I think we shouldn’t be hasty. What I want may not be possible, but I’d like there to be rotation of mods without it being FIRE THE MODS. And, I think that anyone, (@anon10396289, @anon10387340, @King_of_NY (not sure this list is right and it’s certainly not exhaustive)), that wants the same thing should understand that no mods who rotate in will be perfect and that even imagining rotation as a solution to problems with a particular mod is dumb. And, they should recognize that you don’t get what you want instantly or by alienating half the forum.
I don’t know what to suggest or think about the flurry of polls. I’ve been out camping the last couple days and missed a lot of it. Maybe it’s all working out…but probably not.
I’m even fine with treating this poll as an endorsement of Chad’s modship, pending whenever all conditions you think need to transpire before that happens, including the other guys being in line first or whatever.
Doesn’t much matter to me. If it matters to potato or whosnext maybe something like that. If not, this poll has run and has good participation and very clear results and it is probably good to just go with it.
I am happy if PocketChads becomes our next mod (even though I voted against it due to my concerns about his temperament gleaned from his posting) since he has overwhelming community support.
Some time ago I volunteered to join a hypothetical list of people willing to be mods at a time (somewhat like today) when it was unclear if anybody would be able to “replace” a mod if any existing mod wanted to step down. I have no great desire to be a mod but added my name in the spirit of community modding.
Not that it really matters for this discussion, but I have been and continue to be more than satisfied with Wookie, Goofy, and all the other UP mods.
His temperament? PC is like the absolute chillest person on this site. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen him post something angry, even when he’s posting videos of police abusing his friends.
I think it would be most proper to ratify the RFC process, and then use that to establish a system by which mods are selected, elected inspected, detected, injected and subjected to terms and potentially term limits. As much as it is obvious that PocketChads has essentially unanimous community support and trust in his judgment, I think that establishing a system is better than just nominating people out of the blue, particularly to people I may think are even equally qualified and reasonable but who I did not nominate and may wonder why that is. That’s on me, but I want to do better.
I don’t have a strong preference, but I think giving the process until maybe the 20th when there will be another mod opening would be fine, especially if PC doesn’t object.
That is a pretty fast timeline, all things considered. We got about 5 days until the internal RFC vote closes, and then another week long vote for ratification. Although I do expect hammering out and eventually ratifying a mod rule would take at least two weeks given the desire to leave votes open long enough for everyone to participate, I suppose we could start an RFC thread now for mod election and re-election that would conform to the process that we expect to be ratified even before the RFC process is ratified to speed things up. Do you think that is reasonable, and if so, would you be interested in at least posting the OP? I think I and others would like to see other people spearheading sitewide rule stuff.
Can’t do that, but I can try to continue admonishing people for a while.
Wookie, I’m happy to post any OP, but I have not paid enough attention to really compose it. I may need some help either in another thread or via PM. In general, after seeing so many difficulties in OPs that became clear pretty quickly, I think it’s good to workshop important OPs a bit anyway.