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Originally Posted by Hakeem
You are wrong. The results show that many regular users voted to have the colors back. Colors is, at press time, simultaneously, the least liked, and most disliked, change.
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Just like how eye candy wins the show in 99% of spell contests, pretty colors win the show with the vast majority of users. I don't think most users even recognize the benefits of the colors, they just think they look pretty and will follow whatever the person before them used as the logic. Regardless of that, though, Ralle did the colors, so I don't know why I'm stuck defending his decision, but let's roll with it since that seems to be what I'm here for.
I mentioned earlier somewhere that they were good on the main page because it helped you pick people apart, but that's about the only real benefit I see. I think it's a little naive to claim that you wouldn't be here today if the admins weren't gray or the global mods weren't blue, but who am I to say -- I know no better than you the machinations of fate.
Currently, my only real concern is the lack of ability to tell admins apart from moderators. I agree that something should be done there, and if you want it to be colors than more power to you (Though for me they were an eyesore). I can't actually think of any legitimate reason why colors shouldn't exist, but then again I can't really think of any reason why text effects don't work either. So long as you can tell admins from mods, it really doesn't matter. Unfortunately, a lot of users are way too unused to change and are now flipping out about it. In the end, though, it's really up to Ralle and the admins with how they want to distinguish mods from admins. I definitely don't think being extremist is logical, though, so your point about the black and white was rather moot.
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Originally Posted by Hakeem
Moderators should not have access to IP addresses, or the ability to give infractions, and ban a user, this is what admins are trusted to do.
Recently there was a user banned by a mod at the "request" of a user. I do not see that the moderator should be demoted, but that the ability to ban should be revoked from all forum moderators. Banning is something to be trusted to an admin.
If I am to understand the infraction system, moderators can give infractions, of any point value, at any time, and 10 infraction points results in a ban. This gives moderators the ability to ban. Sure it was TheDivineBoss, but that was just today. Who will it be tomorrow? In my opinion, if you want a user banned and the current admins are not fulfilling their duties adequately, then you need to find someone who can be trusted to be an admin.
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Okay, yeah, alright? Was that directed at me or just a general comment on the powers available to mods? I agree that admins should be the only ones to ban and that infraction is a pretty stupid idea. I mean really, people dish out 9 things of refraction to users for stupid reasons; ask HT, he knows. What you need are admins that do things with the public and interact with the public frequently; I have no idea who that would include, but that sounds like something that certain members of the current staff need to work out. I think
everyone so far has agreed on a staff revamp; that is inevitable, I would imagine.
Shit I'm tired, I hope that post makes as much sense to you in reading it as it did the moment I typed it.