Looking for Moderators!

beatthegmat · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:27 pm Post subject: Looking for Moderators!

Hello Beat The GMAT! Community:

This website is growing by leaps and bounds and I’m starting to find it difficult to manage all these forum areas by myself. To ensure that the quality on this board does not wane as Beat The GMAT! continues to scale, I will need the help of a few good folks to serve as moderators.

I’m looking for moderators for the GMAT Math and GMAT Verbal & Essays areas. As a moderator, you would be responsible for the following:

Serving as a leader for your forum area. While it’s not a requirement that you have GMAT subject-matter expertise (though that would be nice), you would be responsible for making sure people are actively participating in discussion and that no relevant questions are being left unanswered. As a moderator, I would expect that you would actively participate in the discussions yourself and contribute lots of meaningful posts.
Maintaining the integrity of your forum area. This role involves deleting spam posts and reporting spammers to me; moving posts in the wrong forum area to the right forum area; making sure that user discussions are respectful and promote learning/sharing/helping.
Participating in the distribution of scholarships (optional). You would be responsible for reading through scholarship essays and applications, and would help me decide the winners of the monthly and yearly scholarship awards.

Please send me a private message or reply to this thread if you are interested in becoming a moderator for Beat The GMAT!

I don’t require any specific time commitment—you can serve as a moderator for as long or as little as you desire (though I hope you would be actively contributing to the forum while in this role). This is a fantastic opportunity to participate in a unique community service project—you could potentially be helping thousands of people! Plus, MBA admissions folks will love to see this kind of activity on your resume... Very Happy

Thanks for helping me build a great GMAT community!

smilingsupriya · Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:07 am Post subject: paying to be moderators

are you going to pay your moderators?

just curious///
if you find this ackward you can pm me...

thankyou.

beatthegmat · Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:11 pm Post subject:

Moderators will not be paid--Beat The GMAT! is a community service project, and moderators would serve as volunteers for this website.

This website is struggling to earn enough money at the moment--however, I want to ensure that we can save enough to distribute scholarships each month, as well as a big scholarship once a year.

Thanks for helping me build a great GMAT community!

wildrebel · Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 1:13 am Post subject:

beatthegmat · Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:31 pm Post subject:

Thanks for your interest, wildrebel--I'll send you some more information about this role shortly.

As a moderator, you will still be able to participate in the scholarships--however, you won't be part of the judging panel! Very Happy

priti1 · Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 4:07 pm Post subject:

Hi Eric,

I just joined this forum ... i will be happy to be the moderator .
thanks

ajith · Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:36 am Post subject:

Hey Eric ...

Dunno if I have the time and Capability ...

But I am always ready to help whenever possible

aniruddho · Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:01 am Post subject: Interested to be a moderator

Hi Eric,

I would like to volunteer to be a moderator for this forum.
Kindly let me know about the processes involved.

Sincerely,
Ani

aim-wsc · Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 10:35 am Post subject:

I am curious to know if anybody among the members are ready to take up some new role & little responsibilty Smile

reachac · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:47 pm Post subject:

beatthegmat · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 12:33 pm Post subject:

Thanks reachac, I'll be contacting you shortly. Smile

raunekk · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 1:42 am Post subject:

aim-wsc · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:50 pm Post subject:

Thanks for showing interest, buddy!
One of the site admins will contact you soon!

amitdgr · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 4:36 am Post subject: volunteer

I haven't yet taken up the GMAT ... but would love to give something back to BTG ... Pls let me know if i can help ...

gabriel · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:06 am Post subject:

Thanks for the interest shown guys. We have just added two new moderators to the team and will contact you guys as and when we decide to add more. Once again thank you for the interest.

Cheers.

PS: - The thread is being locked for the moment and will be opened by one of the admins/moderators as and when we need to make new announcements.