Plop!
This is my written candidacy to become a Room Owner.
To be honest, I'm not entirely sure what I am going to write here. A waffle recipe?
I suppose the big thing is Why? The only true answer is: Because I care, and I believe I can make a difference.
I know most of the regulars of the room, sometimes personally. Same goes for ROs. I'm not easily offended by anything, anywhere. Anytime I do a mistake, I mobilize a huge chunk of my energy and my analysis capacities to understand the situation from multiple point of views and try to figure out if I can / how to fix it.
I am active in SOCVR, the Ministry, SOCVFinder, Charcoal HQ, MSO. My main activities are vtc'ing, flagging spam, and chatting. I often remind rules to regulars - "homework is a quality issue, not a scope one", "don't pile on", "don't moderate users" etc.
Over the year and a half that I have spent in the room, I have learned a huge lot. I now want my experience, knowledge of the room and its users, and kindness to not only help others as they already do but also to serve as example.
Eat your waffles with marmelade. Home-made. Or liquid caramel.
Discuss it with the rest of the RO team.
The most interesting thing to do in that case, for everyone involved, would be to ask for explanations in comments. If someone has valid concerns, backed by evidence, that (part of) our room is turning into a voting ring we'd want to know as quickly as possible to take action. If it's just an unbacked rant, there isn't much we can do.
Basically, be open and listening about this matter.
I suppose this is in the context of Bhargav's question above, that is a jostle. Hence I get to make a list!
If it's about the Meta context of gunr's question, it's already explained above.
A Room Owner is a regular user who has been trusted with heavier room moderation tools than other users (kicks versus flags, for example). As such, they are an authority in everyday room regulation matters.
That title implies that one can be not only a voice among our community but can also have a final say (even if often temporarily so as we like discussing things) in matters that can't or shouldn't be discussed at a given time.
They also get to tend to the room with various scripts. And flirt with Closey.
this was edited once to clarify a sentence