Community Service: Vote on a new mod - Lemmy.world

In the spirit of Lemmy/federation giving more power to the users. I want to let the users of this community vote on our first candidate for a new mod. This is a little risky because there has not been much time for community to form, but I think its a chance to set a good precedence. # Voter information The candidate for a new mod: lemmy.world/u/forkball [lemmy.world/u/forkball] My arguments for adding them as a mod: - Assuming its the same person, reddit.com/u/forkball [http://reddit.com/u/forkball] was an active reddit user since 2011. And from briefly scanning their history on reddit and Lemmy, they seem like a good level headed person. I think they would be a good mod, but the voice of the community is what matters. - I have no mod experience and was always a complete reddit lurker, so it would be good to have a very active community member as a mod. My arguments for not adding them: - Y’all are chill and not causing a lot of work for me. So at this instant I can handle the work load. Not sure how long that will last though. # How to place a vote I hope to avoid bots so voting will take some effort. To place a vote you must comment on this post (I wont count nested comments). Your comment must begin with “YES:” or “NO:” followed by no less than 4 words justifying your vote. Votes must be submitted before June 29 at 06:00 UTC. If we have more YES votes than NO votes, u/forkball will become a mod. Here are examples of valid voting comments: “YES: because forkball both showers and thinks!” “NO: because they didn’t give me an up doot” # Fineprint Lemmy and moderating is still new to me so if this ends up being a really dumb move on my part for some reason I cannot foresee, I reserve the right to bail on this idea and try another method for community input. Things would need to get really nuts for me to bail on this vote. I don’t expect a huge number of votes, but if im wrong, it may take some time to tally the votes. # Edits - It seems implied, but only one vote per username. Feel free to report duplicates. I will also try to publish the counted votes so people can validate my tally.