Welcome our 2 new mods: Nordlead and Torillian

[Euphoria14]

Khuutra said:

Euphoria14 said:

naznatips said:

As you have probably already noticed two new mods have been promoted. These are all the mod staff changes I intend to make at this time. Congratulate our two new mods. I hope they will be of great service to the site.

To answer some questsions I have been getting via PM: I do not promote mods based on request. I pick the members who I feel are most suited for the position at the time based on time spent on the site, posting, timezone, and past moderations (i.e. if you have any you will not become a mod).

Aww man.

All I have is a sig length warning which was given because something changed on the site and my pictures dropped below each other and the other was a warning for trolling which was then later told was actually just off-topic and not trolling. Personally, I hate seeing the word "Trolling" in my profile. It bothers me.

I am so sad now.

 

Seriously though, congrats to both.

I thought Nordlead was a mod though. O.o

Refer to my sig sir.

More seriously, I'm going to bet that there's a lot more thought going into the decision than naz is letting on. I don't mean to imply anything sinister, of course, just that his criteria are actually higher than he's implying. I'm willing to bet that a moderator has to be someone who contributes to the site itself in a retty big way, not just someone who posts a lot in the forums, so that you've already proven your dedication to VGChartz above and beyond your personal connection to the community. That way you can ensure a degree of loyalty and even-handedness that you wouldn't get out of the average member, regardless of how clean their record is.

This is just a guess, of course.

I would except that when I am at work I turn off sigs in the forums because it slows down my work PC.

 

As for everything else, yes that is most likely how it works. To be honest the whole "past moderations" thing is the first time I have heard it being used as criteria.

For example when I use to frequent a different gaming site dedicated to consoles, handhelds and homebrew applications I was onced warned for linking to ROMS that someone needed, not knowing it was not allowed. I was warned and told if it happened again I was to be banned.

To make a long story short I was bored and decided to make a thread, I worked so hard on it and updated it weekly. It had all homebrew released for the PSP, emulator, apps, etc... my thread grew fast to the point where it had around 200-300+ programs on it. Eventually majority were added to a new section of the site, a Download section.

I was then asked to join the moderation staff, regardless of the fact that I had a prior moderation.

 

So I would say yes, it has much more to do with your contributions to the site and not just whether or not you follow the rules.