Honestly, I think the best choice would not be to promote someone who is already very popular on the forums, but rather to choose more of an outlier in the community. Promoting a popular person from the core group in a community this size may lead to more problems than it solves. Ideally you want someone more detached from that core group, to minimize the bias they would have for as long as possible.

Just as long as it isn't me. Besides, I really don't have more than a snowball's chance in hell in the first place.

I think that if they're getting butthurt and territorial about somebody making their life easier, they're not exactly prime mod material.

Hell, I mean isn't one thing that most of the (ex)-mods have been saying that people who legit want to be mods probably will do a shitty job and abuse power?

Hah hah hah. I'm sure that shiney would agree with me that my... eh, for lack of a better term, philosophy of moderation is quite incompatible with the other moderators.

Honestly, if a bunch of potentials get in a tizzy over territory on a sprite comic forum, I'm really willing to just chalk that one up to Darwin.

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To elaborate, I fucking hated it because I was picked for the job because it was felt that I was capable of being a moderator. What distinguishes shitty, against-the-rules behavior in one section generally carries over to the other sections. Being able to handle people when they were acting like cocks in one section but the instant you leave that section and happen upon somebody acting like a cock, being unable to do a thing about it but wait till one of your comoderators is incredibly frustrating.

Basically, if somebody's good enough to be a mod in one section, they're good enough to be a mod period.

Outliers are either people who 1. don't post or 2. post and people don't like them, either group is gonna be not a great mod choice due to either 1. not doing stuff or 2. doing stuff people don't like.

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Everyone else is doing it. I just want to fit in.
 

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You always have to be difficult, don't you?

Well now you're definitely not getting my vote for mod.

We need team players, not loose cannons like you, Mirai.