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Personally, I feel that since the moderator voting, we now have too many mods. Yes, I said it. There are too many people trying to keep this place under control, and none of them seem to know what the hell the other ones are doing. It has become a clusterfuck.
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I haven't had too much involvement with any of the "new" moderation, in fact I never even bothered to look at who they were.
However, I think that you may have a point there - asking the overall question, should all moderator-related decisions be at their and their only discression, or should these actions (in MOST cases) be "OK'd" by the rest of the moderation, a panel, so to speak.
I'm not talking about deleting spam accounts, or throwing out folks who come in to intentionally cause trouble as has been the case in the past....I'm talking about things like thread closures/relocations, member suspension/banning, the "bigger" decisions.
We know it's been said "you all put your trust in these people", but we also know that there's little to no possibility of any of the "new" and "old" moderation to not have any existing issues with any other members here.
I have seen it mentioned that perhaps grudges have been acted upon (I'm unaware of the issues at hand, so not commenting) which is not great...if some kind of panel-based decision were made by the moderation, this potential problem would at very least be made into a non-issue in the minds of the casual forumer, this would be a good thing.
I'd personally like to see a "re-election", and agree it should be done through a PM system to ensure quality of results.
It should be held through an anonymous and uninvolved party...not volunteering or anything, but someone like myself who has no interest in these things and isn't particularly "friends" or "enemies" with anyone.
(That said...not saying I WOULDN'T, but I'd prefer someone else to do this if they were inclined to step up.)
Because as this has been a major concern to some, the process thus far was not really satisfactory or "honest".
Not to mention, now that some users have insight into the kind of calls and actions taken by the new moderation...a "re-election" of sorts would be more reflective of the actual PERFORMANCE of these individuals, not what we speculate.
I welcome anyone mod or otherwise, to make comment.