I’m not as much tired of dealing with it (I mean I am, it’s soul sucking at times but it’s part of running a forum) - as I’m less able to due to life circumstances. I appreciate your passion on it and your perspective.
Another mod might have handled it different;y, I might have or might have ended up in the same place, I don’t know, but the mods who were there and paying attention at the time made the call and I won’t second guess someone who is doing their best to interpret the rules I’ve set in place in absence of support from me at the time.
PL1 is basically soloing the forum 90% of the time right now (approving posts from new members, deleting trash posts and banning would-be-spammers of which there are a *ton* hitting the forum regularly, etc.) and I’m grateful to him and the other board and global mods who give what they are able to to the forum.
I’m open to adding more mods if it would be useful. Has to be people with thick skin and slow trigger fingers. Really though it would be helpful to have more report-to-moderators happening when things start going south. It won’t made moderation decisions any easier, but at least we’d be more aware of a situation before it got too out of hand.
I’ve had to explain numerous times to angry forum denizens that no, I wasn’t letting <insert-issue-here> happen on purpose, I just wasn’t aware of it because I don’t read every post on the forum every day. I appreciate their belief in my omniscience, but it’s ain’t so.
This is kind of rambling so I’ll stop, but I’m open to any suggestions. You all are the heart and soul of how and why BYOAC exists. I’m just the guy running the server, poorly.