Mini-Moderators?

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On your forums do you promote people to moderator after a formal application process or do you pick full moderators from mini-moderator type groups.

I have seen forums with Trial Mods, Peacekeepers (Topical moderators only), Subforum moderators and moderation queue moderators who were working their eay towards becoming a full moderator. This process can give potential mods a chance to learn in depth certain aspects.

What are your thoughts on this?
 
I just have an rank name Recruiting Trainee
 
I suppose you could call this an "internship" or something. It kind of gives off the feeling that potential moderators have to earn your trust and validation as opposed to being entrusted with full permissions and abilities from day one.
 
For me, I just have the apply, and hopefully get selected system lol.
 
This is an good thread, but chnage the system
 
I'd rather from a formal application system because everyone has a fair shot and chance. I really don't need the see for a trainee because becoming a moderator isn't that hard and with a formal application you know who's had what experience. Also the mini-moderator or trainee thing isn't useful if that particular person has moderation experience before. I usually keep a close eye on people for the first 2 weeks or so to check if they are doing everything right.
 
Having "Trial" staff basically says that you don't trust your staff, mini-moderators basically says the same thing, IMO you should either not give them staff or give them staff.
 
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I have a new site opening within the next couple so I haven't really thought about the recruitment process. But I do have a rough idea on what I would like.

Step 1: member applies for a staff position. (With resume!) (Meets all requirements)
Step 2: Interview
Step 3: Contact References
Step 4: testing
Step 5: hiring
 
I like the idea of Trial Moderators. The position is one of the largest roles you can give out so the idea of trialling out potential candidates can be a good thing 🙂 However I get your comment @Tornado it does make you look like you cannot trust your staff, which isnt good!
 
Myers said:
However I get your comment @Tornado it does make you look like you cannot trust your staff, which isnt good!
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I did that once to one guy of mine, He had an choice to fill out the staff rank form and he didn't want to, and so I added him to the newbie staff rank and got going on discord to start getting to know him more 🙂

One day he get the full staff rank and it's been about an month and he's still with me
 
On my forum all staff ranks have a trial period regardless of what position. They have limited powers until that trial period is over. It's a good way for us admins to see if the staff member is a good fit for the community, and for the person to see what working on the forum is like & if they like it. For choosing moderators we reach out to members who we think would be a good fit and/or accept open applications.
 
A lot of very large forums tend to have different levels of moderators, which I think does make sense. One community that I recall regularly visiting when I was growing up was called RuneScape Realm (eventually it switched to Gamers Realm) and the forum had 3 big areas - I don't really know what to call it, but each was its own separate set of boards. They were off-topic, Runescape, and Age of Empires.

Anyways, all new mods started out only as forum moderators and generally moderated 2-3 specific forums. I thought this was a good setup as they got experience. Eventually they could move up to whole area moderators, all of the RS section for example, and then eventually to global moderators with power across all the forums.
 
Golddisk said:
A lot of very large forums tend to have different levels of moderators, which I think does make sense. One community that I recall regularly visiting when I was growing up was called RuneScape Realm (eventually it switched to Gamers Realm) and the forum had 3 big areas - I don't really know what to call it, but each was its own separate set of boards. They were off-topic, Runescape, and Age of Empires.

Anyways, all new mods started out only as forum moderators and generally moderated 2-3 specific forums. I thought this was a good setup as they got experience. Eventually they could move up to whole area moderators, all of the RS section for example, and then eventually to global moderators with power across all the forums.
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Now that's an very good system, it will make the user who is in that rank to work up and improve himself. I like that
 
Tornado said:
Having "Trial" staff basically says that you don't trust your staff, mini-moderators basically says the same thing, IMO you should either not give them staff or give them staff.
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I wouldn't say that. Having originated on a much larger site, we did this with our community. We had a rotating moderator system. This was intended to give people a chance to be a mod for 4-6 months even if we didn't actually need more mods. At the end of the rotation, they went back to member and we selected 2 more. If and when we needed a new mod, we'd pick people who done a good job during their rotation. Not only did it give us an idea of how good someone will be, but people had good reason to be better members.

We're not using this system atm because the mod/user ratio is already high enough.
 
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