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.

[*superstitious*]

I'm going to respond to a few things -

90 days is too long for a moderator position. True, that is the general standard in the workforce, but it shouldn't be for an internet site that people are essentially volunteering their time for.

2 weeks should suffice, but how would the "performance" (for lack of a better word) be measured? Moderating actions just isn't a good way, in my opinion. Just because a staff member doesn't close the most topics or create the most new versions of topics doesn't mean that they aren't doing a decent job. So how one would be evaluated needs to be looked at.

And yes (to Dani and Steven), hiring shouldn't be looked at in the sense of those hiring having the mentality of "well, if we f**k up we can just let them go" nor should people hired be doomed from the beginning or paranoid about staying on board.