Hey folks, it's BearGuru here. I wanted to say some things to get them off of my chest. This does not in any way display the mod team's opinions as a whole, it is merely my opinion. Soon after I post this I will move the current active threads to the Mod Forums.
Regarding Sammie:
SHE is a human being as well, and everything you say that is offensive to transgendered people will be offensive to her.
Most of what is on the forums right now on this matter is sh!tposting, which is fine-- until it isn't. I fear we are approaching the line where it becomes hurtful, harmful, and damaging to not only Sammie but the community.
Epic Mafia moderators are not divine entities. So she is a mod. So what? So she gets to do reports and benefit the community. It helps with cheating investigations. Her being a moderator is irrelevent, she is mostly going to do the same thing she did as a role mod.
That being said, I do not think Sammie is going to be a good moderator for epicmafia in the long run. She is not a team player, but that is just my observation.
Regarding the Mod Team:
You have tried everything. You moved a thread that was hurtful to the mod forums, which was the correct call. When the community went into uproar, you just had to deal with it. The alternative was to let the damaging thread go on unmoderated, which is not doing your job.
Cody is a brand new admin. He is getting used to the job and for the community to surge against his decisions this early has to be demotivating. This site cannot survive if everybody in power is yelled at, called a child, and targeted.
Regarding me:
What I did earlier was crappy. I made hurtful comments that have affected people and really hurt them. I am sorry for what I did, and if that means stepping down as a Role Moderator I will do that.
Again, this is not the statement of me as a moderator, it is a statement from me as a person.
Regarding the Site:
Lucid owns the site. If anything needs to be done, you message him. If you disagree with something strongly enough, you message him. Do not take to the forums and spew publicly hurtful comments because all it does is make you look immature and hurt the person who is being targeted.
If you destroy anybody who comes into power, it will ruin the site. Very few people actually want to moderate the site, and that number is getting smaller every time something like this happens. Please think twice about whatever you are posting.
There you have it. I will be moving the other threads to mod forums shortly. Please engage in CIVIL discussion here. Have a good one.
well this was the response i was looking for (not really the answer but w/e), so my work here's done. for your sake Cody, because i like you, i really do hope everything goes fine.
That's pretty hard when they litearlly were out to hurt us less than 2 months ago, in fact they were out to hurt the mod team too, also 2 of those skills can be done by anyone and the software stuff he can do without being a mod
That's all well and good, Cody, but I'm still curious how you think basically going "well I know better than the rest of you" is going to 'close the gap between mods and users'
speaking of, she still hasn't said anything besides denying it yesterday. at least arcbell had the stones to face his critics... and blame it on all on love
I honestly felt like they were the most qualified candidates at the time. My thought process was this: I vacated my position on the mod team to step into the admin position. I was doing site related things, keeping report counts low, and developing software for the site. There wasn't a single person that I could have asked to join the team that could have filled all of those shoes at once so I asked two people whose overlap of skill sets filled those roles to join the team.
I didn't consider the social ramifications and I apologize for that but I would really appreciate if you gave them a chance to show that they are good people that aren't out to hurt you.
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