But let down vote anyone willing to take the job, serious long time posters, or sporadic jackass like me. Because anyone who ask for the job will be bad at it. Thus, we must choose at complete random.
I’m kidding, what should happen is everyone complains about Dom but continues to attack anyone wasn’t to position.
I've seen some decent candidates suggested. u/Kienan, u/Assassin47, u/Smith1980, and u/Ahaus667 are all good choices. I'd be suspicious about anyone who's too eager, although merely volunteering isn't what I'd call too eager. IMO the best way to do it is to have a nomination thread. Anyone who's nominated who absolutely doesn't want the job can decline it and it avoids the problem of people volunteering and arousing suspicion.
For the fun of it, I'll throw BandageBandolier into the ring too. And AlfredicEnglishRules.
Looking at that list, I've got it. Just give everyone who's been here at least 2-3 years mod powers.
It's an eclectic enough mix that add/remove comment wars would result in an equilibrium, but bad faith handshakes would get nuked from orbit.
What's the worst that could happen?
Fairly sure Imp has been around since the early days so those brief periods where he's not banned would be... interesting.
Brother, you needn't bother with such trifles. I've been lurking on this username since halfkia in 2014, with receipts. And even before that I'd been telling games journos they were pathetic hacks, online and in person, as a hobby of mine since at least 2010 before I created this silo'd username.
Let a true old guard become your benevolent military dictator and you can witness the crushing of trolls, shills and spambots with extreme prejudice for as long as a popularly voted, predetermined, term of service lasts, ending in mandatory de-modding. No ban shall exceed that temporary term of service as an added precaution.
I pledge to secure our borders with a zealousness you could only dream neocon grifters would do.
2014 on halfkia for me too, but deliberately different username and purged my post history. I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Guess you beat me to it. Just barely nominated you moments before I scrolled down and saw your comment here.
This ain't a bad idea.
Service guarantees modship.
Performs self reflection
Nah I'd probably not go crazy, my power trips are more Geneva checklist than forum admin level.
Doesn't matter, you're not eligible ;)
I thought it was longer, must have been still in my lurking phase lol
Currently the issue needing dealt with are handshakes/sleeper accounts that were made a year ago, or more, and just left to wait until something activated them. Could be the point of it being an election year, could be some random anti-gg type group, or just similar Ctrl-Left entities looking to target any and all win sites possible.
Having 2/3 gatekeeper positions to just play whack-a-mole with those accounts would solve what is causing most of the problems right now. Precisely how that can be done I don't know as I've not taken the time to look at the mod tools on this site, but if we have any suitable dedicated autists here, and we certainly have them, then if possible they could just go through the member list and whack any account with no activity that's older than say 3 months.
At worst this would take away perma-lurkers ability to up/downvote posts and comments, but at best it would remove these accounts before they get used for the next round of spam.
We turn our mod team into the cast of a fan made Game of Thrones season? Reenact Highlander, but with volunteer jannies?
Nominations suffer the same potential issue where any sleeper accounts that haven't sperged out and given the game away can then spoil the pool and nominate other sleepers or just try to screw with things. Something that applies to your own account since it's only 21 days old.
That's where I think if Dom can retain overall admin powers, he can provide an failsafe just in-case.
They're decent but I just think we should do these kinds of things when things are more boring so we're more level-headed.
Unfortunately, it's 2024 and it feels like this year is a honey badger that took cocaine.
Than do it, start the thread.