PokéBeach Moderator Application
Basic Information
1. First and last name
2. PokéBeach username
3. Aliases on other forums and sites
4. Age
5. Grade level / year in school (and your majors and minors if you're in college)
6. E-mail address
7. IM contact information, such as AIM, MSN, Skype, etc.
8. State and/or country
Some Explanation
1. How many hours are you online each day on average and does this ever change?
2. What responsibilities do you have in real life? Are you part of a club, a team, have to take care of people, etc.? If so, how would this affect your time and ability to moderate and contribute to the site?
3. How stable is your life right now in terms of being able to dedicate yourself to a moderator position for the long-run? Are you going to be going to college soon, getting a job, etc., that may interfere with the amount of time you will have here? How many years do you think you can dedicate to our site?
4. What is your current or previous work experience in real life or online? (Work experience = jobs, officer in a club at school, moderator on another forum, etc.) Feel free to write more than a few sentences if you have lots of experience. If you have none, simply say so (sometimes that's a good thing!). If you have done online work, link us!
Longer Explanation
1. Please take this personality test: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm When you are done, copy your results, paste them into Word, and attach them in your application e-mail.
2. Tell us your experience with Pokemon. Which aspects of the franchise are you involved in? How has Pokemon affected your life? How long have you played Pokemon? Have you ever won a tournament? This is an open-ended question so tell us everything about you in relation to Pokemon.
3. What do you think of PokéBeach as a website? What do you think of its webmaster and its moderators? What does this site mean to you?
4. Read the new forum organization document (http://pokebeach.com/forums/forums-8-23.doc) and select up to three forums you feel you could moderate (picking one or two is fine). Tell us why you feel you can moderate these forums.
5. How would you improve PokéBeach and its forums? What problems do you notice? Which do you think you can fix? What are your ideas? What would you bring to the table as a moderator?
6. Have you contributed to PokéBeach in any way already? Are you well-known for fixing decks, providing advice, helping people on the forum, etc.? Link us to what you would say is a good example of "work" or contributions you've made on the forums.
7. How would you describe your online self and real-life self? What would your friends and family say about you? What would God say about you? What would you say is your biggest problem(s) in regards to working with other people or just in general?
8. Feel free to tell us anything else about yourself that this application may have not covered.
