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Originally Posted by SenorKeeed
it would be baffling if one was to assume that chez is operating in good faith.
One thing I'm convinced of is that chez is operating in good faith. I thought so before I joined the mods, and all of our interactions convinced me further.
The fundamental problem is not that chez has been dishonest about what he wants to do. There are two basic problems as I see it. The first is just that a lot of you really dislike chez. That problem is summed up pretty well by bladesman
here: "We all want chez to fail." I disagree with some of the reasons some of you have for taking this attitude, but obviously it's hard to effectively mod a forum where so many people have that attitude, justified or not.
The second problem is that there really does appear to be a disconnect between the forum the mods want to have (and I include myself) and the forum a lot of the rest of you want to have. It seems clear to me that the vision of the forum I tried to outline isn't very popular. Nor is chez's. And our ideas are pretty similar in spirit. No doubt this problem contributes to the first problem, although the first pre-exists chez being a mod here.
I don't know what the solution to those problems should be, but the problem isn't that chez is disingenuous. He was given the forum to mod and he tried to implement his view of it, while also trying to compromise on some of these issues, i.e. with the !!! threads. As he said, it wasn't his idea to end them, it was mine. It's the part where we try to make the forum what we want instead of what the majority of posters want that is causing most of the problem, imo, but that is not because chez is dishonest.