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    Quote Originally Posted by Refugee View Post
    Spot on GA. So why all the pretence of democracy and choice? I’m glad you’ve finally said it. That’s been the whole point of my posts and the other VIPs and mods will be queuing up to give you a like for that.
    There has been no pretense. We never offered democracy either. We are implementing a program that was designed with the various suggestions and feedback we received in the last townhall in mind. We tried to make something that had a more democratic process to it, but not a direct democracy.

    The Moderation team is not the subject of this thread.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Refugee View Post
    Spot on GA. So why all the pretence of democracy and choice? I’m glad you’ve finally said it. That’s been the whole point of my posts and the other VIPs and mods will be queuing up to give you a like for that.
    The moderators have never suggested anything about democratic elections for moderators.
    "Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most — that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least."
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    I have no opinion. I don't care who does what. I follow the rules and am nice to everyone, so I don't fear what they decide.

    If this is what ADMIN wants, then so be it. He pays the bills. We are his guests.

    I will say this: whoever made the decision to automatically change badwords into @#$%, I am grateful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Perianne View Post
    I have no opinion. I don't care who does what. I follow the rules and am nice to everyone, so I don't fear what they decide.

    If this is what ADMIN wants, then so be it. He pays the bills. We are his guests.

    I will say this: whoever made the decision to automatically change badwords into @#$%, I am grateful.
    We introduced the software a couple of years back. It was better than trying to police all of the language.
    In quoting my post, you affirm and agree that you have not been goaded, provoked, emotionally manipulated or otherwise coerced into responding.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Cthulhu View Post
    Well the problem comes back then. Inevitably you'll have a shortage of one or the other and then you'll not have pepper representation.

    Might I suggest not trying to represent any political persuasion, but rather an example of the rules being followed regardless of personal politics?

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    That's an impossible feat on a political board, especially when it comes to recognizing and attempting to moderate trolling.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Refugee View Post
    Oh well, an hour later and you’re still here. I suppose there must be a fast track system for those who previously got TBd or the report system is out of action, So go on, what other personal details about me do you want to know … future advisor?
    What is it that you think I did that was ban-worthy?
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    I believe that VIP'S and Advisors serve to divide us more than anything else.
    Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I digress....

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    Quote Originally Posted by AZ Jim View Post
    I believe that VIP'S and Advisors serve to divide us more than anything else.
    Why?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ravens Fan View Post
    There has been no pretense. We never offered democracy either. We are implementing a program that was designed with the various suggestions and feedback we received in the last townhall in mind. We tried to make something that had a more democratic process to it, but not a direct democracy.

    The Moderation team is not the subject of this thread.
    You certainly made it sound like democracy. Nominations, Town Halls, advisors? I’ve already told you I couldn’t give a toss, it just took GA to admit it and now I’m happy You tried to make it democratic, but not democratic? Yes, OK. Your’re right about it not being about Mods as well (taboo subject) and neither is it about my whereabouts and what I’m doing here by someone else, but we’ll ignore that shall we?

    I’m a bit too wise to be drawn in by baiting about my location and circumstances. After 11 pages I leave this thread voluntarily, having had my say and getting the truth from GA, which is all I came for. No hard feelings and good luck with it all.








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    Quote Originally Posted by Refugee View Post
    There are no ‘requests’ here GA, there are announcements and orders. Get yourselves some democracy, or come out and admit it and at least be transparent about the process. It’s that lack of transparency behind closed doors that riles so many and the reason why these sort of threads are so popular. No one on the forum elects anyone here. It’s decided by an unelected few, confirmed by the same few, who can’t be UN-elected either. Needs a grass roots Tea Party methinks.

    Don’t worry, I’m just in one of my anarchist Bolshie moods today and busy plotting your overthrow in the hole with the rest of my dispossessed and marginalised comrades.
    Could you name a forum or 2 where the membership is allowed to unelect a moderator ?
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