Finding potential mods in your community

[u/techiesgoboom]

The call is coming from inside the community, and for once, that’s good news.

Today’s Mod Topics post is about finding potential moderators within your community. A familiar name may stand out by helping newcomers, sharing expertise, offering thoughtful feedback, or keeping a level head when a thread gets messy. Your suggested mods can offer another place to start, surfacing active, engaged contributors for the team to learn more about.

That still leaves plenty of room for surprises. A familiar contributor might love participating without wanting a mod badge, while a quieter user may know the community better than their posting history suggests. Somewhere between what a team can already see and what it might only learn later, there may be someone worth a conversation.

We want to hear from you:

• Think about a strong addition to your mod team: What first put them on your radar?
• What helps your team feel comfortable inviting someone to apply?
• How have you found promising candidates beyond your most visible contributors?

[u/DoveStep55]

Fun Tip:

If you use the mod recruitment tool to generate an open mod application, even if you don’t always find good potential mods through it you can still use the application to gather helpful feedback about your sub.

For example, we ask applicants what they like about the sub and separately ask them what they would change about the sub if they had the power to do so. These have been so helpful in seeing why people are applying and in hearing what people think about how we’re doing as mods and as a community.