@TildalWave If that proves to be true, then I apologize for getting into your business. I just don't like it when my friends take self-destructive paths
@Ohnana That's exactly what they want you to think.
@TildalWave Like I said if that's the case than so be it. It's just that the two of you bickering and acting like children isn't ok, so please do grow up.
@AdamLear I was and still am a mod on some other networks, including some of my own sites... I never really brought that up because I thought it's irrelevant,... but you really need to think this moderation thing through on SE, because at places you talk about trust, in other places you invalidate that by kicking it around
seriously, if you trust some users to do something for others, you don't ask them to call in the forces when they're implicated, you either trust them, or you don't
@DavidFreitag no it isn't difficult ... e.g. in that case up, comments were used to extend the question which it wasn't asked by those commenting... that's not what comments are there for and would in other circumstances be deleted as not constructive, with request to move discussion in chat ... something I could have done myself, if it wasn't for the mislaid trust policy
none of this would even be an issue if mods were actually trusted by SE to ... you know, moderate
@TildalWave Still not sure on what you're getting at there. We trust mods to moderate... If we didn't, we wouldn't give mods access to a whole bunch of tools and info that's not otherwise available to regular users.
@AdamLear I think what he's trying to say is this: a moderator fills the dual-role of police-person and contributor. A comment "attacking" an answer requires a defence of the contribution, or so it can seem.
@AdamLear mods aren't humans in a normal sense, as soon as you learn not to abuse the trust and work for the better of the community, you're already different than "statistical average" and "how that plays out most of the times"
The mods we have who have served the longest across the network are the ones who are exceptionally good at stepping away from the keyboard. They are the ones who don't burn out.
Woah - that was some transcript to get through. @TildalWave - sorry to hear that dude. I think you've been doing an awesome job despite the Oregon Lunatic. Think SEx.SE will miss you in that role! It does suck if other moderators aren't there to step in when you need some AFK time, so I do totally get it though - hope you do enjoy being a monkey without a gun, then!
@AdamLear As in making mistakes? Sure... and I didn't mean that mods aren't regular humans in that regard, I meant that giving out trust you should be able to soon learn if that was abused or not, and those that don't abuse it are, in a sense, more trustworthy than average. And that moderation policy should reflect that.
@AdamLear Well, for the most part, whenever I was angered by someone, I'd get in reply life coaching by other mods, most just kids in my eyes really. That gets tiring, is less than helpful, and frankly condescending.
Eh, if you think what they're telling you is condescending because they're "just kids" even though they're adults, you are also being condescending. You get out of relationships what you put into them.
