I'm a man of a few words so I'll make it brief and to the point. The SOCVR current team needs help on to shape and moderate the room, and I want to help.
- I've been around since September 2015. I was introduced to the room by durron597 right here. First message said to me in chat here. Side-note: on the very next day, I was already reporting spam...!
- Today, the FAQ has no secret from me and I do not hesitate to remind it to the chatters and link to it to new comers. That's actually a task I like to do: this room is under a lot of scrutinity and everytime I can help moderating by answering questions about the room's guidance, pointing out something to chatters or defusing a heated conversation, I feel great.
- As a Room Owner, I'll continue doing those tasks, and more: supervising burnination efforts, coaching chatters, giving feedback on a review, improving the current room guidance...
That's pretty much it: I feel I have what it takes to lead this room with our current ROs, I'm positive I can help drive the room to a better horizon and I want to do it.
@joncle
I welcome them! It's a great and positive thing for the room to have moderators as members. It shows that there can be a group of people interacting "freely" with moderators. And SOCVR is not the only room to have such privilege. Still, this is a tricky question because it raises important challenges that the room faces. Moderators were elected by the whole Stack Overflow community, RO were not. However, in the room, they are under the same set of rules as all other members.
The first important point is that never should the room take for granted having moderators around. It is a wonderful thing but the room cannot rely on that. It has to do its own moderation, and, as a result, even moderate messages posted by diamonds themselves, in accordance with the FAQ. Members of the room should also not count on moderators to take any actions regarding cv-pls or reflag-pls. It also goes without saying that never should one member face up to a moderator because of a declined flag for example.
How are others members going to interact with them? That's another tricky point: yes, they are members of the room but they also have a greater challenge and mission. This means that other members should try to avoid pinging one moderator for feedback / actions / explanation... If someone has an issue on their hands and feel it requires moderator intervention, the main vector of action is still to raise a mod-flag and not try to involve a mod currently present in the room.
Given that today, there are quite a few diamond moderators active in the room, I think such a general guidance should be written explicitely in the FAQ.