Starting off with a The Who song: They sit in judgement of your wrongs.
Continuation of this thread: https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/1ARwGdpp2P/moderation-request--resignation/c/
Get to know them, probably more than before.
For the team, I and AoV will still be around for assistance, guidance, and suggestions if you want them. You should still set up a chat on your side in the event of outage or communication difficulty.
If you haven't modded before, I've given you full permissions, so take a look around. We can eventually restrict access if you'd prefer so that you focus on your specific areas, like only working on the sidebar.
He didn't persuade me. If anything, I persuaded him. Or, more accurately, things got so bad, he just said fuck it, and modded some people.
As to the reason, it's pretty simply; here needed it much more. We never had the gaps in moderation on Reddit that we had here, as far as I recall. Even when we were being outright brigaded, we never had so much stuff slipping through the cracks. Maybe once or twice, but not on the regular.
Moderation here was a mess; either too much, when Dom was around and catching up on weeks-old minor infractions, or had set up filters that nuke everyone; or not enough, pre-filters, when we had pedophiles, porn, gore, and so much more, getting spam-posted nonstop.
I mainly want the mod powers to pull the trigger on any more obvious ne'er-do-wells that pop up, to keep the board running smoothly. There was no excuse for some of the shit that was getting through. It's better now, but probably too locked down. We'll see how all the new mods want to handle things on that front.
I thought the reason would be that here, you won't be required to act against your principles by censoring stuff that shouldn't be.
It's both.
But I never wanted to be mod, I just thought it was more necessary here.