How do you become POF staff?

[Nick The Titan]

How would you become POFstaff? Im very interested in becoming POF staff.

[Jack I]

The staff here at POF is chosen by the administrative staff based off a variety of factors.

1. Good grammar: Your posts and messages must make sense if you wish to properly communicate with users.
2. Able to communicate clearly: This goes along with #1. If they can't understand you, then it's hard for you to do your duties as a mod.
3. Clear understanding for the rules: Should be self explanatory. If you understand the rules and have a mostly-clean history you're in good running. Rule-breakers do not make good moderators.
4. Some knowledge of the game and forums: If you don't know what's going on or how the forum works, it's kind of hard to help others with it.
5. Maturity: Maturity is an important part of the selection process. While there is a point where you can just be "too young" to be a mod, it's more based on how you present yourself than how old you really are. There are younger members on the staff that you would really expect to be full-blown adults, but are not.
6. Helpful around the forums: The users that are selected to be moderators usually have contributed to the site in some way that has been very helpful to the community, or is constantly seen answering user's questions.
7. Doesn't beg to become a mod: It's OK to ask how one becomes a moderator, but when a user begs for the position that usually shows the admin staff that the user is NOT okay for the spot.

The best thing to do if you want to be a moderator is just to go about your business as a member, and when the admin staff goes looking for a new moderator they may contact you if they feel you are right for the spot. It goes with the age old motto though, "Don't call us; We'll call you."

[Nick The Titan]

Thank you Jack, Ive just been wondering for a while. Ill be sure to stay true to everything. Your a great help Jack, thanks .

[Tiberius Fireskull]

Out of curiosity, is there a certain number of posts that is recommended/required for mods/admins? As I have seen mods/admins that have less than 100 posts. I was just wondering how that would work, as most people would need to see a significant amount of posts in order to know to choose someone, regardless of how thoughtful the posts may be.

Anyway, thanks Jack. I was wondering that for a while too.

[Jack I]

There is no set number of posts looked for with a new staff member, but more about how long that user has been around and what they've done in that time. Most of the mods you see with few posts may be from one of our sister sites. As there are 6 forums ran by Nick, moderators do sometime share privileges on different forums, and Administrators have full access on all the forums. That may explain the moderators that you see with low post counts.

[Nick The Titan]

That explains it.

[Roger Sharkshot]

well thank you jack you have been of great help to all of us by answering this question.

[muffin pirate]

I always wondered how my username would look in the mod color.. LOL Ty Jack.

[CaptainMonkeys]

As a joke, I heard somewhere else something like this...

To become a mod, you must take a 200-question test on February 30th, where all the questions are short response questions. You must complete it in 5 minutes.

On a serious note, nobody can explain it better than a mod. Thanks, Jack!