Ethereum Magicians currently has just one moderator (@abcoathup) - he does it extremely well but I think the forum could use multiple moderators.
I’d like to nominate @poojaranjan of the Ethereum Cat Herders as a moderator - she’s been highly engaged with all things core development and Ethereum Magicians for more than 6 years now. She’s got a broad view on ACD, breakouts, and all the different venues where research and implementation in ethereum is discussed.
I’m looking for any opposition rather than a strong showing of approval to ensure that a quiet forum doesn’t hinder progress on bringing more activity and transparency to the forum. Absent any opposition, I’ll plan on reaching out to admins beginning May 8 to encourage them to add Pooja as a moderator.
If there’s any opposition to the nomination itself or opposition to this timeline, for any reason, please voice it in the comments.
Mod candidates would ideally self nominate with why they want to be mods and how much time they can provide. (In my case I begged for permission to be able to hide crypto recovery spam)
Given the main focus of the forum is protocol calls and EIPs/RIPs/ERCs, she would make a good candidate for a moderator.
Pooja is not yet an Eth Magicians regular. If we had more moderators, I would suggest helping Pooja to get to regular status (or manually bumping her) so that she can help improve the forum from that level first before elevating her to a mod. Given that there is only one mod, then we should skip this step.
Checking the stats for the last quarter shows that Pooja is a regular visitor, though would ideally read more topics.
++ to more mods and ++ to @poojaranjan. She’s demonstrated her commitment to the community with ECH and I believe she’d be a great steward of ETH magicians too.
Wait I thought I was a mod? Shortly after becoming a mod, I lost the client that was funding my eth research so I became less of a regular. In any case, Pooja is more regular, more qualified, and more reliable than me, so I support her moderator privileges even if this thread costs me mine
