Have your forum members pick their moderators
Something that I believe a number of forum administrators all need to help keep things in order are moderators. On a few of my older forums, I handed out moderation spots to people that were active in the community and that I thought would be a good fit for the job. However, I'm interested in trying out a different way to add people to the moderation team. An idea that will involve the members of the community much more than by simply handing out moderation spots.
So I've decided that with my newest forum, WorldofWarcraftBoard.com, I will be providing a way for people to nominate their moderators and subsequently hold an election. Here is the post that I put onto the forum:
I think we've been around long enough to add a couple moderators onto the team. There have been a few bots / advertisements etc. that I've had to take care of but by adding a couple extra moderators onto the team it will help to keep the forums clean when I'm not on the site.
After nominating a member, provide a reason why you believe this person should be a moderator on the site (you may nominate yourself as well as long as you provide a reason(s) why you deserve to be a moderator).
Some qualities to look for in making your nominations are:
1. High level of posting frequency (you'll want someone that will be an active contributor to the community)
2. Kind, helpful, etc.After we have some nominations, I'll go through and contact the nominees and verify their interest in being a moderator. Following this process we will have an election and out of this process we will have a couple moderators selected by the members on this site to help out around here.
Now start nominating
I believe that by giving the members of a site the ability to nominate their choices for moderators it helps to provide more ownership in the community. Either way, I'm interested to see how this turns out. If there are some positive results then I'll try this out on my other forums as well.
What do you think of think of this idea? Have you tried something like this before?
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I like this idea. This way the community “elects” their leaders.
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