I'll bet one of the things the mods are working hardest on is deciding what the qualifications/requirements/characteristics to be a mentor are and how to apply that to the process of picking out people. Going along with that, I have to say that, given the comment somewhere in this thread about how small the current number of mentors is, I'm a bit surprised that I was chosen.

Since a couple others mentioned how they responded to the request to be a mentor, I thought I'd share my response. I was honored to be chosen. I never had a lot of rep or a huge number of thanks and I'm not particularly highly active in any given section of the forum. But I thought about it, and I guess I have been around on the forums for a while and my post count has remained pretty steady, and I guess that counts for something.

I also wanted to say that I accepted without hesitation. From the request I recieved, it looked to me like a lot of thought had been put into the creation of the system and that a lot of thought was going into its implementation and expansion. All I really want to do is help out, I believe that the mods move the forum in a positive direction, and I'll do what I can to be on board with that effort. I don't mean to say that I'll blindly follow the mods, but it appeared that they were giving this whole thing a lot of thought so I didn't bother to.