Idea -- should President moderate Demogame Forums?

[MSTK]

I think that because the president is in an executive office he should be able to manage these boards - ie. sticky and unsticky topics, close unwanted topics, etc, as he thinks would be most helpful to the board.

 

[MOTH]

In theory its a great idea. In Practice though it would be very easy to abuse this power. There is no way in hell I would ever give up this to some random elected citizen if I was Thunderfall.

 

[Provolution]

Insane idea, I wonder what would happen to opposition voices.

 

[DaveShack]

In this particular case it would work (I have disagreements with people but value their speech too much to abuse power), but I'd be against having it as a general principle. Now if it were possible to give someone sticky / unsticky power without ban/unban this might work.

 

[Provolution]

I agreee onthe Sticky and Unsticky part, that would make sense.

 

[Ashburnham]

In theory its a great idea. In Practice though it would be very easy to abuse this power. There is no way in hell I would ever give up this to some random elected citizen if I was Thunderfall.

I second MOTH. Moderators need to fulfill more criteria than simply being voted in for a term.

 

[Rik Meleet]

Don't mixup in-game and out-game things.

I am subscribed to the Needed things thread. Just post in there and the moderators will take care of sticky and unsticky things etc.

 

[eyrei]

Hehe...not going to happen.

 

[ainwood]

Fine by me - as long as you guys want to elect me president, then I can sticky some threads for you.

 

[Strider]

Fine by me - as long as you guys want to elect me president, then I can sticky some threads for you.

I'd vote for you if you give me a little "bump" on my COTM10 score .

 

[Chieftess]

Not gonna happen.

 

[Padma]

Once more: This is so not going to happen!

 

[MOTH]

Wow, mods from all over want to be President of the DemoGame! Next thing you know Thunderfall himself will be visiting this thread!

 

[Provolution]

Haha, what a parody.

 

[Octavian X]

I really don't see the problem. The President could be set up as a sort of 'mini-mod' with only sticky/unsticky powers - without warning/editting/banning/access to staff minifridge. It's not as though having an extra set of hands to help out around here would hurt. The President usually is an extremely active citzen, and he can use those stick powers to basically highlight important discussions and polls. Besides, the guys we elect to the Presidency are very respectible people here in the DG - I don't think there'd be any sort of trouble with abuse of power.

 

[Black_Hole]

why not the Chief Justice? He/she is oriented with justice and such... Now who is the currrent CJ?

 

[DaveShack]

I don't think the forum has the capability to give only some mod powers, and we have very clear responses from all of the DG mods and several others.

Trust the needed things thread to perform its intended function. If there are real problems, I suggest bringing it up with one or more of the mods by PM.

 

[donsig]

Not only should this not happen, we should not let moderators be president.

 

[Moss]

Not only should this not happen, we should not let moderators be president.

Agreed.

By the way eyrei, you need to update your sig.

 

[RegentMan]

So I'm confused. Is this idea going to happen?