From experience:
When we get newbie moderators, they're the ones who appreciate sympathetic and welcoming users the most. Modding isn't so glamorous. First hate pm's, first hate threads, getting porn spammed in your inbox and getting yelled at for other mods percieved faults and all the stuff that's wrong with the site, it can be a bit overwhelming and I've seen more than one new mod decide that they didn't want to deal with the grief and just quit.
This isn't all about gold, glamour, and glory. It's frustrating, tiring, and it has the potential to eat up all of your free time and leave you stretched very thin. We sometimes feel just as helpless as the users who are contacting us. At the same time, it's an amazing feeling to be able to fix that which you can and it can be very rewarding. It's all in what you make of it, and what you put into it really.
We will always have new spots for mods in the future. And we will always need and adore good users on the site. There's no shame in applying and not making it.
-terradi
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