Approval poll: New Atlas moderators

[Ban my account ffs!]

While I don't think they will do a bad job, and they certainly improve the overall pool of moderators... I am always deeply skeptical of people who would seek middle management.

Of course this is the least of my concerns.  I actually don't like the message that elevating Muon to such a position sends to the sizable forum LGBT community. 

[Ban my account ffs!]

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.

Nobody is questioning your moderator tenure, Mr. Morden.  

I think it is important to give Muon the benefit of the doubt.  I think he'll do just fine in holding back the tsunami of bullsh**t that we rarely even see because you guys handle it well enough.  I just want to make it clear that any decision he makes regarding an LGBT poster is transparent at the very least to LGBT mods.  I trust he would make the right decision anyway, but I would ask that mods like Torie and Virginia make concerns known if there are any to be had.