• How often are you on reddit in an average week?

Every day. Working from home it's easy to keep an eye on my modmail, spam and report queues during the day and evening (UTC+2).

• How often do you visit /r/europe?

I read submissions and comments through my frontpage every day, visiting the subreddit itself when something significant occurs to find all relevant discussions. But I'm more of a lurker than commenter these days. Very much part of my daily reddit consumption though.

What country are you normally resident in?

• the Netherlands.

Do you speak any languages besides English? (If yes: which and to what level?)

• fluent in Dutch, English, German, with reading comprehension of French and Danish. I guess Latin isn't relevant here until we're doing the pope's AMA. That's the day I'll shine then.

What interests you about Europe?

• I think the unification of europe one of the most fascinating contemporary political achievements. The fact that we can simply move wherever we want to live and work within the EU, freedom and liberty for all europeans, is not something to think lightly of. I love travelling around this continent, seeing what's unique about each country despite being so unified. We're all so unique still. Love Italy... <3

What are your favourite and least favourite things about /r/europe?

• My favourite part of the subreddit is when there's a good variety of topics: politics, news, culture, opinion. My least favourite days are those with heavy topic-flooding, leading to repetitive links and comment threads. Good moderation should make sure not one person or one topic manages to dominate the frontpage. After MH17 I saw certain users dump dozens of russian links per hour, something that should have been stopped by the mods, doing quality management: don't flood. Reddiquette too.

Do you have experience as a moderator or similar?

• Yep, mod for /r/travel and /r/theNetherlands as most active subs (210k and 55k respectively)

Why do you want to be a moderator?

• I enjoy keeping subreddits clean of spam, without duplicate posts and repetitive and low-effort questions, and not allowing discussions to derail in personal attacks. That means no trolling, swearing, shitcommenting. Keep it civil and on-topic.

Why do you think you would be a good moderator?

• Because I'm honest with people. When I remove something, I explain. When I ban them hard, I tell why.

Do you have any expirience with statistics, datamining or reddit bots?

• I'm fluent in automod. For the rest, no idea. I'll ask my grandmother though, she's got a datamining bot I think.

What is your opinion on the immigration megathread? What do you think went wrong (if anything)?

• The problem was obvious, but the solution inadequate. Unless you have enough people to constantly update the thread, it's clear that users felt submissions were not given a chance to be discussed. A link flair/filter system on top of active moderation against flooding ('Please add this link as comment to the existing discussion [here] instead of making a new post') could have avoided some of the problems maybe. That's at least what we do in our national sub to avoid topic flooding when something's 'hot'.

What's one weakness you have?

• My intolerance for the fcking Dutch.

Would you rather fight one horse sized duck or one hundred duck sized horses?

• I'd start peace talks.

What single word connects all of these three of the following words: Europe, Pussy Cat, Teacher? Explain why Good luck!

• That's Erasmus. Self-explanatory.