Board Thread:Requests for User Rights/@comment-27138615-20160517075313

It’s been more than month since I last ran for discussion moderator. Like nearly everyone else, I haven’t given up on running for running for a position after a loss. I’ve pre written my discussion moderator application and I’ve tried to become more active in the forums. With that said, let’s get started.

Requirements

 * You must have 250 mainspace edits. ~ I have over 550, if you combine my first and second accounts.
 * You must have at least 500 forum edits. ~ I have more than 1,000 of them at this point combined.
 * You must have been in this wiki for at least three months. ~ I’ve been here for two years and a month.
 * You must have not been blocked or banned from the chat more than one week for the past six months. ~ I never have been blocked once.
 * More than 60% of the votes must be supportive. ~ The last time I ran for discussion moderator I didn’t reach this requirement, but it might change.

Some features/stuff about me

 * Around mainspace… most of the things I did there are minor. Very very minor. I’m not the most frequent mainspace editor either, and that’s basically it mainspace wise. But I’m not running for something in the mainspace department.
 * I’ve been a chat moderator for a year and three months. I wasted the last month just staying in chat for at least 8 hours or more (usually 12) hours a day. I suppose that’s enough for you.
 * The most important part about being a discussion moderator is their forum activity. Sure, you may argue that I’m only focused in fun and games or so, but I vote when there’s votes if I know the person or if it’s not really that game related. (Remember, I’m not a frequent player of the series anymore.)
 * I do my best to use good grammar whenever I go, but sometimes I tend to do some mistakes and I tend to rush in typing sometimes.
 * I’ve been going to the wiki every day for the past month and a half and I check recent wiki activity very frequently. Unfortunately, my Wiki Love counter got reset because my 7 AM edits on May 15 didn't count.

How would these rights benefit me?
These rights will benefit me because it’d give me powers over the forums, somewhere where nearly everyone on the wiki gathers to discuss about something from time to time. Unfortunately, my reasons for running for discussion moderator haven’t changed too much. It’s still not easy enough to get a forum moderator to do something for you from time to time, and I don’t really see users with discussion moderator powers in the right times in chat when I have to request something. Sure, you may argue that “just message them on their talk pages”, but I find that the quickest way to get a person’s attention is via chat. You’ll never know when a person would read your messages on their talk pages and even if they were active around 10 minutes ago, it might take hours before they can even get your message. Sometimes I feel if as if I ask too much from higher staff members and I want to lessen that motive by stepping up a bit.

Since I’m active in chat around 9-12 hours a day, I might be in chat when other, more busy users in chat aren’t. I won’t even leave when school arrives anymore, plus last year I tried too much to access chat during school time, so I might do that activity again as well again, but maybe a bit less often. If dismissal times become earlier again and if I get less homework (I literally don’t study anymore), I’ll do my best to make my activity high enough, although I need to lessen the “going to wiki during class” activities I used to do so I don’t fail, since when I kinda had a wiki break, my grades went back up to an average of 90 and I got a Marble Pillar Award. Enough with that though, since I might go off-topic.

Closing Statement
Here’s what I hope this thread is not: another wasted opportunity that will lead into an absolute loss. I wasn’t too happy about losing, but I never gave up of deciding to run again. I really want to stop pestering higher staff members to do stuff for me so much, as for one, they might be busy with something important, and two, it’ll eventually be unhealthy to ask them of too much. (Even though it’s part of their job.)

For with that said, my path is yours. May the voting commence.

 