The Moopy Moderator Election 2023 - Nominations Thread (1 Viewer)

Continue Mod Election nominations until December 3rd?

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Is there anyone mulling it over who we can convince to stand?

I would genuinely like it if we could have as diverse a moderating team as possible. A broader range of perspectives would really be a boon given the increased social responsibility that's become part of the mod role in recent years. I've always felt uncomfortable with being one of a small, fairly uniform panel of moral arbiters because it can be hard to know when we're over or under moderating language or discourse that doesn't relate to us or our lived experience. Everyone on this site wants Moopy to be a broad church where everyone is welcome, and I think that having somebody on the mod team who has their back would be the key to people broaching subjects or calling out behaviour that they might not previously have felt empowered or encouraged to speak up about.

While I'm manifesto-ing I might as well also mention that I feel like Moopy sometimes gives newer members a rough go of it, and I really want us to encourage new posters. Most of us are very old and we need a new generation to carry on our rich legacy of original content such as posting smilies of Starlet off Drag Race and putting the word Oh in quote marks.

Also, during my time as mod I've made the wrestling thread the number one sports entertainment destination for posters named after plants, dying real music genres, ancillary Donkey Kong characters and Canadian baked goods, so a vote for ButterTart is a vote for freedom to talk about any old shit you want.
 
ButterTart said:
While I'm manifesto-ing I might as well also mention that I feel like Moopy sometimes gives newer members a rough go of it, and I really want us to encourage new posters. Most of us are very old and we need a new generation to carry on our rich legacy of original content such as posting smilies of Starlet off Drag Race and putting the word Oh in quote marks.
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New posters? All we ever get is bots, aliases or Enya loons.
 
Oh go on then.

I may be a bit of a background poster, but I’m always around and I’ve been here long enough to know the Moopy ways and I think I could contribute to keeping that going.

I would say I have a positive relationship with all the active members here, and selfishly I’d like to think being a mod would open up the opportunity to know everybody even better and strengthen those relationships, as well as my own involvement with Moopy.

So all in all, pick me and I’ll do the job and I promise I won’t record a 30 minute victory/conceding speech xxx

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Hire that Four Seasons place for your press conference, what can possibly go wrong?
 
Rita said:
It came to my attention some time ago that some unkind comments were made regarding me a while back in the mod forum after a particular furore in a thread. I would just like to put it here that I don’t appreciate getting spoken about in a forum where I am not able to stand up for myself because it is not viewable to me.
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It happened to me TOO. Sod 'em! I know who my moopy diamonds are
 
Inner Smile said:
It happened to me TOO. Sod 'em! I know who my moopy diamonds are
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When I was a mod, there was discussion about how best to help you in the mod forum when we felt things were tough for you. A few mods (me included) reached out to you via DM to check you were okay. You didn't reply to my DM. I can't comment on things since I stepped down, but certainly I know when I was a mod the intention towards you was well meaning and supportive.
 
GinAg (39) said:
regarding the incident when we lost two major posters, I'd like to think based on my response at the time, I would have tried to address it without the path it went down.
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In the interest of both stirring shit up AND working out where to place my floating votes, I would like to ask all of those standing for mod how they feel they would - or, if they were a mod at the time, should, if at all - have dealt with this incident in question?

@big ron @VoR @RJN @GinAg (39) @ButterTart @jivafox
 
I didn't actually know about the incident until one of the posters in question let me know what was going on, as I hadn't looked at the thread in which it blew up. I don't think it would be entirely fair for me to say in hindsight I definitely would have handled it better than the mods who did, by their own admission, make mistakes. But I will say that I was very involved in the discussions we had after that point and I advocated hard for us to be transparent and for us to unreservedly apologise, as a group, and to make tangible changes to make things better. (I wasn't the only one doing that, to be clear!)

What I think then and still think now is that as Mods we have to take collective responsibility when something like that happens. There was never any sense that we wanted to throw one or more of the mods under the bus. As a group we missed the mark, and as a group we had to put the work in to rebuild trust. We've made some positive strides towards that (reviewing at the report functionality, drafting a Moopy charter, these - admittedly long overdue - elections), but there's definitely more work to do.
 
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