We can?
Exactly... I'd like some names please. I look at people wanting certain members to leave the same way I look at break ups, if you got a place for them to go, then, and only then do you have an argument. Maybe I was a game show host in a past life, but when I left a girl, I'd be like "but you're not going home empty handed! Here's several other guys you can date, and your very own I dated Jim Profit t-shirt!"
I'd apply, but probably people here think I'm new. Even though my name is pretty much carved into the internet. At least on 4chan. I've been mod before at other forums, never big ones like this one. And I didn't really "moderate", I hate moderation, I was the anti-moderator. I'd undo others moderation to give some checks and balances. Mods need to be contradicted, and members are in a bad position to do it. You can't reason with someone with a gun in their hand. So at least if you have one mod who "gets it", they can undo bans, fix your posts, get them out of the spam gutter, and stuff like that until the other mods cut you a break and actually treat you like a human being. What a novel concept.
I have a reasonable distrust and dislike of mods. People tend to excuse their own misbehavior and intolerance by claiming it's "their forum". Some people just shouldn't run a website if they can't handle the differences of others. It's like Abraham Lincoln said, nearly any man can stand adversity. But if you want to judge a man's character, give him power. Guys like Fast Eddie of TvTropes, Richard the rapist Burlew, and Moot of 4chan, have extremely bad characters.
I'm writing a book about it. I'll probably have to come up with a shorter title then "Everything I Learned About Politics, I Learned From Posting At Internet Forums". But that's basically the premise. Hopping from message board to message board for ten years, has taught me a lot about what to expect from people, and what to expect in return. You have to learn to depend on your super ego when on the internet, because no one is going to treat you fairly, abide by the rules they're enforcing, or believe a word you say. Thats why half the book is basically me just having a rage fit against some notable mods, and wishing I had their personal information to just give out to the public. The way they just play jump rope with my IP address.