I made a thread mocking Lailai for modding projectmatt and charley, two ex-mods that, on record, abused their mod powers, after he said that his new mod team wouldn’t be more of the same.

Moderator mascot PatrykScezie AKA dzanek, who dedicated years of his life to posting poorly-worded unsolicited opinions in the comments sections of reports for inconsequential red heart games so that the mod team would eventually take pity on him and let him fulfil his life goal of becoming a moderator on epicmafia.com (before being quietly demodded for being incompetent), made his first thought provoking post ever in response to the thread.

His hot take could be summed up like this:

“Despite projectmatt and charley using their mod powers for evil, they have given verdicts to so many reports that their overall contribution has been a good one. Therefore, they should be allowed to be moderators again. Please re-mod me, my life is meaningless without the ability to rule verdicts to reports”.

As it stands, the only motivation that an intelligent person could have for being a moderator on the site is to misuse their powers. Therefore, unfair actions by a functional mod team is inevitable. To keep these actions in check, there should be a system put in place that ensures that each moderator is still having a positive effect on the site.

Here is an example of the type of system that could be implemented:

• Handle a report: Gain 1 point

• Have your report overturned: Lose 5 points

• Intentionally handle a report unfairly (cannot be appealed): Spend 25 points

• Delete a thread that upsets you: Spend 40 points

• Delete one of your own vios: Spend 50 points

• Delete a user: Spend 1000 points

In the new world, the only moderators that people will have the right to complain about are the ones that go below 0 points. Moderators will be unlikely to go below their 0 points limit. This means that no one will ever be able to complain about the moderator team and no one will think about the concept of mod abuse ever again.