Yea @imaqtpie, Yea @annegreen, Yea @Seraph089.

From account history they have good engagement.

Nay @Apytele, Nay @sweetholymosiah.

Limited engagement. Can't really comment on them yet.

Nay @goat, Nay @difficult_bit_1339.

Actively enshittening Agora and flame warring since its inception. @goat is evidently some manner of troll and "controversy" isn't a selling point for moderation. This is an alt for his burggit account; he's butted heads with admins over there because not allowing gore isn't "free".

@[email protected]

Hey, it’s me! For what it’s worth, I’m excited to see this community grow and would be happy to be a part of the mod team helping guide it. Either way, I’m looking forward to seeing what’s next for this community. I don’t have a lot of experience with online moderation, but I do a lot of conflict resolution and strategy, which I feel are valuable skills for a moderator. If you choose me for a mod, I commit to helping make sure this instance and this community hold to their original vision of being friendly, chill, and democratic. I feel like I’ve already been able to bring some valuable contributions to the table, like the idea to use the [vote] format, and I believe I’ve got a lot more to offer the community. Thanks!

imaqtpie

My first order of business would be developing a more organized way of voting here. No offense to TheDude, he's got a lot on his plate.

(Limiting the vote to 1 person and not allowing us to rank is severly limiting, especially for a consensus-based community decision making system as what I remember being described in the post that announced the creation of the Agora.)

@[email protected] I support, while Goat's method of engagement I think is fine for a member of the community but isn't mod-material. Not a chill dude, and seeing how people have reacted to him already he would be starting from a position of adversity with too much of the community.

Seraph089

Of course I'll vote for myself, but I'm happy to see that it's a close race. Win or lose, I'll be here trying my best to help our budding democracy flourish.

Vote: imaqtpie

Additional commentary: goat in particular seems based on activity to be trolling/sealioning/derailing discussions

annegreen

Hard to pick...do you go purely off engagement? The fact some actually Moderate something already? Computer knowledge? Vibes?

I'll do a bit of everything and go Apytele

@[email protected]

Let's go feral, but be flaky about it.

Aye @iamqtpie, aye @annegreen aye @Seraph089

Difficult_Bit_1339

I read a few profiles, i like this one more: @[email protected]

that's my vote

imaqtpie

@[email protected]

annegreen

Hard to choose between seraph089 and apytele. Both active in the Agora (an important qualification), both with well thought-out comments there that I think show they're putting real serious thought into the community...

I flipped a coin between them, it said @[email protected].

EDIT: Just went more seriously through Difficult_Bit_1339's comment history, should have been a d3 :P Plenty of votes for them though, so I'll stick with my vote.

EDIT2: Oh, I'm dumb, should probably do my vote as a separate comment so it's easier to count.

@[email protected] gets my vote. Though @Difficult_[email protected] is a really close second, wish we could vote for more than one candidate.

@[email protected] is my vote.

@[email protected]

@[email protected]

imaqtpie

Is my vote

@Difficult_[email protected]

If I could vote for more, I'd also vote for imaqtpie and annegreen.

My vote @[email protected]