No.

So what do you think makes a good rule? Are there defining characteristics of a good rule?

It's advice.

What the Hell, no need to make things so Complicated. My Happy Ending would be for you to get a Girlfriend so you won't Keep Holding On. Don't Tell Me, When You're Gone.

I don't really get the reference, but that's a funny post!

Mmm-hmm.

As someone told you when your self-ban request was granted...

Why didn't you ban them when you were the mod?

All cows,

If my responses to your posts contain inconvenient information, I can't help you with that- as that is a 'do it yourself' type situation. Best wishes dealing with it.

They either weren't there or weren't as disruptive as they are now. I was also trying to minimize the amount of crap Mat got from PU related activity. Banning those folks would have resulted in a lot of whinge emails to Mat.

Mat, once chez is gone, please let this allcows character moderate next.

They're not doing anything now they weren't doing when you were modding it. People asked you to deal with the troublemakers you mentioned and you did squat, yet now you're backseat modding chez because he's letting the usual suspects tard up the place.

I give the chez character another few weeks. He'll finish out March and be gone by April. By the way, did you know that, in French, March is "Mars" and April is "Avril"?

wil is also a strong candidate for mod.

Unchained baby. It wasn't pretending to be a forum for people to have political discussion. At it's best it was a forum for people to post about how bad the posters in PU where. Everybody in PU got as much rope as they could handle. Because in Alta they bitched about arbitrary bannings, I gave posters too many warnings and options to improve before banning them. As far as lying, trolling, pointless bickering, and the rest of the **** going on now, there were no rules about it so there were no bans for it. I'm done with P7 because Chez is being exactly the kind of ****ty mod anyone could see he was going to be and Mat is ok with it.

There's a few posts I'm quite confused by, and I don't have a lot of time to post right now, so I'll just say that I would love to mod the forum. As a new user, it's clear there are lots of issues with moderation in the forum, and it's pretty bad when this is clear to someone new.

It's also quite obvious that chezlaw is the main problem, and I think he has proven himself to be wholly incapable of handling this responsibility. I think I would easily prove myself to be a far better moderator, one who actually listens to the input the posters themselves are trying to give, than the illogical and illegitimate Trumplaw that is making the forum terrible again.

Sincerely,

AllCowsEatGrass

It's quite obvious that you're either a new poster who's been here only a couple of weeks and therefore shouldn't be trusted with mod powers, or you've had previous accounts which puts you in breach of T&C.

How magnanimous.

My fav part is where he says 'as a new user'

Really sells the lie, huh?

How does ANYONE end up in ATF without getting caught up in some prior forum drama?

This whole as a new poster schtick gets old pretty quickly, but since when haven't people been allowed to have previous accounts (I mean, you're saying this in a thread started by Noodle Wazeebal), even if their other accounts have been banned, and especially when their former account was banned at their own request? But it's really hard to post worse than pretending that you're new here when obviously you're not and all the mods reading your posts know who you are.

Meh, I buy that ACEG is not a previously banned poster. Call me crazy, but that's my read. Everyone had to start an account sometime.

where is your funny bone? i fear you may be a victim of genital mutilation

Well, you're sort of right. The last time he was banned, it was at his own request.

Assuming he's had no accounts in between, that is.

This post is almost as full of **** as my litterbox.

Speaking of which, get over here and ****ing change it before I shred your pillow again, mother****er!