Board Thread:Admin Applications/@comment-4998996-20130331013924/@comment-4998996-20130401022654

Coffee Shop Corporate Raider wrote: 41488p wrote: We need sensible people like Chaoz to mod the chat. I saw what Cheese said just now- that Chaoz, on occasions, minimods. Well, does that behavior not add to the list of reasons why someone should be a chatmod? If anything, backseat/minimodding retracts from the idea of a chat moderator or administrator. It is explicitly stated in the rules that backseat modding is generally frowned upon, and to act like a moderator when you clearly are not one is normally disallowed. I have seen Chao do this many a time - I hold nothing against him, but I believe that backseat modding is an ill, unneeded method to gaining a status of power in the chat. A better way to deal with chat troubles if moderators are absent is to screencap the behavior or something of the sort, and send it to an admin or mod to have them deal with it. It's not going to help at all if we have people warning for rules that they CAN'T enforce bans or punishments upon, and it is left needless when supplied with the fact that a minimod who does not have that star can only warn and not ban if the user continues. I can see where you are coming from, mind you my thoughts on the matter are different. If warn someone of the rules they are breaking and letting them know the rule itself, which I often do by putting the rule into chat, it shows there are users with no power whom like to try and keep the peace of the chat. It also gets rid of the little excuse "ignorance of the law" when they do it again because the rule has been posted into chat. The way I think of it is like telling someone not to steal, even though you are not a police officer.