Im guessing I cant just request to be one, but the VOLUNTEER part confuses me?
Im guessing I cant just request to be one, but the VOLUNTEER part confuses me?
While the "Volunteer" part of "Volunteer Spam Task Force" is indeed misleading, one cannot simply ask to be a member. You can read this page detailing what the VSTF looks for in a potential member
The volunteer part refers to the fact that while you have to be invited to this group, you are a volunteer in the sense that it is an unpaid "position". You receive some extra tools to help fight spam and vandalism across fandom, but you are not part of the company, so you don't get paid, you don't have office hours, you don't have deadlines, etc. You do what you can when you can.
There's a better explanation, thank you Lady Lostris. However in my opinion, the misleading part of that is the distinction between using "volunteer" as either a noun or a verb. At first glance, it looks as though anyone can "volunteer" to be a part of the group, but I digress, I can be a bit nit-picky
Well, everyone can be in the sense that while not everyone has the tools to block and efficiently clean the spam and vandalism, everyone can help out by finding and reporting spam and vandalism :-)