Approval poll: New Atlas moderators

[Mr. Morden]

Approve of what about them?  Approve of the fact that they were chosen?  Or approve of the job they're doing so far?

Also, with regard to the second modadmin position that Muon has now taken.....the purpose of that position is to prevent the forum from being overrun with porn spammers and the like, not to interfere with day to day moderation on other boards.  What did I actually use my modadmin abilities for?:

1) Ban confirmed sock or spam accounts
2) Delete the posts of confirmed sock or spam accounts if the mods of the relevant boards don't get to it first

Other than that, I never interfered with the moderation on any boards I wasn't assigned to, except the 2016 and 2020 boards, because that was part of the deal we had going during the election busy season, that the 2016 board needed me to help out in moderation there even after I was no longer assigned to it.  I also on a few occasions dealt with moderation issues on "The Atlas" board, but that stuff was almost always left up to Dave or Nym to deal with.

Banning posters who were not confirmed sock or spam accounts was always left up to Nym (or on the rare occasion he would get involved, to Dave).  Maybe the new regime will change around the responsibilities, but if it's set up like it was when I was there, then Muon as secondary modadmin will have no real impact on moderation decisions, because the only real decisions he'd be making 99% of the time would be "Is this a sock account or not?"  Muon and Ernest are the best of the remaining mods at understanding the technical side of the forum, and Ernest was looking to scale back his duties rather than expand them (hence, his being replaced by PiT on US General Discussion).  So Muon was the obvious choice for this.

[Mr. Morden]

I'd like to assure everybody the Cave is not a sinister place as some would suggest.

Aizen's version of this was better:

http://i.imgur.com/1DOiFlm.png

[Mr. Morden]

she did not even go so far as to apply for a mod position in the POST HERE IF YOU WANT TO BE CONSIDERED AS A MOD thread

You know that thread is 100% meaningless right? They'd let us know if our applications meant anything.

You're literally repeating BRTD talking points too, man. Don't sink that low. You can escape before it's too late!

Virginia didn't even apply there, so far as I can see.

Neither did Brittain33, Likely Voter, Lumine, or TJ, yet they all became mods in the last two years, after BK started that "post here if you want to be considered a mod" thread.  Should be obvious by now that you don't need to post in that thread in order to become a mod.  Dave never sanctioned that thread in the first place.  It was just BK on his own initiative trying to push along the brainstorming of ideas for who should get picked.