This thread made me laugh. I guess the award served it's purpose after all.
It's funny how a mod makes something funny, and a bunch of people who want to be mods act very serious and revolt.
How silly indeed.
I even saw one comment that said "the Hive is rotting away". Well, of course it is. It is because people are not serious unless it makes them look good so they revolt against someone who is not being serious only to not be serious again!
Let's be honest. Nothing on this site will ever be serious. Why? Because it's a forum about modding a video game. You may say, "yes but the awards should be a serious matter!". Says who? C'mon. Nothing on this site is serious. And, I'm ok with that. Ralle isn't selling anything (except new user names and custom icons...) so why should we go all ape crap when the delicate internal balance of the Hive cosmos is tampered with to look a bit silly?
Everyone keeps on about "how a mod should conduct themselves"...as if they are paid individuals who are actually doing something important here. No.
You see, if I were a mod in his position, I wouldn't have done that, only because I wouldn't have thought of it. I would have done something just as silly though.
You remember all those times ralle would come into chat and screw up the text or colors? Those were good times. Now, it's a bunch of people desperate to be in a moderators position so they attempt to look serious and logical-ish!
Casing point, no matter how stupid and silly a thing that an administrator/mod does, it doesn't really matter! Because if you take things like the awards, the rep, the power seriously, then you shouldn't be on this site in the first place. You should be out there in the world trying to receive somewhat of a life...
People on this site need to understand how little stuff like this matters. I'd rather have fun than have serious awards. Further more, I'd rather be on a site that is loose and silly, than a site that takes itself too seriously for something that doesn't matter at all.
From what I can see, Py hasn't damaged the site. He has just made the awards less serious. Which is a good thing in my opinion. Sure we shouldn't just overwhelm the section with random awards, but the amount of silly ones at the moment is fine.
So, kudos to Py.