Thanks.

Should it?
I mean, I could probably pick out incidents in human history where someone was voted democratically and was extremely popular and ended up being a brutal dictator.

Just because lots of people agree with something, doesn't make it inherently correct or right.

It's not about whether people agree with Rol or not.
He overstepped a boundary and was toxic to another individual, doesn't matter who the target is, it's unacceptable.

There is no personal feelings being inserted here, the same outcome would have occurred regardless of who the victim or perpetrator was.

Now can we use the amount of likes of a post as a form of feedback? Maybe. Maybe not. It's difficult to say as we aren't actually getting constructive feedback... And the fact remains that some users on this forum are more popular than others, we can't use a popularity contest as a way to gauge moderation's, that just wouldn't be fair or just would it?

Thanks! It's appreciated.

In 2019, I hope to see mods in general exercise more restraint (of their ban hammers). I don't have any specific concerns right now. I just think that people on this site should lighten up a bit, and be as accepting as is reasonably possible of the fact that shit talking is part of life online.

Also, thanks for all the work you do, mods. I know it's a thankless job. I appreciate that you all do it. And, really, I think the moderation of this site is pretty damn good. My comments about things being a little looser are intended to be constructive feedback, not complaints.

I'm not saying moderations should be based on popular vote or "likes", but if you use context, posting history, repeated patterns and then look at the large amount of support the post got, then maybe you need to consider the community could have long-standing issues that may need to be addressed.

And again, I did *not* say the mod team has to act on behalf of Rol or moderate based on his suggestions, but that it could be beneficial to give his post a deeper look to see if it has any merit. The mod team sometimes has to take unpopular choices to make the forum a healthy place and I understand and respect that.

As for the second part of your post, I explicitly said I did not argue about Rol's ban. I don't think there is question he broke the rules. The ban note was pretty dismissive though, why is why I raised concerns in the first place 

The moderation team would have noticed that by now. So no. For the record, I liked that post and I know of many other that did too.

Now for my actual question to the mods: Is there still an open window for simple site feature suggestions? The text editing tool could really use some handy features that I believe aren't so hard to implement.

The "Agrees" are most likely all Nintendo fans that are upset over negative predictions about their console of choice. Having a very negative outlook for a company, and making negative predictions (no matter how bad) should not be a punishable offence, unless it can be unequivocally proven that he doesn't believe the predictions he's making, which I don't believe is the case. The people that "Agreed" with that post need to stop being so emotional to want to start a lynch mob to remove someone from the site because they said a console they like will do badly.

All you have to do is wait for the outcome, and if you can't deal with it, ignore him.

Since when is giving a like to a post that you agree with (even though it might be backseat moderating) being emotional and wanting to start a lynch mob? But honestly, what is wrong with giving a like and how do you even know it's most likely all Nintendo fans?

Please enlighten me on what you think my motivation is, I hope you're accusing me of being "Anti-Nintendo" because that would be hysterical.

But it's a pretty basic observation to make. People liked the post because they want Quickrick gone. The people who want Quickrick gone are for the majority Nintendo fans (This should be common sense). Why do Nintendo Fans want quickrick gone? Because of his very low Nintendo Switch predictions. The "Cliff" comment has clearly stuck with people.

Basically his post is saying people dislike me here and want me gone for  for being aggressive with my prediction, it not like i'm saying switch is gonna sell like crap, all i was saying it will be flat which so far it has.  You think about his post, we were just arguing about nintendo  PR numbers being right and he got extremely personal over nothing.

As for the alt accounts, and knowing how much rol hates me and wants me gone. i wouldn't be surprised if he's messaging people telling them to agree with his posts, as well as making new accounts to just to agree and never using them to post.