When did Virginia become a modadmin?

[Mr. Morden]

It looks like she's listed as a modadmin now, but I think that's recent, and I don't recall any announcement.  Did she sneakily promote herself when she upgraded the forum?  

[Virginiá]

Well, there were some other moderation changes, but Dave hasn't made them yet, so no announcement.

The situation was that muon2 asked me if I wanted to be a 3rd Modadmin (because Nym has disappeared even if he may login from time to time - it's been like this for a while now actually), and I said sure and so he sent some requests to Dave like a week ago. However when Dave installed my addon, I asked him to temporarily elevate me to Modadmin (before muon2's request) because I needed to test new features only Modadmins can use, and I didn't want to bug Dave/muon to spend an hour or two testing the features down to the last detail.

Dave presumably hasn't seen muon's email though, so nothing is official.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I would be jealous if I contributed anything close to 1% of Virginia’s work.

[dead0man]

when?  not soon enough.

[Dr. Arch]

when?  not soon enough.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Why her and not BRTD?

[Mr. Morden]

Well, there were some other moderation changes, but Dave hasn't made them yet, so no announcement.

The situation was that muon2 asked me if I wanted to be a 3rd Modadmin (because Nym has disappeared even if he may login from time to time - it's been like this for a while now actually), and I said sure and so he sent some requests to Dave like a week ago. However when Dave installed my addon, I asked him to temporarily elevate me to Modadmin (before muon2's request) because I needed to test new features only Modadmins can use, and I didn't want to bug Dave/muon to spend an hour or two testing the features down to the last detail.

So out of curiosity, is the idea that you'd share in the banning decisions with Muon, or would you stick to something like the role that I had back in the day, where I used my modadmin powers to keep the spammer / sock attacks at bay, but left banning decisions to Nym?

[Virginiá]

So out of curiosity, is the idea that you'd share in the banning decisions with Muon, or would you stick to something like the role that I had back in the day, where I used my modadmin powers to keep the spammer / sock attacks at bay, but left banning decisions to Nym?

I thought I might ban Nym/muon2 and all Moderators who challenge my oppressive rule while also installing puppet Moderators (that Dave approves of) to carry out my orders.

No but really, I hadn't thought about it. I've been using up a lot of my forum time trying to iron out bugs / making adjustments to my project. I guess dealing with socks/spammers, and dealing with other temporary decisions. So long as muon2 is actually here to deal with stuff, we have a system we can follow. It wouldn't be right to have muon2 doing one thing and me another, because then ban decisions would begin to resemble judge-shopping

One thing I do intend to be active on is making sure Reaganfan and Greedo-like users don't park their butts in town hall/debate/"breaking news"/election night threads and begin turning it into a steaming pile of dung with the only content being people arguing with them. I won't have a problem with issuing 24 hour mod reviews if they can't respect other user's wishes to have a thread that they can actually enjoy.

[The Dowager Mod]

So out of curiosity, is the idea that you'd share in the banning decisions with Muon, or would you stick to something like the role that I had back in the day, where I used my modadmin powers to keep the spammer / sock attacks at bay, but left banning decisions to Nym?

I thought I might ban Nym/muon2 and all Moderators who challenge my oppressive rule while also installing puppet Moderators (that Dave approves of) to carry out my orders.

No but really, I hadn't thought about it. I've been using up a lot of my forum time trying to iron out bugs / making adjustments to my project. I guess dealing with socks/spammers, and dealing with other temporary decisions. So long as muon2 is actually here to deal with stuff, we have a system we can follow. It wouldn't be right to have muon2 doing one thing and me another, because then ban decisions would begin to resemble judge-shopping

One thing I do intend to be active on is making sure Reaganfan and Greedo-like users don't park their butts in town hall/debate/"breaking news"/election night threads and begin turning it into a steaming pile of dung with the only content being people arguing with them. I won't have a problem with issuing 24 hour mod reviews if they can't respect other user's wishes to have a thread that they can actually enjoy.

Long live the matriarchy!

[Mr. Morden]

I thought I might ban Nym/muon2 and all Moderators who challenge my oppressive rule while also installing puppet Moderators (that Dave approves of) to carry out my orders.

See, if you were smart, you would have used the upgrade to sneak in a feature that allows you to install your own mods at will.  That way, you wouldn't need Dave to approve anything.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Why her and not BRTD?

I don't know which part of this question is worse.

[Mr. Morden]

Why her and not BRTD?

I don't know which part of this question is worse.

No offense to Virginia, but the latter part by far. 

[Santander]

I actually support BRTD for mod.

[jamestroll]

I really want to be a mod!  But everywhere I ask I always get turned down

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

I really want to be a mod!  But everywhere I ask I always get turned down

Your first problem is asking. I mean, if you're not doing backroom deals, you're doing it wrong.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

So out of curiosity, is the idea that you'd share in the banning decisions with Muon, or would you stick to something like the role that I had back in the day, where I used my modadmin powers to keep the spammer / sock attacks at bay, but left banning decisions to Nym?

I thought I might ban Nym/muon2 and all Moderators who challenge my oppressive rule while also installing puppet Moderators (that Dave approves of) to carry out my orders.

No but really, I hadn't thought about it. I've been using up a lot of my forum time trying to iron out bugs / making adjustments to my project. I guess dealing with socks/spammers, and dealing with other temporary decisions. So long as muon2 is actually here to deal with stuff, we have a system we can follow. It wouldn't be right to have muon2 doing one thing and me another, because then ban decisions would begin to resemble judge-shopping

One thing I do intend to be active on is making sure Reaganfan and Greedo-like users don't park their butts in town hall/debate/"breaking news"/election night threads and begin turning it into a steaming pile of dung with the only content being people arguing with them. I won't have a problem with issuing 24 hour mod reviews if they can't respect other user's wishes to have a thread that they can actually enjoy.

Do you have the full ability to perma-ban posters?  

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I really want to be a mod!  But everywhere I ask I always get turned down

Hey, I did support that. There just were no openings.

[Mr. Morden]

I remember when Bushie's appointment as a moderator was criticized because he was too close to Jamespol:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=62495.0

[Virginiá]

Jimmie why do you keep asking in public? Don't you remember when I said if you keep doing that, it would be frowned upon heavily? Dave has basically said he'd like to avoid users who seem to want to be a moderator badly.

Do you have the full ability to perma-ban posters?  

Technically yes

[Mr. Morden]

I wonder what Eharding must be thinking about this now....

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=248010.msg5551503#msg5551503

[Adam Griffin]

I'm gonna lol when we all find out Virginia is actually Hamilton after both Atlas and AAD get completely wiped

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I wonder what Eharding must be thinking about this now....

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=248010.msg5551503#msg5551503

He's struggling

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

So out of curiosity, is the idea that you'd share in the banning decisions with Muon, or would you stick to something like the role that I had back in the day, where I used my modadmin powers to keep the spammer / sock attacks at bay, but left banning decisions to Nym?

*snip*
One thing I do intend to be active on is making sure Reaganfan and Greedo-like users don't park their butts in town hall/debate/"breaking news"/election night threads and begin turning it into a steaming pile of dung with the only content being people arguing with them. I won't have a problem with issuing 24 hour mod reviews if they can't respect other user's wishes to have a thread that they can actually enjoy.

This is change I can believe in!

[Santander]

Tyranny.

[YE]

I just hope Virginia doesn't become overworked and become burnt out from the forum. She spends all this time making high quality and lengthy posts, moding a few boards as, and presumably is into something outside of politics.