It is with regret that I announce something that many of you may have already noticed anyway: liz3564 has decided to relinquish her role as a moderator.
Rather than re-hash all the goings-on that led up to this, I'll just cut to my conclusion: I believe her when she says that she didn't use any privileged information (specifically, I.P. addresses) accessible to her as a moderator when she did her detective work.
Nevertheless, several people here believe otherwise. To keep the board functioning normally, it is of utmost importance that the goodwill of you, the users, be preserved, so I have accepted her resignation (not that I could've forced her to continue moderating anyway, but you get the idea). She's still a registered user, though.
She spared me a whole lot of the routine "grunt" work of moderation, which I highly appreciate, so I'd like to continue receiving such help in the future. Ren and Scottie, two other moderators, aren't around much (if at all) anymore, so that leaves me, harmony, and EAllusion to tackle it all.
TO THE POINT: Does anyone want to be a moderator? If so, now's your chance. Here are the baseline requirements:
- You must be a god, i.e., you must have a minimum of 1,000 posts.
- You must not be a habitual breaker of the rules. I.e., you must not be one of the ones who routinely post or hint at other posters' real-life information, evade the word-censor, start off-topic threads in the Terrestrial Forum, etc.
- You must be willing to be a "clone" of me, moderating exactly and precisely the same way I would. No implementation of a new "vision," no privileging your friends, no penalizing people you dislike, etc.
- You must not have too many "enemies" on either side of the believer/disbeliever fence. Again, I need to preserve everyone's goodwill or otherwise keep them confident that their real-life information will remain secure.
- You must be willing to clear out your "foes" list. I.e., you must be willing to have NOBODY on "ignore" (otherwise you won't catch things they post that require moderation).
- Preference will be given to those who routinely report posts, because I know that A) they watch the board, and B) they care about rule violations.
Should you wish to join this group, please nominate yourself and ONLY YOURSELF in this thread. NO NOMINATION OF OTHERS; I want this thing to be 100% voluntary. WHEN YOU SEE PEOPLE NOMINATING THEMSELVES, please send me a private message if you do NOT want the person to become a moderator, telling me why not. Normally I'd start a poll for each potential moderator, like I did last time, but with the latest "upgrade" the poll feature no longer works.