Agora Got New Mods (and the secret is within)

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Hello agora frens and agora fascists,

The moderator team now has new blood and we would like to announce who we're for transparency reasons:

Myself, Punp and №56 are now moderators.

The secret:
the cia watched you put milk on your cereal this morning

e: edited because I left the mod team
 
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To add: I'm basically just responding to moderator reports when they come up. I don't really expect to do much else. We volunteered to wipe up because Agora had one and a half active moderators.
 
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To add my personal, non announcement bits:
It has been a long time since I have done this job (20 years!) and have been resisting putting myself forward despite people regularly saying I'd do a good job. I will inevitably make mistakes and fuck up at some point or another, please rember I have the best interests of the forum at heart and if I am out of step, absolutely feel free to tell me I am being a doodoo head.

Additionally, because of my tendency to muck in with slapfights myself, if I am ever posting with the mod hat on (which should be rare!) I will make this incredibly clear (like on this post) - I do not want people feeling at all like they cannot partake in posting jousting with me just cause I have some additional buttons.

tl;dr i do it for free
 
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Oh good...some mods that won't send retarded messages to me and @tcp for having normal gentlemans discourse. And won't wave their dicks around in chat. A welcome change! Congratulations on becoming Ward Managers at Agora State Hospital.
 
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This thread really only exists for transparency's sake, and because a number of users had noticed us using mod powers and wanted to know what was going on. I initially held off on making an announcement post because I was worried it could be misread as a grandiose "new sheriff in town"-type gesture, but the alternative would have meant turning the moderation team into even more of a secret club than it was already.

As far as I'm concerned, being a moderator is a necessary chore that doesn't confer any additional respect. Somebody has to delete spam, respond to user reports/requests, enforce the rules, and yes, give out warnings and bans. I accepted the request to be a mod because I didn't want anyone else to come along and abuse these powers to make themselves emperor of the forum. Agora is a largely self-moderating and self-directing community, and I think I speak for the rest of the moderators when I say that none of us have any desire to change that. A moderator's job should be to moderate the community by minimizing unnecessary drama and other BS, not to lead the community and cause drama as a result.

We are, of course, all community members in our own right, with our own opinions and things we like to argue about, and I don't think that's going to change. The immediate goal for the mod team is to figure out a way to ensure there's a clear-cut distinction between that kind of personal posting and mod actions going forward. I am sure @remember_summer_days will continue to love Jesus, @handoferis will continue to be a grumpy SA oldfag, @Punp will continue to hate anything AI-related, and I will continue to be right about everything, but my hope is that as a team we will be able to keep each other on reasonably short leashes and only put on the janitorial cap when necessary. I think we will have done a good job if we never have to make a boring accouncement thread like this again.
 
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There are only three kinds of moderators in this world.

1. Absent Father
2. Fun Police
3. Discord Groomer

Choose wisely...
I groomed your dad on discord. Police were absent for fun.
 
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ILLEGAL AGOR AROAD ACTIVITIES, ALL MODS ARE WHITE, FASCIST FRONT ON ALERT. FREN OR FASCIST MAKE YOUR CHOISE.

BAN THIS!

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