sorry to hear that roc

Whoever we get will do a worse job than you so this is unfortunate. I think you found just the right line between doing nothing and doing just a little bit that will be hard to replicate.

Some check with ecriture to see if his offer is still on the table.

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...8&postcount=16

I said it before but I don't think moderation is necessary for a forum of this size, death threats, spam and donkey porn aside.

Some amount of tone policing is necessary as not everyone wants to play nice-- it just needs to be limited.

Why have exceptions for donkey porn or death threats?

I suspect that we are about to put your hypothesis to the test.

Good luck Rocco

No moderation will kill this. You'll end up with only **** posters because the non-**** ones will just leave.

This is his goal.

This is which person's goal?

You're a notorious ban-luster but even you should admit that since browser fell on his keyboard there's been very little "trouble" here, and some was caused by moderation itself.

threads were fine

bowser starts becoming the niceness enforcer, it's generally applauded and very well received

bowser continues to keep enforcing, getting more and more draconian, laid out the code of bowser (which was always changing)

threads died down a little, a lot of people who only post here to insult others got a little bit cautious

people discovered the loopholes and arbitrary nature of what bowser considered above board or not and began exploiting those for full effect while trying to bait others into crossing the lines bowser drew in the sand

bowser retires, the game can't be played anymore, so people magically go back to good faithed posting again



amazing how civil the threads got once the incentive to try to bait people into bans went poof

I think Trolly imagines that there are people on this forum actively engaged in nefarious conspiracies to subvert its orderly operation. I would love to know what he imagines their motives to be.

lol Rococo says he is leaving and rick seizes the opportunity for yet another rant about browser

Well put.

They just want to smear dogshit on the walls, it's not what I would call a "nefarious conspiracy."

Rococo NOOOOO.



Somebody needs to find our lawyer friend, lock him in a room, and make him keep moderating, Jesse Pinkman style. It's for the greater good.

I would mod exactly like rococco. Well I proly woulda banned me and Mets and rafki for a few hours. We were out of control!

I'm still curious about the answer to this question.

Victor for mod! I figure within fifteen minutes of it happening, this place would look something like the Ravenholm level from Half Life 2, or maybe the movie ALIVE after the plane crash. Sure, it would be barren and horrifying, but don't you remember how exciting they were?

it's crucial we don't repeat our old mistakes

bowser started out very popular but he refused to adjust and banned anyone giving feedback for a week

it's far better to get a mod who puts in zero work than one which spends the amount of time he did in order to fix problems that didn't exist (how many hundreds of posts did he move each week so things would be in the appropriate thread? do you not recall his constant complaining of people chatting - yelling at people for "intervening in private conversations" - yes, that's 100% correct, if two posters were having a back and forth he'd delete the posts of others who chimed in to maintain it as "a private conversation as intended")

no mod is better than an ideological one who has a firm stance of how the "forum should be" rather than accepting it for what it is - nobody is here for someone else's vision, they are here for what it is currently and it's important that muture moderators understand this

i like the guy a lot personally, but we can't ever repeat that again

Try the Upper East Side.

Throw your hat into the ring bro. I'd vote Donk.

uke, i know with your world view where everything is either good or evil this is hard to jive with, but that wasn't intended at all as an attack on bowser, it's out of concern of letting it happen again and we should take precautions against that

the place has been 100% better in the wild wild west era since he stepped down, perhaps it needs a mod long term, perhaps rococo did tons of stuff behind the scenes i never witnessed, but we're 100% better off with no mod than with an overreaching and subjective one