Title: Moderator_nomination___Pooja_Ranjan
Category: Magicians

Author: Nixo
Date: 2025-04-29T17:49:09.590Z

Ethereum Magicians currently has just one moderator (@abcoathup) - he does it extremely well but I think the forum could use multiple moderators.
I’d like to nominate @poojaranjan of the Ethereum Cat Herders as a moderator - she’s been highly engaged with all things core development and Ethereum Magicians for more than 6 years now. She’s got a broad view on ACD, breakouts, and all the different venues where research and implementation in ethereum is discussed.
I’m looking for any opposition rather than a strong showing of approval to ensure that a quiet forum doesn’t hinder progress on bringing more activity and transparency to the forum. Absent any opposition, I’ll plan on reaching out to admins beginning May 8 to encourage them to add Pooja as a moderator.
If there’s any opposition to the nomination itself or opposition to this timeline, for any reason, please voice it in the comments.

Author: abcoathup
Date: 2025-04-30T00:21:45.459Z

General mod nomination
We need more moderators for Eth Magicians, I voiced this recently: (# [call for action] EthMagicians Council returns to EthCC - #2 by abcoathup).  We also need community buy in for style of moderation.
We also need more transparency on control of the forum & associated social media.
Mod candidates would ideally be regulars (Discourse sets this automatically: Understanding Discourse Trust Levels).
Mod candidates would ideally self nominate with why they want to be mods and how much time they can provide.  (In my case I begged for permission to be able to hide crypto recovery spam)

Pooja mod nomination
I support the nomination & timeline.
Tagging the admins if they wish to share a public view: @nicocsgy, @matt, @jpitts, @anett & @ElasticRoentgen
@poojaranjan moderates/assists with multiple Protocol Calls & happenings and the EIP improvement process, plus interviewing EIPs & ERCs authors.  She leads Ethereum Cat Herders and is a member of the Protocol Guild.
Given the main focus of the forum is protocol calls and EIPs/RIPs/ERCs, she would make a good candidate for a moderator.
Pooja is not yet an Eth Magicians regular.  If we had more moderators, I would suggest helping Pooja to get to regular status (or manually bumping her) so that she can help improve the forum from that level first before elevating her to a mod.  Given that there is only one mod, then we should skip this step.
Checking the stats for the last quarter shows that Pooja is a regular visitor, though would ideally read more topics.
https://ethereum-magicians.org/u?order=days_visited&period=quarterly
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Author: kdenhartog
Date: 2025-04-30T07:18:50.824Z

++ to more mods and ++ to @poojaranjan. She’s demonstrated her commitment to the community with ECH and I believe she’d be a great steward of ETH magicians too.

Author: bumblefudge
Date: 2025-04-30T14:28:35.935Z

Wait I thought I was a mod? Shortly after becoming a mod, I lost the client that was funding my eth research so I became less of a regular.  In any case, Pooja is more regular, more qualified, and more reliable than me, so I support her moderator privileges even if this thread costs me mine

Author: Nixo
Date: 2025-05-01T12:32:52.309Z

Looks like you’re a mod of the web category! This is a nomination for a site-wide mod 
Listed here: About - Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians

Author: nicocsgy
Date: 2025-05-03T01:52:29.358Z

Yo,
I think you were indeed given category mod with @ulerdogan following this convo Call for contributions - Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians - #10 by nicocsgy and we didn’t revisit this. FWIW I’d nominate you both for full mods. No obligation or anything there hasn’t been much activity outside protocol calls to be honest, so I think you are doing great @bumblefudge .
I would like to use this post share some appreciation for @abcoathup & @poojaranjan who are amazing contributors