Moderator Election 2016 HQ
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TL;DR - The people who actually want to be moderators are the people who should not be the moderators.
I would agree with the caveat that it's "most" of the people who actually want to be mods should not be.
hodj
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This never happened. Unless you count Tanoomba, who I didn't argue with. I just infracted, and that's because I was specifically made a mod to do exactly that.
hodj
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Here's what happened.
I did threaten Furry and Siddar in some thread to stop trolling me or I'd infract them, but never did actually infract them. That was my error, and I admit that.
But that was the only time that came close to me "infracting someone for arguing with me".
When I was demodded, what happened was I was arguing with Cad in the Science thread (I think) and Tuco told us to stop, then Chanur made some comment to me, and I replied, and Tuco infracted me, which removes your mod powers (or he removed my mod powers so he could infract me, one or the other, I dunno).
Otherwise, the vast majority, if not all, of my infractions to non-advertising bots were single point infractions meant to prevent larger infractions being given by others. For instance, someone was reported saying the n-word, who has been infracted for that many times in the past. Rather than let Draegan see it and give them a week in the shaw, I hit them with a 1 point infraction. There, problem solved, now no other mods will usually take action.
The exception to this rule was
1. Tanoomba, who deserves every minute in the shaw he ever gets and then some
2. Some guy that spammed a shit load of links in some movie thread or something that were all saying something to the effect of "Make money doing X" but they were actually links to a torrent site that had the movie up. Something like that. I hit him with a 99 point infraction so he was shawed indefinitely, rather than banning him. I did this since there was some uncertainty if the links were actually advertising spam or not at the time. This allowed him to contact me and explain that he wasn't a spam bot, at which point I overturned his infraction and let him out of the shaw.
I did threaten Furry and Siddar in some thread to stop trolling me or I'd infract them, but never did actually infract them. That was my error, and I admit that.
But that was the only time that came close to me "infracting someone for arguing with me".
When I was demodded, what happened was I was arguing with Cad in the Science thread (I think) and Tuco told us to stop, then Chanur made some comment to me, and I replied, and Tuco infracted me, which removes your mod powers (or he removed my mod powers so he could infract me, one or the other, I dunno).
Otherwise, the vast majority, if not all, of my infractions to non-advertising bots were single point infractions meant to prevent larger infractions being given by others. For instance, someone was reported saying the n-word, who has been infracted for that many times in the past. Rather than let Draegan see it and give them a week in the shaw, I hit them with a 1 point infraction. There, problem solved, now no other mods will usually take action.
The exception to this rule was
1. Tanoomba, who deserves every minute in the shaw he ever gets and then some
2. Some guy that spammed a shit load of links in some movie thread or something that were all saying something to the effect of "Make money doing X" but they were actually links to a torrent site that had the movie up. Something like that. I hit him with a 99 point infraction so he was shawed indefinitely, rather than banning him. I did this since there was some uncertainty if the links were actually advertising spam or not at the time. This allowed him to contact me and explain that he wasn't a spam bot, at which point I overturned his infraction and let him out of the shaw.
Tanoomba
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hodj
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Infractions shouldn't remove modship, but I never tested it. It's probably a separate action. Second, I never got involved in any of those threads or actually jumped in there. I just assumed whatever was reported in the mod thread was what actually happened and left it at that.
hodj
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Yeah I don't remember what was said in the moderator thread, but I know for a fact I never infracted anyone who was arguing with me in some thread. Like I didn't infract Cad for the debate we were having when I was demodded, for instance.
I just want the record clear is all. Its only fair that my time as moderator is judged based on what I did do.
I just want the record clear is all. Its only fair that my time as moderator is judged based on what I did do.
Tuco,
Would you consider draegan a pigeon boss, meaning that he is largely absent except to show up to shit all over everything randomly?
Would you consider draegan a pigeon boss, meaning that he is largely absent except to show up to shit all over everything randomly?
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hodj
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Incorrect. I was explicitly promotd to moderator to put tanoomba in line, and i wasnt arguing with him at the time in any thread.
chaos
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Fine, you were involved in a "discussion" with him, whatever. We had a big discussion in the infraction thread about how we generally try not to infract in situations we are involved in. I read the thread today.
#GamerGate - A Problematic Debate - Page 782
^ the offending post. I'm not even saying you were wrong in infracting him, I don't care.
Soygen
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Phazael
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Yeah I liked Hodj as a mod and have zero issue with him taking giant steaming dumps on Moonbat. He might have had some biases, but Tarrant has done what Hodj is accused of multiple times (as one example) and he is obviously not going anywhere.
Anyhow, I think Other Games needs its own non sperg mod who can maintain neutrality (except where Moonbat is concerned, fuck that guy), which Hodj did a solid job on. I'd be interested in helping out in that area, but I am not really a part of the in crowd around here and would likely resume Hodj's no bullshit policy, regarding the Moon Bat, which may or may not fly with people. Whoever you give that job to has to have a thick skin and capable of separating personal bias from the topic of discussion, though. Thus far, I feel Noodle, Chaos, and Hodj have done the best in that area.
Anyhow, I think Other Games needs its own non sperg mod who can maintain neutrality (except where Moonbat is concerned, fuck that guy), which Hodj did a solid job on. I'd be interested in helping out in that area, but I am not really a part of the in crowd around here and would likely resume Hodj's no bullshit policy, regarding the Moon Bat, which may or may not fly with people. Whoever you give that job to has to have a thick skin and capable of separating personal bias from the topic of discussion, though. Thus far, I feel Noodle, Chaos, and Hodj have done the best in that area.
hodj
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What part of I was explicitly given moderator powers explicitly to rickshaw tanoomba for his posting in the gamergate thread by tuco are you failing to grasp here exactly?
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