First of all, sorry for my poor english but is not my native language.

Local sections activity highly varies depending on the country, but surely the italian one is one of the most populated, and in the last months has passed a massive growth also in terms of subsections. Although i think that Hostfat, the current moderator, is doing a good job in the reports management, i also personally think that we need an extra moderator, for two main reasons:

1) The report function in my experience is not used so much by italian users, requiring that someone (hopefully more than one person) sort manually and constantly the threads deleting obvius spam and repeated uncostructive posts. And this is surely a tedius job for one mod, that maybe isn't interested in all of the local board contents, so it's accustomed to patrol less some subsections.

2) The numbers. At the time of writing this post, italian board has >120k posts and >7k threads. French local board has less than the half of these numbers, but two moderators; Spanish board, that is almost the same as size of the italian board, has actually three mods. I think that these are good examples about the people required to properly manage a local board like the italian one.

Even though i'd like to be a moderator, i also want to link two other italian users that in my opinion are absolutely elegible for a task like this:

ziomik: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=27427
Stemby: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=18953

While i'm sure there are a lot of other good users, i vouch for them cause i know both since a long time and they have all the requirements to be good moderators.

I'm not going to do a poll because it's generally easy to manipulate, instead, i think that every italian user that agree with my opinion should post here, eventually with other suggestions (for ex. who of us should manage this task).