Board Thread:Chat Discussion/@comment-24434736-20141125192154/@comment-5643552-20141125214835

So this sounds like a really terrible idea for a few reasons.

For one, not only is the "mods choosing mods" thing not possible without bugging an admin every time to promote/demote someone, but it would probably turn into a clusterfuck of friends choosing friends and enemies trying to kick each other off the team.

Mods deciding rules isn't a good idea because mods aren't all that trustworthy to begin with and many of them have flat-out bad judgment and/or don't have the site's best interests at heart.

All in all, I don't think this will fix anything. If anything, it will make things much, much worse.

What I think would go down if we went through with it:
 * lots of bullshit mods are promoted
 * lots of bullshit rules are implemented
 * chat becomes a ban-happy shithole and/or an even bigger circlejerk than it already is
 * lots of unhappy users
 * lots of a mod infighting
 * drama spills all over the forums and main site and makes us all look bad
 * chat is shut down forever

Call me a pessimist all you want, but there's just too many ways this can go wrong for me to support it in any way.