LEGO Message Boards Wiki:Requests for Rights/Chat Moderator

This is LMBW's requests for chat moderator page. If you wish to request moderator rights, please read this page first, and make sure you fulfill the requirements listed here. Moderators have the ability to kick and ban users from chat when they are being disruptive.

To file a request, place the following code under the "current requests" header, above any existing requests.

replace this with your username
replace this with a brief paragraph about why you want to be nominated. ~

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Requests made on this page are a vote, meaning that if they achieve at least 20 supporting votes and 75% support out of the total supports and opposes, then their request will be closed as successful. Users voting on a request must give a valid reason for their support or oppose. Most requests last for around a week, unless there is clear consensus either way after a short period of time.

If a user has been nominated for chat moderator before, add  to the end of the topic header. If a request for moderator fails, the user who requested the rights must wait 4 weeks before requesting them again. For users with multiple requests, add the respective number of the request. It is also considered good practice to link to previous requests for rights when nominating a user.

Archived requests can be found here.

Zaney2522
Greetings!

As you all probably know, my name is Zaney2522. I have been active on this wiki for about 3 months now, and I have gotten a very solid feel for the way things run around here. It would be my honor to offer my services in the chat moderator position to help keep the wiki on the right track. ;)

I joined the LEGO Message Boards Wiki on January 27, 2015, I have 175 edits at this moment, I'm 13 years old, and I 100% qualify for moderator as far as I can see. :)

I hope you all fairly consider my request, and I'll see you all later. :D Zaney ~

Support

 * 1) Zaney is mature and active. He'd make a good CM. Colonel Roy Mustang  (talk) 00:32, April 20, 2015 (UTC)

Neutral

 * 1) I haven't seen enough yet. Sorry. Maybe next time. -Shadow Moved to Oppose
 * 2) Per Ben.
 * 3) We don't really need more mods.  L  • S  • B
 * 4) Sorry, I don't really know you. If I knew you better I could give you a proper vote

Oppose

 * 1) I do not believe Zaney possesses the level of maturity required to be a chat moderator. In my experience, he is quite childish and needs time to grow up some.
 * 2) Nope, sorry bby. I just rarely see you post on chat. Not sure you're mature enough, and I don't think you've been around long enough. - izzybe5
 * 3) What that above said.
 * 4) per the above Nightfall395 (talk) 01:19, April 20, 2015 (UTC)
 * 5) Per the above. -Shadow
 * 6) per everyone else Slicer Vorzakh (talk) 01:29, April 20, 2015 (UTC)
 * 7) I think you'd make a good one, but I don't think you're ready quite yet. Unless you have experience Moderating other chatrooms or forums elsewhere, 3 months is a rather short period of time. I do think you're very mature for your age, but maybe not quite mature for this position yet. Be Bold, help the other CMs and Admins and continue chatting, and I will support you in the near future.
 * 8) You're entrenched in immature discussions and I've never seen you try to aid a situation on chat through any means of peacemaking. I'm sorry... †hę Djøkøvïϛ Fån
 * 9) Per all above. - Fortress of the Night
 * 10) You may feel solid in the way things are run, but I'm not sure you know how main chat lives and breaths! You really should spend more time in main, and talk to other users outside of your friend group. :3 You do have the potential to become a CM in my opinion, but you're not ready yet. Maybe later? Lilac Neko (talk)
 * 11) Per above. 01:53, April 24, 2015 (UTC)
 * 12) ^ Guac
 * 13) I haven't witnessed this user engaging in chat much to have a feel for their judgement and responsibility. I don't think now is a good time for them to request these rights. --Bourgeoisie (talk) 23:56, April 26, 2015 (UTC)
 * 14) What the others have said. Aravis (talk)
 * 1) What the others have said. Aravis (talk)

Lunaicus
So I have been a member of chat for quite awhile and way to often do I see problems happen in chat that I feel like I could help stop. It would mean a lot to me if the community thinks I am responsible enough to handle the rights and help out with chat. It would appear to me lot of them do already so I do hope I will be considered. Lunaicus (talk) 02:11, April 26, 2015 (UTC)

Support

 * 1) Mature, responsible, on late at night and rarely gets involved in arguments or drama. - Fortress of the Night
 * 2) Per below, and since BrickiMedians think I'm strange for putting that, I will say that Luna is a great user. Luna isn't always the most active, but would make a great CM.
 * 3) Very mature and capable, and on at night. >---Avalair---> (Talk to meh) 02:15, April 26, 2015 (UTC)
 * 4) per the above I hate you 02:15, April 26, 2015 (UTC)
 * 5) per everyone else (i hate edit conflicts) Slicer Vorzakh (talk) 02:17, April 26, 2015 (UTC)
 * 6) Very mature. Would make a great CM. Colonel Roy Mustang  (talk) 02:18, April 26, 2015 (UTC)
 * 7) Per all of the above. User:AmazingPythor
 * 8) Yeeeeeeeeees, per all of the above. :3
 * 9) Per above and stuff Psychos-R-Us
 * 10) Per the above. Derpulse (talk) 03:08, April 26, 2015 (UTC)
 * 11) Luna's on chat quite frequently and I do not doubt her ability to handle problems.
 * 12) Frequently on chat and a mature user. - Nartlc
 * 13) Per everyone else. c: Animal Geek ~ Message Wall ~ Blog
 * 14) Per above.
 * 15) Not online myself at night (in the American timezones) but I do feel convinced that this is a good idea by the other supports. Guac
 * 16) Per the above. EvilMidnightNG
 * 17) Of course. She's quite cabable of using the tools. She's funny enough to be a socialable cm, too. - Coggs
 * 18) You know, while I do agree with Harry somewhat, we need more night mods, and Luna is definitely mature enough. She always has a level head and I've never seen her lose her cool over anything, so heck yes support.- ToneTyphoon
 * 19) Because she's awesome and I think she would make a good chat mod http://legomessageboards.wikia.com/wiki/User:Oreh-Wen Invalid reason
 * 20) Yeah, we certainly need more night chat mods and Luna would do pretty well IMO. Marcel77799 (talk) 13:04, April 28, 2015 (UTC)

Neutral

 * I think you're a great user, but as star stated, not the most active. So I'm neutral. - Izzybe5
 * Luna's on all the time. - Fortress of the Night
 * afk, unless she just stalks all he time -izzy
 * Mostly in PM. Also stalking. But she's in main too. - Fortress of the Night
 * Still neutral. xD Izzybe5
 * I don't even know this user. :P So, no idea about he/she handles chat situations, ect.
 * Dunno. 04:18, April 26, 2015 (UTC)
 * Conflicted. I'll need to see Luna more intensively demonstrating a level head as well as a peacemaking spirit in chat situations. Leaning toward support, however. †hę Djøkøvïϛ Fån
 * Aravis (talk)
 * I was going to support, but the opposers have all made very good points. 3: So now I am unsure where to place my vote. Lilac Neko (talk)

Oppose

 * 1) She has all the prerequisites for CM save one: actually being there if/when a situation demands. I know that pings are not her thing and I worry that she'll be AFK like Mad when something happens. —May the Force be with you, and may Darkness follow you. Oh. I'm the Doctor, by the way.
 * 2) We don't need anymore CM's ATM, but another reason is you've neither shown you can handle tense situations or not, to me anyways. I'll keep a watch eye towards you and may change my vote though.  L • S  • B
 * 3) You seem like a very headstrong and smart individual. However: I know that you are running for chat moderator, and that being a chat mod gives you rights on the chat alone. I get that. However, I still think it is important for a CM or potential CM to be involved in the community and some sort of aspect of the wiki other than chat – whether that be in the form of commenting on blogs, editing articles, voting in community votes, etc./whatever. Up until yesterday, you were not involved in any of these. I know that the purpose of a chat moderator is to moderate chat, but nonetheless I would like to see you become more in touch with the community before I support you with the rights. Also, the fact that you spam-edited your way to 75 edits so that you could become eligible to run for the position also leaves me hesistant. [1] [2] [3] -Harold89 (talk)
 * 4) Per the above. I've seen you around on chat, but I know nothing about you. I can't think of any situation or anothing you have said that has made you stand out to me. You probably are very active but I am hesitiant to support. I'm putting this under oppose because of Harold's comment.
 * 5) I'm not confident in this user's judgement to handle situations from a neutral point of view without letting bias or personal opinion influence making appropriate actions. --Bourgeoisie (talk) 23:54, April 26, 2015 (UTC)
 * 6) I know little to nothing about this user, and I want to be 100% confident in a moderator's abilities. Since knowing so little about Lunaicus leaves me about 2% confident in his/her abilities, I am doing everything in my power (opposing this RFR) to refrain him/her from receiving these rights until more is known about him/her. Furthermore, the fact that I know so little is a testament to the fact that he/she is hardly active in the community, which could prove to be a problem for a chat moderator, as they may be misinformed about certain issues, and thus make unjust decisions. Dinosaur Office RAWR!
 * Now you just come off as a jerk. I'm glad this is how you want to represent yourself in the community. ~ Fort
 * 1) Per Above
 * 2) Luna you're a good friend and I luv ya, but you've always told me that you don't care about or understand this wiki, and that you can't stand it whenever there's any disputes or negativity. I'm really sorry but I'm not sure this role is so good for you :/ You can still be an awesome user without a chat star!

Comments

 * Beat you to it Fort. Ha.
 * I don't know what you mean. C::: - Fortress of the Night
 * Harry, she didn't spam-edit. She just had lots of conversations on message walls. >---Avalair---> (Talk to meh) 18:13, April 26, 2015 (UTC)
 * @Ava: Yes, she had lots of conversations on message wall threads. But if you look at the content of what she posted in those conversations, much of it obvious spam. -Harold89 (talk)
 * If someone spent several months constantly contributing to and conversing on message walls and other threads, and then requested Forum Mod rights, do you think it would be acceptable to oppose because they haven't visited chat often? The validity of that is shaky in my opinion. And oppose #4 (whoever made that) is more of a neutral reason than an oppose. - Fortress of the Night
 * @BM: Well, that's different – you can't really use that example as a parallel to the current situation. If one is involved in the community/wiki outside of chat (blogs, threads, votes, forums, etc.), they still have a good sense of what is going on in the community, therefore they would not need to go on chat that often. I still think it would be important for that person to go on chat every now and again, but one can be very involved in the community without visiting chat. However, that is for running for Forum Mod, which is different. If someone is running for chat mod, like Luna, they should most definitely be involved in the community/wiki, whether that be in blogs/threads/votes/forums or whatever. This is much different than a person running for Forum Mod, who would not really need to go on chat that often. So yeah, I don't think you can really compare the two. -Harold89 (talk)
 * Why do you assume Luna is completely uninvolved in anything outside of chat? Lurking is easier than interacting. And I think you underestimate just how much chat and the rest of the wiki affect each other. They're hardly separate entities - any drama on chat will likely spill over into the wiki, and vice versa. - Fortress of the Night
 * I assume she is uninvolved because she is not. Before yesterday she has 0 edits, meaning she was uninvolved in anything besides chat. It is true that she could be reading what is going on on the wiki, but from what I have seen from her, she does not do that often and is very unconcerned with what goes on outside of chat (thus why she had 0 edits). And yes, I agree that chat and the wiki affect each other – hence why I think Luna may have a tough time moderating. Since drama on the wiki will spill over on chat, as it does often, I feel she will not be informed enough to know what is going on, and therefore may not make the best decisions. -Harold89 (talk)
 * Until yesterday she was actually making an active effort to not edit. It's not that she wasn't interested in the wiki - if she weren't, why would she be running for CM? - it's that she was actively trying to not edit. It's a joke she had running; that she didn't exist outside of chat. I don't see why you're so intent on believing that she is completely ignorant of all goings-on outside of chat; that would be quite an achievement considering, as you said, how "drama on the wiki will spill over on chat". - Fortress of the Night
 * I was uniformed that it was a joke, however that still does not change the fact that she does not participate nor care about a lot of what is going on off-chat. I don't think she is completely ignorant of all goings-on outside of chat, I just have seen a lack of knowledge and off-chat participation from her about things going on the wiki, outside of chat. As for what I meant by "drama on the wiki will spill over on chat" is that, there will be times when things on the wiki will come up, and she will be not completely informed on the subject. This would effect how she moderates as she would not know all the details of a situation/event/argument/discussion that is happening on a blog/thread/whatever. -Harold89 (talk)
 * I'd like to see a comment from Luna addressing this - if she's been thinking about helping the problems in chat for a while, why has she so suddenly taken an interest in being a chat moderator? She made 75 edits almost immediately. Why is this so important? -Packachoo
 * I have been thinking about be a cm for quite awhile now but I didn't want to make the edits, but what happened yesterday made me so mad that no one would do anything about because they didn't want to get demoted or something so in my mind it was just kind of like "ok that's it today is the day I do this". I hope that explains. Lunaicus (talk) 22:59, April 26, 2015 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't ihave's oppose be a neutral? :P Derpulse (talk) 00:46, April 27, 2015 (UTC)
 * Probably. Doesn't seem like the best oppose reason.
 * I knew some people would say that, but I rarely ever go neutral, because I'm either confident in a users abilities, or I don't want them to be a moderator. There's really no in-between ground for me. Dinosaur Office RAWR!
 * That doesn't justify your oppose. It should be invalidated. ~ Fort
 * Fort, I know you mean well, but it's clear that you're very biased in this vote. I support Luna too(And I WAS the first to vote for her, regardless of how many times you changed my vote), but if Ihaveawii feels that Luna is not ready for CM due to inactivity, then so be it. It would be more effective for you to actively lobbying users in chat to change their vote to support, which I am in the middle of doing right now.
 * That's not what his reason is. It's "I know little to nothing about this user, and I want to be 100% confident in a moderator's abilities." That's not a valid oppose; it means "Not sure, don't know her". That's a commonly used neutral reason. Simple. ~ Fort
 * Fort, that is normally used as a neutral, but that doesn't mean it has to be. A person can oppose for whatever her/his reason is, they just have to have a reason. While I'm not going to undo what you did, you should talk to the admins about it.  L • S  • B
 * In most situations, you stay well away from something that is unknown until you know more about it, and that's exactly what I'm doing here. I know little to nothing about Lunaicus, so I am being cautious, and doing everything in my power (opposing this RFR) to refrain him/her from receiving rights until I know more about him/her. Perhaps I do need to clarify my reason, however, so I will. Dinosaur Office RAWR!
 * Per LSB, you can't have just anyone invalidating votes (unless it's obvious like not enough edits to vote). I saw Wii's as an acceptable vote, there's no criteria for votes besides a 'valid reason' which is super subjective - so trying to decide if an Oppose vote should be invalidated because it "seems more like a Neutral" is just an exercise in futility. Best just to leave it.
 * Well if anyone wants to get to know me please do start a conversation with me on chat.Lunaicus (talk) 21:16, April 28, 2015 (UTC)

Coggsworth Motors
Yeah, I don't have a decked out signature, sorry to dissapoint. D: Anyway, I've been on here for around three years now, and in that time I think I've gained a general understanding of the culture of chat, and the way it functions. Some people here like me, so that helps too I guess. Umm... yeah, I think I'd make a pretty dang good CM. I am often in chat and I think I could help out a lot.

Of course, I don't just feel I earn these rights merely on the basis of the fact that I've been here for three years, but that In those three years, I payed close attention to the people of LMBW Chat as individuals, but also as a group. I am adaptable but inflexible to the basic principles required for enforcing and abiding by, in chat moderating.

User:Coggsworth Motors

Support

 * 1) I've known Coggs for awhile now and I believe he could stay chill enough in a heated situation to work things out. I think it would be good for him to be a cm, plus it would mean more mods on later in the day. Lunaicus (talk) 06:27, April 27, 2015 (UTC)
 * 2) I'm surprised he isn't a chat mod. He is often online in the evenings (when we really need moderators!) and is mature enough to use the rights well. I DO agree that he should be on chat more often, so that would definitely be something to start doing! Lilac Neko (talk)

Neutral

 * I'd like to see you in some situations before I can make a judgement. Colonel Roy Mustang  (talk) 06:09, April 27, 2015 (UTC)
 * Per ZX.
 * Leaning towards support, but I'd like to see you more active Slicer Vorzakh (talk) 06:27, April 27, 2015 (UTC)
 * - Fortress of the Night
 * Guac
 * Aravis (talk)
 * EvilMidnightNG
 * Per Slicer, I don't see you on all that much. Lone Lionheart 16:06, April 27, 2015 (UTC)
 * Per Slice as well. Otherwise you seem to have all the tools to be an effective mod. †hę Djøkøvïϛ Fån
 * You sound like a great user. I'm going to put my vote here so I can do a little more research on you first, just to be on the safe side.
 * Unless Coggsworth is far more active than I think he is (night chat), I remain neutral.
 * -Harold89 (talk)
 * I honestly don't see you that much on chat, maybe I'm just on at the wrong times. Also, I think you possess the discernment to judge situations - but I haven't seen you in a 'iffy' situation on chat in like ages.