Quote Originally Posted by Sigilstone17 View Post
I thought Evony was all about "being close with the community" and all that stuff and now I'm wondering what happened to that? It feels like the Management doesn't even care about the community anymore other then to slap us when we're not being all "happy-go-lucky-about-everything" and that's a feeling I'm uncomfortable with. Why do the reps and administration feel they don't need to talk to us, the community, about who they're putting in charge? If someone is going to be in charge, it would be nice to least be able to put in an opinion on the matter before anyone is appointed. Now all this hub-bub is not entirely Jurnis's fault, he's just a kid that thought he was being selected for something special, but some blame does fall on him for not asking how we, the community, would feel about him being a mod before accepting the position. Blame also falls on the community (mostly me) for simply flaming instead of taking a more rational road, I should've kept my head about the issue. And blame also falls on the Management for not including the community in their decision, that felt like a low-blow. Overall, I would like to know what happened to the closeness of the Community and Management? Dawnseeker, Valkriah, and Foxybunny used to be on the forums all the time, now it only appears that they are on just to yell at someone or to tell us all to jump. It even seems like Lord Arumen and Wildor aren't on as much anymore, only appearing to ban people and close threads. As long as the Management separates themselves from the Community, things are only going to get worse and I want to see them get better. The Golden Age of Off-Topic was so because the moderators and representatives actually spoke to and interacted with all of us like their status's as mods and reps meant nothing more then a color change. What can we do to get such fun interaction back? and before anyone cries that I'm being butthurt, know that I'm being quite serious here and not an ounce of butthurt went into it. I want to hear the higher powers opinion on this because this is a forum and we all (players, moderators, representatives, and administrators) get an equal say.
LOL.

To the OP: I would like to know of one successful site out there whose mods are voted and chosen by the community because I sure as hell don't know of any. I don't mean a site with 1000 members. I mean a proper run larger forum.

There are good reasons why on successful forums like Evony, staff (volunteers) are chosen by staff(volunteers) and Administrators. Okay Evony doesn't call mods staff, but on other sites they do and I'm talking about forums in general. Who knows the post history of users? Staff. Who knows when someone is being a good example without trying hard to gain a mod position (yes, every site has them...wannabe suckups who follow mods around trying to get noticed)? Staff. Remember, there are often things about a user that the community will not know, because if someone has been reprimanded for bad behavior it is dealt with privately... as it should be. Give them a break. The mods do their job for free. They keep the forums free of spam and most of what they do cannot be seen by the regular users, us. Again... they do it for free.

There will always be the people that don't like mods for whatever reason. "Boo the mods never do anything" "Boo I got infracted for no reason ;____;"
They expect that they should see everything if there's anything being done. Let's face it, if the mods are doing their job properly, then the users won't get to see most of the problem posts because they'll be removed promptly. Still some people complain. But that's part of forum life lol.

Anyway that's my two cents... back to my lurking. XD