Given the interest in volunteering, this is probably a good spot to start discussing the software’s built-in trust levels. The current roster of mods was just based on who had mod or admin access on the old site and was currently active. imo all of this should should be looked into much more closely and decided on a community-wide basis. There are other options for users to help manage the site without being full moderators. Worth noting:
Users at trust level 3 can…
- Recategorize and rename topics
- TL3 spam flags cast on TL0 user posts immediately hide the post
- TL3 flags cast on TL0 user posts in sufficient diversity will auto-silence the user and hide all their posts
Users at trust level 4 can…
- Edit all posts
- Pin/unpin topic
- Close topics
- Archive topics
- Make topics unlisted
- Split and merge topics
- Reset topic bump date
- Any TL4 flag cast on any post immediately takes effect and hides the target post
By default TL3 can be earned over time, but currently for us must be manually granted. TL4 always must be manually granted.
Also maybe worth considering: To date there has been one mod action - smacc fixed another user’s post.