I started the poll. First thread i’ve ever opened. The first poster to call me out on this site was keeeed. Many posters have called me out since. OFC they’re all wrong but I digress… Keeed and I started to understand each other and even though we still don’t agree on everything (China), he’s not blind to other opinions or ways of expressing them - he’ll do fine
No, he has me on ignore ;)
One way to prevent gimmicks from voting would be to not have an “open borders” policy and restrict voting to posters who have attained TL3. Of course, this would also disenfranchise “felons” who have lost TL3 status due to too many temp-bans and flagged posts. It might also be reasonable to just restrict voting to TL2. It looks like the Preet and Sweet Summer Child gimmicks have not yet attained that rank.
The idea behind public voting is that it views the community in the whole as a legislative body and we wouldn’t want votes in Congress to be done by secret ballot. The argument for anonymous polling is that the community functions as an electorate rather than a legislative body and the principles behind the Australian ballot should apply here.
Do we have an established process for removing a mod who doesn’t want to be removed?
I can usually see polls so I don’t think so, probably what goofy said about some kind of bug with ignored posters and polls.
Restrict it to TL2 or something, TL3 is absurd. i didnt even get it til I became admin. It really punishes people who stick to a handful of topics and don’t venture out much into the rest of the forum
The poll should probably be closed because Wookie seems to want to stay on as mod and was adamantly opposed to my moderation philosophy. I tried to say this a little more gently above. I don’t want to be mod if I’m not able to implement my proposal, or if I can sort of do my thing while Wookie mods in his diametrically opposite philosophy. I don’t think it would work, perhaps another mod can weigh in.
And while I think that churchill was acting in good faith, I think that this can and certainly should wait a while. And given other posters concerns that an Official Person didn’t start the thread, let’s just close it.
eta: I was replying to Jbro’s most recent post.
We are just going to have to agree to disagree. And you don’t get to declare it official anyway.
IIRC in the past there was a semi-pseudo nominating process and someone semi-pseudo official (or higher) started a poll with specifications such as time limits, who could vote, what the required margin for selection was, etc.
No, just make one. Or throw on some clause if he gets modded - if all the other mods decide he should go, just kick him to the curb. Put him on a leash. I dont see what damage he could really do as a moderator that he cant already do as a poster. I’m really sorry to the mods that strongly disagree with me but feel free to call me out or whatever for it.
I hope Keeeed keeps posting frequently forever because I think he’s hilarious and super sharp when he wants to be. But for me the biggest reason he’s so entertaining is he’s the single most effective troll in the history of the poker-adjacent internet.
And Unstuck wants to see what happens when he gets to use his superpower as…a mod? The man who has perfected bad-faith posting to such an artistic degree that hundreds of berserkers who absolutely know better can’t help themselves from spiraling into his troll gravity again and again? What could possibly go wrong
PS I should keep my mouth shut about the fifty forumdrama threads because I haven’t really read them, and it looks like there are some super good posters (@MysteryConman, to name one) who are at least partly on the other side, but man, the baby bathwater logic that leads a bong-wielding mob to running out heroes like Wookie…cmon guys! The internet mostly sucks! This place is great. I don’t really want to learn reddit
I appreciate you thinking of me as someone who could be a mod. However, I feel there are multiple posters who are ready, able and willing to step up. At this time, while I am (cap)able, I’m not ready or willing(due to work obligations), so I’d rather defer to those posters who are.
nice, you asked a question and also answered it in eight words, good posting
Just a joke. You probably missed one or more of the prerequisite posts for getting it.
Admit it was a coup attempt and I’m going to hand deliver my yes vote to the Unstuck dropbox so the Wookie funded Dominion machines can’t steal it.
I’m not replying specifically to you. I just found your post a convenient starting point for the issues I want to lay out.
As a progressive-leaning community, I think we could take a look at some alternative voting systems and seeing how they could be used to select mods. Should we consider using range voting? If we want to avoid mods who have lukewarm approval from a majority but strong opposition from a sizeable minority, maybe we should.
I think I’m mostly reacting to the elitist fucking bullshit attitude that went behind modding people at 2p2. I fucking hated that shit. I would have been a perfectly good moderator but was told by a certain orange name that basically 100% it’d never happen because a red couldnt stand me.
I really dont wanna see that culture perpetuated here. Being a mod isnt a big effing deal. And if it becomes a deal, remove them
Mostly grunching. I don’t think mods should be elected because of their plans for changing the rules in a framework that we know doesn’t work. They should be elected because of what they bring to the forum…
No offense to SK, but his temperament seems less than ideal for modding and I don’t think his ideas are particularly helpful towards the reasons for issues in the community.
I suppord Keeed for mod. I just can’t vote because I had OP on ignore from the covid thread.
but I have a plan for that
Just IMO, but this thread is hopelessly mixed up because there are discussions about a half-dozen distinct questions all going at once.
Maybe it’s too late but a better structure would be to have this thread be purely an up/down moderator vote for SenorKeeed, and have the “process” questions be handled in separate thread(s).
P.S. I have THOUGHTS about many of the issues on the table but in the spirit of doing what I say I’ll hold them for now.