Quote Originally Posted by kekvitirae
There are certain things that severely decrease your chances of getting a position as Assistant Moderator. Such things include recieving warnings, being rude or profane, not contributing to the forum... and making threads like these.
A public request for moderatorship without understanding what a moderator does is definately no way of going about it. If you believe you want to be a moderator because you want to "lock threads" or because it's cool, you are definately not a good candidate.

To be a moderator, you must be active, mostly in the forum you want to moderate.
Make a written request to Tosa or the moderator in charge of said forum (keyword here is chain of command) via Private Message, explaining how you can contribute to the forum and why you want to be a moderator.
The more detailed you are, the better. Also, and this is the single most important factor, there has to be an opening for a new moderator. If everything is running smoothly, there is no need to add more staff. If it's not broken, dont fix it.
Lastly, being promoted from Member to Moderator is like going out with Paris Hilton and not looking like a fool. It cant happen. Almost everyone starts out as an Assistant Moderator, under the command of a Moderator. These AMs, like me, have very limited powers. We cant even edit unless it's granted to us. We are the Public Relations to the senior staff's Administration. And, again I stress, it's only when there is a need of staff.
Very well put, kekvitirae. Just one addition: it is possible to go directly from member to moderator, but usually a senior member or assitant-moderator is prefered.

Supreme Shogun, we don't need another moderator right now, but thank you for offering to help us out.