# How do you apply to become a moderator? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 29, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-apply-to-become-a-moderator/328505 "2005-10-29T21:10:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-apply-to-become-a-moderator/328505/1 "2005-10-29T21:10:18Z")
I’m good with grammar. I’m good with board rules. I’m good with brownnosing Cecil (hey! Quit it! Stop that! Ow!) So, how do I apply? ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-apply-to-become-a-moderator/328505/2 "2005-10-29T21:26:52Z")
On the next full moon at midnight, leave a large brown paper bag with $20,000 in used, unsequential bills in the hollow of the old oak tree behind the cemetery. Come alone. Tell no-one of this. If you follow these instructions to the letter, you will be contacted. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-apply-to-become-a-moderator/328505/3 "2005-10-29T21:32:30Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > So, how do I apply? Send an email to **TubaDiva** expressing your interest. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-apply-to-become-a-moderator/328505/4 "2005-10-29T21:33:27Z")
I did, no dice. Better start collecting those unmarked bills… ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-apply-to-become-a-moderator/328505/5 "2005-10-29T22:12:02Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > I did, no dice. Better start collecting those unmarked bills… Send it again. She gets _a lot_ of emails. Did you put SDMB in the title? ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-apply-to-become-a-moderator/328505/6 "2005-10-30T00:39:02Z")
Not only does she get a lot of emails, but the moderator application process (such as it is) is slow. Slower’n moles’ asses. Plus, her emailspam filter sometimes discards things at random, especially if you used a word like “Viagara” in the title. So, try again, be sure that “SDMB - Moderator application” or something like it is in the title. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-apply-to-become-a-moderator/328505/7 "2005-10-30T01:33:56Z")
> [@C K Dexter Haven](#): > > Not only does she get a lot of emails, but the moderator application process (such as it is) is slow. Slower’n moles’ asses. Plus, her emailspam filter sometimes discards things at random, especially if you used a word like “Viagara” in the title. So, try again, be sure that “SDMB - Moderator application” or something like it is in the title. Viagara Falls! Slowly I turned. Step by step… inch by inch… ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-apply-to-become-a-moderator/328505/8 "2005-10-30T16:23:32Z")
My last two or three mails to TubaDiva have bounced back to me. There could be more AOL strangeness. ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-apply-to-become-a-moderator/328505/9 "2005-10-31T07:27:53Z")
Don’t you have to be a member of the SDMB Clique[sup]TM[/sup] first? I thought you did anyway. Maybe they have lowered the membership standards. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-apply-to-become-a-moderator/328505/10 "2005-10-31T13:43:17Z")
Dunno why I’m having email troubles, please keep trying. ] [TubaDiva@aol.com](mailto:TubaDiva@aol.com) TubaDiva ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-apply-to-become-a-moderator/328505/11 "2005-10-31T13:53:08Z")
However your application process goes, I’d like to thank you for volunteering. It looks to be a pretty thankless job, so it’s nice that people want to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-apply-to-become-a-moderator/328505/12 "2005-11-01T18:50:39Z")
> [@C K Dexter Haven](#): > > Not only does she get a lot of emails, but the moderator application process (such as it is) is slow. Slower’n moles’ asses. In January. Some of us have been in the pipleine for a couple of years now. 🙂