How to find moderators for a community?
How do people go about finding moderators they trust for a community? I could find someone who posts a lot and then ask them in a private message, but maybe there is some other way. Do people mainly mod people they know personally? I kind of want to find someone who is in a completely different time zone so they would be awake when I am asleep.
Typically, especially in early communities, you just open a public post asking for moderators and come up with some level of criteria for selection. Ask them to submit an “application” through DM or publicly with their previous experience, engagement with the community (for example, if it’s a local community for a town, ask them if they live in the town, how long they have lived there, etc.), and their availability to moderate (1hr a day? Always online? Every couple days?)
In the infancy of a community, it’s more likely you’ll find people who are engaged as hobbyists or passionate about the thing, then as time goes on you run the risk of new applicants being “power hungry”.
@NAS89@lemmy.world made a good comment here. You should make a public post in your community where you need moderators. Try to specify that you need people from a different time zone that yours.
I made a post in a community and they just... Made me a moderator. Lmao. I didn't post asking to be a mod, just...posted a post.