Board Thread:Administration/@comment-4832646-20140318213355/@comment-4832646-20140320041717

Xelrog T. Apocalypse wrote: Noothgrush wrote: And as for moderators. It makes sense that moderators are required to help out to a set amount on the main site to get the position. Once they're moderators, they're free to do their duties, but once again the site and chat are not separate entities, it doesn't make sense to have a mod that was literally only here for chat. They should be here for the site, chat should be a secondary perk. Why? What do we care if they're only here for the chat? What we need is moderators who are responsible and capable of dealing with situations that come up. That's all the job requires and it doesn't really make sense to limit our pool even further than that for no reason.

If I could, I'd make it so you'd have to help something with the site to enter chat, but it does have productive times with new users who are just trying to get the hang of things. It's rare, but it happens.

But yes, a mod should be required to have something done on the site. But I'll put it a different way: We're training a firefighter with cash registers because of a grocery-clerk shortage. We're telling the firefighter "If you want to be a firefighter, you have to make a contribution to the community."