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it’s always been a terrible comm, don’t understand why it was protected so long.
Irrelevant now but I’ve had it blocked since before Melina was banned. I should check it out again before actually voting.
I think the main takeaway from the Melina/Beluga/dsplayer situation is that the correct way to handle a consistently shitty user isn’t to make them a moderator. I mean come on.
Our admins are all trusted, long-time users in good standing. We regularly browse, comment, and post on our main accounts. You post and chat with us daily as comrades, and we value all of you. You may not recognize the usernames on our admin accounts because we regularly swap the alts used for admin privileges. This is why you’ll see really old or unused alt accounts as well as really new accounts on the admin team.
This really makes it impossible to build trust in the admins. The admins are vetted by who, other admins? They might be “in good standing” but there are users in this site who are in good standing who I wouldn’t want in charge.
Take SalvadorWALL_E for example. This account was sitting dormant for 2 years, got promoted to admin in the middle of a heated struggle session, pissed some people off, then was purged. Was this an existing admin who wanted deflect heat? A trusted user who got promoted, immediately fucked up and got demoted? A trusted user who got promoted, immediately fucked up, and is going to continue being an admin on another account?
I understand that it’s for opsec and I’m not telling you to stop using alts, but I’m not giving the benefit of the doubt to accounts with little-to-no history.
