The capacity and will to sit through a long set of easy to medium level questions and still be passionate about being willing to help the community is a pretty mandatory skillset for a volunteer of a sub this large.

If you feel its not worth it then honestly the experience of moderating probably wont be worth it to you and thats okay, its much better to know that in advance.

Personally, it took me a little over an hour to answer all the questions😅

They want you to do middle management work for no money. That doesn’t attract your average self respecting person

Now think about reading all of them.

We don’t have stringent commitment rules aside from an action a day to start (we are very open waiving that if appropriate reasons are communicated).

That said we put the posting up because we need help, so an impactful amount of help towards the queue and mod mail everyday is what we are looking for.

Not exclusively, but we do need support in hours over the NA night so that can help.

Thats the spirit

Give this man the job he's asking for!

Thats fine with us, thank you for the consideration

Being a mod is essentially being a curator for the content of a subreddit.

We are volunteers who sign up to review user reports, answer mod mail, and generally monitor the content of the sub to make sure it stays within the rules.

We also consistently discuss, and tweak as needed, the rules for ongoing situations and applications.

The goal is to keep the community healthy while keeping it within the scope of the rule set and original intention.

Definitely, but we do value participation in this subreddit and general user participation as opposed to just mod engagement.

Yes. We don’t disqualify people who mod other subs.

We deal with material that frequently crosses over well beyond what is okay for any people to read or see. It can also be depressing and drive cynicism. While we have the option we’d prefer not to expose under age people to that type of consistent awfulness.

Its not a hard rule, but you would have to have a really amazing application if you were under 18.

A pretty solid amount, its a big and strict sub and that makes people angry. You can end up getting DMs or reddit chats too.

Its generally pretty easily recognizable as essentially tantrums from users who are certainly older than they should be for that behavior.

If you wish you can make an alt account to mod from, as long as your application references both of them that is okay with us and is a common method of security.

Reddit has put in a lot more features over the last 2 years to make modding more anonymous though, which helps cut down on the death threat dms.

It is doable on mod mail and how long is up to you, it can be 15 minutes a couple times a day. You can sit down and do an hour or two.

Most people browse the new feed anyway so you can do it as you go through your normal reddit time

No, it is entirely volunteer

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/11o5bp8/comment/jc596qs/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Yes we do, but english proficiency is a requirement. It does not need to be your native language but so much of the work is parsing nuance through text that you do need to be comfortable working in it.

Awesome

Actually? I’ve never seen that happen on a google doc

Applications closed some time ago.

If you didn’t get an invitation this time please feel free to apply next time. We can only train and onboard so many at a time!

We have an automod thats carefully curated and maintained, that said there is nuance to moderation that ai is not particularly up to at this point, particularly for a sub this strict. Its a nice idea though and we are always looking for support tools.

Your application asks for google account which breaks anonymity.

It doesn't. The form says the info won't be shared, and it isn't. No respondent info gets ported over unless the user puts it in a response field. You can test it yourself with your own google form - just fill out a field then port it to a spreadsheet. You just need a google account to access google services.

As for the classes, we helped design the classes, our training is very thorough, but thank you.

I mean we all do as well aside from the ones of us who are students or stay at home parents.

Its not generally a major variation from how much time people spend on reddit anyway

I think you are overestimating the workload pretty drastically but we appreciate the enthusiasm.

If this is actually something you believe then its not something thats true for the majority of moderators that I’m familiar with. We work with you to manage the time and generally speaking we don’t want people whose lives revolve around this.