[quote=@Odin] What constitutes a good mod and what not is, also, entirely subjective. I'm not saying you're wrong, because you're not, but as Hank has previously stated, he prefers janitor-style mods and I myself prefer a different style of mods. Neither of us is wrong, we just have different preferences. I think there are plenty of good candidates for moderator positions that, as far as I know, have never been considered, where as I do know some people that I personally think are probably one of the worst picks you could make [i]have[/i] been considered. Perhaps for that reason I'll ask [@Hank] if he could run me/us through the process that you go through when you are being considered for moderator. Or perhaps one of the other mods could. I'm interested to see what the process is from start to finish. How do you get considered for the position all the way to how is the acceptance of a new moderator announced. The idea [i]I[/i] have is that at the moment it's entirely whimsical and based on nominations from other moderators. You should be aware that you're missing out on a [i]lot[/i] of good candidates like [@Nytem4re] or others, who by now have lost either the backing or the desire to help at all. I don't and didn't mean to pry in your personal life - when you resigned I respected it because you'd shown that you were critiquing yourself as well and I liked that. When I named you here, I critiqued you for still not being as active as others. Perhaps it was a momentary thing, I can't tell as I am not omniscient. The reasons for that are irrelevant to me if I am not aware of them - this is why the suggestion of a moderator thread where mods can post status updates or other things is a good suggestion because it makes people aware that one given mod might be away for a few days - in this case I was unaware of the reasoning for you being gone and therefore could not make a weighted judgement. You're telling me now, yes, but if I'd known this prior, perhaps I would've understood why you were gone instead of having to judge that for myself. I thought it was Hank as I seemed to recall reading that somewhere, but in that case my apologies. You don't feel like your prior friendship with Mahz might've influenced the rather quick reappointment whatsoever? I do. [/quote] I get the point you're trying to make, but it just doesn't hold water: I wasn't friends with Mahz. He'd known of me for years, but he knew of me as someone that RPed, never got involved in drama (your group is the only big drama I've ever had to endure), and helped the Guild community in ways like contributing to RPGN, and being around during Guildfall. My re-appointment was the only time I had spoken to him at any length. And I still wouldn't call he and I friends; Hank and Sherlock are closer to actual friends to him.