Q: How did you get to be a Mod on MLPF?

First, I’m not actually what most of you think of when you say ‘mod’. I’m a sectional staffer, which means I’m responsible for a specific slice of the forum, and dealing with a specific slice of the rules. In my case the ‘RolePlay World’ section which has a few special rules that the rest of the forum wouldn't care about, and to be fair I’m really concentrated on the regular roleplay area. The ‘Equestrian Empire’ canon section has other sectionals looking after it. I do help out there on occasion when they're overloaded though.

In any case, awhile back there was a call for lore writers and analysts who were interested in filling the gaps in the Equestrian Empire lore, to give RP’ers a better basis for their canon-like roleplays. Being curious, and having contributed to table-top RPG magazines and the like ages past, I signed up.

Apparently what I wrote for that (the project is still going on, by the way, it’s just delayed for a variety of reasons), my general attitude, and possibly my sense of humor, caught the eye of the supervising Mod (@@Love) and she asked me if I was interested in helping MLPF in other ways.

This was all before the current mod application process came about, by the way. So no, I didn’t do one of those applications. I think I was one of the last from the ‘invite only’ period. After me, I think they were all through the application process.

For a while I made it a bit of a joke that I’m just a ‘temp’ who somehow gets more responsibility every time I open my mouth. I’m still here though, temping away.