Comments on: New Mod Monday

New Mod Monday

mathowie — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:55:56 -0800

It's New Mod Monday! (actually they'll filter in over the next two weeks, but anyway ...semantics!)

After an exhaustive search and post on Jobs, we got around 80 applicants for the part-timer slots. We had a tough time narrowing the prospects down to the top 20 or so, then looked at where people lived and what kind of time they had available and in the end the best combos of time/location/experience ended up picking LobsterMitten and goodnewsfortheinsane. One is based in the US, the other in the EU, and will provide sporadic drop-in coverage for the site to give taz a break and weekend breaks for cortex/jessamyn, and whenever anyone goes on vacation. They likely won't be visible as mods for another couple weeks as they ease into the occasional slots. They're both pretty great and I think will fit in well, so this should be a pretty minimal change. Thanks to everyone that applied, it was really tough to whittle down the list to the best options, there were over a dozen people we really wanted to have on board for each slot. It was a good experience to use Jobs as we heard from loads of people we wouldn't have known about otherwise so it's likely we'll use the feature in the future for similar projects. Thanks again, all.

By: Phire

Phire — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:00:53 -0800

Yay new mods! Yay more time off for existing mods! Congrats to the whole team, old and new!

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:01:01 -0800

Congrats, new mods!

By: bilabial

bilabial — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:02:21 -0800

Congrats! That is super awesome.

By: Tell Me No Lies

Tell Me No Lies — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:02:37 -0800

Wait...I'm insane.... This is GREAT news!

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:03:23 -0800

I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.

By: Meta Filter

Meta Filter — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:04:01 -0800

I approve.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:04:08 -0800

Thanks, truly, for every single person who took the time to apply.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:05:01 -0800

these choices are good and you should feel good

By: Tell Me No Lies

Tell Me No Lies — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:05:09 -0800

(seriously, congratulations to both of you.)

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:05:53 -0800

Also please post the videos (or at least a gifset) of the humiliating initiation rituals to which they were subjected.

By: Horace Rumpole

Horace Rumpole — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:06:07 -0800

To quote the Gin Blossoms, Congratulations, I'm Sorry.

By: lampshade

lampshade — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:06:08 -0800

€Woot! and $Woot!

By: SMPA

SMPA — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:06:33 -0800

Congratulations, and my condolences.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:07:27 -0800

HOORAY

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:10:48 -0800

Congrats and Welcome. And Good Luck.

By: insectosaurus

insectosaurus — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:12:29 -0800

Yay congrats!

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:14:08 -0800

congrats!

By: LobsterMitten

LobsterMitten — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:14:38 -0800

w00t! I am excited, perhaps foolishly so. Thanks for the vote of confidence.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:14:49 -0800

You couldn't ask for two better people to totally ruin.

By: blurker

blurker — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:16:00 -0800

Congrats, new mods! And may I also add my apologies for the amount of grief this position entails.

By: gauche

gauche — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:17:29 -0800

Yay!

By: colfax

colfax — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:17:30 -0800

Congrats! That's awesome!

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:17:39 -0800

LobsterMitten is milled from a solid bar of class.

By: restless_nomad

restless_nomad — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:18:18 -0800

Welcome! I'm super excited to have y'all.

By: zarq

zarq — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:19:48 -0800

Excellent choices! Good luck, gnfti and LM! :)

By: shelleycat

shelleycat — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:19:58 -0800

Nice. Will we get interviews on an upcoming podcast? They're both people I'd like to hear from anyway, so this seems like a good excuse.

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:21:05 -0800

I am looking forward to good mittens for insane lobsters. I'm sure they will help.

By: shelleycat

shelleycat — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:21:22 -0800

(And we totally need an EU meetup to celebrate. I'm going to be in Amsterdam in a couple of weekends and all)

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:21:36 -0800

I am positive we'll get some podcast action going with them both at some point, yeah.

By: ldthomps

ldthomps — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:21:42 -0800

Yays all around! I'm so glad there were so many good people to choose from, and that some of the best folks are joining the part-timer crew!

By: jamjam

jamjam — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:21:57 -0800

Excellent choices!

Congratulations LobsterMitten and goodnewsfortheinsane!

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:21:59 -0800

I am also excited! It's a cornucopia of excitement!

So yes, thanks Matt and the other mods for the trust you've placed in me. I'll do my best to live up to it.

By: Elsa

Elsa — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:25:16 -0800

Welcome to the new mods! Congratulations and hurray!

By: atrazine

atrazine — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:26:42 -0800

I just want to tell you both, good luck. We're all counting on you.

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:27:29 -0800

Mathowie: Oh, and if you new folks could take a quick look at the next thread down, that'd be great. Me and cortex and Jessamyn are taking restless_nomad and taz out for a cup of coffee. See you later!

By: Justinian

Justinian — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:29:09 -0800

Congrats, and remember: He who mods least mods best! (not modist)

By: oneswellfoop

oneswellfoop — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:31:59 -0800

Excellent choices, congratulations, and thank you mathowie for NOT opening with a Professor Farnsworth "GOOD NEWS EVERYBODY"...

By: cooker girl

cooker girl — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:32:23 -0800

Better you both than me!

Oh, wait. That should read: Congratulations!

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:35:58 -0800

But, I had gotten a new tie and underwear and shaved my legs and everything!

By: taz

taz — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:43:05 -0800

Big hugs to LobsterMitten and goodnewsfortheinsane and to everyone who applied, because you guys are pretty fantastic.

I also sort of think these are rather wonderfully eponysterical moderator user names. :)

By: asterix

asterix — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:44:43 -0800

The really important question is, do they get the "staff" tags by their handles in MeTa? And if so, all the time, or just when they're speaking ex cathedra?

By: The corpse in the library

The corpse in the library — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:44:47 -0800

Hurray!

By: msali

msali — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:45:57 -0800

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! Welcome and congrats you two!

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:46:00 -0800

Congratulations good luck, and thanks for taking up the challenge of keeping Metafilter running well I am in awe of the courage. I was relieved to not find my name in this post -- and I didn't even apply!

By: k5.user

k5.user — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:47:29 -0800

so how many stock options did ya'll offer them ?

By: hurdy gurdy girl

hurdy gurdy girl — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:49:01 -0800

Hey, nice! Congratulations to you both, LobsterMitten and goodnewsfortheinsane.

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:49:54 -0800

MAY YOU MOD IN INTERESTING TIMES

By: restless_nomad

restless_nomad — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:50:57 -0800

MAY YOU MOD IN INTERESTING TIMES

This made me literally flinch.

By: discopolo

discopolo — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:52:16 -0800

I wish we'd gotten the chance to guess through riddles and clues, but that's a lot of work. So I understand.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:53:25 -0800

I am still in favour of an annual King Of The Bean-style moderation situation wherein one lucky mefite would be selected as Mod For A Day, be it for good or for evil.

Of course, at the end of that day the Bean Mod would be sacrificed to the Horned God as is right and good and proper.

We should get moving on this ASAP as it is seasonally appropriate.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:55:44 -0800

The really important question is, do they get the "staff" tags by their handles in MeTa? And if so, all the time, or just when they're speaking ex cathedra?

We hadn't actually talked about that! It's a good question, I guess we'll think through what makes the most sense.

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:55:46 -0800

This is a major inflection point on the graph of total moderators.

It's a staff inflection.

By: DreamerFi

DreamerFi — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:55:52 -0800

Oh crap. goodnews lives so close to me I will never make a chance next time they need mods.

Better polish up those emigration plans...

By: Pogo_Fuzzybutt

Pogo_Fuzzybutt — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:56:15 -0800

I just want to tell you both, good luck. We're all counting on you.

Thanks, truly, for every single person who took the time to apply.

And those of us who didn't get what ? Nothing ? What are we ? Chopped liver ?

Grats you two!

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:57:39 -0800

These are some great choices. Good consideration team mod.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:58:50 -0800

> We hadn't actually talked about that! It's a good question, I guess we'll think through what makes the most sense.

Tiny Jr. Deputy badges rendered in HTML 5.

By: Horace Rumpole

Horace Rumpole — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:58:55 -0800

I am still in favour of an annual King Of The Bean-style moderation situation wherein one lucky mefite would be selected as Mod For A Day, be it for good or for evil.

"And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!"--elizardbits, Mod for a Day.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:59:36 -0800

that's pretty much what would happen yes.

By: restless_nomad

restless_nomad — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:00:38 -0800

And those of us who didn't get what ? Nothing ? What are we ? Chopped liver ?

I am going to neither confirm nor deny conversations along the lines of "I love [mefite] even more for having the good sense not to apply."

By: item

item — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:00:43 -0800

I just checked my old memails and crossreferenced them with my old emails, and I can't find any evidence that I've ever gotten into any shit with either of these two. I approve.

By: Egg Shen

Egg Shen — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:01:02 -0800

They likely won't be visible as mods for another couple weeks

But I'm ready to start criticizing their modding choices right now.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:02:31 -0800

I am going to neither confirm nor deny conversations along the lines of "I love [mefite] even more for having the good sense not to apply."

You're welcome.

By: daniel_charms

daniel_charms — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:04:41 -0800

One is based in the US, the other in the EU, and will provide sporadic drop-in coverage for the site to give taz a break and weekend breaks for cortex/jessamyn, and whenever anyone goes on vacation.

You just took 'mod abuse' to a whole new level. This is straight out mod exploitation.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:04:57 -0800

and then we wind up throwing elizardbits into a volcano and feeling slightly bad about the whole thing.

By: xingcat

xingcat — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:06:14 -0800

I am overcome with bitter jealousy that you were picked and I wasn't...

...okay, I'm over it! Congratulations! Happy moderating!

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:06:34 -0800

Please, the word is "modsploitation".

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:06:48 -0800

FIRE CANNOT KILL THE DRAGON

By: zarq

zarq — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:08:19 -0800

and then we wind up throwing elizardbits into a volcano and feeling slightly bad about the whole thing.

Perfectly innocent mistake, mishearing her drink request and deciding she'd make a good volcano sacrifice. Could have happened to anyone, really.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:09:36 -0800

Please, the word is "modsploitation".

Just talkin' about Mods.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:09:54 -0800

I'd like to take this opportunity to loudly complain that goodnewsfortheinsane deleted my previous comment because he is the chief operator of a vast conspiracy against me!

On preview, my browser crashed and the comment never went through.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:14:04 -0800

No, gnfti's just the figurehead, don't be ridiculous.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:14:35 -0800

This is not my first vast international conspiracy rodeo.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:15:11 -0800

ex-nay on the iracy-nay

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:15:57 -0800

You are bad at Pig Latin.

By: zarq

zarq — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:16:04 -0800

I'd like to take this opportunity to loudly complain that goodnewsfortheinsane deleted my previous comment because he is the chief operator of a vast conspiracy against me!

And so, it begins.....

There is a hole in your mind.

What do you want?

No one here is exactly what he appears.

Nothing's the same any more.

Commander Mathowie is being reassigned.

Why don't you eliminate the entire Reddit homeworld while you're at it?

I see a great hand reaching out of the site....

Who are you?

President Shakesperherian has signed a decree today declaring martial law.

These orders have forced us to declare independence.

Weapons supplies...

...unless you people get off your encounter-suited butts and do something!

You are the one who was.

If you go to Meta'Talk, you will die.

Why are you here? Do you have anything worth living for?

I think of my beautiful site in flames...

.... like giants in the playground ....

Now get the hell out of our server!

We are here to place President Shakespeherian under arrest....

By: special-k

special-k — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:16:40 -0800

Back to the mod temp agency for me. I'll probably get a gig at metafilter.ru or something. /sigh

By: daniel_charms

daniel_charms — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:16:49 -0800

Dude, we don't talk about the vast conspiracy against shakespeherian in the open.

Disclaimer: There is no vast conspiracy against shakespeherian.

By: rtha

rtha — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:17:40 -0800

Congrats from Santa Fe!

By: JohnnyGunn

JohnnyGunn — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:18:18 -0800

Godspeed you two.

By: rtha

rtha — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:19:19 -0800

/reading thread from the bottom up:

I love elizardbits but I'm pretty sure Madam Pele would spit her out and ask for straight gin.

By: ocherdraco

ocherdraco — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:21:17 -0800

You are bad at Pig Latin.

I love that while the rest of us get all twitchy when something is bad pig latin, or spelled wrong, or isn't, in fact, a word in any language known to man, The Whelk just goes and uses it anyway, and is charming and funny while doing it.

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:22:07 -0800

You made good choices! I have enjoyed reading posts and comments from the aforementioned entities.

WELCOME NEW MOD ENTITIES

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:22:25 -0800

The Whelk's problem is that he has an iPad and only one giant thumb.

By: the man of twists and turns

the man of twists and turns — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:24:16 -0800

FIRE CANNOT KILL THE DRAGON

Seriously, when are you making that post? I have EVEN MORE fanart now!

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:26:27 -0800

OH MY GOD I TOTALLY FORGOT

By: PhoBWanKenobi

PhoBWanKenobi — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:27:20 -0800

Congrats new mods!

By: radwolf76

radwolf76 — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:27:27 -0800

And so, it begins.....

On that subject, anyone working up a Michael O'Hare obit thread? If I weren't pulling 12.5 hour shifts this week, I'd have been trying to craft one myself today.

By: Doktor Zed

Doktor Zed — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:29:55 -0800

Congratulations, LobsterMitten and goodnewsfortheinsane!

By: beryllium

beryllium — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:30:28 -0800

Yay LobsterMitten and goodnewsfortheinsane!

And, while this should not have been a deciding factor, I'm happy that your usernames begin with letters other than m, j, c, r, t, v, or p. MeFi: two steps closer to conquering the alphabet!

By: zarq

zarq — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:35:29 -0800

On that subject, anyone working up a Michael O'Hare obit thread?

In Valen's Name.

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:35:58 -0800

No, gnfti's just the figurehead, don't be ridiculous.
posted by elizardbits

Okay, now I understand that you've just been taking dictation from your cat all along, but there's no need to transcribe her sneezes as well.

>gnfti<

By: strangely stunted trees

strangely stunted trees — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:37:43 -0800

THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR THE QUIDNUNC KID!!

By: The corpse in the library

The corpse in the library — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:39:13 -0800

> Please, the word is "modsploitation"

Don't modsplain at me.

By: Space Kitty

Space Kitty — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:40:52 -0800

Congrats and good luck to the new mods!

By: SLC Mom

SLC Mom — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:44:04 -0800

Well, this seems pretty nice, but it is going to make the Favorite Mod contest just that much harder next year.
Congratulations goodnewsfortheinsane and LobsterMittens!

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:46:07 -0800

My house is not a house where cats are allowed in any format other than lol or video.

By: Sidhedevil

Sidhedevil — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:56:18 -0800

Yay! Modspeed to LobsterMitten and goodnewsfortheinsane. May your deletions be seamless and your banhammer never blister.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:00:32 -0800

Two great choices! Congrats to all who applied; in my book* you're ALL winners!

*However, in reality's book, there are two winners and a bunch of losers.

By: Snarl Furillo

Snarl Furillo — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:00:50 -0800

Yay! New mods! Good luck and have fun!

By: the man of twists and turns

the man of twists and turns — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:15:41 -0800

Are there other new features planned?

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:16:17 -0800

Oh man metafilter just hit puberty and is getting all kinds of strange new features

By: the Cabal

the Cabal — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:16:50 -0800

There is a vast conspiracy against shakespeherian.

Wait, correction...we meant there is NO vast conspiracy. Handy having this edit window now.

By: Ghidorah

Ghidorah — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:22:02 -0800

Are there other new features planned?

What I really want to know is, are there any modsploitation films planned?

By: a box and a stick and a string and a bear

a box and a stick and a string and a bear — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:26:38 -0800

Am I seriously the only person that saw this and immediately thought "who the hell is semantics?"

[editing cuz i can, apparently]

By: litlnemo

litlnemo — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:26:57 -0800

And here I thought seniority would rule the day.

By: Jofus

Jofus — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:29:43 -0800

Yeah this is fantastic news. Congrats to one and all. And I used the edit feature to add that, so.

By: davidjmcgee

davidjmcgee — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:33:20 -0800

Congrats!

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:37:27 -0800

Congrats! Remember, when in doubt, spin.

By: Potomac Avenue

Potomac Avenue — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:38:29 -0800

Best possible reaction to mod appointments: "Hey cool, I know both of those names but don't really know who they are so they're probably nice."

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:41:35 -0800

Are there other new features planned?

At four o'clock this afternoon, we'll be lunching comment-via-twitter support. At six, everyone will get an actual living pony.

By: lazaruslong

lazaruslong — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:41:52 -0800

Congrats new mods!

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:42:54 -0800

Ooh, twitter lunch!

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:53:37 -0800

For seriouses, though, looking back I cannot believe there was a time when it was basically jessamyn and cortex and somehow they did not murder us all

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:58:38 -0800

i am confused is the new mod insane and therefor this job is good news or is this mod not insane and just good for insane people

CONGRATS! I look forward to politely disagreeing with the decision to delete my comment calling [EDIT WINDOW] a pig fucker.

By: bukvich

bukvich — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:58:39 -0800

That reminds me I have been meaning to ask goodnewsfortheinsane for a long time if he was aware of:

The result, titled Good News for Modern Man: The New Testament in Today's English Version, was released in 1966.

By: Marisa Stole the Precious Thing

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:04:32 -0800

Oh hey, these are good choices! I had my fingers crossed that if I were passed up, the task would at least go to capable hands. Really pleased with the choices here, congrats to the two of you.

By: h00py

h00py — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:06:01 -0800

Congratulations, LM and gnfti!

By: amyms

amyms — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:14:45 -0800

Good choices! Best wishes for stress-free modding!

By: Quietgal

Quietgal — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:17:47 -0800

Excellent choices!

By: winna

winna — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:18:12 -0800

At six, everyone will get an actual living pony.

Good heavens does my anti-pony cautionary tale telling fall on deaf ears always?! PONIES ARE JERKS.

I think that both LobsterMitten and goodnewsfortheinsane are fine upstanding people and I hope that they don't begin to hate us all with passion in two days.

By: drezdn

drezdn — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:28:33 -0800

Congrats!

By: deborah

deborah — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:30:22 -0800

Congratulations to you both!

By: stoneweaver

stoneweaver — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:31:13 -0800

I have to say - I am truly happy about both of these choices. Marvelous! Congrats to both of you, and hooray!

By: DarlingBri

DarlingBri — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:40:31 -0800

YAY NEW MODS!

Please try not to break the ones we have.

By: Scientist

Scientist — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:45:04 -0800

Man, two new (awesome) mods, and an edit window all in the same day?!

By: Elmore

Elmore — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:45:38 -0800

Excellent choices. G'luck new mods!

By: Kevin Street

Kevin Street — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:51:12 -0800

Congratulations, new mods!

By: Wordshore

Wordshore — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:53:09 -0800

The Wikipedia editor makes me inwardly scream, else I'd do this myself, but perhaps this now needs a little editing/updating.

Also, congratulations new mods.

By: Rumple

Rumple — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:58:39 -0800

Two for whom I have the highest respect. Excellent choice.

Of course, a lobster with mittens would indeed be good news for the insane.

By: Wordshore

Wordshore — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:01:31 -0800

"... a lobster with mittens ..."

I'm a bit behind with US politics; is that the GOP presidential ticket for this year?

By: kimberussell

kimberussell — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:05:16 -0800

Omigosh, congratulations to you both and thanks in advance for putting up with us!

By: thylacinthine

thylacinthine — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:07:16 -0800

Congrats to the new mods!

By: RichardP

RichardP — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:20:14 -0800

It looks like the FAQ entry will need to be updated. Congratulations to the new moderators!

By: Wordshore

Wordshore — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:28:19 -0800

It does seem slightly cruel that their day one induction included Matt saying "...oh by the way, we've also unexpectedly introduced the ability for users to time travel in the comments they write. Well, have fun moderating those!"

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:31:38 -0800

They don't officially start for a week or so, we figured we could let people get some of the edit window stuff out of their system first and then these mods would never know editing without an edit window....

By: trip and a half

trip and a half — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:35:30 -0800

Yay!

By: anotherpanacea

anotherpanacea — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:58:10 -0800

This is where I say: "I told you so."

Yay!!!!!!!!!

[Edited to add more exclamation points.]

By: jokeefe

jokeefe — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:02:44 -0800

I had my fingers crossed that if I were passed up, the task would at least go to capable hands. Really pleased with the choices here, congrats to the two of you.

Marisa is a bigger person than I, as I am still struggling with the single emo tear of modly rejection, though taking comfort in the thought that I was always in the wrong time zone (right?). However, even though I am processing my feelings and keeping my chin up-- no, really, I'll be fine-- I totally agree with the sentiment. Lobster Mitten is a perfect choice, and I know goodnewsfortheinsane less well but I'm sure he'll be fantastic too. Congrats to both, and may the odds be ever in your favour.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:07:48 -0800

Congrats to both, and may the odds be ever in your favour.

New mods have to dress like Effie Trinket while on duty just FYI

By: clearly

clearly — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:12:13 -0800

YAY NEW MODS!

/kit zombie apocalypse

By: ersatz

ersatz — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:21:46 -0800

Oh great, every time I see the nick LobsterMitten, I'll be craving lobster. Congrats, both!

By: Skygazer

Skygazer — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:22:41 -0800

Congratulations to two of my favorite folks with two of my favorite usernames.

By: St. Alia of the Bunnies

St. Alia of the Bunnies — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:23:45 -0800

Cool!

By: ceribus peribus

ceribus peribus — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:54:55 -0800

Congrats to LobsterMitten and goodnewsfortheinsane!

At some companies I've seen, noone is hired directly into Sales; new sales reps are hired into the Marketing department. They aren't added to the sales department until they've made their first actual Sale. The Marketing department does not pay well.

So I presume the new mods won't get their official STAFF badge until they've exercised their skills in combat; maybe not until they've done their first post deletion.

STAFF badges are for closers!

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:07:29 -0800

Good choices, they have my approval, because I know you were waiting for that! :)

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:12:04 -0800

Man, two new (awesome) mods, and an edit window all in the same day?!

And we recorded a podcast. We're taking the rest of the year off to recuperate.

By: flabdablet

flabdablet — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:15:20 -0800

I keenly await the touch of their modly appendages.

By: Decani

Decani — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:16:42 -0800

As a rocker, I disapprove of mods.

By: dg

dg — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:20:54 -0800

Great choices and, as always, probably those that weren't really on the radar of most people as potential moderators. Those that seek power should never be granted it etc...

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:34:55 -0800

Congrats, new mod people!

By: ocherdraco

ocherdraco — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:01:51 -0800

A podcast? So soon? Yay!

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:04:44 -0800

I know, right? We're really, really gonna try and crank them out monthly from now on.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:06:39 -0800

We have discovered that having a calendar helps this somewhat. It's just a day of wonders here!

By: box

box — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:07:34 -0800

Congratulations, new mods!

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:15:07 -0800

Yay, stellar choices - two people I love. Delightful. Plus, it is great all the current mods will get some relief.

By: painquale

painquale — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:24:31 -0800

Oh cool, a philosopher mod!

Good job to both hirers and hirees!

By: IndigoRain

IndigoRain — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:38:38 -0800

If you use Greasemonkey and the Mefi Navigator script, you can edit it yourself in a text editor so that the new mods have admin tags. (It's pretty easy, I don't code GM scripts and I figured it out.) It shows both the standard Staff tags that you get here on the site, and the script-specific Admin tag.

By: pearlybob

pearlybob — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:47:04 -0800

Congrats and let me take this comment to thank all the mods..... Much appreciation and hugs your way....

By: Curious Artificer

Curious Artificer — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:50:20 -0800

Fine choices, both. Congratulations to you both, and I'm sure the sites will be better for your participation.

but seriously, not even a "thank you for your interest" email?

By: harriet vane

harriet vane — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:54:19 -0800

Yay! Congratulations!

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:56:18 -0800

but seriously, not even a "thank you for your interest" email?

We sent them! Did you not get one?

By: box

box — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:59:47 -0800

I didn't! I was heartbroken!

Though, just to be fair, I didn't apply.

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:08:02 -0800

I, for one....

Welcome new mods! Here's wishing you a grarless induction period with no MeTa call outs.

By: immlass

immlass — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:21:12 -0800

Hooray new mods! Congrats on your selection and good luck with your new duties. May you mod in uninteresting times.

By: filthy light thief

filthy light thief — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:33:11 -0800

Congrats you two!

Greg Nog: MAY YOU MOD IN INTERESTING TIMES

restless_nomad: This made me literally flinch.

A suitable local alteration to the wish of "may you marry and have children," often bestowed upon one's own unwed, child-free offspring.

Man, two new (awesome) mods, and an edit window all in the same day?!

And we recorded a podcast. We're taking the rest of the year off to recuperate.

What jerks. "Hey LobsterMitten and goodnewsfortheinsane, you won't have to be mods during the first days of the New Editable Era (NEE)*! Oh, but we'll be on break from mid-October until the end of the year. I hope that's not a problem. What, the elections? Already? I thought those happened last year. Oh well, you two will do fine, we're sure!"

* as compared to the Pre-Editable Era, or PEE. Yes, I am being quite juvenile tonight.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:35:25 -0800

It is true, we are jerks!

By: ceribus peribus

ceribus peribus — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:42:01 -0800

From the job post, I thought we were just getting one mod, but it was wise of Matt to also get a spare just in case we break someone with all of the new changes.

By: daniel_charms

daniel_charms — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:54:22 -0800

I've got to say, it was a good day.

By: batmonkey

batmonkey — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:21:01 -0800

Welcome to mod-ship, y'all! I look forward to defending your impartial, well-considered actions to the ravening hordes of ingrates :D

By: Kwine

Kwine — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:24:55 -0800

Excellent choices. Too bad about the edit window.

By: SuzySmith

SuzySmith — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:28:40 -0800

Congratulations to you both!

By: a humble nudibranch

a humble nudibranch — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:00:36 -0800

Welcome LM and gnfti! And congrats to restless_nomad and taz as they are deposed as the new mods/junior mods. I can't wait to hear, "taz wouldn't have deleted my post" or "the calm and experienced restless_nomad would have made a better call."

By: mazola

mazola — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:06:12 -0800

And the rest of us aren't mods.

Or rockers.

We're 'mockers'.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:11:27 -0800

but seriously, not even a "thank you for your interest" email?

For serious, if you didn't get this it's either you sent your application from an email other than the one you're checking or I goofed and missed you when I was sending them out. The latter is a very real possibility. It's just a short cheerful note, and if you were expecting one and didn't see one I'd be happy to mefimail it to you, just lemme know.

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:25:56 -0800

I didn't get a note thanking me for not applying. THE GALL!

By: taz

taz — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:41:30 -0800

We sent a card, klang! We passed it around the office and everyone signed it; I drew a cute obscene doodle under my signature, and we also included a gift certificate from Bed, Bath and Beyond.

By: TangerineGurl

TangerineGurl — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:47:37 -0800

Congrats to the new mods! And congrats to the existing mods for being able to walk away from The Blue occasionally without worry or the guilts.

That new edit button ROCKS! /edit

By: Megami

Megami — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:28:47 -0800

Great choices! Good luck guys, I am sure you are going to do a brilliant job :)

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:18:11 -0800

Another slap in the face to that vital English-knobhead-in-China MeFite demographic, I see. Grr.

By: plinth

plinth — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 03:17:03 -0800

Welcome on board! Did you watch the training video?

By: Pendragon

Pendragon — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 05:26:18 -0800

Hey, finally a mod within driving distance from me!!

By: filthy light thief

filthy light thief — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 05:37:08 -0800

And because this was titled New Mod Monday, are there going to be new mods rolled out every Monday? I look forward to the day that the majority of the site has mod-status, and all the mods take turns covering the site for 5-10 minutes at a time.

By: smirkette

smirkette — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:10:48 -0800

woohoo! Congrats, LobsterMitten & goodnewsfortheinsane! May the masses, er, us, treat you well!

By: royalsong

royalsong — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:19:35 -0800

Congratulations!

By: zarq

zarq — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:29:45 -0800

filthy light thief: "And because this was titled New Mod Monday, are there going to be new mods rolled out every Monday? I look forward to the day that the majority of the site has mod-status, and all the mods take turns covering the site for 5-10 minutes at a time."

Or we could go the Sweden Twitter route. One randomly selected member gets mod powers each week. :)

By: daniel_charms

daniel_charms — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:32:03 -0800

Or we could go the Sweden Twitter route. One randomly selected member gets mod powers each week. :)

Until one of them deletes all posts and bans everyone.

By: Curious Artificer

Curious Artificer — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:51:08 -0800

Just to let everyone know, my work email knows better than I do that I shouldn't be a moderator. It marked cortex's short cheerful note as spam.

By: peacay

peacay — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:30:25 -0800

Excellent choice for mods. Congrats gnfti & LM.

By: philipy

philipy — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:04:47 -0800

Congratulations to the new mods!

LobsterMitten I recognize as a voice of wisdom, sanity and fun, which bodes very well for modding. I hope we'll still hear plenty of LM's own thoughts in our conversations.

I don't really know goodnewsfortheinsane, perhaps we don't hang out in the same threads. But on looking over his activity, anyone who has Tolkien quotes ready to hand and takes the trouble to inject some sense of proportion and humor into an Assange thread, has to be a good guy.

By: onlyconnect

onlyconnect — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:33:44 -0800

I love these mod decisions! Patient, smart, thoughtful, funny. Metafilter, you rock.

And thanks Matt for running MetaFilter in a way that values mods. I am always impressed by how you invest money back into MetaFilter instead of grabbing all the money and running. I read, somewhere, your remarks about running a tech business in a post-Steve Jobs world, and how you have decided to be there for family instead of make ALL OF THE MONEY and I have so much respect for you. Thanks sincerely for this great website and these new mods and the edit window!

By: homunculus

homunculus — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:41:04 -0800

Congratulations!

By: leotrotsky

leotrotsky — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:02:29 -0800

yey!

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:07:34 -0800

I gotta say I'm a little disappointed that no-one has graced this thread with appropriate lyrics for "Just Another New-Mod Monday", a la The Bangles.

By: ocherdraco

ocherdraco — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:51:03 -0800

"Just Another New-Mod Monday", a la The Bangles

Two a.m. already
I was just in the middle of a thread
I just dissed another user
Sayin' how I thought he ought to be dead
Then someone popped in
And chided me in text that was <small>
I got real mad
'Cause I didn't know this admin at all

It's just another new-mod Monday
I wish it was Sunday
'Cause that's my funday
My act-a-troll-and-run day
It's just another new-mod Monday

I really feel I must complain
This new mod's not staying in line
(Never mind that if their name
Were cortex I'd think they were fine)
'Cause it makes me feel bad
When a n00b tells me [Hey, tone it down there.]
I think they should respect
How long I've been posting round here

All of the nights
Why did the new mod have to pick last night
To scold me
Doesn't it matter
That I have to say things,
I have feelings to shaaaaare
He tells me in his new-mod voice
[C'mon user, cut it out with the noise]
Time it goes so fast
When you're on a comment run...

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:52:34 -0800

I would watch that music video.

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:51:13 -0800

I would pay money for that music video.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:13:34 -0800

goodnewsfortheinsane + lobstermitten = best futurama episode evar

By: SpacemanStix

SpacemanStix — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:52:38 -0800

I am very pleased with this selection. Congrats!

By: a humble nudibranch

a humble nudibranch — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:23:33 -0800

Groovin on yer lyrics, Weird Al ocherdraco a la The Bangles!

By: ocherdraco

ocherdraco — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:31:12 -0800

Perhaps you might also enjoy my previous MeFi parody song: "Best of the Web" (to the tune of "Baby Got Back").

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:41:45 -0800

I would pay money for that music video.

AHEM

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 22:07:02 -0800

Thanks otherdraco for the literal laughs out loud, and for the record, my answer to "Perhaps you might enjoy [x] (to the tune of "Baby Got Back") is probably always "yes."

By: rmd1023

rmd1023 — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 04:23:00 -0800

WOOHOO! Congrats to new mods! Welcome aboard. I'll try not to have a flame-out in your honor any time soon.

By: the man of twists and turns

the man of twists and turns — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 02:18:39 -0800

On The Demand For Referees

And of course the Web, already a mine of information to dwarf, if not exactly to overshadow, the libraries of the world, is becoming the source of an enormous amount of collaborative filtering and old-fashioned refereeing, loosely connected to all the rest.

By: FauxScot

FauxScot — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:55:19 -0800

metafilter has mods?

By: rangefinder 1.4

rangefinder 1.4 — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 14:04:26 -0800

Congrats, LobsterMitten and goodnewsfortheinsane! And thanks to mathowie for hiring additional support for the mod team and the MeFi community in general.

By: cashman

cashman — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 23:09:21 -0800

Super late pass here, but congrats to goodnewsfortheinsane and LobsterMitten!

By: dr_dank

dr_dank — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:30:44 -0800

That's the last time I submit a resume written entirely in Klingon.