Board Thread:Consensus track/@comment-7153552-20130619222547/@comment-7153552-20130624213345

So it sounds like we have a general consensus that it's a good idea. I'm going to pull some things down from earlier posts to kind of narrow the subject matter in some. This will be from different people, none of which I'll name specifically.

In summary the requirements to be an official forum moderator would be something like this:

The duties would include: This is all grea, and I couldn't agree more. I think each person should read and understand the ToS for Wikia and the Policies page for this specific site. Are there any additional things we should add to this?
 * 1) Active in the forums
 * 2) Respectful to all members
 * 3) Have been seen to be helpful around the forum
 * 1) Moving threads to the correct forum
 * 2) Tagging a thread with a correct topic
 * 3) Deleting inappropriate threads
 * 4) Answering questions

The best thing we could do is create a group with no additional rights, but with a special colour that can present some elevated level of authority.

There were colors listed, but it isn't important for the purpose of this particular post.

'The tag on the userpage would be good, as well as a banner. The banner would probably take the color of the user name color we decide on.'

This would certainly add validity to the backing of the wikia staff, and show an official, if not authoritative, tone for the Forum Moderation group.

On the Wiki's chat there is a CVN, you can easily patrol from there as every activity on the wiki is posted there.

This would seem to make things easier on patrolling a large portion of the site, and I was unaware of that function, thus I thought it worth mentioning one more time.

'The only thing I am concerned about is how we are going to partroll all of the forums at once. (Maybe) it would be easier to split it up into sections.'

I neither agree or disagree with this part, so long as everyone involved knows that they are responsible for the whole forum. Specializng is great, but the team would need to cross paths and help each other out.

'. . . it will follow the same process as voting for patroller. To make sure that there isn't a flood of users wanting to be a forum moderator, only a current moderator or staff member can nominate a user to be a moderator. Since it is the forum, the voting should probably be held on the forum. The voting process usually lasts from 7-10 days. . .'

I like the voting system set forth, here. I don't see much reason to change anything on it.