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Skinner ADMIN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 12:46 PM
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DU Needs New Moderators!
Please read this entire message. Failure to properly follow instructions will disqualify you to serve as a moderator.

The current moderator term ends this week, and we're looking for volunteers to help us out for the next two months.

With the campaign season heating up, we expect this to be a particularly difficult time to serve as a moderator. For this reason, we'll need to have a core of seasoned veterans to moderate. If you've served before, we hope you'll consider serving this term. Of course, we are always looking for dedicated new people as well, so if you've never served before, please sign up.

Please check your schedule for the next two months. DU is bigger and busier than ever and we're looking for dedicated people who have a little extra time on their hands. If you expect to be unavailable for an extended period of time during the next two months, please do not sign up this term.

Here are some things to bear in mind before you apply:

- Your political ideology is not important... We need centrists and leftists and everyone in between to serve as moderators.
- We prefer people who have been members for a few months, and have made at least a couple hundred posts. You must be at least 18 years old.
- You must be able to log on to DU regularly, and should not take any long vacations between now and mid-September.
- We prefer people with a generally positive outlook on life, who can be fair and evenhanded, and who don't get easily frustrated. If you sign up to moderate, we expect you to stay as a moderator for the full two-month term. You must understand that it is perfectly normal for the admins to occasionally overturn your decisions, or to make specific requests regarding the manner in which you participate on DU while you are a moderator.
- We prefer that moderators avoid highly controversial topics, or at least moderate their behavior significantly when participating in such discussions. If you have been an outspoken partisan for any particular Democratic presidential candidate, of if you have a history of rhetorically hot postings on controversial issues, we may not choose you to serve.
- If you know that you aren't very good at controlling your behavior or your emotions, or if you know that you can't be fair to a particular group of people, please do not sign up to be a moderator. There is no obligation to serve as a mod, and we won't hold it against you if you choose not to.

Here's how to volunteer:

Send an email to earlg@democraticunderground.com with the word "moderator" in the subject line. Include the following information:

- Your real name
- Your forum username
- Your address
- Your telephone number (by giving us your phone number, you are giving us permission to call you to verify your identity)
- How much time you spend on Democratic Underground
- Which forums you'd like to moderate (if you have a preference)
- A brief statement which generally outlines your political views
- Are you taking any extended vacations during the the next two months?
- Have you read, and do you agree to follow, the Message Board Rules and the Moderator Guidelines?
- Moderators have access to certain privileged information about our members, and about how we run this message board. Moderators are forbidden from discussing or sharing any of this privileged information outside the private moderator forum, unless they have permission to do so from the administrators of Democratic Underground. Moderators or former moderators who share privileged moderator information with anyone outside the private moderator forum risk being banned from DU, and (in extreme cases) may be subject to legal action. Do you promise not to discuss or otherwise share privileged moderator business with anyone outside the private moderator forum?

If you apply but are not selected this time, please don't be offended. We typically have a fairly large number of applicants, and we obviously can't pick everyone who applies.

We hope to select a new group of moderators on Wednesday afternoon, July 14. There will be a free conference call for the new moderators on Thursday night, July 15.

Skinner
DU Admin
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Maeve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 01:18 PM
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1. Damn! One of my busiest times of the year!
Maybe I can volunteer next term and be on-board to celebrate the Kerry victory....
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 03:20 PM
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6. maCsOoUcGhHi!st
:silly: You want a break from herding cats, huh? :evilgrin:
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DemExpat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 04:55 PM
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7. Yeah, we are going on holiday in August.
But I am itching to help out again if I have the chance!

Maybe the next term.....seems like my masochistic tendencies are stirring once again...

:crazy: :silly: :crazy:

DemEx
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kimchi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-13-04 09:36 AM
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12. Me too, DemEx!
I really want to jump back into modding, but I have to go on vacation. Maybe next term-I've got a hankering for some more abuse myself.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-13-04 09:52 AM
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13. Well, if that's your goal, be sure to let me know when you jump in ...
... and I'll try to come along to assist once again in realizing that objective. :evilgrin: {snarf} {giggle}

I'm not yet sure I've yet fully recovered from the 6-month tour of duty culminating in the primaries. (Sort of a cyber-PTSD.) I still find myself looking for the 'nuke' button even in casual conversations - and handing out 'personal attack' tickets when folks use ad hominems. (My family still looks at me a bit strangely - but that's normal.)
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Endangered Specie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 02:22 PM
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2. Im bored this summer, I need something to do!
Just sent my appl.

Summer school is boring!!
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spooky3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 02:37 PM
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3. Thanks to all past, present, and future moderators!
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West Coast Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 02:47 PM
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4. I've thought about volunteering for this before....
But I think I may get frustrated too easily.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 03:17 PM
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5. Yeah, them gnus really need moderation. Here's one jaywalking.


And this one's walking on the grass!

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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 06:54 PM
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8. Do it!
It's tough, but sooooo rewarding. Plus you get that cool tattoo... oh, wait, I'm not supposed to talk about that. Forget I said anything about a tattoo!! :D
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Mulder Donating Member (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 07:17 PM
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9. Pleased
Pleased to meet you Assistant Director Skinner!
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galadrium Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-04 09:12 PM
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10. I think he is a bit more than the assistant
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-13-04 02:43 AM
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11. Welcome to DU!
:toast:
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-13-04 11:29 AM
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14. What did you do with the old ones...?
:shrug:

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sorry, couldn't help myself....:hi:
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DarkHorse Donating Member (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-13-04 12:50 PM
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15. Not enough posts
I'd volunteer, but I don't have enough posts.
Perhaps next time around.

(unless you'd like me to volunteer anyways, even without a lot of posts - I lurk alot, does that count?)
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-13-04 01:43 PM
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16. "We prefer people with a generally positive outlook on life"
Well,I'm out!
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genius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-13-04 03:23 PM
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17. Please make sure some of the new moderators are liberal Democrats
Edited on Tue Jul-13-04 03:30 PM by genius
Some groups, like Democrats.com, ask for verification of their political status.
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EarlG ADMIN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-13-04 04:33 PM
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18. Thanks all
We've had a great response. It's going to be tough to narrow the field. I'm locking this now - no more applications, thanks.
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