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>meaning there is very little drama or dissatisfaction, and I have seen no complaints lately on the main board either.
It's true things have improved a bit, there is less drama and less /int/olerant baiting (bait shouldnt be our job to clean up, I want to clarify I am just using it as an indicator of dissatisfaction from /int/olerants). There has been a few people complaining about lack of moderation, though. I don't mean that as in "Mods ban this shit" or other incessant whining, I am talking about people complaining about stickies being left up too long, no updates to the archive sticky, and very rarely the gap in timezones that F isn't around for gets spammed with off-topic threads.
>If you want to be a mod, that obviously means you want to use your moderator powers to do something, or to change the board's moderation in some way, since by definition that is the only power that being a volunteer would provide you. But what needs changing?
Nothing needs changed, as far as rules and ban enforcement goes. F is already cracking down on metathreads, which I suggested in our staff meetings a long while ago We have a metaboard for it, regular /pol/acks don't want to see it cluttering the catalogue, and allowing them on mainboard just gives detractors outlets to demoralize or distract users from real topics.
>Well, judging by how you personally have moderated in the past (e.g. banning someone for posting "race isn't everything" as a response to a thread; and otherwise banning people within threads for doing nothing more than posting a dissenting opinion)
In your first example, it was a rookie mistake that I learned to never repeat as soon as it happened, I even went as far as publicly apologizing for it in the thread it happened, nobody ever mentions that part of the story though… I used to make shitty bans for posts I considered to be "outright bait" or "off-topic" until I found it just created more problems. I hadn't been doing bans like that for about a month leading up to the mass resignation.
You misunderstand my intent and without seeing both ends of the situation, I don't exactly blame you. I don't intend on coming back just to change how things are done. I just hate going on /pol/ and seeing the same post locked stickies for days, while other arguably more important threads slide off catalog. I also hate seeing my archives sticky falling into disuse, especially when it was well received by the users. As far as meta goes, its finally a part of the rules sticky that meta goes to /polmeta/, frankly it hasn't been spammed much lately but an occasional thread pops up that I wish I could redirect to here.