voting for future moderators (?)
 

it'd be nice if we could vote for any future moderators.. you wouldn't have us complaining 24/7 and making threads about the new moderators.. especially if a lot of us don't particually enjoy that person.

At most you would get to vote between a couple of admin-picked candidates. This is not going to work because a commercial game is not a democracy. The interests of the users are not that of the guys running the whole place.

Edit: Apart from that, we would want to vote on the rules, not on the moderators hired to enforce them.

I don't think the job of a moderator is to try to be liked. Their job is to enforce the rules and other things similiar. Perhaps that would be why some people don't like that certain moderator you were referring to.

As Loriel said, it isn't a democracy.

If players were the ones voting for forum moderators, there's a good chance that the forums would become a disaster, then we would have nobody to blame except ourselves for that. I agree with Loriel though.

Well, maybe the people who didnt vote for that chosen moderator would complain you see..

If a moderator is someone not many people like, then people will complain about what they do, and thus cause more spam.

A moderator needs to be someone already respected and awesome.

As part of the job a moderator should delete spam in certain cases. People may spam more as a result of that moderator, but it is that moderator's job to deal with it. As moderation can be considered a way of not allowing people to post their opinions (If there opinions are radical and violate the rules), there is the chance that a moderator can be disliked for doing their job.

It can also be shown that moderators who are already respected and awesome can be hired, as was the case with Crono.

We will have to wait for Darlene to post, and after all, it is Darlene's decision.

I dont think unixmad would ever go for that, and neither would I.

What makes the difference? Even an awesome, cool, popular person has to enforce the rules the way unixmad wants, and then that person isnt so awesome, cool, and popular anymore. See how that works?

Common misconception, it is up to unixmad.

Awesome, Cool, Popular person would support rule changes to things that are simply unreasonable.

a 'cool, popular person' would follow the rules, but wouldn't treat the rules as if it's holy. therefore, making them a 'cool, popular person'.
maybe if unixmad actually responded to our cries, we'd know the answer.

I assume you mean wouldn't support rules changes to things that are simply unreasonable.

Unixmad put moderators in place that will enforce his rules. If they dont, he gets someone else. If someone can convince him to change a rule, I will be happy to enforce it the way he changes it. I'm not here to be popular, I'm here to do a job.
Whoa, dejavu (sp) .

LOL WAT? Have you developed some kind of split personality? Unixmad added Crono as moderator? Unixmad added Supernanny as moderator? Unixmad hasn't even been on the forums this year.

Does unixmad even care about Graal anymore?

I meant super moderators, and above, excuse me.

No, seriously, the problem is the rules and not the way they are enforced.