The Editor Applications Thread

[Goldenboko]

In the year 2008 Loony BoB posted a graphic that would live in infamy here at EoFF. The graphic showed a clear decline in the posts per month here and this forum was labeled as "dying" ever since. Some of us however have other plans . In 2011, after some Site Staff reorganization, the Editing and Developing Team was born and the Staff of EoFF was unified. 2012 saw the shaping of the editing team as we know it now, with the additions of Freya (brought on in June 2012), Jiro (who has come and gone from our ranks god bless his heart), myself and millegoesbeep (September 2012). While we've had a lot of events and activity pushes that contributed to this, the new and improved editing team certainly played a major part, in both increasing activity in general, and rekindling the interest in discussing Final Fantasy with fast news reporting and many inspiring feature topics!

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So with that introduction, it should be clear why the editing staff is hiring! However, this process will be quite different from the previous applications. With a stable editing staff now in place, we were able to put together a list of expectations on what editing should be doing.

Over a period of 6 months, editors should post any combination of:

• 15 News Articles
  OR
• 10 Feature Articles
  OR
• 5 Content Pages

This is a ratio of 3:2:1. That means 9 features and 2 news articles is the same as 10 features or 1 content page and 12 news articles. Hopefully you all are following me. Importantly, the editors are a team. These are just general expectations. We'll be making hirings for specific jobs. I'm a news and content organizer, not a feature one. For example, we will be looking for people to put specifically as content editors to help get the frontsite up to snuff. There's been a lot of discussion about hiring in staff, everyone's got a chance, so don't let any pre-application doubts stop you from applying.

So you want to apply?

Mognet Message (Private Message) me with the following:

Previous Experience: Done any News or Content work here or anywhere else? List it here.
Final Fantasies You've Played: This is more important than you think. We'll be looking for content editors, playing Final Fantasies will help with that data gathering. Don't forget any game! Spinoffs included!
Do you know HTML: Would you be willing to learn? Other programming experience list here too.
Misc.: Why do you want to be an editor? Got any big ideas? Etc. Etc.


Again though, apply through MOGNET MESSAGE. (Private Message) Not in this thread. Applications and all that proceed them are private. Applications close 10 days from the start of this thread, staff deliberations will continue some time after that. So what to do with this thread? Discuss not only the above graph that shows a promising trend here, but the ones below as well, showing our best year of growth since 2005-2006.

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There are so many of you that I would love to work with, I hope we get a lot of applications. Our staff will also be using this thread to discuss why they love being an editor.

There is no one reason why I do as much as I do here at EoFF. It's a collage of reasons that overlap in some areas and not in others. Part of the reason I work hard here is the affect it's hard on my life, some of my closest friends have come from EoFF. It's not because I'm some type of person that's too afraid of my own shadow to socialize in public. I've just found that people I've found myself to be good enough friends with to go to in times of need have come from here. EoFF is also where I had my first dabble with programming which would become a mainstay in the career path I've chosen. Knowing how important EoFF was to me when I was young makes it so I want it to be around for others to share in the experience.

Other than that, I do enjoy much of what I do. I was criticized pretty heavily during the CK Competition for believing in applying too many business strategies and terms to EoFF, but I don't think I'd ever find myself texting a coworker "Yo Kaycee getting too drunk tonight to type anything cover for me?". Indeed I still believe in many of the business values I've been trying to strive for when working for EoFF, consistency, accountability. My time working here has only felt like fun though, between being a crazy belligerent bug in the Staff Forum (new editors, prepare for MORE DRUNK GOBO!), or being able to plan with other members of staff that are just as passionate as I am (if not more so). Lastly, the feeling of accomplishment as I go along definitely fuels me. Whether it's the big team stuff I'm not solely responsible for, such as knowing that my contributions to the FF Ciddies helped us get mentioned on SE's site, or the small personal victories such as typing a page, coding it, and knowing that's on the interwebz because of me, I feel very proud of what I get to accomplish as a member of the editing Staff of EoFF.

[Loony BoB]

Personal opinion: I just want to stress that this is definitely something to go for if you want to join the EoFF staff. With editors becoming more prominent in EoFF's future and the new merged staff, it's less and less likely that we'll be getting new Cid's Knights as often in the future as we have done in the past. We often hired Cid's Knights despite not having any real problems with moderation. This was purely in the interest in getting fresh faces and opinions in the staff forum, but now that we get so many fresh faces through the editor team I (personally) get the impression that we'll not be hiring new forums staff as often. What we do need to keep EoFF growing are a lot of great members and a strong editor team.

The editors we have hired in recent months have done an outstanding job in pushing themselves for the frontsite but we want to grow and they are already doing more than a fair amount of work between them. We need a lot more members of staff in order to truly develop EoFF into the site that we want it to be. The goals we have are ambitious but as an individual you shouldn't be asked to do any more than a fair amount of work to retain your title, and you will gain a massive number of what many of you might see as perks. Being able to help manage the site, the community, the chatroom and the future of all three. Perhaps you'll end up communicating with Square-Enix directly in time, who knows?

EoFF is definitely on the rise and this is your time to become one of the major players over the coming months and years. I hope the best of you apply and give it your best if you get accepted!

[Shorty]

Good luck to all the applicants! I look forward to seing you climb over eachother's heads for the amusement of staff.

[Freya]

Why I enjoy being an editor? Cause it's fun! This place has been in my life for going on 9 years this year. (I'm almost to 10! Woo!) I've had people I've met here stay in my life longer than people I know outside of this place. If you want to think of that as sad then don't. I've taken an active part of this community for years and was lucky enough to actually help contribute this past year when they added me to staff. I was able to help out the place I loved, the place I kept returning to. That's satisfying.

Before in this place, if you wanted to make an impact you had to be a CK, or a popular member or an oldbie. We're working hard to change that. We know a lot of you love EoFF just as much as we do, if not more. With our expansion of the site contribution section we've made the start of the move to have regular members like you actually contribute and help this website. You actually have an impact. It wasn't like that before! You could post on the forums, have thoughtful discussions, create pretty pictures, but you couldn't just have something posted to the frontsite, have something directly posted and presented to represent EoFF. We've changed that! I think that has helped EoFF more than some realize! It's no longer a inclusive pack, we are constantly working with members to help contribute. I don't think this place has ever been this inclusive!

I love working for the editor staff because I want this place to thrive. It's been my home for a long time. I've enjoyed my time here and will continue to do so. If I can do anything to help it grow and flourish then I will do so. I want others to love and enjoy EoFF as much as I have. With every article I post, with every member I encourage, with every event i'm involved in, with every discussion about this place in staff I have, my excitement grows. I've been chatting with a few people lately about some of the things we might be able to do and that has me on a "I LOVE EOFF" high right now. I'm sure i'm kind of annoying staff with it lately haha.

The thing is though that currently it's only a small handful of us being able to work on the frontsite. We want to change that. We want to be able to have more than just a handful of people creating content in tandem with staff. We love member contribution but we'd love to have some more people to work with on actual staff. Unifying the two staffs have proven to be successful and we are constantly in discussions on how to improve this place. We feel by using our master ball on a few of you we'll be able to defeat the elite four that is known as EoFF's "dying" stage! Look what we've done so far! LOOK AT DEM CHARTS! As a staff we've worked hard with members like yourself reading this, to bring EoFF back into a new golden age. We can only grow from here.

So don't worry if you think you might not make it, we are looking for people to surprise us. We want to find those hidden gems of excitement. We want you to want to be on eoff staff ^_^ So send in your mognet message because then you too can deal with drunk gobo texts!

[escobert]

I charge $50 an hour.

[Goldenboko]

We want you to want to be on eoff staff ^_^ So send in your mognet message because then you too can deal with drunk gobo texts!

Disclaimer, drunk GoBo texts are not a requirement to being on staff.

[Freya]

Only if you give him your phone number. Seriously though Gobo and I text but it's almost always about eoff business xD Sad because he's drunk a lot. It's a weird working relationship we have. "I'm too drunk to get my article up tonight so you need to do it" "i'm at a party" "i am too drunk" "it's a party at my own house!" "DO IT!" "ughhhhhhh" That's happened. And I did get the article up. Left my own party.

[Goldenboko]

If you were capable of sitting in front of a computer, you were considerably less drunk than me.

[Rantz]

The best part of being an editor is all the chicks you pull.

[Freya]

I have pulled so many chicks, you don't even know guys. YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW.

[Formalhaut]

I never knew EoFF was in decline! It seems so popular and lively now.

Updates: Shouldn't this be stickied?

[Aulayna]

I threw caution to the wind and applied. What's the worst that could happen right? I mean they could say no and I'll then drown in the stench of my self-worth being corroded in a broiling cesspit of depression... I mean... I'll take it on the chin and move on.

[Goldenboko]

I edited Formalhaut's post because I'm a rascal!

[Freya]

Eee already getting some applications ^_^ I'm excited to see who wants to work with us. Even if we don't choose you I will know who's willing to help out!

[Pike]

Our staff will also be using this thread to discuss why they love being an editor.

My job as an editor is somewhat special compared to the "usual" editor position. Namely, I'm in charge of social media. When you see the EoFF Facebook update, it was probably me doing it. When you see the Twitter auto-tweet, it's because I set it up to auto-tweet, and when you see a non-auto-tweet, it was probably me!

Fun fact: I got on staff by volunteering. I posted a thread in private feedback saying "Hey guys, I'm on Twitter a lot, do you need a hand with that?" As it turns out, they were hiring editors at the time and instead of the "Thank you but no" that I was expecting, I was lobbed a staff offer! I was made an Editor a few days after that, and then a CK about a month after that.

Why did I volunteer in the first place? Because I love EoFF, of course! There are a lot of forums out there-- not as many as there used to be, for sure, but still a lot-- but EoFF has got a special flavor to it. Some of you guys have been my friends for years, and I wanted to give back to the community by trying to contribute through something that I am good at and knowledgeable about.

So yeah being staff is pretty great. Also you get to watch Paul and Murd mud wrestle every Sunday in the staff forum