[QUOTE=Giraffe]
Your concerns are noted. And stupid. Are you seriously worrying about a hypothetical abuse of power on an internet message board? Have you considered not being such an idiot?
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Fine. Dismiss me. Cast me aside like a piece of used tissue. Step on my feelings and call me a fool. You’ll miss me when I’m gone and if anything happens to me it will be on your heads! Don’t try to stop me! :mad:
I’m sorry. Please take me back. I didn’t mean it. Whip me, beat me, make me write bad checks, but please tell me you love me!
[QUOTE=fluiddruid]
How else do we Moderators know which people get to abide by the Special Charter Member Extended-Privilege Rules and who must be strictly held to the Regular Member Barely-Above-An-Indentured-Servant, Independent-Thoughts-Must-Be-Crushed Rules?
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Hey! I’m still waiting for those extended privileges. Who do you have to bribe / sleep with / use the special handshake on to get them?
[QUOTE=elmwood]
So, you’re the one Doper who admits to owning an Escalade, huh?
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I need it to haul around all my Real Dolls. Anything smaller and some of them have to go in the trunk, which is just no good. People look at you like you’re some sort of creep when they see you stuffing a bunch of limp human forms into your trunk.
[QUOTE=erie774]
I’m sure the mods here would never abuse their privileged status by doing something unsavory, but I get a little squeamish about people in positions of power. You know, “Power corrupts, absolute power fucking rocks!” Or words to that effect. I would like to see a distinction between, for example, moderator Giraffe posting to a thread and member Giraffe posting. (No, Giraffe I have nothing against you or any of the mods. It’s just that your name had the most recent entry on this thread) Sure, you can tell us “moderator hat on” or words to that effect, but it still gives me a slightly queasy feeling, like when Congress investigates itself. Sure, you expect them to do the right thing but there is always the chance…
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How would this prevent a mod from being “corrupted” by all their “power?” They still have all the same abilities and responsibilities. How would a secret identity make them less prone to corruption? If anything, it would be worse: if you get in a knockdown, drag-out fight with Giraffe, and he starts hassling you as a mod because of it, then you can make a pretty good case that he’s abusing his rank. If you get in a fight with regular poster Giraffe, who unbeknownst to you is also Necky the Mod, how do you prove (or even know) that he’s hassling you as Necky because of what you said to him when he was Giraffe? This way, at least, mods are responsible for everything they say both as mods and as posters. If the idea still makes you queasy, I suggest you take some Pepto and get over it.
What’s unclear about how things currently work? How is secrecy going to make things clearer? What specific incidents of impropriety do you think would be remedied by this change?
Then it’s not really a class system, is it? Charter Membership was floated as a minor perk when the board first went pay-to-post. Since, as you say, it doesn’t give the poster any special priviledges, it’s a pretty stupid thing to be whining about.
Why are you asking me? You’re the one complaining about it. You tell me why you give a shit.
Since charter members aren’t given preferential treatment, and regular members aren’t being oppressed, I’m not entirely certain where you’re coming from in your accusation of hypocrisy. Charter Members aren’t given preferential treatment. Non-Charter Members aren’t being oppressed. So how exactly does it make me a kettle if I decry political and social discrimination while holding a meaningless title on an internet message board?
Oh, and for the record, there are a lot of people I think I’m better than. There’s a difference between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome. I wasn’t born better than anyone else, but I sure as hell have turned out better than some.
[QUOTE=Giles]
Hey! I’m still waiting for those extended privileges. Who do you have to bribe / sleep with / use the special handshake on to get them?
[/QUOTE] raises hand Uh, at least on the first part. I’d need a picture first for point number two.
[QUOTE=Giraffe]
I need it to haul around all my Real Dolls. Anything smaller and some of them have to go in the trunk, which is just no good. People look at you like you’re some sort of creep when they see you stuffing a bunch of limp human forms into your trunk.
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[QUOTE=Greenback]
Do we have proof that Necky the mod does not exist? What if he does but is just lurking, waiting for the opportune moment…
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Note for any lurkers; now would be an interesting time to join.
Moderators, the rebellious attitude displayed by this “member” displeases me. I order you to dispose of erie774 lest his/her (I do not bother to pay heed to the genders of lowly members) attitude spread to the rest of the members. You must obey the commands of the charter members, or you shall feel the wrath of the first dopers aboard the Mayflower.
Now that that has been taken care of, fetch me a flagon of mead and a member to play the lute for me.
[QUOTE=tomndebb]
I have no idea whether we on the staff are trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, or clean,…
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Wow. A clean sweep. I am none of these. I am reverent, but it is reserved for Robert Heinlein, Humphrey Bogart, and pre-1990 or so Elvis Costello.
If I couldn’t be a regular poster too, I would FedEx my jackboots back to Chicago so fast it would make your head swim.
[QUOTE=Harborwolf]
Moderators, the rebellious attitude displayed by this “member” displeases me. I order you to dispose of erie774 lest his/her (I do not bother to pay heed to the genders of lowly members) attitude spread to the rest of the members. You must obey the commands of the charter members, or you shall feel the wrath of the first dopers aboard the Mayflower.
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Hah! You’re merely a “June '99er”. I don’t take orders from a mere Junie.
Go find someone with seniority if you want to order Mods around.
