Seeking Mods (+ Explanations and Apologies)

[rarepairs_mod]

Hello everyone. As you've indubitably noticed, the administrative side of this community has been pretty much MIA off and on for the last... too many months to count. I know that there are a lot of people who really enjoy participating in this community, and who miss the days when there were several events each year, and you didn't have to wait two months for your claim to be approved. My laxness as a mod has been totally unfair to you guys, and for that, I'm really, truly sorry.

chimbomba and I (peskywhistpaw) created this community together in 2007, when we were both going to the same high school. We would talk about rarepair_shorts at least once a day, were always brainstorming event ideas and prompts, and would even spend a lunch or two on the floor of our history classroom with printouts of the fic exchange participants, trying to get assignments sorted. We did this for our last two years of high school. Things got harder when we both went off to college, however, because we suddenly found ourselves on opposite ends of the country, and discovered that our enthusiasm for the community had begun to wane. We carried on for a while, but eventually, chimbomba dropped out of fandom due to disinterest and academic demands, and I reluctantly kept the community going because it had been our baby, and neither one of us really wanted to see it go. (Plus, I'm an English major, and she's an Engineer. I get less homework.) But that means that I've been running rarepair_shorts by myself for the last two years. I was doing pretty well at first, I think, but obviously, things have deteriorated a lot.

Basically, what I'm trying to say is that I'd like to bring on a few new mods (two to three, or more, if there's a surplus of enthusiasm for the position). Technically, I'd like to still be considered a co-mod, but I would be solely in the background – more of a ghost mod than anything – in case the new mods need help coordinating anything, or would like someone to bounce ideas off of. (Though if the new mods don't feel they need me around, that's fine, too.)

So please, if you're interested, comment below. In your comment:
1. Tell me how you'd like to approach co-running the community.
2. Tell me WHY you'd like to help run this community.
3. List and briefly describe any communities you currently (help) run or have run in the past, if any.
4. Tell me how long you've been involved with this community.

To be perfectly honest, I'm looking for familiar faces, people who have been around long enough to know how this community normally functions. Obviously, I'm also looking for people who are relatively active on LiveJournal.

Comments are NOT screened, because I'd like for the potential co-mods to interact with each other in this post if at all possible. Is there a group of you that would like to work together? Are you open to working with people you don't regularly interact with? If so, feel free to chat in the comments and get to know each other before you commit to anything.

And PLEASE, if you have any questions for ME, don't hesitate to ask, whether it's about how frequently events used to occur, how much of a commitment running this community is, or whatever else you can think of. I promise I won't disappear on you until this issue is settled, and I'm more than willing to chat in the comments.

Comments

[myownmuggle.livejournal.com]

I think having three active mods would be an ideal situation. At any given time, one person could be tied up with school, work, family stuff...etc. That way there would always be two people on hand to run challenges, do day to day stuff, etc. It also would help keep things fresh creatively, I think, if we were able to bounce ideas and manage tasks as a group. Also presents an individual from getting overloaded.

What do you think?

And while it's not a rarepair, the Potterverse did have the Trio...plus we'd have peskywhistpaw as our Dumbledore!