Board Thread:Chat Discussion/@comment-24463401-20140608232520/@comment-24463401-20140610204250

Fatal Disease wrote:

The Damn Batman wrote: Any questions, leave them here in the comments. Also inform all mods who are unaware of this thread. I actually have three questions. The first question is why can't we comment on the blogs? I feel as though that they should be commented, given critique, or supports and opposes as to see if they deserve the privilege to be a moderator or not. It'll actually put use into the blogs that all moderators are actually permitted to do so, rather than wait until 9 days to do so. Or at least include that it's all part of Phase 2 (the voting, I believe), and have the voting once every moderator is doing (I think that's what you plan on doing, since it just says Phase 2, but you included three phases). And remember what you said in the first thread, that everyone, including moderators, can comment on these.

The second question is why are they blogs? I see that there's a project page explaining how to do this. I think that the moderator should write it out in the namespace of the project page (Project: Requests for Chat Moderator/Recount/Fatal Disease), follow the whole process in the rules, and bam. The app's done. It will also prevent blog space, since the apps seem that they wouldn't be commented.

And the third question is why are the moderators that were demoted a month before this whole entire thing was instituted, gets to have a second chance? What I meant by this, I can see the whole "inactivity" reason, since we had lost three moderators due to this. But other moderators, like ChaoZ (sorry for using you as an example, you're the only one that fits this example), that actually went through the whole demotion process, got supports by some, if not a lot, of users that actually agree with the demotion (including some administrators), and the user was demoted on fair grounds, and administrator had included that the user should not have any rights on this wiki again.

Those are my three questions about it. First: We were saving it for Phase 2, which is a community wide thread that discusses current moderator staff. This is what I agreed mods can comment on. Sorry I didn't make it clear, but I didn't want people having to go back and take replys and copy/paste them again for the next phase.

Second: The first few mods who tried making subpages had problems, so I just went with blogs. By the time you had brought it up, a bunch were already blog posts, so I thought it'd be a lot more effort to remake them into subpages. Again, sorry for this. We're working out the kinks with this so far, but I'm confident this will work.

Third: Chao had a discussion with Reading, and reading was ok with it. I wasn't going to add it originally, but since I thought Chao had special circumstances surrounding his demotion (which he explained in his app), I thought it'd be ok if he brought it up again. I told them to explain there demotion, so people could understand the circumstances surrounding their incidents. If they really were guilty, and if it was really the majority of the community who said they were unfit, they can do it again. It's going to be a bit harder for these ex-mods, but if they can properly explain themselves, they might have a chance at getting their rights back. Also see Skelly's reply.