The Rise and Fall of a certain Star

[Aeolus451]

TheLastStarFighter said:

CGI-Quality said:

The goal of my post wasn't to be condescending, rather, to present you with two facts...

• A. People cared about the volume of NX threads. We did something about that. You claimed nobody cared, which was false. 
• B. Being a regualr user is far less stressful than being a mod. That is a bottom line. The point works itself into the theme of the thread (which was why I quoted you). 

If being honest with you is "douchey", in your view, I can't do anything about that. If you're prepared to make a comment like "x person was a terrible mod", and then try to explain what it is to be a mod, then you gave an invitation to fill in some blanks. ;P

I didn't know you could hear me through text!

-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.

Didn't you forget that each hardware brand has it's own thread and alot of what is discussed there is perfect for those places? The NX threads were getting out of hand. Every lttile idea of what color it could be got it's own thread. Not every thought deserves a thread to discuss it. It was creating alot of thread clutter so it made sense to limit the creation of nx threads at least for a bit.