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Hello administrators, I am interested in joining the staff in clearing up the spam from the forum, I have been on the forum for a while and i have experience moderation a high-spam forum
I would be interested in moderating the micro earnings and/or the alternative crypto boards

If you've modded other forums, as you say you have, you would know that asking like this doesn't work. In fact, I would say it lowers your chances.

You will almost certainly not become a moderator anymore because of that. The only way you can get attention is to report posts with high accuracy. Also, the forum needs mature people, not people with


in their profiles.

Also, this will in no way improve your chances of becoming a mod, but give us the "high-spam forum" you apparently mod in. ::)

on the bright side. OP brought his name up to the top of the queue.  :P
all that's left is to wait for theymos to decide.


saltyspitoon is 12 years old. and LZ lives in the blockchain. :v

I will pm you, i cant let everyone know

well it did work, i saw spam and i asked the admin if i could help

But they're pretty mature.

Also, OP, don't send me the forum link. IMO it looks small, but my word is pretty much worth nothing so you should send it to a mod or something. However, I think they'll agree with me.

That was forum.bitcoin.com. This is bitcointalk.org.

no, im not talking about forum.bitcointalk.org

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im not a mod there

You applied there as well...

https://forum.bitcoin.com/post437.html#p437

Why would you think it would be a good idea to be made a moderator if you have hacked bitcointalk accounts in the past? Why would anyone think you would be a good moderator if you have a scammer tag?

A lot of us have been or currently are moderators or admins of our own small Bitcoin-related forums.

Unless you demonstrate exceptional dedication not with the goal of getting a moderator position but instead with the goal of rooting out all the low quality users, Theymos probably won't even bother replying to this thread.

Okay, maybe he might, to tell you that staff isn't an application process. The staff are chosen or invited, not asked to apply.

On what evidence are you standing? i have never hacked an account

You have a neutral trust rating from  SaltySpitoon (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=38894) that says:

If you search for  brunoshady (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=15713) then one of the results is this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=61080.msg717488#msg717488)

well if you did your research you would of found out that that account was bought, i wasnt even on the forum in 2012

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account was bought here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1072424.0
by user here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=516739
who was given negative rep for selling hacked accounts https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=516739


How do you feel?

I feel that if you want to be a mod. you should know better than to make 3 posts in a row (with a sig ad) just to reply to one person.  :-X

OT:
how did saltyspitoon linked you to brunoshady again? I thought global mods can't see our IPs.

I went to him for consultation to find out how to get the negative trust removed

I feel great, thanks for asking.

It is not like it isn't difficult to fake the sale of an account in order to try to get negative trust removed.

You need to report a lot of posts with a decent accuracy to be considerd for being a mod. What are your current stats? And as others have said asking to be a mod is usually the wrong way to go about it. Put in the effort reporting posts and being active and maybe it'll pay off in the future.

Yeah and I guess not be involved much in the disputes like QS did, he also had a quite high reporting accuracy but wasn't considered for mod, but that was before he got involved in the escrow drama.
Anyway what was your reporting accuracy before you got the "Chosen one" title from lord theymos?

Asking to be a moderator doesn't really work as far as I know. A lot of factors are involved and usually the admin invites one to join. I have not seen a single report from this account. Either he is rarely reporting or he is not reporting any posts made by newbies. I also do not think that we need more patrollers though. There are quite a lot and the report list is rarely bigger than 2-3 reports (if you ignore local boards that take longer occasionally).

The accuracy doesn't matter that much (just needs to be higher than the number listed). There isn't a exact number, some even say that 60-70% is enough. There are a lot of people with 95% with a high number of reports (e.g. I have 98%). I do not think that involvement in drama matters though if you're a reasonable person. However, don't expect some troll/flamer/whatnot to receive a position though. I was banned in the past, and yet here I am.

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Update:
I do hope that that is sarcasm or something. This is public information and I posted about it sometime in 2014.

My accuracy is 80%
It was around 60 a week or so ago

And how many posts have you reported?
*You have a chance really close to zero of being a moderator

That is pretty common. ;D


And that is just the easiest qualification (first of the three) to become a mod. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=164822.0 jk

Second one is to report around 10000 posts with 99.999% accuracy (not worth trying unless you are really interested)

and Third is flattering theymos.

You have reported 7 posts with 100% accuracy

Whoop I will be a mod soon

Judging from the fact that it apparently jumped 20% in "a week or so", I'd say it's probably a small amount. Maybe 20ish?

almost 50

So you're now a Full Member & think you have earnt the right to become a moderator? There are trustworthy posters who have been here for over 3-4 years who aren't mods.

Sorry bro but you're going to be disappointed in this quest.

I think moderators are chosen from their forum rank and behavior not by putting themselves forward.

Good for you though putting yourself forward its very commendable, I agree that the forum could do with cleaning up.

Why not continue your good deed of reporting spam posts to the moderators and let them do their works? You can also help by doing that. I think applying for the position is not realy necessary unless you want some incentives from it. They can promote you to the position if you really are doing a good job in doing it so yea. Just do what you have to do. :D

That is most certainly not enough. I have reported 100 something posted so far with 96%accuracy and I'm not a moderator. You will need to report more posts and with very high accuracy before being promoted to moderator. There also needs to be a section that needs a moderator for anyone to be promoted.

Yeah and at least more than 1k at the very least I'd say, for theymos to even go for as to think about your name. Once you got that down try keeping your post accuracy.

Its not only about number of reports and accuracy. As knightdk points out there must be need for a moderator. You must also be active during the needed times. What good is a new moderator that is active when other mods are active as well and no reports are left to handle.

If you want to help out the forum and the mods, write reports. If there is demand the admins will contact the people they deem fit for the job.

How does one find out what their "accuracy" is?

Click the report to moderator button at the bottom right of everyone's post.

Well, I think that only reporting posts is not enough for being a moderator, a more important factor is having trust (or a untrusted person would have control of everyone's posts, and he may scam!). OP is a member in default trust depth 4, with black trust when viewed in default trust (depth 2), however I don't think this trust rating is enough. At least the member needs to be in depth 2/3 and dark green trust in depth 1/2 to be very trusted here.

By this logic the only people able to be Moderators or staff would be those who trade. I fail to see how trading with someone would make a person more eligible for being Staff over someone else that didn't.

Yeah, I didn't have much trust before I got made a mod nor was I on default trust (and a few mods still aren't).

theymos does this background check before promoting members to staff.  8)
Qualifications does not include positive trust feedbacks, or being on default trust (but include number of posts reported, accuracy %, familiarity of the forum, rules, various boards and other ninja skills). That said there is absolutely no way a scammer would get promoted to staff.


How do I know? Just guessing. ;D

I saw many people asking for loan like that. I also saw people with no trust offering escrow services but this is something really innovative approach by this person. I think no one can even think about getting a post/rank like this without having a very high trust or abilities like that.
for OP only "Hey man, keep trying like this for this post i'm pretty sure you will get the job one day but i'm not sure i will be here to see that day." Good luck hahaha

being on DT has no correlation to one's ability to clean up the forum and delete off topic posts.

Making a thread with a title like this is literally the exact opposite of the way you become staff. If you really want to become staff, the best thing you can do is make a lot of reports with a decent accuracy rate, but if you really just want to become staff it probably won't work well for ya.

I am also asking for moderator privilege :P  (if we can get it by asking)

do you really think this is how they choose the staff members?
If you want to keep the forum clean from spam you can do this without being a moderator just whenever you see spam post use the "Report to moderator" button found on right bottom corner of every post, click this button to submit spam post report to moderators and help them keep the forum spam free.

Regards
Neotox...

Did you really just completely ignore the whole 3 pages of posts in this thread? If you bothered to read only the first one then you would know how they choose mods and that you won't become a mod just by asking.

TL;DR you become a mod by reporting lots of posts with high accuracy.

lol, you, failed to read the last 3 pages - there have been mods like hilariousandco speaking up, saying it probably isn't the best idea to request to be a moderator.
I hope you were joking.  None of you asking to be a mod should actually be a mod - if the admin(s) see that you are doing enough work to keep the forum clean as a NORMAL member, they'll possibly promote you to a mod.

do you really think i was serious about asking for this?
I was joking because I know they don't choose moderators like this

It is kind of obvious (at least for me). May be they just read the first sentence AND ignored the "tongue" smiley. ;D

Edit: I admit I only read the first and the last pages of threads before posting esp. in a 100 pages thread. that shouldn't be a crime

well, i will continue to report posts and see if theymos calls me up
doesnt make any sense when i think about it, its better if i wait until i finish high school

The chances are very slim. Maybe if there is another huge influx of users and your report count and accuracy is very high. At the moment there is no need for more patrollers (i.e. most of the time the report count is 0 since they get handled quickly). Also, you will have much less time to moderate if you go to a good university.
You can close the thread as your questions have been answered multiple times.

I have to disagree with that seeing how late my post reports are handled, yes sometime when mods are online they are handled instantly. But these days mods are not much online I see, not even hilarious(no offense), some of my post reports are delayed over a day which I don't think is good moderation of forum. Just my 2 cents on the topic.
At any rate, not saying that tarsua will be a good mod or even be considered for a mod, as he himself has said that he has less than 200 reports and that too not with that high report accuracy. Just that we need someone that stays more on the forum and cares about keeping it clean
Edit: The second I said this, nearly all of my reported posts were handled, I guess mods needed a push in the right direction

No, if you report newbie posts it'll be handled faster. Because there are a lot of Patrollers but not enough active Global moderators, you have to wait either dedicated board moderator or grue/hilariousandco to handle the report. On the other hand your reports could be marked as bad, so you don't see any action for them.
I'm active 7/16 in this forum. I usually have 0 reports in my queue. Other Patrollers are very active, too.

I, just like EAL, like to keep my report list at 0 reports. I either handle them (by marking them correct/bad) or ignore them if I can't handle them. Anyway, patrollers have been very very active lately and thus newbie reports get handled quickly. I also try to handle reports in the sections I moderatore as quickly as possible. ;D

I handled quite a few of your reports in the last few days, can't remember if any of them were marked as bad.

Agreed.

I see you moderators(patrollers) using "marking it bad" quite often, does it mean that my report will not count valid and my post accuracy will drop or that it simple will be moved to another mod?

Marking it as bad will remove it from the reports queue and it will lower your accuracy. A mod can also ignore reports, which will hide that report from his queue.

I see six bad ones recently so take that into consideration for ones seemingly appearing unhandled.

#OffTopic with a accuracy rate of 95% with 140 posts(and probably increasing) I take that as a milestone.

Good job guys, keep up the good work. Because of your hard work and dedication, I think it is safe to say that it is not necessary to hire a new moderator with the qualifications of the OP

There are people with over 4000 reported posts.

Well you're wrong and talking about other reports. I can view the report list, and sometimes the patrollers are so quick that the report gets handled under 15 seconds! I'm talking about posts made by newbies as those are handled by patrollers.