It's one month already since Toast has been promoted, so it is time for him to pass the public evaluation.

Please no flaming, post comments / feedback if you wish so.

Remember that while the results of the poll are of great importance, the rest of the moderating staff have the final say on the decision.

Don't forge to vote for Eburt too!

Hi Toast. Hi Zombo.
I voted for you to remain as a beta-mod for another month. Not that I don't want you to be a mod yet but I feel like UCPSB is not ready. You still look more like a normal member/spammer than a respectable mod... So I really believe that if you become a mod no one's going to listen to you. :(

Try to contribute more... NO More spam this month. Lock some topics. make a nice sticky thread. Have some projects for the community. You'll be a good mod Toast. Just try to make yourself more Respectable and stuff. Install some spell-check add-ons. Everything counts.

Good luck!

Let me tell you a story; in fact it's an excerpt from Artemis Fowl.

On the third day of his consciousness, I fell asleep on the hospital bed, while my father did his walking exercises. I woke up to find him regarding me thoughtfully.
"Shall I tell you something, Arty?" he said.
I nodded, unsure what to expect.
"While I was a prisoner, I thought about my life, how I had wasted it gathering riches whatever the cost to my family and others around me. In a man's life, he gets few chances to make a difference. To do the right thing. To be a hero, if you will. I intend to become involved in that struggle."
This was not the kind of wisdom I was accustomed to hearing from my father.
"I never got involved before. I always thought the world could not be changed."
Father's gaze was intense, burning with new passion.
"But things are different now. My priorities are different. I intend to seize the day. Be the hero that every father should be."
He sat on the bed beside me.
"And what about you, Arty? Will you make the journey with me? When the moment comes, will you take your chance to be a hero?
I couldn't respond. I did not know the answer. I still do not.

Once you feel you can truthfully answer that question, once you're ready to accept the accompanying hardships of a moderator in favour of greater good at UCPSB, once you truly feel you can be a moderator to the best of your ability, then I think you'll really be ready to assume the role. Until then, I'm voting for a re-evaluation later.

@sathon: If being a mod means I lose that much freedom, then I would rather resign. But I really don't think it does...

Sathon, i have locked quite a few topics, moved a few, pm'd many, so you cannot tell me to do anymore. I just can't. It is like saying I have to grow 4 trees with 3 seeds.
Stickies?

Sathon, doing those things may be part of what a moderator does. But just because I lock more topics, sitcky some topics, does not make me a better moderator.

I think moderator and respect comes from logic, fairness, and judgement.

Sure spelling and grammer are also factors, but there are more significant matters that you missed.

overall, I do not think you raised strong points...but if spelling and grammer IS that important to you, I guess I will touch on that, :)



EDIT-I kind of feel like this poll is judging my history, rather than my 1 month examination.

I do also believe that you guys are being a bit hard on Toast... I mean sure hes not perfect. None of us are. Hes done a great job ya know... you can't see all the things that have to be done from the perspective of a normal member necessarily, but he HAS done a significant amount. Also you have to remember that there were three of us beta-mods all in way competing to clean up the forums, and just because he didn't log on at the right times to deal with something (another mod got to it first) doesn't mean he hasn't been working hard.

Frankly, I thought Toast would get through no problem but I was pretty worried about myself. It seems like you guys are blowing the fact that he has been a spammer in the past way out of proportion to me... I mean did you know that Norton Anti-Virus almost soley hire ex-hackers/virus scripters? Why? Because they're good at it. They know the mind set and understand it... and if you're gonna trust your computer to ex-criminals like that... I don't see why trusting this forum to a good hearted, hard working, ex-spammer is so bad. /Opinion

I think that Toast has been doing what he has to as a mod.
I see no problem with what he has done...
I believe that Toast should be aloud to keep his mod privaleges.

ps.
TO sathon
Forgive my bad spelling xD

In the thread where he was appointed beta-moderator, he promised to change his ways. While he has made attempts to become a better moderator (I won't pretend I didn't notice them), I simply think he is still in a learning stage and simply not ready to emerge as a full moderator yet. Respect is earned by your actions, but it is also earned over time. Ivan earned his respect over months. Certainly I or others don't wish to judge Toast based on his past, but 1 month is too little time to make a fair judgement when the person has spent a lot longer time creating a specific online persona that is antithetical to the prototypical moderator position. To become a moderator, you need to prove to everyone that you are consistent and credible in that role.

To be honest, I kind of like the idea of you being a Beta-Moderator. If it were up to me, you would stay like this forever.

The reason being, old habits are hard to break. With you a Beta-Moderator, theres always Zombo, or other full mods, towering over you watchin you. You still have the power to do everything a full mod could, only theres less chance of a mistake or something stupid, because you know everyones watching.

However, I know that thats not what Beta-Mods are for, and you have done absolutly nothing wrong thus far in your evaluation, so Im voting to make you a full mod. Just try to take it seriously (not that you haven't so far)

My opinion of a good MOD is as follows:

Friendly, fun, strict, helpful, follows the rules, active.

Go Toast! :banana:

Don't forge to vote for Eburt too!

lol, thx Zombo... I was wondering if people would remember about little old me :P

Don't worry, I wasn't planning on forging any votes. :)

2nd option. I totally agree with Stefan on this one.

Firebird, you totally worded it right. Couldn't be done any better.

Toast, you're absolutely heading in the right direction, but try your best a little bit more.

I agree give him another month.
see how he does. :spin:

I didn't see Toast do anything wrong in his month, it seems everyone just doesn't vote for him because they havn't seen him do enough in their opinion. I honestly didn't see Ivan do sooo much more than Toast (don't take that wrong anybody, I mean they both performed equally well). I havn't seen the board become overrun with spammers (except me :P) so I find that the mark of good mods. Voted full moderator status :banana:

Alright,

Because it's 50/50 for/against promoting Toast to moderator status, I've decided to re-evaluate in one month. He'll stay where he is for now.