Call for /r/Economics Moderators

/r/Economics is the largest economics community on Reddit with over 800k subscribers. However, that size brings its own challenges in terms of moderation. Our rules do a good job of increasing the quality of the subreddit when they are applied, but our mod team is too small to consistently apply them.

That's where you come in. More consistent enforcement of Rule II (for deleting off-topic threads) and Rule VI (for off-topic comments, anecdotes, political comments, etc.) will increase the quality of /r/economics discussion. We need more mods to fill the gap.

What do moderators do?

• Ruthlessly enforce our rules. Remove off-topic posts. Nuke comment threads. Ban Nazis.

• Answer questions in modmail, communicate our rules to /r/economics users

• Coordinate with the /r/badeconomics and /r/askeconomics mods.

• Cool projects to make the subreddit a better place. This could include dedicated threads to current events, expanding the FAQ, restarting journal day or article of the week, ect...

What are we looking for?

1. History of well-written comments and consistent engagement in any of the REN subs (/r/economics, /r/askeconomics, /r/badeconomics, as well as a mature behavior on Reddit as a whole. The number one reason we have rejected candidates is they have very little history in any of the economics subs. In our experience moderators without ties to one of the REN subs tend to quit moderating after a week or two.

2. Interest in economics and evidence of a decent knowledge in the subject. We're not looking for subject matter experts, just a passion for the subject, and an ability to distinguish links that are good for /r/economics from those that really should be in /r/politics, /r/investing, or /r/business.

3. Ample time to devote to moderating. We recognize that mods have lives and don't expect that mods are constantly online. What we do expect is the ability to check in and pull weeds for 10-20 minutes a day on regular basis.

We're also particularly interested in users in European or Asian timezones.

Please leave a comment in this thread if you are interested!

Please write a few sentences about your background, time spent on Reddit and anything else which may help us evaluate your fit. Including links to a few high quality comments would also be useful.