For the avoidance of doubt, I was indeed jesting. In fact, to paraphrase Groucho Marx, I'm not even sure I'd want to post on a forum that would have me as a moderator.

But if we're going to conscript unwilling mods, I vote Rococo.

Now that that is cleared up, I say we give d2 the P&S modship. Whatcha say, Bobo?

Perhaps it was the obvious joking d2 distracting things, but I didn't get the impression anyone from "admin" was actively soliciting someone from the community to step forward. A model I use in my professional life for choosing representative leadership is to solicit nominations, that is generating a list of people to go and cajole and see if any of them are interested. It sounds like ganstaman might be the only such person right now and probably needs a PM to see if he can be arm twisted, but there might well be more than that!

All joking aside, I thought Tuma's manifesto was great! Why not just give him a shot? He's keen, which is not going to be all that easy to find, IMO.

Hahahha. Equalizer's back! And it looks like I have his support.

I suggest add Tuma, D2, Lucky and viktor as mods. Toss in washoe when he is done his latest self ban thing. Hey, if nothing else it would be a fun time while it lasted! Also, being serious for a change, Bobo would be a most excellent mod, but in no reality should he ever take on this unpaid burden.

Not sure how to put this, but good chance the people that overpaid for this site for funsies from Mason have no idea this forum even exists. Probably best for this forum to continue that that does not change... Also being serious, I agree with d2 that Tuma seemed genuine. Give him a shot as long as he will never talk about Big Cartography.

3 of the 4 wouldn't ban anyone. One of them would ban anyone who doesn't regurgitate NYT headlines. You may as well go to UP.

Do you think the primary function of a forum moderator is to ban posters?

I am a product of my environment

Admins can ban posters. It only takes a couple of clicks. Moderators do a fair bit more than just that, especially on a forum like this one.

I'd prefer that a mod not ban people unless they are clearly over the line. That goes for deleting posts as well. I think this place is better with Lagtight, Washoe, Cuepee, and the rest. There are basically a dozen people or so that post here; do we really want to be banning what's left?

Cuepee isn't banned he just left, Washoe self banned and it's probably been a month but he'll be back.

And yeah I wish Lagtight would be allowed back.

oh ya someone should tell cuepee he can come back and accuse me of gaslighting every other post again!

Ya I don’t pay attention to this at all but my default was that buying the forum was silly and the early messaging (wasn’t there something about AI moderation?) indicated little awareness of anything. But then almost nothing changed so I stopped caring.

I say bring him back, but that word is forbidden.

Don't get me wrong, btw. My eyes glossed over and I scrolled past whenever I saw Cuepee post. Washoe is one of the most bizarre posters in any forum, anywhere. BUT, they still bring a certain charm to what is now a small forum. I think we want to try to keep posters here instead of having them go to Reddit or wherever everybody has gone in the last few years.

I personally would prefer less homophobia, but that’s just me.

No post was equalized that is not common to mang

I'm onboard with the less snark. uh

Let's also reimplement the gulag of containment before temp bans. The heart of the law should be mercy

Sorry, I was serious and almost PM'ed you, but then I wanted to give it a week and see how busy I felt. I'm not sure I'd really have the time to do this right. If that's not a requirement then I'll reconsider.

No worries at all, and I appreciate the honest reflection. In an ideal world, we'd bring on 2-3 people and that way all the weight wouldn't fall on one person if they got busy, so don't rule yourself out.

Appreciate the feedback; there has been a little shoulder tapping going on. It's definitely a huge part of my professional life as well.

Better to just have one mod to reduce the chance that some of them are awful.

Well I can not recall any homophobic posts? You may question if some posts were transphobic at best.

I think anyone that does the moderator job is up for a challenge . You have to balance what is trolling and what isn't. And you will need to deal with one poster that will complain about pretty much anything you do. Browser had to deal with that. Than you have to deal with temp bans and permanent bans.


Anyone can be a moderator I am just not sure anyone wants it. Ganstaman sounds like a suitable candidate

Heeks out. it's summertime. that's hot

Don't make me pin my yarmulke back