Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27980194-20171001233743

So before I get into the new proposals, I should discuss some of the new changes to the chat moderator role. While things were relatively simple back in the times of the wiki-chat, times have since then changed and given that our discord server is the premiere new chat room for the wiki which is never going to change, on top of some of the confusion regarding the chat moderator role (not exactly widespread, but just enough for this to be worth mentioning), I’ll just mention/talk about some of the changes to the chat moderator role.

So what exactly has changed about the role?

The first major addition to the role I should mention is the ability to access our moderator-only channel. To be as broad as I can, discussions would include future prospects for a position in staff, how to improve our wikia (particularly working with the .css, .js and such), how to deal with rule-breakers, etc. So on top of evaluating a chat moderator by the standard criteria (activity, behavior, judgement, etc.), their ability to contribute to the aforementioned topics should also be taken into account.

On top of that, there’s also two minor additions. The first one would be the new integration of voice chat, and the added rights that come with it. Chat moderators now have the ability to kick, mute, and deafen people from voice chat. In addition, chat moderators also have the ability to use the everyone tag.

In regards to promotion, new chat moderators will be given chat moderator rights on both the main wiki, as well as the discord server.

So who are our candidates?

The first one would be MarvinDarwin. He has always been consistently active in the discord chat (of of the most active members, in fact), which is certainly something that we need right now. On top of that, he has also displayed a consistent interest in helping other users, as attested by his activity around the verification and wiki activity channels, as well as participating in wiki discussions. In terms of his behavior, my experiences with him have been incredibly positive, and I have not seen him display any serious negativity whatsoever. Another thing that's worth mentioning is that he fills in a unique time zone, particularly one where both me and 202 have to be at school and therefore are (typically) absent at that time.

The second candidate would be Mario&LuigiBowser’sInsideStory. While he may not be the most active user, his activity is still satisfactory when it comes to a chat moderator. Besides, what he may be lacking in activity, he makes up for in his knowledge regarding Wikia coding (CSS and such), and no doubt will be a major asset in that regard. His behavior is also fine, I myself can’t recall any moments where he got himself into drama. He is also incredibly dedicated to contributing to discussions (as his frequent activity in #wiki-discussion would attest to), and one would certainly be able to see why he may be fit to be a chat moderator looking through some of his contributions.

Now admittedly promoting two chat moderators at once might be overkill, but honestly as of now I believe we could use the extra hands on deck (especially since the chat mod slots are vacant). Not to mention, both candidates honestly seem like good fits for the roles, and I wouldn't personally feel too bad adding them both to the team.

That's about all I have to say, discussion will take place both on this thread, and moving forward from now, we're slowly going to try and slowly integrate decisions like this more and more into our discord chat (link for refence: https://discordapp.com/invite/s6Nbw7 ). 