Lol polls. One had 38 votes the other had 19.
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i respect that you want good mods to get unlimited consecutive terms as long as they’re good. i’m thinking that pretty much everybody would be a good mod, and having a rotating cast of mods is preferable, and this is kind of a way to ease into that while keeping very well-liked mods on for longer than mods who rotate in and are not as liked
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I think that modding can be a hard job, so a good mod who can handle it without burning out is someone who should be kept on as long as possible. I think term limits are a fucking stupid idea in politics and I think term limits are also not good for forum governance.
Maybe almost everyone who is a reg right now might be a good mod, but what if this place ever expands its membership? America is in tatters politically because the Founding Fathers did a bunch of stuff that might have seemed like a good idea at the time, but didn’t anticipate future developments properly. Get the rules right while we are still small enough to engage in a little bit of direct democracy.
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i agree term limits in politics are bad but moderating a forum of like 150 people is like, i don’t want to say a monkey can do it because i respect all the mods and everybody who volunteers to help keep this site my #1 most visited website, but i think some people are making things harder than they need to be because we’ve all been so hyped up for conflict and controversy and trump is defeated and banned from social media lol and joe biden is surprisingly leftist surprisingly fast like i can’t even say i’d do anything different if i bodysnatched him tbh. so it’s a lot of new emotions and feelings for people who can feel things and aren’t completely dead inside.
that’s why i proposed an independent judicial branch to unburden the mods of the nonsense and let them do the normal mod stuff that a free job is due: deleting russian passport threads with malicious links once in a while
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I, for one, am shocked to find that Keeed was not posting in good faith in his other thread.
wtf are you talking about? How was that not in good faith?
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Oh, look, it’s the amendment that was pushed by butthurt Republicans who were bothered by the tenure of the greatest president in American history.
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Aghast at the mere implication that your thread was rooted in a beef with me in particular and instead was a deeply held principle of mod turnover. However, shock and surprise, the only principle was that I get got.
Jesus. No. You’re the only mod who insists he should stay on indefinitely. Goof baller resigned. Skydiver voted for the term limits in my original thread. Microbet is the original proponent of term limits.
I have no idea what you think this imagined grievance I have against you is. We haven’t had any conflicts at all.
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problem: being a mod is intolerable
merciful solution: term limits for mods
wookie you’ve been a great mod; we’re all forever in your debt. you could retire today a hero and for sure get into the UP hall of fame. offering everyone who takes on this responsibility some time off after years of service is no disrespect to you or any mod, certainly not from me.
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Right. That’s why I’m fighting for better standards for moderators. Did you read the post or just the title?
the type of intolerable is where we disagree, ok. but the independent judiciary is a good solution, why did you vote against it?
That you count a volunteer mod getting trolled into ragequitting as a success says about all anyone should need to know about the seriousness of your moderation proposals or your bid to be a mod at all.
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Because the community seems to prefer mods dealing with their complainants themselves, per the straw poll.
No. You’re reading my posts in the worst possible light. I think mods turning over is a good thing, and a fresh start now – particularly now, with bad feelings running so high for whatever reason – would be good for everyone. As a practical matter, your insistence to remain mod is the only thing that keeps the custom I suggested above from happening. That’s all I meant.
Honestly I don’t know why everyone is so mad all of a sudden. If you have any insights I’d appreciate you sharing them. It seems like everything has just blown up for no reason at all.
I can see the value for some organizations in having meetings/committees to discuss stuff like this before polling, but I don’t think we can pull that off.
I really don’t like the idea of any kind of scheduled votes of confidence. It makes all of this so personal.
There is a contradiction between “we don’t want mods for life” and “mods can be indefinitely and re-elected” once you consider that mods are right now serving at the pleasure of the community and can be recalled at any time. That should hopefully never happen and anyone who is at all interested in not having a clusterfuck every 6 months or whatever should not want a scheduled public evaluation of mod performance.
Either mods should just be permanent, barring extreme situations where they are removed, or they should just automatically rotate and no one has to have any hard feelings about it at all.
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alright well i encourage you to vote for you and not for what you think the community wants from you. dude you deserve a glorious stress-free user experience of unstuck politics, it’s great. it’s a great website. it’s so fun without these problems you’re dealing with. you don’t have to be burdened. i want to help. let me help you. we’re friends.
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