As some of you may have heard, armor games is firing a moderator. Since you're not allowed to have any discussion on the forum i guess post any opinions on the matter here.
The firing thread https://armorgames.com/community/thread/7293378/announcement-firing-a-mod
everyone becomes a moderator for a day (and the moderators we have now switch for that day) ... so we can all live out our fantasies of banning and unbanning and then banning again those that have power.... n-n-n-not that I have those or anything
With everyone power abusing that would be a nightmare.
It's good we can still joke about this. Though I did have some seriousness to my question. If this is a joke, or even if it's not. There will be need for some making up here. By listing ideas here, we can give them an idea on how they can smooth things over with us after it's all been said and done.
If this does turn out to be just a bad joke with no real pay off, I wonder how the admins and mods could make it up to us?
They can't make it up to us, well definitely not me anyways, the only thing would probably be the release of AGv3, but I don't that will happen anytime too soon.
A few clarifications, and I'm only a few pages into this giant discussion:
1. This is real. I'm overworked trying to manage my day job as a programmer for the company plus volunteering my own time in the evenings to take care of users who refuse to follow rules, and since I have access to the core databases and logs, etc., that the moderators do not, and since I'm the only admin-level user in the company who (a) knows how and (b) wants to be involved in moderation, a ton of work falls on me.
2. The voting goes through me because I have the miserable job of going through all of the votes, tracking duplicate accounts, disqualifying people and/or handing out bans to those who keep flagging votes as abuse. Seriously, knock it off.
3. For goodness sake, stop asking on my profile what the tension was about. It's the typical "I'm tired of others not pulling their weight" kind of crap that comes up whenever several mods decide that playing a new video game is more important.
4. We wanted to let the users have a say, since you as users have to interact with the moderators as well. The moderator's account won't be cancelled, they just won't be a moderator any more. Heck, some of them probably wouldn't even notice.
5. Someone had a point about votes from accounts with very few points, which makes perfect sense. We've already said that votes from alternate accounts will disqualify ALL of your votes, so I'll have a chunk of work to do. I bet half of the votes for Devoidless are duplicates.
And frankly, I thought Cenere would have had a very generous lead on the vote count, but looks like Devoidless has more votes than all of the other moderators combined.
Oh, and the users who voted for ME ... tsk tsk.
Feel free to ask LEGITIMATE questions about this on my profile, but stop asking what the tension is. I'm not going to quote private moderator discussions to any non-mod user.
And we're STILL out of Dr Pepper at the office, gah. I'm so sick of coffee for my caffeine fix. Nothing gets me grumpy like spammers, haters, and lack of Dr Pepper.
So you're tired of volunteering your time to make the moderator work that only you can make? ...hmm. Looks like giving admin power to some mods is the solution here. And if you don't want, get rid of the whole moderation team and hire some payed employees to moderate the community. This reminds me of the ostracizing thing in ancient Athens, getting rid of someone, but making it look like a democratic choice. PS making this so near to April 1st was a BAD idea.
nd we're STILL out of Dr Pepper at the office, gah. I'm so sick of coffee for my caffeine fix. Nothing gets me grumpy like spammers, haters, and lack of Dr Pepper.
I have 6 liters of cold Dr Pepper in the fridge, hehe.....
4. We wanted to let the users have a say, since you as users have to interact with the moderators as well. The moderator's account won't be cancelled, they just won't be a moderator any more. Heck, some of them probably wouldn't even notice.
BECAUSE votes are not allowed to be explained past the '_____' one-word response, many of these votes might as well be biased on whether or not said mod did their job correctly and pissed off a few people while doing it, which is inevitable but leads for a moderate amount of picking which mod you don't like the most instead of picking which mod to fire based on performance and merit.
