Hello all. I was predisposed yesterday as I was hanging out with Araciel. However I was made aware of what I would have to do. So on with it!

Reading the description of the five people, I tended to associate the description of an existing CK. I confirmed this with Captain Maxx Power. However, this observation can't be really that useful -- after all, if all five descriptions describe a CK, then all five descriptions are good for the forum.

There was a possibility the descriptions described a member that used to be a CK. This is equally pointless because the reasons for picking somebody is irrelevant unless one can make an argument that a particular application type (and these are pretty general statements) are prone to failure. The way I will approach this would be to decide from my end what type of person I would best want to be a CK and go from there.

As decided, I will go with the criteria set out by CMP but I will only list the candidates that I feel are worth my time.

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Candidate one:

History:
I personally like to see veterans/regs become CKs. I don't think that the point to be made is that if you put in enough time in the forum you get a shiny medal, nor do I want to give the impression that somebody new, competent, and able should have to twiddle their thumbs for years before they get promoted either -- this is just a preference of mine.

Personality:
Candidate one is a long time member and as such has made a nice stable of friends of similar time served. Typically there's probably a cliquey friendship going on in the background, so this member will have little problem going to administrators like cl_out and Daniel. Heck they might even converse with them on a daily basis. This is pretty useful when it comes to moderation that exceeds the parameters of a CK.

Posting in the general forums has a benefit of always seeing who are newbies, and being able to keep tabs on troublemakers and people who are probably yellow flagged, so to speak.

Community Spirit:
Not having much interaction with most of the newer members does strike me as questionable, but I am not sure how much weight I should put here (feel free to discuss). Captain Maxx Power suggested that new members may feel that such CKs are elitist, and for good reason. HOWEVER moderate posting in the forum would result in less of a presence, so the negative aspect of being seen as an ogre would be lessened. There are CKs that I don't know well at all for whatever reason, and I've been here for years -- this doesn't affect my view of them in a negative way.

Activity:
Most of the forum activity does occur in the general categories and I understand those to be the most active forums.


Candidate three:

History: As stated above I prefer a member who has been around for many years. However I also didn't want to alienate new members. Regardless, a member of three years has been around much longer than it takes to be seen as a regular.

Personality: Regardless, the member has a very good history and will have many members immediately receptive of the notion of a promotion to be a CK. Since many gaming forum individuals also browse the rest of the general forums, there should be a good amount of receptive individuals. This contributes to a pleasant environment and a good go-to person to address member issues.

Activity: This individual is very active in the gaming forums, but it is not stated the person browses the specific Square/Enix video game forums (FF1-8, CT, etc). Only being active in one forum does give me pause though.

Community Spirit: Apparently doesn't participate in forum events and is low-key. These are not bad things, but could hinder visibility as well as newbie-friendliness. This is why I placed Candidate #3 lower.

Candidate five

Why one, three, but not two, four? Two seemed to be immature but had no redeeming qualities that justify the immaturity. Genuine immaturity versus facetiousness are two different things. Number four I am hesitant to say something outright as I have a strong opinion on who that description is based off of. I agree that such an individual can reform, especially if the anti-staff sentiments were facetious.

This individual is lacking in those troublesome qualities that require a specific instance where those qualities aren't really an hinderance, so I chose him/her.

History: Again, active poster for far longer than it takes to be a regular poster. After two years typically a great majority of members are aware of said individual.

Activity: Also, posting in every forum and being active in them all is indeed an amazing accomplishment. This means to me that most everybody is aware of this person and thus a promotion would result in a positive reaction throughout the forum.

Community Spirit: An active poster who has interesting, fun threads and ideas is an excellent person to maintain a positive atmosphere for new and existing members. I presume such a person would often have threads that span hundreds of replies from a variety of participants, so visibility into the forum is good. This however has the problem of perhaps too many threads and posts to keep up with.

Personality: One might get overwhelmed. This is situational in whether it's good or bad. Also this individual doesn't like confrontation. With so many good, interesting threads, confrontation is sure to arise. I tend to look for a person who is no-nonsense when it comes to approaching arguments and confrontations. A person who doesn't like confrontation is less willing to do what it takes to quell arguments.

My vote goes to Candidate one, then three, then five.