[quote=@Rilla]
I had little to no powers as an Arena mod, I'm just able to keep those fucks in check. As far as changing colors, that something I do on a fairly regular basis, when before it wasn't that I was too lazy - it was that I did not know how. Once I learned, to change... Fenrir's? color, I've been doing it every couple of days, depending on how often I'm asked(or how often I kick Blaze).

They don't RP is not an argument I'm familiar with using, because I don't follow them enough to know if they actually do. They very well could, but it's not something I go behind and check unless they were interested in one of my RPs, like Allaria. 

You are not obligated to disclose whether or not you RP, public or private. So long as you, and whichever partners you have know, that's really all that matters. Just the same as any modding I do. Lazy mod is just a take off of my arena persona of being lazy, even when I'm actually doing stuff. Anyone whose come to me on both Discord and Guild, has had any issues they've had taken care of as best I can, when I can - usually immediately, unless I'm working or sleeping or killing Uruks or playing with my chap. Whether or not they wanna admit to that, is entirely on them. I've no interest in putting whose come to me with issues. 
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Like I said to Hank, I think the problem lies therein in that the public image is something entirely different from the truth. So, what I mean is that, it's not entirely related to what you do, but more so in how you represent yourself and how others perceive you. 

And in this case that is of someone who is lazy and/or doesn't do much - which like I said, isn't helping the situation if the consensus among moderators is that there are too few moderators with too little time as it is. Do you see where I'm coming from if I say that acting like a lazy person, even if it's just an act, isn't conductive to what would be a better option?

[quote=@MelonHead]
The thing is Odin, you yourself state that you 'generally shit on moderation' you surround yourself with people who actively dislike the guild, or have been banned for misdemeanours in the past, and yet you still put yourself forward as this freedom fighter standing up to moderation and speaking for those who won't or can't do it themselves. Have you really thought about your ideas and wondered how many of them are misinformed by your own biases and the people you surround yourself with? [/quote]

Geez, I wonder if that's why I specifically listed my biased opinions under the header 'biased opinions'. I don't see myself as a freedom fighter (what kind of stupendous assumption is that?) and if you'd bothered to read you'd know that all the listed ideas are in fact collected from the previous thread that everyone was free to participate in. Hence, there are ideas in there that I don't agree with. 

[quote=@MelonHead]I'd honestly want to know just how populist your ideas are. I find myself in a position where I don't really have a weighted interest in either side of any debate, I'm just a guy who's been on this site for six years, and I rarely if ever find myself sympathising with your position.[/quote]

Good, then this thread was made for you. Posting this here to a) remind the moderators that the list of suggestions does in fact exist, and b) to see what other people think. That 99% of the guild refuses to interact on a meaningful level is hardly something I can do something about and, adding to that, it's not like I've shunned other people's ideas, have I? 

[quote=@MelonHead]I find the majority of the issues you raise incredibly nit-picky, demanding to know what moderators do for example is a bizarre concept to me, are you paying them? Do they have some responsibility to you personally to declare their activities?[/quote]

Not what I'm suggesting.

[quote=@MelonHead]Some of the changes you recommend are frankly non-issues, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. For example, free, casual and advance aren't descriptors of players, they're descriptors of the rules for the style of roleplay. Do I want to roleplay in a free environment, a casual environment, an advanced environment? The descriptions work fine for that purpose, they have for as long as I've been here. [/quote]

I guess we never should've installed those brand spanking new robots with fully automated AI. The hand-crank 'robot' cranes we had before worked just fine, don't fix it if it ain't broke I guess!

Nah, just because it works doesn't mean there aren't better alternatives. Who is being nitpicky now?

[quote=@MelonHead]Making reporting easier will certainly increase the number of reports, of course, it will also massively increase the amount of spur of the moment reports that waste moderator time because they hold nothing substantial. If people are seriously concerned about something, they will go to the slightly greater effort of reporting it with the current system, and they can send their report to every moderator if they want a speedy response time.[/quote]

That's a pay off that I honestly would prefer over manually doing it because it makes the entire system a lot easier to go through, as in, you no longer have to type out an entire PM, the moderator no longer has to go through the efforts of responding to it, and can just ban, warn or something else directly from 1 screen. If properly implemented I can see the report system being a step up. 

Also, do note that if a report system comes into existence I also expect a new rule to be made for false reports ;) that seems like common sense and I imagine you already thought of that since you're a smart guy.

[quote=@MelonHead]That being said, some of the smaller issues and fixes like stickying help guides and the rules on each sub-forum seem reasonable enough. It's just a shame that some of the good ideas in here are intermingled with the mass of general 'moderator' critique that I can't help but find myself highly sceptical about. Anyway, that's my two cents, maybe I'll remember to check back in and see what the general opinions are of people on the guild.[/quote]

These are suggestions from 5 months ago and stickying help guides takes like.. what, 2 minutes. Having to read critique on the moderators to find a suggestion like that hardly seems like an excuse not to do it anyway? But please do come back. 

EDIT: also, Hank is no longer a moderator but a co-admin. Just a small tidbit of info for you.