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Nay for me too, way too controversial.
It's important to have diversity, especially in your moderators. Not having diversity is a death curl for any community.
There's a whole lot more to being a good mod than just having a different opinions.
A contradictarian would make for a very bad mod, but if we just base it on diversity of opinions we would believe they would be right in their place.
Oh, I'm aware of the qualities needed for moderation!
In my main comment, I list my qualifications. Feel free to check it out.
Having experience doesn't make you a good moderator and seeing what you were moderating it's not as if you had moderated any serious sub.
WatchPeopleDie was a very serious sub. It had constant contact with the admins and was strictly moderated.
They are trying to infiltrate
Infiltrate? No.
I'm providing dissent and lively discussion. It's important to have diversity, especially in communities that are centred around fairness and equality.
And I will be your devils advocate
Thanks, but you don't need to advocate for me. Try advocating for free discussion instead.
Much obliged, TendieMaster.
A seat will be awaiting you on the Supreme Council on the day I assume the throne.
Edit: oh shit, this was supposed to be a PM!!
Hopefully your message doesn't count for a vote for goat...
No, it doesn't.
I don't think you're responsible for counting the votes, are you?
As mentioned in the OP, people need to vote by mentioning the user's pseudonym, that's what they did with you name but to say they didn't want to vote for you, hence my comment.
In the bottom part of their comment they mention imaq.
Why not?
I follow the rules very strictly. Is it the Donald posts you dislike? Those are satire. I figured that'd be obvious.
Regardless, I've generated a lot of controversy despite following the rules, and I think that's a good thing. It's important to have dissent and opposition. Otherwise, you devolve back into the problem of Reddit, where the mods have a certain bias that makes fair discussion and arguments impossible.
If you're going purely off downvotes or upvotes, my account's been bombarded by certain users who really don't like me. Dunno why they felt the need to downvote my profile and downvote my music threads, but whatev~
Just like the original subreddit, am I right?
That's right, yeah!
Until CisMaelWhitestorm gained moderation and booted the original mods. Then it became that
The problem is that if all content is sarcastic then you start having members that truly believe what's posted and the whole community starts going down the shitter.
By the way, mods on Reddit have seniority, a new mod can't boot mods that were there before them, that means the other mods were perfectly ok with T_D becoming what it became.
I think The_Donald on sh.it is already down the shitter lol, have you seen their modlog?
But yeah, I'm pretty sure the Sub creator booted everyone, gave Cis the position and then deleted their account. Unfortunately due to the blackout and T_D being banned, I can't reverify this.
But you're admitting to helping make the situation worse and you want to be a mod here?
Make the situation worse?
In another thread you say people who live in the extremes need to be shown diverging opinions so they don't stay in their echo chamber and radicalize (one of the justifications of your opposition to defederating instances), then you turn around and go on a sub for one such group and just join in the movement...
How is that supposed to make people think you're mod material and not just a troll?
I do believe extremists need to be shown differing opinions, yes. I think everyone should see opinions they don't agree with.
My comments in that community are that though, pointing doubt at their conspiracy theories.
I mean, how more obvious should I be making the satire? I thought it'd be too on the nose making a post saying God Save The Queen
It's not satire.
Let me be clear, I'm not questioning whether you believe it's satire. I'm saying that after 7 years of edgelords coming up with worse and worse posts and memes to one up eachother, and now politicians saying things that were once "just a joke", it's not satire or a joke anymore. It's becoming truth to some people, and that's a problem.
I'll also point out that r/the_donald also followed the rules strictly. That usually meant pushing the rules right to the line, and making the admins have to adjust the rules that were more ambiguous. I hope you're not following that example.
My posts are satire. One says God Save the Queen, and the other has Trump portrayed as a child.
If Trump is going to be running again with God Save the Queen and wearing a Fortnite Shirt, then shit, my bad.