I re-read this post and that's a very scary and ignorant reason to appoint someone as a moderator.

 

... and the very scary part is that it's true !!

 

That was the reason I left one of the boards where I was an admin. It wasn't the members. It was the other admins/mods that were inconsistent. F that... I couldn't be bothered with it anymore.

 

I just scrolled through that locked thread and failed miserably to find any broken rules.

Maybe Mr Mod himself can enlighten us....

 

Who knows ... I sent him a PM and I reported his post, the one he ended the thread on, but I haven't got a response ...

 

Power. You want power over everyone else. Stealth now can sit back and laugh. Just last week he was on the same level of the totum pole as the rest of us, and all of a sudden he has absolute power over our accounts. It's a job of responsibility, and general interest for the well-being of the site.

He wants to contribute to the site by doing his own job to clean it up and maintain it. He has obviously been on it for a while and spends most of his free time if not all on the website, so he might as well get the position. I'm unsure if he has ever been banned, but all of his reporting sealed the deal getting him the position im sure.

He was sick of seeing people breaking the rules and not having direct control over it getting taken care of.

Of course im speaking all of this under the idea that stealth actually wanted to be mod before he got it, not RP appointing stealth without him even expecting it.

 

there was none it was locked not removed if we had broken rules it would have been axed and to give stealth credit he said 5 or 6 posts in it was getting 86ed I guess even if you play by the rules it does not matter

 

I wouldn't go so far as to say something like this. The neat thing about moderators is that there's checks and balances...big moves shouldn't happen without all of the staff/moderators' approval.

 

Moderators usually agree on suspensions and the banning of a member, I have yet to be on a forum where they all have to agree on warnings, editing threads or locking threads

 

Why bitch, The powers that be were pushed to the limit.
Stealth will be fair or he will end up here by himself.

 

Quintin -- do you really think that's why someone would be appointed a moderator? You and I go way back...

The decision to bring Stealth to moderator status was, indeed, mine but, it wasn't for the reasons that are being cited.

I won't explain my reasoning nor will I answer for bringing him in. I have zero regrets and, honestly, his name had come up long before he became one -- and the period of time that it took for him to become one, from start to finish, was only a few days long and was with IB's full support...

 

Real fair question, Bigman... It's pretty thankless as you guys are seeing - especially here as of late.

I can't speak for anyone else here but, I can speak for myself... The reason that I do it is because I enjoy the site. I enjoy what it stands for and I take pride in trying to keep it quid pro quo. The guys - well, most of them - here are fantastic people. They will step up and help you at the drop of a hat or will go to bat for you when a problem comes up with your truck and, in some cases, your life.

I do donate my time freely with nothing to be expected in return. It's crossed my mind numerous times to just hang it up and walk away but, I honestly kind of enjoy trying to explain things and doing what I think is right. While I will and have and will again make mistakes, I'd like to think that many of the decisions that I'm empowered to make are the correct ones, in the best interest of IB, and - most importantly, in the best interest of the paradigm that has long since been set by the others who have been here since the conception of the site.

The site is f150online.com - not joychat.com. Most who are here are for the same reason with a few exceptions. I like the normal... I like what the site stands for and, most of all, I enjoy the time I'm here.

 

I'm pretty sure Quintin was disagreeing with Scott. In other words, he doesn't believe Stealth was picked for those reasons.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but if I am wrong, this could get interesting...so, SUBSCRIBING!!

 

I am on 2 Ford truck forums and 4 turbo Buick forums.One of the Turbo Buick forums has over 12,000 members and no mods.The board owner is just like another member.He is listed as a moderator of most of the forums but he doesn't moderate.We pretty much police ourselves.The owner and one other guy have the power to move threads to the correct forum and delete spam threads.Aside from spam threads there has NEVER been a thread or post deleted or locked on that site.Except for the stickys, some of the stickys are locked.Occasionally if a thread gets too heated it gets moved to the Time Out Room, just to get it out of the GD forum.Threads in the Time Out Room can viewed or posted in at anytime.Out of respect for the board owner and the Turbo Buick community we try to keep it respectable.I'm not so sure that self policing method would work on f150online (probably not) but it works great over there.
turbobuicks.com "the best messageboard ever".

 

If that's the case, I apologize for even quoting him there... I may have misunderstood it.

As Tumba mentioned, things have been stretched pretty far and thin here as of late and the hammer has fallen quicker and with more force than is the 'norm'... Thank you for that post, Tumba.