Board Thread:Chat Discussion/@comment-5590118-20141120182446/@comment-24463401-20141120223741

Shining-Armor wrote: I personally think that there are some people here that are chat moderators but should not be. This is because they themselves contribute to the negative feelings in chat. They either do not follow the chat rules themselves or they fail to enforce the rules period. It should also be said that there are mods that are too strict when it comes to the rules. These people should be demoted in order to solve this problem (although there are some that could just use a slap on the wrist).

Another thing that bothers me is the fact that admins either do not do public demotions (or demotions at all) purely because the process will cause drama among users. This is not an excuse to let people who are unfit for rights continue the actions that have lead them to be considered for demotion in the first place. The promotion/demotion of mods is controlled by admins and the activity appears sporadic and uncoordinated. Matters like this that effect every user on chat should be controlled by the users they effect. We should not come on one day and have a bunch of demotions/promotions happen overnight with no discussion or forewarning at all.

The last thing I want to point out is that some of the chat moderators cannot take criticism of any kind at all. They immediately attack the user(s) as if they were issuing a personal attack against them. These reactions are completely unnecessary and toxic to the community. This leads to distrust and a feeling of oppression among members of the community and leads to more dramatic outbursts in chat. These users have no open forum in which to provide criticism to a moderator which, as a member of the community, they should have the right to. THIS RIGHT HERE. THIS. This is so fucking true. This accurately summarizes what I was going to say. Mods feel attacked when they are provided valid criticsm. Also Bitter brought up some valid points too. People take this place way too seriously when really it's just a damn chatroom on the internet.