Post your applications to this thread. Replies to this thread should only be applications. Please use the other thread for discussion.

Previous Experience in Moderation:

I moderated Vizzed in the past, as well as several other rented forums previously. I had stepped down due to school and life in general getting in the way of things, but I believe I can dedicate my time to Vizzed now if I'm given the chance. I believe I was a fair and just mod, being generally liked throughout the site.

Although Vizzed is my only experience with modding in forums, I also mod (and own) several Discord servers, and am generally well liked in all of them as well.

About Myself and the views of a Local/Global Moderator :

It's been a while since I've been active on the site but I see you making strides to improve your community and hopefully bring back some activity, so I want to contribute my greatest efforts in helping you do so. We didn't talk a lot, even when I was staff, and I know recently I created a pretty out-of-control thread but it was all in fun. I assure you I can be more serious and dedicated than that, and I believe if you look in my staff threads you'll see that.

The qualities of a good moderator, both globally and locally, are understanding, maturity, and responsibility. Moderators must understand what they are doing, they must be mature enough to do it properly, and they must be responsible enough to do that job and be a good role model for the site. Moderators should treat the ENTIRE site with utmost and equal respect, regardless of age or ranking. Moderators should be able to talk among themselves without fighting or causing drama, as we all need to work together.

As a moderator, I offer to you my time and dedication to this website. I have been here for nine years, and I've seen the website grow - I want to see it thrive once again, like it did when the RGR was active. I will, in sum, do my part to make sure that Vizzed is the fun, family-friendly forum that it is meant to be.

Online Activity:

I would be online mostly in the afternoon time, but definitely at a consistent rate; there's almost never a day I wouldn't be able to check in on the website and try to do a little bit of work.

Please contact me if there's anything else you need/would like to know. Thank you.

I'm going to be throwing my hat into the ring for a spot.

One thing that I will do as a mod is be serious about the job. That's one of the things some users didn't like when I was a mod last time, that I actually took action when someone did something, instead of leaving it alone or hoping that another mod takes care of it. When I was a mod, I enjoyed the behind the scenes aspect, looking for inconsistencies throughout the site and trying to fix them, and I would try to continue that.

If I am a mod and the site gets more active, I would try to make sure that if something bad does happen, other users don't see the situation as an opening and follow down that same path while also trying to keep up activity within select forums.

My own activity is nothing like it used to be, but that mostly seems to be because of overall activity and not being able to find places to discuss, but if we as a group of mods can start bring people back in, I would start leaning back towards 50-100 or so posts a month.

I would also always be available if someone needed help. Every now and then I still get messages from users with questions and I would always be able to help someone out if they sent me a message, not just for someone who asks a question in a thread that gets a bunch of replies.

I like doing the work of being a mod, and if we get a bunch of people who like the work and take it seriously, this can be a much better place down the line.

So far, I have a pretty decent amount of experience in modding. In addition to my time here, I have also been a mod for two other gaming forums and a sports forum in the past which totaled about a year.

For now, I will answer the first 100 questions.

Something About Me

I think most people who have been active for a while have at least seen me around. I'm Zlinqx, I have both served as various site staff positions as well as local moderator and chat manager for roughly two years. I've been on the site for a fair amount of time and seen it go up and down. In the past year my activity has diminished partly because of the state of the site, and partly because of becoming more busy  (studying Economics and Japanese) however were I to be picked for the position I will do my best to try and revive the site by helping create an active community once again.

Formal Experience


I feel like what makes me qualified in comparison to other candidates is that I have both an inside and outside perspective so to speak. Having served along various moderators as well as in a managerial role back when flash chat was still a thing, I understand the pressure that comes from moderating. The ability to act mature when the situation requires and being able to take criticism from inside and outside of the staff while at the same time trying to act on what you perceive as right. I became well aware of the difficulties of trying to please everyone during my past tenures, thus feel I am well equipped to shoulder said responsibility, particularly now that I'm older and more experienced. Having maintained the role for a considerable amount of time often among several other staff positions I believe it speaks for my past dedication to the site. I am willing and able to show the dedication needed for this role yet again.

The Need for Change

Of course experience is not the end all be all, a lot of what lead us to this point is an unwillingness to change. I recognize that there have been a lot of faults in how the mod team acted in recent times, some of which I was a part of myself during the end of my tenure. I have however always tried to better myself accordingly rather than simply ignoring criticism. Having been active in the community myself and befriending many veterans of the site both during and after my time on the site, I feel like I have good awareness of many of the gripes that were present with past mod administrations causing members to leave, such as inconsistently enforcing the rules or having a selective bias towards or for certain people. These were issues that I myself along with others tried to tackle as apparent but with somewhat mixed results due to the presence of a hierarchy. Seeing that the mod team is now going through a complete restructuring I feel there is an opportunity to directly attempt to address many of these problems which simply was not present in the past. That is what has motivated me to apply again and I hope that can persuade you to put your trust in me.

Well, I shall join the fry as well, so here goes something.

I was a mod here in Vizzed for some 8 months or so. During that time, I saw an incredible boost in my activity, simply because I'm not an avid poster and I suddenly had an obligation to post quite a lot. I ended up regularly doing two and three times the needed quota, and it also affected my real life by making me feel more energetic and willing to challenge myself.

I've been feeling a bit down recently, and for a long while I've considered returning to being a mod to get the benefit of the activity boost both on and off-site. After a series of personal successes, I'm feeling more motivated than ever to return and confident that I can go back to a relatively fine shape in terms of activity.

I stepped down due to some internal discussion regarding how the new quota was implemented, but that shouldn't be an issue now. Any candidate is far behind the quota so it's a clean start for everybody. Also, I doubt we'll see forced implementations like that one in the future, seeing the winds of change that breeze through this place.

If I become a mod, the first step would be to follow what Light Knight had started during his return: updating forum rules. True is that we're waiting on a confirmation to reduce the number of current forums, but that shouldn't stop the new mod team from sitting down and discussing updates. I'll also display a calmer mind when dealing with things, I have the feeling I was quite rushed back in time (and maybe not that back in time too) but I've learned from my mistakes.

Since this question would surely pop if I'm promoted, just in case, for now I'd keep my current staff roles with me. I could consider giving them away if apps were to open for site staff too, but so far I haven't really fallen behind quota so I see no real need to do away with them.

Hello, my name is Boured otherwise known as 18mlivingston at the time of signing up. I've come to apply for a Local Moderator/Gobal Moderator position as I feel I could be up to the task. I originally signed up back in 2012 during the height of Vizzed popularity to play some games, but eventually went to post on the board 2 years later if I recall. I've now been here 5+ years, only being absent due to mostly work and school, but have achieved a stable working environment where I can check here for a decent chunk of the day.

I consider myself a person who is very laid back, but will act when a situation presents itself. I can either be your best friend, or your worst nightmare. All depending on whether you follow the rules and act like a positive member of the site or not. I know the rules and know that they must be followed like gospel. Thus, any rule-breakers will be met with a warning, and further actions will be taken if warnings are not sufficient.

I also know what a good chunk of the qualities of a good moderator is. Such things would be activity, while I haven't been very active, especially when I did have a staff role at one point, I'm not as busy as I was in the last few months of High School. I'm currently in college and thus my time is a lot more open. Another would be that they need to have one standard, double standards is a symptom of corruption, I want to be as fair of a mod as possible, I don't care if your a new member or a old and well loved friend, you break a rule then you will be punished the same. Another is that they don't let emotions get in the way of the job, I'm a very emotion filled person, but I do know how to control said emotions, people who fail to do so are ones that will jump the gun and do a "knee jerk" reaction, which is the quickest way to deliver false justice.

I also have people to back me up as to why I could be a good mod if allowed to be.

Lexatom : The first real friend I made on here, granted he's an infamous one, but he isn't a bad guy, just a huge meme lord.

A user of this : A former Global Mod, while a incident with a censor meme sent him down to Newbie. He at least has the insight as to whether some can be a mod. I'm going by a "It takes one to know one" kinda angle.

Vizzed was a huge part of my childhood, which is why I still go here from time to time, it made me a lot of friends and lots of memories. I'd like to make sure this site is good for everyone here, just like back when I was like...14?

That's about all I can say on the matter, I have experience with Vizzed, don't have anything on me with this site that I remember in terms of drama, was a part of staff a long while ago, and I have time that can be spent doing something useful, especially for a board that was a huge part of my childhood.

Over the years, I have seen some behavior from mods that has alarmed me, and not just on this site. From mild to more serious favoritism to downright bullying, I haven't really wanted to speak up much because I felt it would accomplish little good. On the internet, it is easy to mask tone and pretend you meant something else, though behavioral patterns makes things more clear. I remember doing some of that very behavior myself, on this site and others. It is also easy to let one's temper grow hot...leading to those very behaviors.

This needs to be nipped in the bud. There are organizations that do this already. Many love the fast food franchise Chick-Fil-A because of their constant politeness and good work ethics. But would that be there if no action was taken when stuff went down? No! A willingness to let things be means that the virus will fester and grow.

That said, the virus is never a person. A person is not the disease. I recognize that from my own bouts with illness and internal struggles. If I supposed that I was the disease, as I have before, then I would be harming myself in an attempt to make myself feel better. That just plain doesn't work. People should be given chances to prove themselves. Permabans should not given out to "solve the problem". They should be given out because a person had been given chances to solve the problem themselves. There, of course, may be rare "one-and-done" situations. Violent threats or posts involving pornography, for instance. But a person ought to feel like they were treated fairly. Who'd want to come back to a board where compliments are often flattery, and success is gauged based on meaningless internet points? Cough Reddit cough.

Another thing that has alarmed me is the anger around people posting leaving threads. Sometimes people are going through hard times and need heard out. Sometimes they make rash decisions. Instead, I've seen reactions from higher ups often be insensitive and cold to these threads, instead of trying to find out why these people are leaving and trying to make them feel more valued. I say it is true that the Vizzed Board has partly died out because of poor moderation, and, more fully, a lack of overall warmth that, arguably, all of us are a part of.

We need to make Vizzed a better board, and to do that, we need to make things more meaningful. When people do something worthwhile, they ought to be rewarded. I propose a system of rewards for good behavior around the site. Report a problem anonymously? Good. Call someone out angrily? Bad. Make someone feel welcome? Good! Insult a person? Bad. Each time a person sees one of the good behaviors, they can nominate that person for a point to the mods. At the end of the month, the top "heroes" will be judged, and they will receive something for their efforts, whether it be Viz to spend on the market/raffle tickets, gift cards, or other things. I would be willing to spend part of my own money to make this happen, whenever possible. We can also discuss what went right and what could be better in a monthly thread.

In addition, I think there need to be more engaging threads around the site. I think there ought to be contests that reward users for doing productive things. Reviews, short stories, creative irl things, and more. A past concern about the TdV has been that it tends to reward people more on the side of posting more and doing more, rather than posting their very best. In addition, staff or elite have historically had an advantage for a number of things in the competition, effectively making any others unable to compete well. This, I might argue, more than anything else, has made Vizzed "dead". Each time someone feels isolated and not included, they will tend to leave. Make that a whole month and...they probably won't come back much. In order to make newbies and others feel welcome, I feel that we ought to get rid of (for the moment) the TdV. If we're going to bring it back, we need to make it more fair. And to make it more fair, we'd need to know the people who are going to be competing, their thoughts, their desires, their loves. If Vizzed is going to be revived, we have to make the people who are a part of it feel alive and not a "gear in the system".

I want to make this happen. I've seen a beloved sister board largely die because of one broken (or perhaps rather, still delayed) promise and a lack of engagement between members. I am one of the few remaining major members of the site. And even as a "major member", I am barely there now because of the absence of conversation. Would the board had been better off had I been more active? I wonder that often.

That despite the fact that David has poured so much of his life into this, that Vizzed is so full of features and content now, Vizzed is dying, says that things have to change. And we can start right now by making people feel they are worthwhile. If we are a source of comfort to those coming here to escape, they will come back. And not just for the games or the music, if for them at all. They'll come here because they have actual friends here, and not just people to chat with. They can go back to the world they wanted to escape from with the knowledge that someone out there in this world cares. We can be those people.

....end of my TED Talk XD

About me

Hey I’m Furret. For new users who don’t know me that well, I’ve been a member for over 6 years now and I’m currently living in Belgium (+7 from server time). I was a moderator on this site for roughly 2 years from 2015-2017. Aside from my moderator job I was also an admin on the Vizzed Minecraft server from 2015 all the way up to the moment it went down. Back then you would always be able to find me in the chatroom or on the forums.

Despite the lack of activity in general I’ve logged in on Vizzed pretty much every single day and I’ve been posting here and there. I’m hoping that with a collective group of new staff members we could push ourselves and others to restore some activity to the forums.

Experience

During my time as a moderator I learned the jobs and responsibilities of moderating and in particular I learned when to act and when to ask for advice. I’m a firm believer of the fact that moderators operate as a team, so you should never be ashamed to get a second opinion on a certain situation. That said you also need to be able to adapt to situations by yourself and make the right decisions with a mature and rational mind. With every call you make you need to keep the safety of the community in mind whilst also allowing people to enjoy and express themselves on Vizzed.

When I was moderating the site I was always actively trying to be involved with the community and welcoming to new users. I'm down to have fun and I'm down to sit down and talk with anyone. As a mod I would strive to be fair, no matter the situation and other party. There's a lot more to moderating than handing out punishments over every rule that's broken.

This reset is a great opportunity for everyone on Vizzed to feel united again like we used to.

Motivation

Now lastly, why go back to moderating? My life was quite crazy these past two years. I graduated high school and was working part time to help out my family. This year I finally took a step forward for myself. I’m currently in university studying law (for those who know me, you know this is a passion of mine). I’m comfortably living in a dorm room and I’m able to manage my time really well. In general I’ve been way more motivated and positive compared to the last couple years, and I’m hoping to carry that motivation to this site as well.

I'm applying. Not for myself, by the way. I'm applying for a member who is currently banned, yoshirulez! It is my belief he should be reinstated, because frankly his ban is stupid.

Here is his application:

Hi, I'm applying for local mod here

I've been a vizzed moderator in the past for what I'd say was about a year, and in that time I managed my forums very well, seemingly moreso than most at the time. I'd say I'm fairly qualified for the position due to how long I've been with the website (almost 9 years now)

I'm well educated on a lot of the functionality of the forums, I once customized a rented forum to help people more easily navigate them, I've been known to pay close attention to closed threada and open ones back up accordingly, in order to promote activity

My philosophy is high tolerance and high fun, but I can easily identify a serious problem and communicate with the team in order to reach a consensus on what to do that much faster

I've been known to be very active, making plenty of posts a day and could easily meet a quota (though I personally think that we should reconsider how we run things and not force a quota if the site activity doesn't allow it, artificial activity is useful to no one)

Were I to be picked, I would do a good job at keeping things tidy and I would be a good representative for the website. I was once also part of the RGR staff so helping newbies is my forte.

I hold the belief that cooperation is key in a healthy, functional team and I think that if I were given the necessary tools, we could streamline how the moderator team handles moderation in order to promote a much more friendly, free, and welcoming community.

I hope you'll consider me.

I would like to reapply for local mod. This'll probably be brief.

I'll be up front; if there's a post or CP quota, I probably won't be able to meet it. That said, I don't really believe that's important to moderation. Important traits for a moderator are a sense of community, a willingness to help, guide, understand and mediate. Enforcing the spirit of the community and applying the rules as they're applicable to a given situation, making the best decision for that case. I was given the position two years ago and I've spent almost all of my site time since dedicated to mediating and trying to resolve conflict in the community. If given the chance again, I'll continue to do so, and I believe many of the users will vouch for me.

KYou did say new generation. These people here stepped down or got kicked out of position for a reason. I myself though, have never been a mod of this site. Why should I be a good fit? Truth be told I probably won’t with a past like mine in chat rooms but in the site itself I’ve haven’t been in trouble, may not be perfect but I can prove myself and prove people wrong. My credentials is that I won meanest in 2014... that’s about it. 

Heh, it's funny, for years my mistakes on this site have dwelled in the back of my mind, gnawing at me like a demon. I see this as an opportunity to make up for my past deeds. This is my Application.

Hi, I'm TyTyTec04, and I have been a member of this site for 6 years 3 months and 9 days, I am applying for local moderator because I want to help this site be the very best it can be. While I am not very educated in how this site works, I can learn. and I'm willing to put quite a few hours into this site during the night/early morning, because this site is amazing and deserves amazing mods! I'm not the greatest person to be honest, I've made mistakes, but I'm willing to move forward and try to make up for them. That's about it, Davideo7, have a nice night!

-TyTyTec04

Fun fact, this never went through so you have literally owed me some sort of staff position for some 5 and a half years.


https://www.vizzed.com/boards/showprivate.php?id=568544

If I become a staff member or moderator, I will literally ban half of all the Vizzed users randomly, a la Thanos. It will bring true balance to the website, thus reviving it. Like the immune system killing a disease. This is why you should vote for me.

TheFadedWarrior : Thanos totally ripped that off from Richmond Valentine

Hello it's been a while since I was decently active but this got me interested in trying to apply.



I won't lie I don't have that much experience with posting or being a moderator but I'd try and learn quickly. I've however spent way more time on the minecraft server and I used to love helping players. I've actually been staff on vizzed before for the vizzed minecraft server and during that time I tried to come up with new ideas to help the server and discuss them with the other minecraft moderators. I believe I would be able to spend a longer time as staff as I was able to figure out my personal issues that led me to stepping down in the past.



Because of the time I spent helping people both as a normal player and staff I believe I possess a quality that would help me as a mod.

I am gamerforlifeforever. I've been a part of this site since 2012. I previously served on the site staff for 3 years as a game reviewer, Nintendo Manager, and Video Game Music Manager. I was on the mod team for around 1 1/2 years, 1 year of which I was a global mod. I was also named the 2016 Member of the Year by David himself. Back in September of 2017, I needed to step down from the mod team due to a minor health issue and some personal issues that I'd rather not get into...

Around February of this year, I became a lot less active on the site. But seeing the change of direction that David's trying to do with vizzed by resetting the entire mod team, I'm starting to feel motivated to try and not only become more active again, but also do my part to help make vizzed a better place for new members and returning users alike.

In my time as a moderator, I never let personal bias for or towards other users effect my judgement. I was never opposed to leaving threads either, which as some of you may remember became a hot topic late last year. If there's anything I would've done differently, I wish I would've pushed more for less policing and more fun when it comes to posting. I made my thoughts very clear on the leaving thread situation, but I still could've done a better job when it came to leniency. We're all human, we make mistakes, we learn from it. If given the chance, then together with the other chosen mods, we'll do everything in our power to make vizzed an active and great community to be a part of again.

Is it me, or almost all the applications from current or past mods? :thonk:

TBH, you're not gonna expand/replace any of your staff if you've still only got the same old community that only keeps shrinking to pick from. What the sites needs is more promotion, and if I really cared enough to apply myself, it'd be the platform I'd self myself on: expanding the user base. Promote Vizzed to the roof tops and convince people it's worth joining but eh.

And TBH, what the hell is Vizzed anyways other than a family friendly version of what Acmlm Board used to be, an all purpose "post whatever the hell you want" internet forum that actually still exists? Honestly, the only other forums I can find on the internet still around today either have a specific purpose or reason to exist, like say https://shmups.system11.org/ for Arcade Game enthusiasts and a trove of information for maintaining such hardware. Vizzed? IDK, gaming? Retro stuff? In my experience: not really, 'cause if it was, this site is over 90% off topic posting easy. Most actual forums tend to have small communities anyways, and most things with bigger communitys aren't exactly forums, like Reddit. I'm surprised Vizzed got as popular as it did for as long as it did in retrospective. Long rant point not made clear short: I don't even know how I'd promote Vizzed as it is or was to anyone anyways.

IDK, have some of my random thoughts from an old frequenter that was ever very notable. Time to never post again for like another 2 years.

I am not interested in applying for moderator of the board because I feel the quality of content is really not worth modding (sorry if you feel insulted). As legacy said in another post people who post here want "stupid fun" and I don't want to waste my valuable time modding such discussions. I said before and I will say again, the board lacks quality discussions therefore I don't contribute to it much at all if any.

I will however apply for another position in staff maybe as a program consultant who can evaluate things that can be done to improve this site elsewhere. I have experience in coding though I don't really think I am going to develop for the site again unless the feature I were to make is worth the effort and payoff. I have learned that making features that no one uses is just not worth making. So with that in mind, I'd only attempt to make something if I knew it was going to make some sort of impact on the community.

Here is some of my work as a consultant and developer for Vizzed:

1. Ban Tool - One of the features I made on this site that I am proud of but many people do not see is the ban tool. I don't know if its been update or not, but I created it so staff could issue out bans based on the severity and also give the ability for staff to ban from specific forums for certain amounts of time.

2. Joint Staff Inboxes - This was something I recommended and originally created so that staff could view messages with one another based on their staff rank so that they could handle problems faster and better. There was no system in place before that.

3. Subforum Integration - Another concept of mine that I recommended and was implemented into the site by David. I don't recall the specifics of it but remember pitching the idea to David on how it could be done programming wise.

4. Newbie Quiz - This was a concept that I put into place and created to better fix the community and to slow down rogue accounts from spamming the boards. Though it can be easily passed, it is still a good thing that was implemented into the site.

There are a few other features I made but not worth mentioning as they are now most likely defunct.

Why hire me?

Well, is there anyone else who could fit that role of conceptual programmer / site consultant better then me? I have previous experience and have a long work history with David (not so much anymore) but we know each other since 2007 and have helped on another on various projects on this site and beyond. This position would allow me to work directly with David on new exciting stuff for the community which cannot be done through the php developer tool or site request page. If I am going to help this site, I prefer it that I do so as a position of staff and not a standard member of the community. Though I did bad things on this site (some of which helped fix vulnerabilities and others not so much) I also did good things that people may not know of.

I have better talents and purposes that could improve the site elsewhere then modding the boards. I am not a people person so I really don't belong in a customer service department. If there is a unique position for me as a site consultant or conceptual program developer I could easily fill that unique role.