When Pure Warfare first opened, and Karl asked me if I was interested in helping him run a community, I never expected where we would take it. As the 15th member of the forum, with not many behind me, I never expected to spend several days reading over 25 applications sent in by active and loyal users, all who sought to advance themselves in a community they enjoy. I didn't forsee that there'd be a time when our activity became so great that I would need to promote 6 users to a Moderator rank all in one night, not to mention the multiple other promotions as well.
Karl, Omni and myself butted heads over the "Moderator Applications" topic, which contained all 25 applications and a single poll question. After reading through every application, looking back on every applicant's history and attempting to consider their future, the votes were cast, our selections were explained, others were bashed, and my decisions have been made.
A decision was made that it would a rash action to toss our new staff members into the PureWarfare staff; it's quite a change from being a member of the community. Rather then a Moderator promotion, the users we selected will be given a Trial Moderator rank. This will give us time to examine our choices, teach them how the Pure Warfare staff works, explain rules and how to moderate, so on and so forth. After an undetermined amount of time, these Trial Moderators will either become a Moderator, or will be returned to a Member rank (if we determine that they are not yet up to the task). It may also be decided that a Trial Moderator will fit better in the staff as an Honored or Senior Member.
Senior Members
Drunk
Walli
Ded
MarK.
Honored Members
Chaz-
Zany (Promoted from Senior Member.)
Toby (Promoted from Senior Member.)
Coz
Trial Moderator
Sniping
Tyler
ROOT
King
Inu
SI13
Global Moderator
Anthoni (Promoted from Moderator.)
Administrator
Mark (Promoted from Global Moderator.)
Notes:
If you applied but were not promoted, feel free to contact me. The biggest reasons we looked at to not promote someone was forum behavior history, and forum rank. We did not want to promote clan leaders to a moderator rank in order to avoid any biased actions.
If you were promoted, please contact me on IRC (my nick = Jay) ASAP.