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@Stralor @shankypanky @ian @SG This is Your Favorite President. I’m easily the best user on the site—very active, very smart, and I know a lot about Manifold. Everyone says so. I make great markets, great comments, and I understand how everything works better than almost anyone.
You should probably make me a moderator. It would be tremendous for the platform.
@JeromeHPowell I don't make the call. I like their joy and fervor and engagement with the community, and having a bit of fame on the site is a good indicator, but I will say I don't think an impersonator account that is high-mischief and low-responsibility is well suited to a role that is mostly about doing high-trust maintenance work.
A mod by 2030? I think it's a real possibility, if they continue to be a positive presence on the site and grow into a user known for honesty and reliability! Would I mod them today, if I were making the decision (which, again, I'm not)? No.
@Stralor (re: "impersonator account". I'm not saying they need to send over their ID and get a background check and a lie detector test. Plenty of pseudonymous folks have been made moderators in the past. But play-acting a celebrity is not the same thing as pseudonymous)
@JeromeHPowell Yeah, I think there's nothing wrong with fun! Innocent mischief is all good in my book, so I hope they continue to get joy out of it for awhile
@realDonaldTrump always worth it to state your interest (and a crowd favourite to do that via a market of course!) and it's very on-brand to make your case in a DJT-style comment too 😅
I don't make the calls solo, though I can say we're lucky to have a pretty solid team of Mods at the moment and are pretty well covered for Mod duties for now so not actively looking.
while there isn't a "formal process" for identifying Mods, as @Stralor says, the baseline is active users known for reliability and objectivity - it's a big and important job, and traders trust folks with a Mod badge make impersonal decisions on the outcome of markets. so the best way to be considered in the future is to have a reputation for being truth-seeking above all else (which is absolutely not in conflict with having fun or making fun markets here, obviously!) when it counts.