-Saying being a mod is more stressful than not is fine - of course it is, as it adds responsibility.  Saying average users can't comprehend the stress levels a douche comment.

-You did something about NX threads that was against the long-standing guidelines of the forum, it was a poor decision, and you reversed it.

-Star was a bad mod.  I gave an example of why - the NX decision was a poor decision.  He gave other examples himself in this very thread.  As a general principal of fairness in law, all laws should be universal and consistent.  So, you shouldn't make an arbitrary rule that all NX discussion must be in one thread.  If it's a good rule it should apply to all hardware, and you would have one thread for each piece of hardware.  Obviously that would be stupid, and once you see that if the rule is applied universally and doesn't work, you sould be able to see that you have stepped across from objectivity to personal preference.  A forum is it's members; their posts and opinions are its content. The mod team should exist to encourage this content to grow as much as possible. My observation is that Star tended to allow his own preference for how discussion should take place or his own feelings on a topic to impede his mission to assist The Forum with its univeral goal of simply allow the discussion to take place.

No, the Switch reveal made a difference.  The only the the NX ban did was curb content, contribution and traffic to the site. NX was the hot topic of the day, and discussion stagnated as posters couldn't start a discussion focused on a particular topic.   We're gamers, we like to over-hype things.

The Switch reveal, itself, made no difference. The NX Thread ban was already in place before it. That's where the changes happened.