Looking for one sectional moderator

Hello,
Two announcements in a day, wow.

I'm looking for one sectional moderator who manages the Member Contests Giveaways section.

What your job will be:

• Close ended contests
  
• Report fake contests to staff
  
• Make sure the contest host follows the rules and provides valid ending dates
  

What you get:

• Moderator tools to manage the section
  
• A notice on your postbit
  

This rank does not make you staff nor give you any extra permissions besides the moderator tools.

Application:


Application must be posted in this thread.
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No extra info is required.
This thread isn't a discussion.

Why do you want to be a moderator?
Because i saw many users posting bullshit contests, with invalid ending dates or no ending date at all, some don't even end their contest and take back what they offered.

How much time a day do you spend on the site?
A few hours daily.
Your experience as a moderator
None, just my own websites.

Do you have ideas to make the section a better place? If yes, which?
Fake contests = 1 month ban & no permission to post in the contest section anymore.

A comment
Since there aren't many people who post threads in the contest section, it will be a easy job.

Why do you want to be a moderator?
I have been here for a year now and dont feel like i have gave enough to the site. i want to help the site in more ways then just posting.

How much time a day do you spend on the site?
I spend a good 6 or more hours a day on the site if i am home i will always have nbb on my second monitor.

Your experience as a moderator
I have support role on another site and have been staff on many other old communitys.

Do you have ideas to make the section a better place? If yes, which?
Making the giveaway section more organized is my main goal. Each giveaway should have an ending date even if its a competion it needs a ending date just so there isnt a gey giveaway for more then a month.

Why do you want to be a moderator?
I want to become moderator to help contributing the site and taking off some of the work of the staff team, since they're probably busy enough already. Also I see this as opportunity to gain experience as moderator, which I maybe need in future.

How much time a day do you spend on the site?
Totally depends on my mood, but it can defenitly be more since I can access the forum in my school, too.

Your experience as a moderator
Some years ago I gained experience as moderator on a German League of Legends community forum, due to my health back then, I wasn't able to do the job on the long run.
On a private server of Dark Orbit, which became very popular, I was also moderator, but it wasn't on a forum, it was in game. My duties were to keep an eye on the chat. I also made experience as supporter on said private server (ticket support).

Do you have ideas to make the section a better place? If yes, which?
I think the section is fine as it currently is, but if I get an idea to make the section better, I'll post it on the forum.


Thanks for reading.

Why do you want to be a moderator?
Being moderator of the contests section would allow me to contribute further on the site beyond activity and input/suggestions. Some people either haven't read the rules to that section or they're simply blatantly disregarding them. I feel like I have what it takes to keep this to a minimum and assist the staff team and of course the community with handling these false contests.

How much time a day do you spend on the site?
Well considering I spend all day online and now that my time is free I spend roughly 8 hours a day at least on Nulled. Considering that in the past year, I've had nothing actually blocking my time spent online, I'm always online; maybe a bit too much. Albeit I'm pretty much always around on discord and skype as well so I can show up on short notice if necessary.

Your experience as a moderator
NextGenUpdate
Well I've been on the forum scene for a long time, starting out on the gaming side of things back in 2008. I was a moderator for NextGenUpdate back in it's early days, as well as a second time recently about a year ago. I remained moderator on there for about a year on my most recent promotion. During my time at NGU I was able to get hands on with moderating my specific sections, and once I was promoted I gave a hand with selections of new staff members. Dealing with reports, self-browsing and moderation, as well as user complaints was all under my belt as a moderator. Being moderator on a 2M user platform was a prodigious step in awareness as well as in learning how to maneuver through things when necessary.

TechInformed
I have also administered and moderated on a lot of smaller communities such as TechInformed where I was a Super Moderator. At TechInformed I started out as just a news writer, where I would contribute to the news; similar to how the current writers team is set up here on nulled. From there, my work allowed me to progress and become a moderator in which I would assist my seniors in management.

TechPulse
where I was also a Super Moderator and later moved up to administrator, I was practically co-owner here. I created the forum layout and provided funds to the owner at times to help progress the site and buy plugins. It was a failure within the later months.

TheModdingZone
where I was a Global Moderator. I helped a lot with granting awards to people in the community. I was really big on the modding scene back in 2010-2014 and I managed the "Modding Squad" on this site which was dedicated to giving modding services to the users of the site.

That Forum
Not that this would help my case but I have also moderated and administered that forum. Within my 8 months of being staff on there I worked my way up from moderator to administrator. During my time as admin, I worked with managing the staff team as well as putting together community events. I'd like to say I did fairly well with my work, the community took a liking to me and it was an uphill progression from there until the time came where I retired.

Do you have ideas to make the section a better place? If yes, which?

• I believe that when users go to create a thread, it would be beneficial to direct them to the section rules before they're able to post a thread in that section and have them agree to the rules so that they can't say they "have not seen them" or "they were never enforced".
  
• Threads in the section should also be moderated before able to go live. So a moderator should have the ability to approve/disapprove these threads if they're not in accordance with the rules; this would also prevent people from entering these false giveaways and feeling bad when they don't get their said prize.
  

With giving my all in moderating this section, of course I would give the best of my ability in making this section cleaner and enforce the rules of that section more. Also I wouldn't mind bumping some activity in that section by doing a few giveaways myself every now and then.

Fake Giveaways/Contests should not be tolerated. They need to follow all of the rules; have the giveaway planned out before posting it, and they should all be enforced; which is why I believe I'm fit to make this section better and lend a hand.

Why do you want to be a moderator?
Moderating a forum requires a lot of time and dedication. It requires to put all past issues with members to bed and to be more shining in that position. I think it would be a great opportunity to work on with the team on Nulled to collect information and report it as required to the team. I feel this position would be best suited to myself as I have had many years experience in these instances and can operate and control a matter without making a scene.

How much time a day do you spend on the site?
I spend quite a lot of time on the forums on a daily basis may it be through desktop, laptop or mobile if I am on the go. I spent a lot of time online during the date and at night so when timezones shift I'm active.

Your experience as a moderator
I've owned a few boards in which Aoki has seen and is aware of. I've been administrator and moderator on a number of boards within a short time registered as I know what the job requires. I would say I have more than 5 years experience being a moderator alone and that's across a number of forums as well.

Do you have ideas to make the section a better place? If yes, which?
A good suggestion for a start would to be to make all threads require moderator approval before going live. In this instance when a thread is made the sectional moderator can contact the publisher and get more information about their thread before making the decision to make it public. This would also allow time to remove any threads which were in the wrong section and also allow for further investigation into the member. Upon the moderator approving the thread a reply from the moderator could be make such as "This user has been made aware and agrees that if they fail to follow through on this content a suspension will be placed on their account" to remove fake contents and such.

Why do you want to be a moderator?
Being an active user of NulledBB for around 11 months now, I can say that it has become one of the best and most fun experiences I have had as a member. I came into Nulled not wanting to be a staff member at all, trying to take a break from the whole staff thing and just be a normal member. Well 11 months later and I feel like I am ready to jump back into it. The Member Contests section is a section that needs constant moderation to check if the giveaways had are real, or just some scam. There are also many unprofessional contests that members partake in, not knowing if they are legitimate or not. There could be a member who really wants prime so they can do something like give out rep, and is really active, but he just doesn't have enough money. then someone says "Hey I'm hosting a Prime giveaway! Join by replying!" The person joins and it turns out to be a fake giveaway. Now this member feels scammed, and decides to not post here anymore since he believes everyone here is a lying, cheating, scammer. That's one HQ member we lost due to there being little moderation. I know that was extreme. But it could happen, and it may have happened to people in the past. We just don't know.
I also want to say that although this sounds cliche, there will always be times when there are no moderators on. So why not have one person who can just clean shit up when if something goes wrong when they aren't here.

How much time a day do you spend on the site?
I'll be honest. Way to much. Like WAAAAAAY too fucking much.
Wednesday (which was yesterday for the server) I spent 7 hours on this site. Seven hours. It can either show how much dedication I have, or how little of a life I have
If anything, it shows dedication to a site that I truly do care about.

Your experience as a moderator
I was a very well known Super Moderator for a forum site that I refuse to name. Although the community is infamous for being complete aids, I was known by many to be a very fair, but diligent moderator. I can always have a good time like I do here, but there is a line that people shouldn't cross, and that line is determined by the rules. Now there is plenty of other competition, I understand that me saying I was a moderator of a site that you guys do not particularly like. But I left that site the way I did for a reason, I was treated with some sort of disrespect for no given reason, and said fuck this place. NulledBB isn't one of those places. Everybody treats everybody with a certain amount of respect. A.K.A. we don't constantly try to DOX one another.
Other examples can be things like Minecraft servers, and I have been an admin on numerous small forums, including my own. And everyone who was on my own site when it was up knew how fucking strict I was there. The best thing I can say about being a moderator in a shitty community, is that you learn how NOT to deal with bullshit.

Do you have ideas to make the section a better place? If yes, which?
Two things:
1. Have a format for contests. Something like this where it says the Prize you will win, Requirements, How the winner will be determined. And in the end, showing a screenshot of the winner being chosen (if it is a random choice type of thing) so everybody can see with an image and not just from their word. Of course there are still many ways to get around this, but it is one added precaution that I am willing to take into account.

2. Have a posting limit. Just like the Marketplace, and leaking sections, the Contests section is a place where items are given out. My question is why give a posting limit and a credit requirement for something like giving leaks, but allow these same people to enter contests randomly by saying "wow thanks for the share" and get something like 500 credits. It has things like upgrades, or credits go to waste if someone who has 10 posts comments and somehow wins.

Why do you want to be a moderator?
I'm going to be completely honest here, having a quick look to see who else has posted an application here doesn't make me feel confident that I even have a chance but Nulled is an awesome site and that's my fundamental reason for applying for this position! Aside from this simple motivation I have come to the realisation that most of the people here are extraordinarily friendly and good to talk to with, this admirable quality about the forum is one of the main factors in my decision to stay and in a way dedicate my time to this community. As a result I'm always looking for ways I can contribute to improve the site through posting resources and hosting giveaways that not only provide an incentive for other members to become better but also to support the site, of course what we've all noticed is the abundance of users that trash the forum daily, doing everything from spamming, leeching content and in some situations even hosting contents that are either fake or never eventuate in a prize being given. I already attempt to assist in a variety of ways including reporting posts which violate the rules but I do feel as though with the ability to moderate the Member Contests Giveaways section I can not only provide some relief to the staff team but actually greatly enhance the organisation and quality of this particular section.
Hosting contests of my own and participating in others I understand from both perspectives what the ideal operation of these competitions are. The need to have end dates enforced and only real contests being allowed to run seems to me like the logical approach, too many postings seem to be unclear and lack coherency which can engender confusion and apprehension about entering similar contests when previous ones have not worked out - and this is a shame because I thoroughly enjoy this section. But without moderation the posts are susceptible to becoming pointless and can continue on indefinitely if not noticed by anyone. In this situation in particular the user needs to be notified and asked to respond in a given time frame, if this is not done then a fair punishment should be given such as the prevention of creating any more contests over a given period.
Considering that it's one of the main facets from which someone can give back to the community the smooth proceeding should be a top priority and I would love to help with that. It reflects badly on Nulled when unchecked contests are allowed to continue and hook in other members who are looking to participate in a giveaway, it's a problem that can't be stamped out entirely but with someone moderating the section some of the more major complications can be avoided. Moreover, having been a apart of this community for almost two years now I would like to also further prove myself as a trustworthy and competent member. I believe that this opportunity will also allow me to demonstrate my commitment and maturity with this important responsibility.
If chosen I plan to keep a spreadsheet of Contests and Giveaways where I would document all the appropriate information like start and end dates, the user who is hosting the contest, the prize(s) being given, if there were any requirements and who actually entered.This would help to keep track of each individual contest and make it much easier to determine if any actions on my behalf would be required.

How much time a day do you spend on the site?
Between 6-12 hours on average but most days I can spend even more time on the site, I guess the best explanation for this is that I'm currently on a bit of a break between finishing high school and going onto university. In Australia we finished in November but I'm starting an education in America in the fall semester so there is nothing vitally important for me to do up until August. Therefore, I essentially have all this free time with not much to do in the interim. Aside from my part time job (which I do 4 hours a week) and other random occasions like parties, catching up with friends, etc... there is nothing that really consumes a lot of my time. Separately from the regular hours that I'm on Nulled I can usually be on reasonably quickly when messaged on skype, steam, the forum or discord. I have to admit I'm a bit of an insomniac so it doesn't bother me being on the site at awkward times.

Your experience as a moderator
Well I first became familiar with MyBB when I signed up at a popular unnamed forum six years ago, while I never had any sort of permissions there aside from what the usergroup granted it had provided me with basic knowledge about the forum software as well as teach me about posting etiquette. I'm not sure if this is really considered as experience in the context of this application but in 2012 I got given an administration position on a popular Garry's Mod server's forum and concurrently a position on a site that was geared towards releasing CG resources and cracked programs. With the access I was granted I preformed most duties like checking and resolving reported posts, banning members who had broken the rules in a way that was fair, restricting access, dealing warnings when relevant, locking/deleting threads when required and revoking permissions when they were abused. More recently (mid-way through 2016) I had quit a moderator position at a reasonably popular site which was focused around the release of forum resources, this demanded a lot more time than any other I had experienced but it had the benefit of accustoming me to pressure, how to handle situations effectively and taught me a great deal about respect. During the intermission between these years I have held some form of access with at least moderator tools on a few other forums, although some of the positions were minor I still take every form of access seriously and never abuse any privileges. When I decided that I would no longer be moderator on a particular site it was in good faith, I would just notify the owner and have the permissions removed without causing any harm to the site unlike some others I've seen who have deleted entire sections before being stripped of their rank. I feel like I should explain the reasoning behind me leaving those other sites to assure you that it's a completely different story with Nulled. The problem was with the fact that they became cesspools for the most deplorable members and owners that were too avaricious to care about any other aspect about their website other than what was the source of their income, essentially I felt as though there is no point in continuation when a forum has reached a point where nothing was ever going to change about a bad situation and in one case that is explicitly what I was told. However, not all my experiences have ended badly and in some circumstances I just determined that I no longer wanted to be staff or the site simply closed down. Additionally, I have also managed my own websites so I guess that kind of counts for something. If not I suppose it at least demonstrates the understanding of forum software and the multitude of management tools.

Do you have ideas to make the section a better place? If yes, which?
I have a few suggestions that may or may not improve the section:

• If a user has been active in the contest section, ie. they have ran a successful contest before, then they should get access to a "Verified" thread prefix showing that the contest is legitimate, this will obviously just be based on previous occasions and not completely reliable. However, it would give some indication as whether a contest is trusted or not. An alternative to this would be giving the thread prefix to the sectional moderator or staff and making it so that they can apply it to a given thread once it has been deemed as an acceptable contest.
  
• Contest posts are moderated until confirmed by the sectional moderator, this can be once the original poster has shown that they have the prize in question or merely that all the details have been provided such as then end date.
  
• On Nulled v2 there was a submit resource button which showed a form with input fields that were relevant to the resources topics. I'm not certain that many people used it electing to use their own format but I think it was a good idea which could be applied to this particular section with a few modifications.
  
• The rules being clearly stated on the thread list (which is what has already being done) but also for that to be extended so that it's displayed above when you are creating the post so that there is no ambiguity of what the expectations are and absolutely no reason for not understanding the rules.
  
  
• Requirements to even post in the contest section might prevent some more issues. Something like the member would need to have positive reputation and at least two hundred posts. I understand this might be restrictive especially for new members but it also has the potential to stop a majority of the fake contests and giveaways.
  

Why do you want to be a moderator?
I would like to become a sectional moderator on NulledBB due to the fact I've been a lurker for a while. If I'm only speaking within the context of the Member Contests section, then I have seen a numerous amount of fake contests, or contests that were never ended due to the owner not logging in or just not feeling like giving the item til a staff member has threatened to take action. I feel like if I were to moderate this section I would be able to help weed out the fake contests from the legitimate ones, on top of allowing the contest participants the ability to enter a contest without getting their hopes up about something minor that should and could have been awarded to them. I have been on Nulled for a decent amount of time, one year as of recently, and I have seen a fair bit of people I've metcome and go. Some of them having been due to fake contests, others for various other reasons. Moderating this section would hopefully prevent more people from getting banned for hosting a fake contest or giveaway, as well as allowing me to contribute more to the community itself - as I haven't been able to release too many resources or other bits of help. I would like to give back to this community with this position.

How much time a day do you spend on the site?
It's fairly hard to say just how long I spend on the site per day, but it is usually a fair portion of it. Even during school hours I am logged in to Nulled and checking it sporadically. I would estimate, on average, I am present on Nulled for around 8-10 hours a day. The majority of the time I am lurking and reading threads, whereas I will sometimes make a post and allow my presence to be known. On weekends I can be on anywhere from 4 hours to 18 hours, as I don't do much during those times. The amount I'm on may decrease however as I plan to find a gym membership and starting spending time with my friends (which I need to make), but I will still be getting on NBB via my mobile device.

Your experience as a moderator
On a MyBB type of site I have been a moderator on a few smaller forums, I have also been an Administrator on a few others as well. I was tasked with verifying the legitimacy of posts and threads, locking/unlocking threads which have not met requirements or have proven something to support the unlocking of it, handling members, viewing the various online members and compare them to a multi-list, as well as more.My main experience for forum moderation was when I owned a 2.7k Gaming community and had to manage the forums and server. I also was tasked with handling support and assistance to members that needed it, so if they were unsure of something I handled it within the hour if I wasn't busy, if I was preoccupied it was always handled the same day. I have also been known to backseat mod a smaller site to the point that they went ahead and created my own rank. I was in charge of the other staff members and practically had to be a team leader of the mods as well as the site owner himself.

Do you have ideas to make the section a better place? If yes, which?
I have a few ideas in which could help the limiting of fake contests, etc.

• Proof of an item, code, etc. must be able to be shown. If someone is having a contest for say a game, they must have proof of said game - whether the proof be given by posting a screenshot of the redemption code (but not the complete code), or by sending the code to a Staff Member for the thread to be deemed as legitimate.
  
• Remove the 'New Thread' button on the Member Contests and Giveaways and replace it with, as Wrath said, a variant of the submit resources button. Things that could be included in it are: Contest/Giveaway prefix, Title, Start Date and End Date, Description of contest, how many users will be selected, as well as what's being awarded to the winner(s).
  
• Once the end date has been met a user has 48 hours to release the prize, unless they contact a staff member beforehand due to some circumstances - then in which case they can provide the item to said staff member to award the winner.
  
• If a user hosts a fake contest, then their thread must be moderated in the section before it becomes visible to the public, after ample proof is given.
  
• Once the end date has been met, a notification on the index/message can be sent alerting them "You have X amount of time to choose a winner for your thread "Prefix - Thread Name".