My thought as to Moderator choices and why it doesn't work. As we all know there once existed a panel of global moderators to patrol so to speak and deal with the individual issues within this game.

Some not all were affiliated in squads or just friendly or had friends in game. That to me is not a separation of for example church and state.

I have seen several threads requesting new moderators and none dealing with the core issue, surprisingly my name has even been suggested.

In my opinion, a good moderator has no affiliation with any one squad. Moderators from squads can be seen as biased. A true moderator in my thought is one who has no affiliation with anyone person or squad in this game and can make true judgment calls without remorse or ill will from any one player. Anonymous yet active and aware of the game and it's population. Truly unbiased in judgment.

Just my thought so feel free to tear it up.

I've never been biased and I'm in a squad.

Jacob10000 wrote: I've never been biased and I'm in a squad.

Which is why you are the one Moderator other than Zuperman still standing. I still stand with my thought, no reflection towards you.

With the chat gone wild as it is, I feel I have to change my comment in the App Store.....




We need the mods. This is getting rediculous at times.

Good post Bz.

The idea of a game moderator with “squad bias” seems absurd.
Or "should" seem that way.

What is the purpose of a moderator? Aren’t moderators supposed to keep an eye out for rule breakers and the occasional over-the-top trolls? Aren’t moderators unpaid volunteers who give their time “policing” the game servers, forum and world chat to try to ensure that people who want to enjoy the game can do so without constantly dealing with jerks who would rather harass and ruin games than play by the few rules that exist? Why should that have anything to do with “squad bias”?

If people would just play by the rules and let others play how they want within the rules, there would be little traffic on the blacklist thread. It would only be reports about those who find ways to be offensive while avoiding the foul language filter or who have found new ways to actually “cheat”? (At this point this should be for things like tanking below the water surface and destroying the carrier from below where no reds can get to them, or people somehow sabotaging games for their own teams…)

If a moderator does a good job why should squad affiliation have anything to do with it? Could it be that dogfight has become internally political? Do we have to be afraid that people may have some sort of ambitious reason to be a game moderator? Are they doing it merely so they can give some advantage to their own squad?

Have you noticed now that Zuperman has installed the foul language filter and the auto-kick for many types of teamkilling, the need for moderators has been largely reduced? Other than the persistent trolls, the game mechanisms largely police the game automatically. Maybe it’s okay that there aren’t many mods anymore.

If squads want to have their own “rules” that’s fine for a them to insist that their members adhere to them. If that is their focus, shouldn’t they encourage the rest of community to report back to the squad if members are seen breaking their own rules? The reality seems like the opposite situation to me. Lol! I seen several situations where someone tried to report “deviant behavior” to the players’ respective squad only to be castigated and told not to post on their thread or that reports were considered invalid without “proof”! I suppose that it’s human nature to "shoot the messenger" and stand up for your own tribe.

The really pathetic thing is when players/squads try to enforce their own etiquette as rules that all players must follow. If the moderators get pulled into the fray isn't it a huge waste of their time? Perhaps this is where the “ambitious” (those with motivations besides just enforcing the game rules) could become an issue. We should all hope that the moderators are above all of that. I’d like to think that anyone with the interest of devoting their free time to becoming a moderator is doing it for altruistic reasons, but is that really the world we live in?

Is something rotten in the state of Gretchland?

Not an entirely unreasonable question to raise, bzerk. I can vouch for every former Moderator, no one ever showed favoritism to members of his own squad. I went out of my way on behalf of some non-M.O.M repeat offenders while I made myself unpopular with a M.O.M here and a M.O.M there when necessary, I'm quite sure the other Mods did the same with their own squad mates.

The balance of Mods was established to preserve parity across larger squads although I don't believe it was necessary, we viewed it as nothing more than a gesture. Squad affiliations played no part in what the Mods did or didn't do.

There was no rhyme or reason to deactivating the Mods, and Jacob having been left with Mod powers was purely an oversight; because of his low profile Joaquin had simply forgotten to shut Jacob down along with the rest, which to my knowledge he's now gone back and done.