How to find good mods for your forum?

[ablaye]

Just wondering how someone can find good moderators for their forum and what to offer them for their services.
I would like to have moderators on a forum but I don't know where to find them and what to give them in exchange for their service.

 

[Bagi Zoltán]

I not really have too much experience in your problem, but I think you need to know them for a long time personally or from the forum communities. For exchange I thing some links can be enough

 

[temi]

Ablaye,
Usually a good moderator are people who love that particular forum and would love to see it grow, like Bagi says offering the moderator a link (if its a web master or SEO forum) will be a good reward, in some forum (for example Ozami - Forums chat, blogs picture downloads - Powered by vBulletin) most moderators and admin do not own a site, they do not want any rewards, they are just doing it for the love of the site (actually I have a waiting list of people who wants to be moderators at Ozami).
If your forum is very new and does not yet have lots of active memebers, you may want to approach and experienced moderator from another forum to come and moderate for you, you will have to pay this person or in some cases recognition of some sort in the forum may be adequate.
Yet another option is to approach another forum owner in need of a moderator, offer to moderate his forum in exchange for him doing the same for you.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

Go with the gut. If there is someone on the forum who comunicates well, and helps others, then approach them. A forum is only as good as its mods/admins

 

[Bagi Zoltán]

A forum is only as good as its mods/admins

Although I haven't thought it over what makes a forum quality, I'm sure you're right. It was a very wise statement.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

As a moderator/admin, you have to put aside personalities and feelings, and deal with each matter in the best interests of the forum. If you see something that might turn bad, you Pm the parties asking them to change a post. Sometimes you have to dive right in and lock a thread, or move it, clean it up, and put it back etc. But ALWAYS doing what is best for the forum community.

The forums where the mods/admins get to up themselves soon die out.

 

[Bagi Zoltán]

Thank you for the opinion, this role is quite new for me, and think it's also a continious learning progress, like many other things in life.