Do you think that there should be a poll for people to vote of people to become moderators. The people that could vote would be people with 6000 points or above. To keep away hackers and spammers.
Oh and yes, Estel, how did you know about that? I didn't think you were around before then...but maybe I was wrong!
I have an idea. How about when Dan needs a new moderator, a blind dummy-vote can be held such that people think that they're voting but in fact their vote counts for nothing?
Oops, I shouldn't have said that c.c
Seriously though, voting comes down to a popularity contest. The variability in the criteria among the members makes it unsuitable: it'd just be like voting for your local police officers. You may vote for members of government because they make decisions that pertain to most aspects of your daily life, but there's no such thing on AG.
Yes, I think many people are just craving the power, that is also why so many people want to be in the top 10. Mostly nowadays everyone is just working towards making themselves more powerful, but not always for the right reason, most of the people who are moderators aren't the ones that went, hey I should so be a moderator! It's mostly the people who just helped the site out and were active, but didn't really care about the chance of them being a moderator!
Walsh, it's funny how you can see just about how it is. I was the second mod and watching all the new moderators come in, they all said the same thing. They didn't expect it.
Hand picked are better. Idk about all of you but I don't want armor games politics that would be chaos. One bad moderator could cause major damage they could really mess up the website before anyone could stop them we would already be in quite a bad spot. No, handpicked are muh better
Ya, I've seen them ban people from the chat room, so they defiantly, have some ban power! Also, it's truthfully not hard to see how it is, if you pay attention, which I try to do. That can usually make up for the fact that I'm not necessarily the most brilliant person here. (Yes I'm thinking of you strop!) That way I at least know what's going on here. I think ubertuna is probably the one that least expected it, but that's just my opinion, and I don't really know that for sure!
