Trial Period for mods Options

[*tripvertigo*]

in addition to the regular hiring process, i think that there should be some kind of trial modding period for the best candidates...

because obviously you could mod someone and they could do a freaking horrible job. what are you going to do? demod them two weeks later? or just bear with it for the next couple of months? that's sort of f**ked up.

[*souperstition*]

I'd just like to point out that we shouldn't have a SET number of people who are gonna get cut. That's why we don't have "slots" to fill during hiring sessions, we just hire when necessary. I wouldn't mind seeing a preliminary period of like two weeks after someone is hired where they can be up for review and it's sort of a pass/fail thing.

Again, it should be discussed more to figure out the details, but it's not a bad idea. We'd have to be serious about it, though - the way it is now, if someone messes up on staff more than what should be allowed, the tendency is to shy away from actually doing more about it than sending them a couple of PMs.

Adding onto what Steven said, we should have the same method of hiring - choosing someone on the basis of, "Well if they mess up we can just kick them off.." is pretty unprofessional. We should still be pretty sure about it before we decide to give them a shot.