Are these requirements still valid?
We look for a few things in potential moderators:
- Consistency in behavior. I don't want to give you powers and have you suddenly turn into a different person on me.
- No tendency towards cliqueishness. If you're a popular kid who runs with one small group and has a history of treating certain folks better than others, I can't assume you'll change once I give you more responsibility.
- Good judgment. If you've got a history of warnings, temp bans, topic bans, or other examples of you failing to exercise good judgment in what you say and to whom, you're pretty much disqualified.
- Maturity. Being a moderator is not fun. You will no longer be allowed to participate in normal forum discussion and can't have friends.
If you appear to be wanting to be a mod to be a "normal user plus additional coolness," that expresses you're probably not ready and/or don't understand what would be asked of you.
(Edit: You may disagree that some of those we promoted to moderator satisfy these conditions, but we don't take into consideration the opinion of other users when trying to decide.)