Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33668185-20181229231243/@comment-9605025-20181231002458

C.Syde65 wrote:

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Since CC is one of the top communities, I feel that Staff should pay a closer watch on who gets selected, to ensure that the people who are chosen are the ones that have extensive moderating experience, those who have not had any recent negative history with other users who frequent CCC, and those who haven't shown any signs of bias.

... Sounds good in theory, but we all know it is a lot harder to implement that than talk about it. Plus I am not convinced the "extensive moderating experience" would be as effective as it sounds. The way I see it, that would have to come from experience with another community since it is a prerequisite for gaining moderation rights on this one. That being the case, you still ideally want users that are involved with and understand this community. So in the end, you are now super limited to users who have both been involved with CC for a long time and played the role of a moderator for a long time. That doesn't exactly help regarding the issue of moderators not being around. If anything, that would make it worse because you have fewer eligible users.