The question posed in this thread is not necessarily one of the moderation team, the site owner lucidrains/Phillip Wang, or other moderators/admins on the moderation team of this website.
People are calling for Ethereal's head because they were recently promoted from role moderator to moderator. The people calling for Ethereal to be demodded are generally viewing and accusing Ethereal as a predator.
My question is, if you guys care so much about Ethereal being a potential predator, should you not be arguing that Ethereal should be site banned? (Personally, I don't think Ethereal should be site banned. She has done her time for being banned and is currently a very big help for the moderators and cheating investigation team, in my opinion.) Your argument seems to not want to rid the website of possible predators, but to just make sure they don't become moderators. It doesn't really make much sense to me.
And even if Ethereal is demodded, guess what? She's still going to help with Cheating cases and finding banned users... nothing is going to change (except that she won't be able to do reports). Is that really going to be a sigh of relief for all of you?
So if Ethereal is demodded, what difference is it to you people if she's still allowed to be on the website...?
EDIT:
I am in favour of demodding Ethereal to please the community fwiw (I was before I even made this thread), but if we do that I don't really get why they are even allowed to be on the site anyways. I'm seeing these arguments I just don't agree with them; potential is potential at the end of the day, and I believe Ethereal should be allowed to stay on the site
tbf i don't understand how the other mods on the team didn't have something to say about this before it happened considering i'm fairly certain AT THE VERY LEAST one of them had to know about the history of both these users
I sent ling very intimate and personal pictures and I fear that they may be leaked or used as blackmail against me
same, but i think having peoples passwords is pretty personal tho
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Cody, i feel personally unsafe on this website as arcbell has hacked my account litearlly a month ago, I still have the pms he sent from it in my inbox, not to mention he could of read private information users have sent to me.
On top of that he has threatened the site when he doesnt get what he wants just for fun
Now hes a mod lol
Cody please respond to this
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I sent ling very intimate and personal pictures and I fear that they may be leaked or used as blackmail against me
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This is mains attempt to get someone as big as equity so they have memes
having time to dedicate, ability to make reasonable verdicts on reports (competence), teamwork, and a commitment to a vision of where I want the site to go.
This is a bunch of fluff that basically means 'i want someone to do reports and knows the rules properly so i dont have to teach them'
If you don't want to make a "mods vs users" mentality worse; then you probably shouldn't ignore the users.
However, that's a dream goal as that mentality has existed for so long it's just part of EM now so you may as well give up hoping it'll go away. Benevolent Dictatorship is the best EM will get anyway.
Cody, i feel personally unsafe on this website as arcbell has hacked my account litearlly a month ago, I still have the pms he sent from it in my inbox, not to mention he could of read private information users have sent to me.
On top of that he has threatened the site when he doesnt get what he wants just for fun