• Log in or sign up for an account here: https://www.sythe.org/login

Make Moderator Applications Public

Should moderator applications be public?

  • Yes, everything but voting

  • Yes, but only a part of them

  • No, nothing at all


Results are only viewable after voting.
Status
Not open for further replies.
Sythe's 15th Anniversary
Sythe Awards 2016 Winner
Sythe Awards 2017 Winner
Sythe Awards 2018 Winner
Sythe Awards 2019 Winner
Sythe Awards 2020 Winner
Sythe Awards 2021 Winner
Sythe Awards 2022 Winner
Sythe Awards 2023 Winner
Sythe Awards 2024 Winner
I saw Matthew
OG Club
Discord Verified
SytheSteamer
WoW Classic
Member of the Month Winner
Photography Competition Winner
In Memory of Jon
May the 4th Be With You
Member of the Quarter Winner
Two Factor Authentication User
Detective
Carrot
PHP Shit Show 2k26
Sythe Awards 2025 Winner
No support, I prefer to keep mines private if I would make an application.
 
If the person is prosecuted it will become public record during the trial. Scam reports are both a police report and a trial so it makes sense they are public record. The analogies really don't work very well regardless.

Police investigate crimes and arrest people, but they do not charge people with crimes. Charges are filed by prosecutors – such as a district attorney’s office – and a court case is only opened when a person has been formally charged.

Police records thus are not part of the court system, and documents like arrest reports or crime/incident reports kept at police departments are not presumed to be open to the public as court records are.

Source

The analogies don't work very well to you because it doesn't conform with your operation.
 
<3 n4n0
Discord Verified
Two Factor Authentication User
Community Participant
Spam Forum Participant
Sythe's 10th Anniversary
Sythe Awards 2011 Winner
Source

The analogies don't work very well to you because it doesn't conform with your operation.
Analogies don't work because Sythe is not the real world. You are not listening to what I am saying so I am going to stop responding now.
 
There's no need for them to be public either.

no support
 
Last edited:
<3 n4n0
Discord Verified
Two Factor Authentication User
Community Participant
Spam Forum Participant
Sythe's 10th Anniversary
Sythe Awards 2011 Winner
There could be a happy medium though, maybe the parts super have outlined can be public and made Sythe specific, where other parts of the application can remain private
I would support a hybrid solution of some sort.
 
Sythe's 15th Anniversary
Sythe Awards 2016 Winner
Sythe Awards 2017 Winner
Sythe Awards 2018 Winner
Sythe Awards 2019 Winner
Sythe Awards 2020 Winner
Sythe Awards 2021 Winner
Sythe Awards 2022 Winner
Sythe Awards 2023 Winner
Sythe Awards 2024 Winner
I saw Matthew
OG Club
Discord Verified
SytheSteamer
WoW Classic
Member of the Month Winner
Photography Competition Winner
In Memory of Jon
May the 4th Be With You
Member of the Quarter Winner
Two Factor Authentication User
Detective
Carrot
PHP Shit Show 2k26
Sythe Awards 2025 Winner
In Memory of Jon
CoolHam
I'm LAAAAAAAME
Nitro Booster
Support I'd like to know why people were chosen for the roll. And what they can bring to the team. Ultimately it's other mods voting so I don't see why not.
 
Last edited:
Two Factor Authentication User
Discord Verified
Supporting Business
Homosex
UWotM8?
Rio 2016
Community Participant
Extreme Homosex
Heidy
Tortoise Penis
Tom Black
Lawrence
Runescape Participant
Spam Forum Participant
Donor Lounge Participant
no support, i think this may even dissuade people from wanting to apply, apps for mod positions are kept private almost everywhere i've seen and i think it's best that way. what's the real benefit to you of seeing someone's mod application anyways?

with that said, i haven't actually seen the mod template so i can't comment too much on what the person applying would have to say
 
Two Factor Authentication User
Discord Verified
In Memory of Jon
Heidy
PHP Shit Show 2k26
STEVE
Summer 2016
I agree that everything besides voting should be public. As for people saying that they don't want theirs released, it's really not a problem. What if we just asked if they would like it to be released publically? Just take it app by app, maybe even make it part of the application.
 
Two Factor Authentication User
Discord Verified
Supporting Business
Homosex
UWotM8?
Rio 2016
Community Participant
Extreme Homosex
Heidy
Tortoise Penis
Tom Black
Lawrence
Runescape Participant
Spam Forum Participant
Donor Lounge Participant
What if we just asked if they would like it to be released publically? Just take it app by app, maybe even make it part of the application.

i think this would be the most sensible approach
 
Not supporting, I moderated and applied for a community 3x the size of sythe multiple times over and they had public applications at the time which was absolutely terrible.

It became a biased flame fest aswell as bribe and kiss ass to as many staff and community members as you can, I don't think that's the right path for Sythe, I don't like staff having the power to choose staff solely either frankly but the community helping choose them would cause Rifts and Power struggles between the teams, community & staff.

It became a major problem on the other community I moderated when you started having staff pick certain applications they supported, the community would start battling over it and raging on the applications, and then it just becomes a cluster fuck when u've got your staff team divided 5 ways on 5 applications and the community divided trying to figure out what the hell to do.

Then that leads to increased hate if a community member or staff shoots down your application or prevents you from getting staff, which just makes the rifts worse and worse.

I cannot tell you how many headaches public applications caused, was a complete and utter clusterfuck trying to sort the disasters out, eventually it was made where the community can see them but cant respond or anything else.


Tl;dr= Public applications are a good way to cause rifts between staff & community, rifts between the teams & community, and overall just a clusterfuck for Sythe or higher staff when they go to choose.


I've been there, done that, no support.
 
Last edited:
<3 n4n0
Two Factor Authentication User
Community Participant
Support Center Participant
Writing Competition Winner
In Memory of Jon
Valentine's Day 2017
Valentine's Day 2016
Pokémon Trainer
Togepi
Penguin
Just a feeling of safety. I take applications very seriously and even when I might not share anything personal I would still feel better if it was kept private. I see no point in making the moderator applications public while the CDT and PR applications are still kept privately aswell.

That's why I've stated multiple times that I would not mind my CDT application being public.

I would like to see transparency in the moderation applicants; however it looks like the negatives are outweighing the positives on this one:l

became a biased flame fest aswell as bribe and kiss ass to as many staff and community members as you can

100% see that happening tbh.
 
Sythe's 15th Anniversary
Sythe Awards 2016 Winner
Sythe Awards 2017 Winner
Sythe Awards 2018 Winner
Sythe Awards 2019 Winner
Sythe Awards 2020 Winner
Sythe Awards 2021 Winner
Sythe Awards 2022 Winner
Sythe Awards 2023 Winner
Sythe Awards 2024 Winner
I saw Matthew
OG Club
Discord Verified
SytheSteamer
WoW Classic
Member of the Month Winner
Photography Competition Winner
In Memory of Jon
May the 4th Be With You
Member of the Quarter Winner
Two Factor Authentication User
Detective
Carrot
PHP Shit Show 2k26
Sythe Awards 2025 Winner
It became a biased flame fest aswell as bribe and kiss ass to as many staff and community members as you can, I don't think that's the right path for Sythe, I don't like staff having the power to choose staff solely either frankly but the community helping choose them would cause Rifts and Power struggles between the teams, community & staff.
I'm afraid that will happen either way now that it will be possible to apply for a moderator possition.
 
<3 n4n0
Discord Verified
Two Factor Authentication User
Community Participant
Spam Forum Participant
Sythe's 10th Anniversary
Sythe Awards 2011 Winner
I added a poll. Please let your mind be known there.
 
Two Factor Authentication User
Discord Verified
Supporting Business
Homosex
UWotM8?
Rio 2016
Community Participant
Extreme Homosex
Heidy
Tortoise Penis
Tom Black
Lawrence
Runescape Participant
Spam Forum Participant
Donor Lounge Participant
I added a poll. Please let your mind be known there.
you forgot the 'if the applicant wants anything made public' option suggested by @-Ryan
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Runescape Gamblingrunescape gambling
Back
Top