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How would one get updated to staff or moderator position on bitcointalk. Does anyone know how this occurs as the administrators have to appoint them?

You have to see a shooting star during a red, full moon, then you become moderator.

Roughly describes the chances. ;)

On a more serious note, report a lot of posts accurately and you'll be noticed.

Out of pure curiosity why would you want such an account? Sounds like a lot of thankless effort to me.

Obviously for power tripping.  :P

I hear they get paid, but not a lot.

Also, it seems like a good way to become a "trusted" member here since people will automatically assume that someone on staff is someone that can be trusted.

Staffs and mods are assigned when someone have reported a lot of posts correctly, and there are vacant places in some boards (however all boards have mods now, and no new ones are needed for now).
Also if someone stated that they wanted to be a staff, they will most likely mot to be assigned (as people would think that they are scammers demanding trust and won't give trust).

well ,cant explain you all the stuff but this might help.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=587759.0

You might you have to do what hilarius did.  Hilarius reported like more than 10000 thread and got it 100% correct. Then he was noticed and become a patrol staff then promoted to globar moderator now. You can asked him for tip.  :)

The % correct is entirely up to the actionable mod though. My reports in some sections get straight up ignored so I don't bother with any housekeeping reports.

Not quite. On the second blood moon during your stay here, you either turn into a weremod or you don't. If you do turn you are deemed as worthy.

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Depends on who is handling them. I handled quite a few of yours about a particular newbie.

It is also possible that someone wants it for the wrong reasons (not saying that OP is, although any damage can be swiftly fixed by theymos). This is why becoming a staff member is not a simple process.

All that aside, is there even demand currently?

For new patrollers, not at all. There are 0 reports most of the time. There are many of us, and some are very active, thus reports get handled swiftly.

There will be a thread posted with appoinment of a new mod in forum which will ofcourse will be started by admin itself.
Dont worry all important announcements are made on time.

Nope , IIRC Lauda getting a Staff title and hilarious being promoted to Global Moderator was not at all announced by theymos.

Is theymos the Admin?

There are currently 2 admins: theymos and BadBear.

Correct.

you also have to offer up a sacrifice of a baby goat to the one true god theymos while pouring a rather expensive bottle of wine on the shrine a la' badbear ;D

You have to report thousands of posts with high accuracy. Then mods will begin to consider you when there is an opening. Having a habit of helping other bitcoin users would help too.

Yup, and some reports I made are really off-topic and one-liners. I wonder why those were ignored? Anyway, repoeting is not needed if a mod is active in such boards (like Lauda and Cyrus, I often see them two handling some threads).

Do you have to take a picture as well? Because I saw that the other day...

definitely you CAN'T get those kind of forum accounts in the Digital Goods section and Auctions section as well

If that happens, it's either that particular person has a lot of debts to pay. Also, if such accounts were sold, theymos would know and could easily remove the mod status of that certain account.

The first step is to be a hero member+

The second step is to know alot about how bitcoin works and fuctions

The third step is to be fair

The fourth step is to

None of these are requirements (except maybe the being fair one). I was made a mod as a Senior. The most important thing is how active you are in reporting. If you make a lot of reports with a high accuracy you would obviously be beneficial to the forum (providing there's no other issues (ie probably doesn't matter how many reports you make if you're an alt of a scammer etc)).

I've seen a Staff with only a Member rank. So point 1 is flawed. Reporting numerous posts with close to a hundred percent accurracy is I think the most important factor there, as it practices your judgment and the way how you would handle posts.

I thought we can run the UID on those BCTAccount pricer sites and see if the account have potential to be a staff or moderator lol

seriously, just keep on reporting those that you think needs to be reported and maybe if the Moderators think that they may need your help, they may consider updating your forum rank to any of those mentioned

Which one is or was a Member? Haven't seen any of those unless you're talking about the new forum devs which I think had mod status at one point. I think the only way you would get to be a mod under Senior rank was if we were desperate for a local one and you were the best fit. Also an accuracy close to 100% is not required. Think Theymos has mentioned anything over 60 is considered very good.

Considering the fact that a helpful guy like shorena, who has 5k+ reports with 97% accuracy still hasn't been promoted to a Patroller yet, I wouldn't expect anyone to be promoted to mod soon.
P.S: Another thing that I might consider an important factor would be Neutrality of that person(in the marketplace specially), IIRC QS was not promoted to Patroller even with a high reporting accuracy stat.

Xandry was member when he became moderator.

I was a member as well when I became a moderator, and I had ~50 reported posts back then. But there was a need for a moderator in the Greek board, so that's why I was promoted. BadBear once said that he had 1 reported post when he became a moderator.

I know people that have reported thousands of posts, and they are not moderators, so reporting posts is not the only requirement.

i thought it was a global moderator not an admin, which is another thing

Well that all happened this year. Who is up for the promotion?  ;D
Does seeing an asteroid in the shape of the great pumpkin count toward becoming decorated as staff  ;)

So little back then. But that was when there were 100 posts a day.
I am only 3 as of now. So reaching 1000 would be a just as much as a coincidence as seeing all those in the above with in this past year  :D