Those are just forums every mod has powers in. They're just deciding on where to place D.Turtle and I.
Did they tell you this or are you guessing?
Ah hah, it's in OT. Because nobody reads Announcements. Except Announcements says nothing about it anyway, so even if we did it wouldn't be too useful.
RogueIce wrote:Either way it seems like kind of a sloppy way to assign mods.
This opinion then kinda remains unchanged. They said Lagmonster is retiring but apparently haven't taken off his supermod powers yet.
I grant that maybe they don't consider it important, but they did take the time to give the green to Stofsk and D. Turtle before deciding on their forums, so... Maybe the Staff just works in mysterious ways...
starku wrote:maybe the hilariously inept nature of it
Stark sums it up well.
I'm not really bothered by it, so much as just left with a feeling of "WTF were they thinking?" and trying, vainly, to append some reason for the really, really odd way they went about this.
Well okay, I am sorta bothered at D. Turtle being a mod because I think he's a bit of an ass and Thanas-lite less the redeeming qualities (granted this is just out of what I've seen of him in N&P, but isn't N&P the "serious debate" forum anyway?). That particular promotion just seems out of left field. Was there some secret application process I missed?
adr wrote:hahah alyeska apparently thinks it's a serious thing to say "YOU HAVE TO BACK UP YOUR CLAIM THAT A NEW COPYRIGHT LAW WON'T BE THE END OF THE WORLD"
I figure it means the US would be a lot more like China considering how indiscriminate some companies are with their takedown notices.
adr wrote:hahah alyeska apparently thinks it's a serious thing to say "YOU HAVE TO BACK UP YOUR CLAIM THAT A NEW COPYRIGHT LAW WON'T BE THE END OF THE WORLD"
Throw not being able to prove a negative in that fuckers face and do the turnaround making him prove that it is.
thanas locked the original thread though (kinda proving my point about there being a shitload of sopa threads; they never had to do that about the terrible tyranny topics) so unless alyeska continues it in the new thread i'll let it drop