Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4403232-20131128044105

The Nomination page for Chat Moderators has now been opened. Currently the criteria for someone to be eligible for being nominated for Chat Moderator is as follows: Once a proposal is made, users are expected to either vote in Support or Opposition on the page, and include reasoning for their vote. The voting process will be mainly democratic, with votes being counted by Administration once the voting period has ended. Sockpuppet votes, votes without an included reasoning, and other non-proper votes will not be included by Administration. However, votes will not be discredited because of a difference in opinion. To clarify, while this does mean that Administration may remove votes with sound reasoning to do so, they are not doing so out of their opinion or in an attempt to make the vote "fixed". While this should not be a significant issue in the future, I feel that it is important to be transparent with the potential procedures. Votes or nominations that simply are not formatted correctly (such as being bolded or being indented) will will be fixed, so do not fear if your vote or nomination doesn't match formatting perfectly.
 * Be a member of the wiki for at least 4 months.
 * Be fairly active on chat.
 * No bans from chat exceeding one day in the last month.

Currently there is not a specific length set for the amount of time a nomination is open for voting. As a general rule of thumb, votes that have a large majority (such as a user getting nearly all support, or nearly all oppose) will likely be open for a shorter period of time, and highly contested votes with active discussions will be open for a longer period of time.

Finally, no, you cannot nominate yourself. We ask that you do not ask another user to nominate you, but we cannot prove that a user has done so. Nominations and votes are to be conducted on the page linked above, so don't make a nomination here, as it will not be counted. 