Trainloads of Moderators Episode III: Return of the Sectionals

[XUNUSEDXXX 3,459]

I could totally sing Celestia's Ballad to all these friends who were just hired as mods. Listen to the lyrics

 

Congrats new sectionals!

Fulfill your destiny.

Make Celestia proud.

Edited March 3, 2013 by Scootabloom

[Jokuc 8,174]

Staff positions are not determined by length of membership, popularity, or post count. Potential staff members are considered for their ability to keep a cool head, take calm and prudent actions, be active and dedicated, posses great team-working skills and be knowledgeable of their specific sections as well as the rules and regulations of the website as a whole.

 

Despite only having held the positions for over a few days, I can safely say I have utmost faith in their strength as team members and their ability to learn at an astounding rate. It has already been a great pleasure to be working alongside them.

That's not how I ment. Haha of course I know that. I ment more like, how did you find these people. Since I haven't seen them around much none of you probably have either. And I wonder how you could notice them to be men for the job. Do you stalk every single 10361 member or what? I mean you didn't just search on google for "members on mlp forums that can do a mod job" See what I mean?

Edited March 3, 2013 by Jokuc

[Rainbow Dash Loyalty 1,275]

There's never enough mods on MLP Forums =D Good luck to the trolls and spammers who try to get past trouble x)

And congrats to the new mods! I totally won't take advantage of you guys

[Key Gear 6,663]

And I wonder how you could notice them to be men for the job. Do you stalk every single 10361 member or what?

 

Actually, for the beginning, I wrote a series of database queries that were designed to look for members with certain criteria that were active during fairly specific hours of the day. You see, we only had a limited number of mods that operated within the timezones in question, so limiting ourselves to those that were "well known" to our existing night moderators would have resulted in a pool of members that was far too small to truly contain the best possible candidates. We needed a larger sample size.

 

The database queries were run against the entire database. After the first run, we looked at the results and tweaked them based on suggestions made by the more experienced recruiters of the admin staff. After the second run, we looked at the results and tweaked them again. At this point, the database query was more or less able to provide a list of users that fit our needs. The list consisted of just under 100 names. At that point, this list was examined by the members of the administration. Each and every individual was duly considered and evaluated based on an examination of their posting history, overall demeanor, and overall familiarity with online communities. At the end of this exercise, we had the members selected, and we gave the to Feld0 for the final checkoff (he'd been involved in every step of this process but a final okay was needed, of course). Finally, Feld0, himself, gave the thumbs up on our selections. 

 

It's worth noting that, after these three members were selected, it turned out that a number of staff members were actually familiar with them. The problem was not really unfamiliarity, the problem was the fact that when you have a site that consists of so many members, it is very difficult to have instant recall of who, what, and where. This doesn't mean that the members are unfamiliar to anyone, it just means that they were not necessarily super popular with the staff prior to admission. To me, this is a good thing. Popularity should have nothing to do with whether or not someone becomes a moderator. Individuals should be selected based on their ability to perform the requirements of the position. You can rest assured that all of the individuals selected are more than capable of being the best possible staff members. 

[Jokuc 8,174]

@@Key Gear,

Ah that was the answer I was looking for. I should probably have been clearer in my first post since NewCalamity misunderstood me. But anyhow, wow that sounds like a lot of work.

 

By the way, this Artemis guy seems like a nice person

[Betez 1,734]

Wait, so you guys have software that finds potential mods for you? Sounds convenient. Anyway, I'm glad we found the right ones:

[Vexx3 1,540]

Better late than never, right?

 

Welcome and congrats to all the new mods!  I can tell you right now that it has already been a godsend having someone to help out in Best Pony Hall. 

[Batbrony 16,055]

I know this is old news by now, but I just wanted again to convey my congratulations to all of the new moderators!  I have no doubt that all of you, some of whom are good friends of mine, will do a fantastic, smashing good job.  Best of luck!!! 

Edited March 5, 2013 by Batbrony