NeoThermic wrote:IMO you failed to realise the forums are anarchy based, and topics are not locked because they are a flamefest. The only topics I've locked that were not spam were topics that needed locking due to warez or other major infraction topics...
IV has left us to our own devices. I'm not even sure when our last proper interaction with them was (I am not criticizing this, in fact I think it's right). In the old days they appointed admins from special individuals who had their trust. But the only one left from that time is Vicious.
So, as a community we are now self-governed and self-organized. Since authority no longer comes from the owners, it is left to us to choose people we trust. If the community wants to go one way, but a single mod stubbornly insists on going another, that seems paradoxical to me because the mod was only given their authority by that community. Moreover, without the members there is nothing to rule. So if they reach a clear consensus the mods should follow that (especially when it involves letting an old member back in). I don't think we voted for 'dictators for life' to rule us with an iron fist.
PS: This was Bert in 2012 when he oversaw the election of new moderators (Laika and Nukraine).