The Guide to Becoming a Mod

The Penguin Island Guide to Becoming a Mod
** This guide is very helpful if you are very confident of being a mod in the future, or knowing how to become one in the future if we succeed 1,000+ registered users **

Activeness

It's VERY required to be active, this can dictate your progress in the future. If you are NOT going to be active, it is MORE recommended that you notify us about why you won't be active in the Hellos/Goodbye's forum instead of just being inactive and not posting for a couple of days.

Follow the Rules

This isn't that tough to do, it's just like school, but not exactly a school, but we just enforce rules for you to follow, if we don't have rules, this place would be chaos! This is tough for some users, but soon in the future, they can learn from their mistakes and learn their lesson, just like what Jesse did after his ban.

Posting

It could be very much appreciated if you post at least once a day or log-in once a day. That'll distinguish your activeness, you don't have to post everywhere! It's just your option, you can choose to post everywhere, or just post once and then sign off for the day.

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As trainee...

You need to have at least 4-5 mod actions, which are Locking Topics, Moving Topics to the right Sections, Deleting Pointless topics, Archiving Topics, or Merging Topics. If you qualify, and you do more than 4-5 actions in less than a day, you would be MORE likely accepted and promoted! If you were a mod from the previous Minybuddie and Dq's The Penguin Forums, you will be made a Super Moderator.

Abuse

Just because you're a trainee doesn't mean you own everyone, you are only a trainee just to make the forum safe, abusing powers can easily get you demoted and get your privilege of becoming one in the future taken away.

The Basic Mod Tools

• Delete- If a topic is pointless, you may use this tool, or you can archive it/or basket it.
• Send to Basket-If a certain topic is pretty old, probably.. 3 months old or more, you can basket a topic, you can also basket/archive pointless, or un-needed topics in there as well.
• Move- You can use this tool to move topics to the right sections if they are not in the right ones.
• Lock- You can lock topics if it is pointless, or if the question is answered, you are permitted to archive the locked topic if you wish.
• Split- This tool isn't that much used, you can split a post that was posted in the topic, and move it to another existing topic.
• Merge- This tool is VERY handy, you can merge topics that are the same into one whole topic, so it won't be a confusion.

And those are the basic steps of becoming a Trainee, and following the basics when being a trainee, if you have any questions, or any comments, you may reply to this topic/thread, or you can PM me.