[quote=@Garattee]
For those mentioning the need of 'new blood' mods because the current ones are out of touch should remember the upside that those who have power are mostly impartial.

Also Casual RP could be split into Low-Mid-High casual  just for the sake of more space.
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I disagree on both points. 

I've reported numerous things and never got any feedback or confirmation. An ex-moderator reported 1 thing and got a moderator to send a reply not even 10 minutes later.

Try telling me we are treated equally. For me, reporting anything to the moderators is useless at this point. I'm better off just using my own Hitler-like authority to cuss someone away from my thread. (Not really. But you get the point.)

I also think that if we change anything outside of the names of these subforums it should be that advanced and casual roleplay are condensed into 'dedicated roleplay' to represent the dedication a member of an RP must show, [i]not[/i] their skill. The skill should be just a tag like the fantasy, modern, or fandom tag like they are now. 

This will create a reason for people to try and better their skills to move up, rather than see these subforums as independent communities.

[quote=@Kangaroo]When you talk about this 'disconnect' that may be true for the community as a whole but not necessarily everyone inside of it. As a mod I pay attention to the way people deal with other's situation to evaluate how I think they'd be a mod. The reality of a new selection process is that the mods can make suggestions but ultimately it's Mahz's decision. [/quote]

Then I suppose all I can say is that I disagree with this method, because Mahz has no clue about who is who, and has no clue about what is playing in the community, [i]due to the fact that he is absent.[/i] I'm not sure how else to word it but I just don't see the merit in having a long-since absent admin decide who gets to be moderator. At that point I'm a little confused as to what expertise he'd have on that subject other than 'I'm the boss so I decide' and while I can respect that sentiment from his side it's a little hard to justify in the face of efficiency and equity. 

[quote=@Kangaroo]Now there have been a number of plans and concepts which never came off around how to run staffing but again it falls back to this is Mahz's hobby, not his job.[/quote]

Hardly an argument I guess, but again, Mahz' website, his rule. I just think that you should also acknowledge that people will get unhappy if this continues for too long with too little happening. 

[quote=@Kangaroo]As to the reporting system - in every forum there is a pinned thread which instructs you to report incidents. If incidents aren't reported, they can't be dealth with. Unless you want mods trawling through every thread on the forum.[/quote]

Well, yes, but who reads the pinned threads. Ideally everyone. Realistically close to no-one. Adding to that, as I am aware for example of that 'report things' deal, I don't report things because I think I can deal with it myself better than I trust the moderators to do it. And in other situations, that has led to harassment off of RPG, because people don't trust the moderators to deal with it adequately. Simply saying 'you need to report things' isn't enough if people are dissatisfied with what happens after you report something. 

[quote=@Kangaroo]The status bar is a unique case in that it was sprung on and to be honesy, we never designed a guideline for a live updated status bar. I think you'll find every mod's perception is at least a little different. But is what you expect from a mod team to  be constantly refreshing and patrolling a white board?[/quote]

I mean for me personally there were enough reports on my for action to be taken but I wasn't talked to at any point. I only saw a message _about_ me in the Discord _after_ I joined naming me but again, nobody ever told me anything directly, and no action was ever taken. So, is that due to rules not being set out? I doubt it. But I don't think the status bar was the main point more so than the fact that I wasn't warned or had my 'infraction' analysed after people complained. Nothing happened - which is exactly what I'm saying. Why would I come to moderators if, in the past, nothing has happened the few times I did say something to them?