I knew full well what I was doing. This has all gone pretty much exactly as I expected. But I decided when I became a mod that I would try to engage and be transparent because I know that's an issue some have with the team here. I know it changes nothing. But it feels like good faith to me and I want to offer that to the community.

Shit, that’s where I blew it. Stymie the mods with this one weird trick!

That would be the democratic thing to do. Then again I don't want to be retroactively banned for my sexual desires towards one Grayson Murphy's abs

Goddamn. There's just so much to keep up with in this place!

You could type “slut” into the search box and probably find it pretty easily.

Let's call it a friendly warning and just move on. Ok?

Sure. But again, we're talking about context. And I'm not going to look up all previous violations, warnings, bannings, etc.

I admire your commitment to this unpaid job, but trying to engage with Burt, Verb or Mac in good faith is like pissing in the wind.

But again, when was a message board ever a democracy? You guys seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding about what this is.

To be fair, bitching about the mods on a message board is a fairly new concept that hasn’t been around too long

Well, that's certainly true. And I've largely avoided doing so. But tree has asked some good faith questions. And while I know full well Reid is probably trolling too, he's also asking questions that might benefit others. So I'm going to pursue those in good faith, too.

You're the newest, but your mod approach falls in line with the modship in general. I'm talking about shaking it up and sharing the mod robes with people who don't see the world the same as progressives like you, B and of course Ruddo. We don't need macphisto or anything on there, but probably trag or bodysnatcher would be a good place to start looking if you're curious about what kind of mod I'm talking about.

I absolutely do not mind if mods do their job, but in my mind that job is technical board maintenance/admin stuff. Moving threads. Pruning second account/bot spamming. That's pretty much it.

In this particular instance, and based on all of your responses so far explaining your modding (ty by the way), this is how I see that things went down:

1. A thread was started about porn quotes.
2. Things got questionable? The word "slut" was thrown around? Yet no one complained.
3. You decided to delete the thread when no one was looking and had no intention of explaining it until Jorge burt started this thread.

I can see the need to edit/censor when there's a complaint. Or if kids read this board. Or if you were trying to get the board ready for a big corporate sale to pearljam.com and need it to look clean and professional. I think you overstepped, that's all. Doesn't mean I don't want modding to happen, though I do enjoy making it difficult sometimes when I intentionally try to make you merge or move a thread about bagels/donuts.

OK. But I'll owe you one. I'll be like Morgan Freeman's character to your Kevin Costner Robin Hood

I can’t wait for stoner to come back and read all of this

This reminds me of reddit where I got auto banned from subs like r/cats because I know that masks don't work.

I sincerely appreciate this post. I'm not trolling in this thread. I think this is a valuable discussion the board needs to have from time to time. I mean this in the best way possible, but I want to try and make it clear that I respect the mods as people but do not always respect the modding decisions.

I didn't start this thread

There is nothing sincere about what durden is doing here. He's rubbing our faces in it while trying to pretend it's for the greater good. Talk about trolls.

You're so oppressed. I don't know how you get out of bed every morning.