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1. Rob G. (designrg@qoto.org)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2019 18:59:01 UTC Rob G.

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   QOTO Moderator Nomination Process - Notes

   This month we have a process for nominating candidates for Moderator position here at QOTO.org. It is an important one, and I would like to post a few notes and thoughts about it.

   1. First of all, it's surprising how open and transparent the process of Staff selection is here; In most cases, these discussions are hel In Camera, by existing site staff (moderators and administrators), sometimes subject to a vote between them, sometimes with Admins having the final decision, after accepting input.

   Here, it's done in the public Feed, the posts are also federated with other instances. And the nomination process is open to participation by any current user in QOTO. (an election should ensue, if more than one person is nominated; otherwise, it's considered hors-concours, and the nominated person gets the job)

   2. Nomination is currently done via a post in the QOTO Discourse forum (a less known and used feature of the community), you will need to register an account there as it's different software that Mastodon running here.

   As an alternative, you could post a Mastodon post, and declare your support for any user here you see as a good candidate, include the person via their @ tag name, and include @freemo, our system admin so he won't miss it.

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   • Rob G. (designrg@qoto.org)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2019 19:01:23 UTC Rob G.

     • 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     To finalize, all of these points above are my personal opinions, I believe they allign with the QOTO mission statement and site policies.

     I have been a moderator in various sites in the past, mostly Forums, starting the process as an interested user and acting the ways I suggested above, being recognized as a valued Contributor, and eventually being invited into Staff positions.

     I have time and enjoy my activity in the Fediverse, have volunteered for the position now open in the December 2019 Moderator Nominations and would be grateful for your support if you feel I might be a good Staff member here.

     The Discourse Forum for Nominations is at : https://discourse.qoto.org/t/nomination-for-moderator-december-2019/110

     ...or you can consider suggesting any names here or via Direct Message to our Administrator, Dr Freeman, @freemo

     Thank you for reading this, please feel free to comment in this thread, your input is important.

     RG.

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   • 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2019 19:24:27 UTC 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     in reply to

     @design_RG Well said, very accurate from both accounts. I think you will make a great mod!

   • Rob G. (designrg@qoto.org)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2019 20:14:18 UTC Rob G.

     • 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     @freemo Made a QOTO Discourse Forum post of the same content as the serialized posts above.

     I anyone prefers to read as a Single document, it's here : https://discourse.qoto.org/t/qoto-moderator-nomination-process-notes/117

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