Sorry you had to go through all of that in a pretty short amount of time. I know I’m more of a lurker nowadays on this Forum, but I don’t think you deserved any of that.
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Obviously, I feel no better about this outcome than I do about the tension provoked by the initial instatement of the former moderator.
Nonetheless, I’m sure this has all been a remarkably frustrating and informative charade for @Q. Just another day on the Internet, eh? 
Hopefully we will find a suitable replacement moderator soon. 
If we’re going back to suggesting moderators, I feel like Shadow would be a pretty popular and obviously justified pick. To m, he represents a more intelectual perspective on this fetish that would be great to have represented in moderation and generally just wants people to get along without totally sacrificing his own morals. Now, whether he’d want to take on the commitments of that position is a different question, but I’m suggesting him all the same.
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Another day on the internet indeed.
I have a couple more people in mind, we’ll see how it goes, but it’s not an urgent requirement. You just know that at some point someone’s gonna have a meltdown in some thread and more mods means it’ll be dealt with quicker.
And yeah I’m also generally a fan of such posts that seem well thought out etc
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Not sure if he’d be interested but I’m confident @SkooZiX would be a good mod for this site. He’s not political and he seems like a very good judge of character. And by that, I mean he knows when I’m being too much of an asshole lol.
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Honoured to be suggested. Thank you.
I try.
I humbly suggest that whoever comes next be vetted via poll before instatement. This may be an unfortunate circumstance for the candidate, but I should expect a good candidate for moderator would seek to keep the peace via popular vote, if nothing else. I note that TheTraveler would have remained a mod by vote (thus far) if not for their resignation.
What is certain is that the forum is suffering the prolonged effects of a collective identity crisis. Whoever is chosen should be a unifying force, or at least showcase the effort of unity rather than the sowing of discord.
That is my word on the matter.
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I agree with the idea of having a poll for upcoming moderators. The results don’t even have have to be binding, but more transparency would be good for everyone.
If not a poll, even just a thread along the lines of “here are my candidates, what are your opinions” would be great (if not better).
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You’re being a little dramatic about this. No one is insulting you as a person, this is far more about Q’s lack of visibility/transparency and arguably sometimes draconian moderation principles. I promise you no one who is questioning this has anything directly against you.
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All I personally want is someone who doesn’t think politics is “icky” or “ruins the mood” or whatever. I’m probably in the minority but I find the big conversations so much more interesting than countless posts of nearly identical users talking about how hot they find a particular internet personality’s burps. And I think constantly trying to hush those conversations is part of why there’s so little sense of community on this forum. People bond over coming to understand each other (doesn’t have to be in only big moments but those tend to give individuals more of a chance to show their actual personalities) but there’s no intimacy being generated by the “content first, thoughts second” philosophy we kind of have in place even if such a model wasn’t necessarily intended. There have been so many threads about “creeps” and who we don’t want representing the community but on the flip side, what do we consider the ideal member? I feel like that’s pretty hard for a lot of people to answer beyond “they provide some kind of content.” This place doesn’t have to be so transactional and I feel that a push to stop shunning “off-topic” discussions or posts would help facilitate that. I’m not saying that there should be zero moderation but I feel mods can let things ride out a bit more often until things get truly personal and bitter or seem that they’re heading in that direction.
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Where is the hatred? Have people been harassing you in your DMs because I certainly don’t see it here? As already said, the issue was less who the moderator was but that it happened out of the blue without announcement, the process was undemocratic, and (this last one is just my own speculation) because I think Q likes that you two have similar views as people, not necessarily about the site. I really don’t see anything personal about you.
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I agree with everything else in your post, but I think the ideal action toward off-topic posts on any forum is splitting them into a new thread. Discussion is good, but there should be some sort of respect toward the person who created the topic (and the people reading).
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That’s fair, yeah. You’re right that that’s respectful to the original topic creator. I don’t mind topics being split as long as it isn’t treated like a “containment center” like that current philosophy topic was initiated as.
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I’ve been talking to @thegasprovider about moderating the male section. He’s helped me a bit in the past with organising some threads, and contributes a lot to threads in that section. Does anyone have any problem with this idea?
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Not at all. I had thought to suggest that perhaps a solution is to assign moderators to specific categories but I wasn’t sure how feasible that is to implement.
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Section moderators make a lot of sense, especially because most users that are on one gender side usually don’t spend time on the other.
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I appreciate ya, but I got too much on my plate these days, I don’t think I’m much of a fit for this anyways
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I feel like there should be an off topic category as whole (if there isn’t one already) for anything non burp related. I’d love to talk about other things other than burping, but I don’t want “all other things” talked in the burp sections if that makes sense? I love coming on to the forum and seeing a lot of chats having numbers by them and reading what people have said (when it’s not stupid talk) and then putting in my two cents
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Alright, so I did a skim here and I gotta say, some of y’all took this WAY too far. Yeah, some notifications and announcements would be nice, I’ll give ya that.
But we had someone step up as a mod for the first time in awhile, and some folks took that news so badly that he’s already stepped down! That sort of response to someone accepting a position as a moderator is completely unacceptable in all honesty: he didn’t beg for the role, it was offered to him, and he accepted. And we NEED some more mods around here since- as people have mentioned time and again for years now- this site is chaotic and some topics and people need to be moderated… and that’s not a one-person, two-person, or even three-person job. It takes quite a few people to pull this off, and now we’ve driven one of those people away.
Frankly, I don’t give a rat’s ass about what personal issues you have with the guy’s posting- or lack of more recent posts- we should just be grateful that he was willing to help at all. And we should show more gratitude towards any new mods that are willing to take the position and help out, IF we even get any more people willing to moderate after this fiasco.
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He stepped down because he took things too personally when folks were just asking for transparency and democracy. And then he used his position as a moderator to create an entire section of the site dedicated to denigrating users/posting styles he has a problem with, which has now been locked. That is unacceptable behavior. No one criticized him at all, in fact, at least a couple of us mentioned that he had good contributions to the forum. Up until the creation of “Philosophia Venti,” I didn’t actually have a problem with him being a mod (and the stats show that I “like” his posts at a greater frequency than most members), as I said, it was the process or lack thereof rather than the person. I don’t think anyone will deny the fact that the site could use more moderation. The results of the poll indicated that most of the respondents were in favor of him being a mod. It’s up to him if he wants to try again, and this time without being petty in response to perceived slights.
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Considering how people literally called his “qualifications” into question almost immediately after he was modded, I can’t really blame him for feeling like he was being personally attacked. A lot of people would feel the same, I’m sure, myself included.
If nothing else, just give the guy a break. And I mean that to EVERYONE. He’s stepped down, so leave him be. Treat him how you’d like to be treated, and all this nonsense will go away.
Hell, Q should probably lock this topic so there doesn’t have to be any more discussion regarding it. What’s done is done, after all.
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