Topic: Moderator application for Polish local board (Read 765 times)

I guess you meant 'staff'...

I did that post for the OP...

All global moderators and administrators have access to the Polish section, so any of them can handle reports from this section...

Thanks for clarifying. Personally, I thought that with the absence of the previous mod (malevolent) any reports are not processed.
Out of curiosity, is there any particular person out of those 5 that is responsible for handling reports from the Polish board, or can any of them pick them up? And how do they deal with them exactly? Do they rely on google translate etc?

You are not quite correct in saying that the Polish section has no moderator. The Polish section currently has five moderators. There are three global moderators and two administrators who can handle reports on the entire forum, including the Polish section.

I only wanted to add that there are some local moderators who can be assigned with extra boards even they are not global moderators.

You're quoting my post that says pretty much the same thing you wrote. You probably didn't pay attention to who you were quoting. I know that, I don't need to explain it. You are quoting me and at the same time mention me in the third person. That's funny

They have rights to moderate the forum globally and different than local moderators who only moderate their local boards except if they get extra assignments to moderate some other boards. Examples are Welsh and Xal0lex (maybe more).

From some time I think to close this thread because looks like this is not the correct way to get @Theymos attention or this is not not so important for the forum staff that we don't get moderation in our local board or to say more straight Polish local forum members are not worth a single comment or attention despite we ask for it from so long time, even united we have no power to ring the bell so loud to make the right people hear it.

but as we can see there is no comment from stuff

Period Dec 17 - Jan 16 2018. In this period, 20342 reports handled as good, 1433 handled as bad, 1482 unhandled.
Period Jan 16 - Feb 15 2018. In this period, 20764 reports handled as good, 1517 handled as bad, 2207 unhandled.
Period Feb 15 - Mar 17 2018. In this period, 15516 reports handled as good, 1487 handled as bad, 3698 unhandled.
Period Mar 17 - Apr 16 2018. In this period, 17700 reports handled as good, 1184 handled as bad, 4093 unhandled.
Period Apr 16 - May 16 2018. In this period, 19593 reports handled as good, 1627 handled as bad, 729 unhandled.
Period May 16 - Jun 15 2018. In this period, 21465 reports handled as good, 1499 handled as bad, 996 unhandled.
Period Jun 15 - Jul 15 2018. In this period, 29221 reports handled as good, 1542 handled as bad, 774 unhandled.

I don't know if there is such a function as a local moderator, because in this thread the idea is not for wwzsocki to become a global official moderator, but only to be able to moderate our small backyard where a dozen or so users are active. nothing more. And it is only to do so temporarily until our current moderator returns. Do you really idealize this function so much that you demand from a candidate to be whiter than paper? Candidate chosen by the community for which he is about to do this function.

I think, done 3K reports already with 99% success rate


I haven't checked my stats for a while, here are they:



exactly 3063 reports with 100% accuracy, I am surprised myself  

Looks like we have very small or even no chance in such circumstances,

hopefully this thread will at least attract attention of some "global moderator" and he will take care of our local section,

as @Rikaflip mentioned it can be indeed sufficient if we got such support from one of global mods from now.

...we lost local mod back in (afaik) 2018 and never got a replacement despite being an active board, probably because we have very little spam and global mod had no issues handling it...

i mean the polish board, if you look at the statistics, is very clear (in terms of activity and number of users) so the new moderator would not be overwhelmed with numerous 'assignments'

why can't wwzsocki be given the opportunity to prove himself as a moderator on our polish board?
we should be really happy that someone has agreed to take on this privileged task
i mean the polish board, if you look at the statistics, is very clear (in terms of activity and number of users) so the new moderator would not be overwhelmed with numerous 'assignments' and we could then assess his reliability in his new role and if we were not satisfied with him after all, we would then get in touch

just my 2 satoshis!

why can't wwzsocki be given the opportunity to prove himself as a moderator on our polish board?

we should be really happy that someone has agreed to take on this privileged task
i mean the polish board, if you look at the statistics, is very clear (in terms of activity and number of users) so the new moderator would not be overwhelmed with numerous 'assignments' and we could then assess his reliability in his new role and if we were not satisfied with him after all, we would then get in touch

I tend to believe its worked for this long, and becoming a moderator you don't go through a course or anything like that. theymos gives asks you, and then there's a few things in the staff forum to guide you. If you're making mistakes or not quite hitting the standards that theymos expects he'll message you, and very casually guide you. So, reducing the permissions of a local moderator reduces any issues that could pop up, in that lack of knowledge stage.

Plus, local moderators can get in contact with the big boys (Globals/admins), and ask them to escalate any cases. So, it's not like we don't communicate. Its not like you'd communicate in a office, but you ping things over to the big boys, and they get to decide the right course of action based on the local moderator's input. The system has worked for many years, and honestly there's not to many issues reported.

I think it's fine how it is.

I think it was a Global Mod who said it's been a very long time since a new Mod was appointed based on the reports he submitted.

If a poll is created, I will not completely ignore the results, but I will also not use it as a primary influence. I'm more interested in arguments people have for or against certain candidates.

I think it was a Global Mod who said it's been a very long time since a new Mod was appointed based on the reports he submitted.

Pretty much, and I've been reporting for years. However,  I really ramped up my daily reports in the last 12 months or so before getting asked if I'd like to be a moderator. I was probably hitting a 1000 on a good day (or bad depending how you see it). At one point I was literally waking up, and putting in a hour before work, and then a few hours before bed. I pretty much made it my unofficial job to clear up all the shit that was getting posted. This was during a time where spam was everywhere you looked because of the popularity of Bitcoin back then. Handling reports takes a lot more time than making reports though, because I didn't really care for accuracy back then, and now I've got to do proper research before handling a report to avoid as many issues as possible, and of course we still make mistakes.

I'll answer you with my example.
Registered in July 2017.
Appointed mod of the french section in July 2018 with the rank of member and 13 or 14 merits.
I wasn't the most active. I am far from having all the knowledge about Bitcoin. I'm not the most fluent in english, I hope I'm just understandable.
So you see the criteria for a local mod are not high. It must be higher for a mod in US section or a Global Mod.

Good report is the key factor as it is the only way to judge how good you are reporting them and how good you would be as a mod to handle those cases.

Lol, so you wanna become an official mod? Especially the one person with a shilling service for hire on service announcement board? Please tell me this is a joke?

I don't know if there is such a function as a local moderator, because in this thread the idea is not for wwzsocki to become a global official moderator, but only to be able to moderate our small backyard where a dozen or so users are active. nothing more. And it is only to do so temporarily until our current moderator returns. Do you really idealize this function so much that you demand from a candidate to be whiter than paper? Candidate chosen by the community for which he is about to do this function.

JollyGood   2023-09-25   Reference   BEWARE: "digaran" cannot be trusted.

...Good point. @Wwzsocki, from what I remember, you used to report a lot?

...I have done more then 3000 reports with 99% success rate, received good feedback from others and am DT1 most of the time, also between most recognized members in Polish board, active there frequently...

Lol, so you wanna become an official mod?

Lol, so you wanna become an official mod? Especially the one person with a shilling service for hire on service announcement board? Please tell me this is a joke?

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Edit: what is this shill below talking about? Probably butthurt?

There will only be one moderator.

Report history is the most important consideration for a moderator candidate. Over the forum's many years, relatively "newbie" members with good report histories have consistently done much better as mods than veteran, well-respected members with poor report histories. That said, not all reports are equal, so a simple report count doesn't tell the whole story. Also, in addition to report histories, it's necessary to consider factors such as the ability of the candidate to be neutral, their trustworthiness, etc. It's also nice to choose a moderator who people generally already trust/respect, but sometimes this is outweighed by other factors.

If a poll is created, I will not completely ignore the results, but I will also not use it as a primary influence. I'm more interested in arguments people have for or against certain candidates.

Here are the top non-bad report counts for the German sections over the last 6 months, along with the German boards which those reports covered (broader coverage being better).
(My previous list of candidates came from the same list as above, in order, but the numbers have changed since then.)

Has anyone became a moderator in this forum by dropping applications? I think application is only for merit source while theymos selects moderators. Besides, there have been many inactive moderators in the general forum and theymos hasn't replaced them.


as a reason for this I will quote and translate recent comment from thread in our local board called "we need new mod"

I think the above portfolios doesn't matter, what really matters is your reputation here and the number of good reports.

Has anyone became a moderator in this forum by dropping applications?

I became a moderator because PsychoticBoy quit and there was nobody assigned to moderate the Dutch subsection. I sent theymos a message in which I applied for that spot and got it.

Beauty contest, it just turns out there wasn't many contestants my year, but yeah on a serious note theymos selects moderators based on whether the forum requires one. Obviously, frequent reporters will be on top of that list, but ultimately theymos is the only one who knows all the criteria. I expect, there's quite a few different factors that play into it.

Has anyone became a moderator in this forum by dropping applications? ...

I am submitting my candidacy for the role of the Polish board moderator

We discussed that matter many times already in our local board, in quoted thread we decided finally to vote and choose a candidate.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/potrzebny-nowy-moderator-5477539

I have won the voting, so I started this thread, hope this is correct way to apply as mod?
Please let me know and if not I will edit this topic or start new one and apply in a correct way.

Am I good candidate?
I've been here on the forum more then 10 years and always helped to moderate it by reporting spam and bots. I have done more then 3000 reports with 99% success rate, received good feedback from others and am DT1 most of the time, also between most recognized members in Polish board, active there frequently. Keep reporting spam frequently.

Is worth to add that I am mod in Altcoinstalks forum for Polish local board from a very long time, i was mod in German and Dutch section when it was still new, am also a judge in court where people can apply for help when they get in trouble.

Malevolent, our current moderator, has been offline for 9 months. He did a great job, but such a long absence is definitely too long. The lack of merit source is one problem, but the lack of moderation affects the quality of the Polish section much more, I notice that it often turns into garbage. For example, in the thread that talks about how large the number 2^256 is, we have been talking about the zero-value attack for 16 posts, which definitely deserves a separate thread, but there is no one to separate it and move it to. In the signature thread we talk about how casinos can be used to mix bitcoin. In the thread about the price of bitcoin, we are talking about ETF, and the thread about ETF is next to it and is little used. There are many such examples, and appropriate separation of discussions into separate threads would increase the quality of the conversation and the transparency of the forum. Malevolent took care of this as well as doing so upon request. It's normal that sometimes someone will refer to something and someone else will pick up on a topic in a thread that doesn't concern it. The role of the moderator is to keep things in order. Apart from cleaning, we are also exposed to spam and scam advertisements. It's strange that it hasn't hit us yet. I suggest nominating someone who will apply for a temporary moderator who will be a replacement until Malevolent returns, or even longer if he proves successful. Anyone interested?