[quote=@Chai][@ArenaSnow] I think it's appropriate to have chat moderators that are familiar with the chat community and have been there for quite some time. There is nothing wrong with thinking you are good at something or fit for a position and stating that. (: There's nothing pretentious about being confident in your ability. IRL, at work or academics, people 'nominate' themselves for positions all the time. It's important to know anyway who is actually willing to do the job. I suppose I don't really understand where your intense opposition is coming from, other than the fact that he's j8cob and you may not like him. 
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I'd disagree that nominating yourself in such a context is really the best thing to do. It's less intense opposition so much as a disagreement with the way he went about it and a pushback at the nature of his response, but you're welcome to believe in my century old feud with my arch-nemesis J8cob as much as you'd like >.>