We will be opening our forums soon, and we will need forum staff. We will offer modship to exemplary members of course, but since moderation is an active task, we would like to open for applications.
What we’re looking for in moderators:
1. Good Communication Skills
Good communication skills include decent spelling and grammar, the ability to clearly communicate what you mean to say, and the ability to maintain a favorable public image. It’s not a popularity contest, but the public’s perception of you and your typical behavior is often indicative of your social and communication skills.
2. The Application of our Forum Rules
We would like our moderators and administrators to apply the forum rules as they are written in order to provide a consistent user experience. There will be times when you might choose to go against our rules, and we will of course allow you to make those decisions, but these instances should remain an exception rather than the norm. Be able to justify your decisions.
3. The Use of Good Judgement
In all aspects of moderation, we would like moderators to use good judgement skills. There will be times where you might need to make decisions that lie outside the defined rules.
4. Respect towards all users
Our wish is to maintain a friendly atmosphere in our forums, not one where the users are in constant fear of punishment. Moderators should not act threatening, condescending, intimidating, or annoyed. If moderation and dealing with new users is annoying to you, you shouldn’t be moderating. You should come off as a friendly person. We are looking for those with the ability to apply moderation while still being friendly.
Moderator Requirements
- Check the staff googledoc at least once per week.
- Forum Moderators: Moderate your forum(s) on an almost daily basis.
- Global Moderators: Moderate all forums in the absence of the Forum Moderator of their respective forum(Forum Moderator has not moderated their forum in 2 days).
To apply, send an email with the title “[BMP] Moderator Application” without quotes answering the following questions to bioniclemediawebmaster@gmail.com.
1. What position are you applying for?
- Forum Moderator: Forum Moderators moderate one or more forums of their choice on an almost daily basis. They are knowledgeable in the subjects that their subforum(s) cover and thus take precedence over Global Moderators, in their own forum(s).
- Available Forums:
- BioMedia Project: Information, questions, and discussion on the BioMedia Project.
- Suggestions and Missing Content: Post suggestions for the site or forums here, or if you have noticed we are missing certain content or you would like to provide us with content we are missing.
- Games: Discussion of BIONICLE Games, both online and retail.
- Videos: Discussion of BIONICLE Movies, Video Clips, and Animations.
- Pictures: Discussion of BIONICLE Pictures, Screensavers, and Comics.
- Music: Discussion of BIONICLE Music from Games, Movies, and Partnered Artists
- Books and Serials: Discussion of BIONICLE Books, Serials, and Storyline.
- LEGO: Discussion of LEGO Games, Media, and Software.
- BIONICLE Websites and Community: Discussion of BIONICLE Fansites and the BIONICLE Fan Community.
- Off-Topic: For discussion of Non-BIONICLE/LEGO Media related topics.
- Available Forums:
- Global Moderator: Global Moderators moderate all forums, in the absence(2 days) of the Forum Moderator(s) of that forum.
2. Why do you wish to become a moderator of the BioMedia Project Forums?
3. What previous moderation experience do you have?
4. What level of experience do you have with phpBB Forums?
5. In your own words, what is the mission statement of the BioMedia Project?
Good luck to all applicants.