the porn in?.....................asking for a friend:partyhardseal:

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7 hours ago, Komitadjie said:

Hell, I'll nominate Soren for it.  They're hella good, and have the right kind of personality to deal with it as well.  

that confirm what i said on the discord, people would nominate be, but, y'know, don't think it would be really possible for me to be a mod for their discord because already mod for official discord kek

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I nominate @di_duncan for mod. Capable player and a capable forum user is not something you find often these days :winkseal:

And I nominate @BumbaX for the same reasons (altough he seems to be occupied by something else as I haven't seen him for some time).

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4 hours ago, Soren said:

that confirm what i said on the discord, people would nominate be, but, y'know, don't think it would be really possible for me to be a mod for their discord because already mod for official discord kek

Fair, yeah.  Not as much conflict of interest, but just trying to keep an eye on both at once could be a challenge.  

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