new hiring process, pros and cons Options

[*incoherent*]

so, i was talking with someone about this about 2 minutes ago and wanted to know what everyone though of how it went being the first time it was implimented.

i didnt want to put this just randomly in another thread, i wanted it to be seen.

so, pros and cons.

pros
-i liked the idea of nominations.

cons
-nominations seemed like endorsements which we did away with due to the fact that only people were picking their friends. i did talk to many mods, and noted it for myself too, that mods werent nominating just friends. i was nominated by 3 people i didnt even talk to.

-not everyone seems to get their chance. just because they dont stand out, doesnt mean they shouldnt be given a shot. sure, there was the discussion thread, but how much of that was taken in when nominations were made?

[Gigi]

This is pretty long but take the time to read this.

Pros
- I like how nominations lets us base our decisions solely on how the person presents themself on cB.

Cons
- I think a lot of qualified people weren't taken into consideration. Yeah, the mods are on a lot but it doesn't mean we know EVERYONE or remember EVERYONE. I know for sure that there are some people I forgot about that would still be great for the job.

- Although some people didn't like the old system because it was based on a lot of persuasion and writing a one-sided application, I prefer it over the current one. It let us become aware of ALL the people who were interested in the job, and let us judge ALL these people equally.

For nominations, a lot of it is based on how popular and how active a member is (yeah, yeah, mods are saying that it's not a popularity contest. But it IS, somewhat. If you're NOT popular enough you won't get noticed), so the choices made are very limited.

Applications allows for all the interested candidates to write an app and let us all judge each person equally. It sort of gives us a "list" of people, instead of having to pick people ourselves. The candidates shortlist themselves, and that makes things much easier and fairer.

You say that applications can lie, huh? Well, the mods aren't stupid. We can tell if the person is lying or not, or if they're qualified or not by just looking at their username. We don't need an application. The app is basically, IMO anyway, to tell people you're interested in being a mod. All the "reasons why we should hire you" may be the way to differentiate the excellent from the superior, but generally, a decision is made from the candidate's regular attitudes and helpfulness, etc, not some big essay.

Yeah. That was pretty long.