[quote=@Sanguine Rose]
Hey, [@Ruby], I know you get a lot of public heat and stuff, and that could scare off a lot of people from wanting to be mods themselves. It kinda lead me to wonder: what's your favorite thing about being a mod? (I know the rules say to address only you, but I'd be interested to hear responses from any mod that wants to share, honestly.)
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They're free to share or post here. I just don't want escalations, hence me cutting off j8cob yesterday. (Although he and I continued in DMs for an hour and a half or so yesterday. Glad he continued that.)

For me? Helping a member, long time members I don't know, new members. I love getting to help them. I was that person once. Approaching site staff can be scary and it's great to be able to interact and help out people I'd never get a chance to meet otherwise. 

But also actually moving past criticism with members and working those out together on some level. That's just as nice. Lots of miscommunication because of the way something is worded, "tones." Like we posted to staff a reminder to issue those warnings, provide those ban lengths immediately if possible, log everything. Chaos plus bad habits we fall into creates some really bad perceptions. So it's nice to talk things out with those members and come to some kind of understanding.