Should we elect moderators by a popular vote?

[Eraserhead]

I vote "yes" as I am not totally fond of Mr. Leip's dictatorship.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

God no

[Oakvale]

That would end badly.

[Eraserhead]

I suppose we could also try to elect them by the electoral college, which would be really interesting!

[Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey]

We don't even elect our presidents by popular vote. Why our mods? An electoral college mod system would be interesting.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Please, just not this...

[The Mikado]

You're not fond of the "dictatorship" of the man that owns the site?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

No. We'd probably end up with Libertas or someone as a mod after Hamilton's socks and his troll buddies stuffed the vote. Please see Atlasia.

[Eraserhead]

You're not fond of the "dictatorship" of the man that owns the site?

Correct.

[Eraserhead]

No. We'd probably end up with Libertas or someone as a mod after Hamilton's socks and his troll buddies stuffed the vote. Please see Atlasia.

And yet they always end up with horrible approval ratings on this board. I remain unconvinced that this would be a major problem.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

You're not fond of the "dictatorship" of the man that owns the site?

Correct.

Hm, dude, whenever you like it or not, Dave is an owner of the site and he makes the rules. We're guests here.

How long before Eraserhead turn into another Teddy comparing moderators and owner actions to Nazi Germany? Take your guesses.

[Eraserhead]

You're not fond of the "dictatorship" of the man that owns the site?

Correct.

Hm, dude, whenever you like it or not, Dave is an owner of the site and he makes the rules. We're guests here.

How long before Eraserhead turn into another Teddy comparing moderators and owner actions to Nazi Germany? Take your guesses.

Who's Teddy?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

You're not fond of the "dictatorship" of the man that owns the site?

Correct.

Hm, dude, whenever you like it or not, Dave is an owner of the site and he makes the rules. We're guests here.

How long before Eraserhead turn into another Teddy comparing moderators and owner actions to Nazi Germany? Take your guesses.

Look, E has bitching since I've been here, and he was here before me........Let him have his 15 minutes for the month, ok?  

[The Mikado]

You're not fond of the "dictatorship" of the man that owns the site?

Correct.

Hm, dude, whenever you like it or not, Dave is an owner of the site and he makes the rules. We're guests here.

How long before Eraserhead turn into another Teddy comparing moderators and owner actions to Nazi Germany? Take your guesses.

Who's Teddy?

A mentally-ill poster who left back in January claiming that the site resembled Nazi Germany.  I'd rather not bring that incident back up.

[Eraserhead]

You're not fond of the "dictatorship" of the man that owns the site?

Correct.

Hm, dude, whenever you like it or not, Dave is an owner of the site and he makes the rules. We're guests here.

How long before Eraserhead turn into another Teddy comparing moderators and owner actions to Nazi Germany? Take your guesses.

Who's Teddy?

A mentally-ill poster who lest back in January claiming that the site resembled Nazi Germany.  I'd rather not bring that incident back up.

Hmm, I don't remember that one.

[The Mikado]

You're not fond of the "dictatorship" of the man that owns the site?

Correct.

Hm, dude, whenever you like it or not, Dave is an owner of the site and he makes the rules. We're guests here.

How long before Eraserhead turn into another Teddy comparing moderators and owner actions to Nazi Germany? Take your guesses.

Who's Teddy?

A mentally-ill poster who lest back in January claiming that the site resembled Nazi Germany.  I'd rather not bring that incident back up.

Hmm, I don't remember that one.

Just a taste of it in this thread:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=108009.0

Start on the fourth page.

If you're curious, click on his name and read the last few pages of his posts.

EDIT:

Forget that, this thread is a goldmine of Teddyisms:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=108250.0

[Free Palestine]

I had an idea for a website, where the admin is elected every so often, and the site members elect a legislature that votes on things like banning members or creating new boards.  Of course, there would have to be some other draw to the forum besides that.  In a larger board, the admin would nominate moderators to be approved by the legislature.

[k-onmmunist]

I support electoral college

[Barnes]

Well, I'm totally opposed to this. For one thing, if we had "Moderator elections" then the whole Forum would become consumed with that, and care about nothing else. The point of this site is to discuss politics, not fight about who's going to moderate it.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I support electoral college Dave dictatorship

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

The potential problem with this is that someone like BRTD will probably get elected, who would invariably abuse the system to ban people he disliked.

[Хahar 🤔]

Atlasia has moderator elections, IIRC.

[The Mikado]

The potential problem with this is that someone like BRTD will probably get elected, who would invariably abuse the system to ban people he disliked.

For the record, Moderators can't ban or even put people on mod review.  The worst a renegade mod could do would be to randomly delete threads.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

The potential problem with this is that someone like BRTD will probably get elected, who would invariably abuse the system to ban people he disliked.

For the record, Moderators can't ban or even put people on mod review.  The worst a renegade mod could do would be to randomly delete threads.

Moderators can, however, unfairly target one person and try to distort the reality of what's going on with excessive lobbying of Dave Leip, all in the hopes of getting their target banned.

I know of at least one individual who does that now...

[The Mikado]

The potential problem with this is that someone like BRTD will probably get elected, who would invariably abuse the system to ban people he disliked.

For the record, Moderators can't ban or even put people on mod review.  The worst a renegade mod could do would be to randomly delete threads.

Moderators can, however, unfairly target one person and try to distort the reality of what's going on with excessive lobbying of Dave Leip, all in the hopes of getting their target banned.

I know of at least one individual who does that now...

People just don't get banned on a whim here.  You might notice that you're still here.