Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-4787430-20140207230734/@comment-4787430-20140209054852

This is about removing the ability for any user to apply for chat/forum moderator positions, and replace it with the nomination style that we currently use for patrollers. Changes to who should be able to nominate is being discussed, too.

It was suggested that chat moderators could be nominated by a member of staff; not just those that only hold the "Chat Moderator" position, as most staff members are also in the chat moderator group. (Patrollers and Forum Mods).

I can understand the reasoning in having patroller nominations being only made by patrollers and admins is a better idea than all of staff being able to nominate someone as a patroller. As Ghost Anubis pointed out, it is the first step to becoming an admin.

That leaves forum moderator nominations. As with a patroller nominating someone for patroller, I'll also agree that it would be best for forum moderators to nominate someone as a forum moderator. In this case, not all chat moderators are forum moderators, so it makes sense for that to fall to the forum moderators.

As for the amount of time to pass before being re-nominated, that is why we are having this discussion, so others can weigh in their thoughts on the length. If most would prefer using the amount of time in terms of weeks rather than months, then that's fine. 3 months is what I started out with, because there was no other figure on the table to start with. 6 weeks is what, a month and a half? It's between 1-2 months, so I think that is a fair number.

Hope that clears anything up if it wasn't that clear in the starting topic.