Is JKellyMap a new Moderator?
@JKellyMap since the OP didn’t do that. Seems there should be more to the OP as well but I dunno.
Why do you ask?
I got a PM from him, acting like he was a Mod. These things do come and go.
Well, that’s thoroughly vague.
So are your posts here. Do you have an answer or not?
That was passive aggressive
I have no idea what your OP is about, since you won’t tell anybody, so your best bet in my opinion is to send a PM to the mods.
There you go.
If in doubt, message a mod who you know is a mod. Let them deal with it/answer you.
According to his status in his profile which is easily viewable, no.
You are aware that you can flag PMs for moderator attention, yes?
Thank you.
My mistake. I thought that that would be the very first thing you would check before asking the question, therefore you must have had a different reason for asking. Sorry about that.
Great post/username combo !
Precisely in order to PREVENT junior modding, I was happy to see that the Dope staff has made it very easy: when you click on “flag” on someone’s post, you are given an option to FIRST personal-message another Doper directly, to give them a chance to consider your suggestion, without anyone else ever being the wiser.
The only way anyone else would ever know – that is, the only way it would ever take on the appearance of junior modding (through no fault of the message sender) – is if the message receiver decides to make it a public matter, such as by starting a thread like this one.
Isn’t it ironic? Yeah, I really do think.
But since it’s now a public matter…I had PM’d the two posters in that thread who were debating Biden’s mental acuity, kindly suggesting they start a new thread on that subject.
This thread seems to be going off the rails.
I’m going to close it until @engineer_comp_geek gets around to looking at it.
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No, we do not have any new mods (as should be obvious by now).
If someone sends you a PM asking you, as one user to another, to start a new thread, that’s fine. If they instruct you to start a new thread as if they are acting as a moderator, that is junior modding or possibly impersonating staff, depending on how it is done.
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This will remain closed.