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[Silas]

As was explained in the other thread, the wonderful Martin (Ghosty) has decided to step back due to other commitments for a short period before deciding if he wishes to continue with the role. I would like to take this time to thank Martin for his very hard work as a member of this team, he has been a truly outstanding co-mod and it has been a genuine pleasure to work with him.

Job Title \\ Member of the Buzzjack Song Contest Veto Team

Salary \\ £0 this role is a voluntary position

About BJSC and the duties and responsibilities of the role \\ The Buzzjack Song Contest is a 5 year old contest that has just passed it's 50th contest. The role available will involve you helping to run the day to day side of the contest including approving dates and vetting entries and helping to ensure that the contest continues to be a fun way to discover new music.

Additional Responsibilities \\ The stats will be covered by me during Martin's leave of absence so you can all take a collective breath again. Although it will be expected that you will take on the role of stats mod should Martin step down.

Essential Qualifications \\ To apply for this role you have to be a member of the Buzzjack Song Contest and have participated in the contest without being banned from the contest. We also require you to be enthusiastic about making this contest the best it can be. Also, don't be dull. We work so very well as a team because we all get along very well so a sense of humour and a willingness to be chatty is pretty desirable. We are humans after all! The whole us being robots thing is just a rumour.

Duration \\ One month temporary position that may become a permanent moderator position.



To apply for this role please PM the answers to the questions below to a member of the moderating team. (It'd be helpful if you copy & pasted the questions too)


Application form:

Why do you think you are suitable for this role? (Basically: What is your genre's of choice, are you willing to keep up-to-date with the latest tracks and can you handle people saying you're shit for vetoing their hideously cheap song?)

What do you think you could bring to the role of BJSC Moderator should the position arise?

As part of this role you will be required to keep many of the things discussed within the staff forum and comments made confidential as well as the discussions regarding potential veto's. Do you foresee any issues with this? (If you do have issues with this I strongly suggest you don't hit send)

Do you have any experience with the running of a forum? If so please tell us about this. (Don't worry if you don't. We all started out without experience somewhere.)

If you wish to add anything not covered by the questions above please do tell us!!! (Basically: Why you should be chosen)



As I said yesterday, this is to be part of the veto team and assist with the day-to-day running of the contest. You will not become a moderator if selected for one of the months. This is due to the extra time it would take for the Senior Management team to vet our choices and then add and remove multiple permissions each month; the fact that this will be viewed as a one month trial run to see if you are the right fit for the team; and finally because Martin has not stepped down from his role. He will return later in the year to see if he still feels the same before either stepping down or returning. If he decides to step down, which is unfortunately looking likely, then we will recommend our preferred replacement to the senior management team based on your month as a veto team member.


I know this is already very long but I'm almost done, I promise!!!


Ideally I would like to take on up to 5 people. Each of you will be assigned one of the next five contests (LII, LIII, LIV, LV and LVI). Because of this we are going to be moving very quickly on this. You will have until 4PM GMT ON TUESDAY THE 19TH OF FEBRUARY to send a moderator your application. Late applications will not be accepted for the same reasons that showing up late for an interview basically guarantees that you will not be getting the job.


Because the Stats part is off the table for the temporary section of this role and this is pretty much just being the fourth man at the veto table for now I expect a lot of applications. I'd like to see them from people who constantly ride us over veto's, people who don't think they could do this job (push yo' self boy!), people who have applied before (100th time lucky Pavel???), people who are curious as to what the mods even do around here, people who want to better understand the veto system etc. Basically everyone. If we don't get enough good applications to fill 5 months we'll cut the number of positions available, but I'd much rather have too many so we have to score you ESC style to get our top 5.


GO GO GO!