General New user requesting staff position

[Tracy]

My site is not very busy as far as content generation goes. Most of the content is created by me.
I had a new user sign up today and send me a direct message, and in it they stated they were looking forward to being active on the site and wanted to know if they could be an administrator or a moderator.

My curiosity question is... have you had users like this?
To me, it's an immediate red flag. No history of where they have been staff before, no content created by them, just simply a request to be placed in a position of authority.

I was very polite and responded that due to lack of traffic, we were not currently looking to increase our staff.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I had this the other day on AAF.

A person joined, didn't post, and sent me a PM asking if we're hiring.

I said not right now. I was nice about it.

Their next reply was, "Delete my account, please."

I'm going to admit this: I felt like my time was wasted. It kind of got on my nerves, so I banned them from the forum instead and left a ban message saying that I did it because they trolled the forum.

They tried to join with another account. XF's system caught it. I then IP banned after that.

It really takes a lot most of the time to get me to ban someone, but this time, I felt it was pretty justified.

 

[cpvr]

I had this the other day on AAF.

A person joined, didn't post, and sent me a PM asking if we're hiring.

I said not right now. I was nice about it.

Their next reply was, "Delete my account, please."

I'm going to admit this: I felt like my time was wasted. It kind of got on my nerves, so I banned them from the forum instead and left a ban message saying that I did it because they trolled the forum.

They tried to join with another account. XF's system caught it. I then IP banned after that.

It really takes a lot most of the time to get me to ban someone, but this time, I felt it was pretty justified.

I completely agree with your decision. It’s unreasonable to ask for a staff position without contributing anything to the forum first. That kind of behavior does seem suspicious, and it’s not the way to earn trust or a role in the community.