12-30-2015, 09:29 AM
(12-30-2015, 08:33 AM)Surge Wrote:(12-30-2015, 08:15 AM)Segolia Wrote: Go ahead. Nobody is stopping you except yourself. If you have grievances you need to air regarding myself I highly recommend being direct instead of continuing the passive-aggressive nonsense.fine, I find that you tend to be more of an absentee in the community than anything, rarely contribute except in the most "matter of fact" way possible, and generally go about your mod duties in the same way an apathetic teacher would deal with children. Which leads to a reputation for being very aggressively boring and "professional" in your interactions with the community rather than just being another member of the community, in fact I get the impression that if you didn't have any obligations to moderate the forum you would simply not use it, and generally makes you feel like an otherwise uninvolved third party with largely arbitrary power over people whom you clearly care little for.
I don't expect anybody to support me on this position as I tend to pay unnecessarily close attention to people and their behavior and I have noticed both that some people simply forget to do what is technically the "best" thing to do and that can never quite be free from my paranoia.
Hmm. I will concede I have been relatively absent here. I would largely attribute this to the fact that most of the people I interacted with in this group have largely moved away from the forums and by extension so has a lot of my activity. Furthermore, I feel historically that people have been largely uninterested in the kinds of content I am typically able to contribute and I'm in the same boat in many regards (for instance I cannot really discuss the RP, DiRT, XCOM, Mechwarrior or anything of the sort because I have no experience with these things meaning I can largely only make superficial observations. I posit the same would happen in reverse if I were to post something WRT, say, CS:GO).
The reality is this is such a small group and so quiet that "mod duties" are all but non-existent. The reason you don't see me doing a lot in that regard is that there is not all that much to do - particularly so since a lot of the drama that occurs typically happens during the period where I'm asleep so it's usually dealt with by Ehks first.
Nevertheless I prefer a reasonably 'hands-off' approach with moderating, again due largely in part to the size of the community. Things are fairly tight knit so acting heavy-handedly with bans and such I feel would only lead to resentment and sow the seeds for more issues down the line. Like you mentioned earlier, we're (mostly) adults here and should be capable of talking things out. I feel a lot of the time this has worked favourably, without the need for actual mod intervention with only a warning sufficient to stifle any inflammatory behaviour.
A reputation for being boring and professional? I have not heard of such a thing - most people seem to find me a fun, enjoyable and personable individual to be around and I'm sure several here would back me up on that. Interestingly you also seem to have a rather deep-seeded fear of me 'acting out of line', banning or punishing you for posting things that I would potentially disagree with - I find this a bit confusing as this seems directly at odds with the 'professional' view you claim to hold of me.
I'll end with this. If anyone else feels like I'm doing an inadequate job or that someone else would be more fit for the position, please speak up and make your opinion known. I suppose ultimately it's not my decision but I would step down from the position without a fuss if a majority of people held that view of me.