Did Uncle Cecil pick names out of a top hat?
It was Truth or Dare and someone Dared?
It was the last hand of strip poker?
OK, I’ll be good, I promise.
Seriously, who decided that **Coldfire, Cajun Man & UncleBeer **would be the mods in MPSIMS or that Eutychus & Ukule Ike would be the mods in Cafe Society?
While they will deny it, it was all decided in cage matches, held in underground bunkers under the Reader’s building.
I’ll leave it up to your imagination as to whether the winners or losers got to pick first.
Personally, I can see it both ways. 
It was decided in a Strip Poker game.
I believe (and if I’m wrong, I hope the mods will correct me), they were filled on an “as-needed” basis. (i.e. when they saw that they needed an extra mod for MPSIMS because of the volume, they just took whoever the next qualified candidate was).
BTW, shouldn’t this be in ATMB?
Zev Steinhardt
Gee, I always envisioned cole slaw wrestling. In fact, I thought long and hard about requesting Mod status for that very reason. But I couldn’t get a straight answer on creamy vs vinegar dressing, so I opted out.
I always thought it was a joust.
No, they have a big gloomy castle on a hill and they have structured, yet evil meetings there!
UncleBeer: “Hail, brothers. Coranon Silaria, Ozoo Mahoke.”
All: “Mahoke”
UncleBeer: “Any new buisness?”
Coldfire: “Hmmm, this a thread has gone on far too long”
UncleBeer: "No! Let them have their fun… silly Teeming Millions, little do they know they are drawing ever closer to the Poison Thread!
Dramatic Pause
UncleBeer: There is a poison thread isn’t there Cajun Man?
Cajun Man: “No, our lawyers consider it murder Sir.”
UncleBeer: “Damn their oily hides! Coldfire, lock it down!”
Coldfire: "Done and done.
UncleBeer: “Excellent! And now Lynn Bodoni will read from the Necronomicon”
We tend to try to match Mod personalities to the forum, and keep a balance of temperments and range of knowledge in each forum. So we wouldn’t pick a person who doesn’t read many books or watch movies to mod in Cafe Society, or someone who hates to argue to mod GD, though they might be perfect for another forum. The prospective mods for a forum are primarily, though not always, nominated by the mods of that forum, and we tend to pick prolific posters in our forum who have demonstrated the qualities we look for. We also allow mods to have veto rights on whether they want to mod a particular forum (I categorically refused the MPSIMS position ).
[Moderator Hat ON]
Moving to ATMB.
[Moderator Hat OFF]
Is it only people who applied who are considered, or does the occasional mod get chosen by being approached by you guys if you think he/she is good for the job?
Fucking GD snob. Feh.
mnemosyne, yes, some candidates are approached. I was one of those, actually. How they talked me into it, I have long forgotten, but it involved a horse’s head and my bed, I believe.
Actually, the assignment of Moderator-Candidates to Forums is done by a secret committee of the Illuminati. It’s the Committee to Assign Moderators to Elected Liasions (CAMEL) and gave rise to the famous saying about a horse designed by a committee.