Kicking a Mod off the island: Discussion thread

[MEbenhoe]

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Also, is there a long list of qualified mods ready to step in after one loses the popularity contest? I do not think so.



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i'm sure there are plenty of people on this site who would do just as good of a job as a mod as any of the current mods.

[mslif]

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This is seriously retarded.

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I agree with Xorbie.
I am also kind of sick of voting and all this popular contest crap. People who were bitching about making a spectacle out of banning in the Thinman v. Jake's thread are not all giddy about getting mods voted off or losing their status. Way to stick to your guns.
This is stupid and unfair to the mods from other forums.

[nolanfan34]

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BruceZ does some awesome work over in Probability, but he'd probably be the first ones to go because he's not very well known here (or so it seems).

I wouldn't blame him if he decided not to come back to 2+2 because his mod powers were stripped in a ridiculous contest like this one - and, frankly, BruceZ would be a much greater loss to 2+2 than [censored] would be or ever will be. Even if he didn't leave, it's totally disrespectful to all the work he's done to do this just because he hasn't spent hundreds of hours upping his post count in OOT and arranging a legion of ass kissers to back his every boneheaded decision.

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Agreed 100%. Funny idea on paper, not one that's executable.

[AngryCola]

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i'm sure there are plenty of people on this site who would do just as good of a job as a mod as any of the current mods.

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You would be surprised.

[4_2_it]

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i'm sure there are plenty of people on this site who would do just as good of a job as a mod as any of the current mods.

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To paraphrase the immortal words of xorbie:

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That thought is seriously retarded.

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[MEbenhoe]

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i'm sure there are plenty of people on this site who would do just as good of a job as a mod as any of the current mods.

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You would be surprised.

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no offense, but i'm pretty sure i could easily do your job, and i'm pretty sure there are plenty of others who could too. i'm not saying you're doing a bad job or anything, cuz i actually think you're fine as a mod, just saying it could just as easily be done by others.

[diebitter]

I'm not getting involved in any of these 'thunderdome' threads on principle (they are hateful, elitist, mob-driven and stupid) - and am ashamed I actually fed into the initial ideas around the OOT one - but I just have to say this one thing.

Mods are okay in my book, do a mostly thankless job, and deserve better than this particlar 'game', which fosters division and anger.

And I'm only kissing ass a bit there.

[xorbie]

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Also, is there a long list of qualified mods ready to step in after one loses the popularity contest? I do not think so.



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i'm sure there are plenty of people on this site who would do just as good of a job as a mod as any of the current mods.

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I can't speak for all the various forums, but at least in the NL forums mods were chosen more or less by public approval. The idea of voting off one of a group of people chosen in such a manner is completely retarded. How someone can be unable to grasp this concept is really beyond me.

If a mod was actually doing a poor enough job that they would need to lose their powers, it should (and would) be the posters in their forum who make that call.

[BradleyT]

Mat's a [censored] retard if he's approving all this [censored].

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Also, is there a long list of qualified mods ready to step in after one loses the popularity contest? I do not think so.



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i'm sure there are plenty of people on this site who would do just as good of a job as a mod as any of the current mods.

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You are quite incorrect here.