To get employed, you give them a piece of paper saying why they should employ you. Then you get an interview. To be a mod, you must be extra good, never spam, never flame, never do all that stuff, be helpful, and never, EVER steal the admin's cookie jar. One mod was de-modded and banned and sued just for taking a crum.
Aaaanywhoo. Yeah, Matrix's link has most of the answers. The biggest part is to make yourself known. The good way, of course. If you do all that the helpful guidelines suggest to do, then this should be no problem. Make yourself known, get yourself noticed, and before you know it, there will be people looking in your direction.
What the helpful guidelines suggest + activity = ??
Actually, you know, to become a moderator, you have to be born under the star of moderation, which is only visible from our solar system once a year, at random dates. It has yet to be predicted when the star will be visible again, so anyone born from now on and until the 1st of January could easily become the next moderator, of course, if they also fill the other requirements, which includes the rite of Modship, that is completed naked in a row boat between two countries, during the moon eclipse, while swinging a dead cat over your head and eating a boiled catfish egg fresh from the catfish. Afterwards, you have to swim to the nearest patch of land and use your new moderator powers to summon your clothes and the row boat. If you do not succeed in summoning your clothes AND the row boat, you have been found unworthy of the ModGod, and you will live in shame forever.
Or you can just win the Way of Moderation but now it's nearly finished. Well, you can always kill an existing moderator and use his account. Or just hack AG and make yourself a mod. Or blackmail some admin, and force him to make you a mod. There are a lot of ways.
Confirming Cen's story and also adding that the problems various mods have had with completing that are occasionally funny. Strop, for instance, managed to summon his pink dress instead of his ninja outfit. That was a cold trip home.
I have to say, white christmas and then being made a mod was... Not the most fun either. And the fact you have to row out a few miles, unless you live anywhere near little islands belonging to some other country, with the ice just settling in... Denmark has never been that far away.
Nah, but we really do enjoy initiating new mods. Watch them fight the last few meters till they reach shore, and then try to use their abilities without practice or knowhow. I am a little sad our travel budget is that small, we could do with some more mods, and I want to travel more... Once is simply not enough, but I guess I will have to wait for the next user to be moded, instead. I wonder if retirement is just as bothersome...
Well, it generally is quite embarrassing. You know, if you don't get to summon it all, or summon something wrong, you will get to wear that the rest of the night when we celebrate. Then again, it helps very little when you get shoved into the water again afterwards - -
