In light of the recent events i would like to take the time to clarify a few things considering the moderator folder, the discussions therein, and the moderators themselves. I felt this was of significant enought importance to warrant a new topic.
First the folder itself. The moderator section is not only used to discuss board related issues, methods of moderating, voting on applications, etc. -- it is also a little community for the mods to get to know each other better. Not everything, and i would probably guess half of the things posted in the moderator folder have nothing to do with moderating, and half of those posts have nothing to do with GS at all.
For example, a month ago I posted about a movie that i saw at least one mod quote from, and i wondered if they felt the same way about the movie as I. It is also a place where we can have discussions amongst ourselves that are more lenient than normal. For example, we can use the occasional four letter word or sexual reference without someone running to mommy and mommy getting her senator to shut us down. I'll use this analogy a couple times, I liken it to your workplace. In most work places 100% of the conversation is not devoted to work related matters. In fact, i bet most conversation amonst co-workers isn't. And as maybe you wouldn't say to your co-worker friend "give me my damn stapler back" when a customer is present, you would be more incline to if one wasn't there.
Not only that, but everybody talks about their customers behind their backs. And before you say you don't, remember that customer that gave you the hard time that you talked to your co-worker about, or the hot girl that you waited on last tuesday that winked at you, or "here comes that stupid old lady again", etc. etc. I bet the Pope himself talks about lower church members behind their backs 
Professional? No. Human nature? your damn right.
Now about the moderators. By and large, we're a strange bunch (well, we play gemstone, so of course we have to be a little wierd.) We talk about some of the most bizarre things at times. Among our posts we have inside jokes, movie quotes, and other generally wierd things, taken out of context seem really strange (that reminds me, who had the whip last?-- i know Caels had the handcuffs...).
Taking bits of posts, or even a string of consecutive posts out of the whole mess of stuff in the mod section is not doing that post justice. ("like a child who wanders in to the middle of a movie..."-- to use an inside joke). All the fuss over this makes me really glad someone didn't leak out bits of some of the really strange stuff...
Now i'll touch base on something else. Yeah, you can liken this big mess to a GM conspiracy theory or whatever you want, say its unproffesional or something of that nature. The bottom line is, we aren't professionals. We devote alot of hours to something that we don't get paid for, and have no gaurantee of stability.
All of this could be for nothing. In two days buck could say well, im done with this whole board thing , and we're left with hundreds of hours wasted on a dead link. "We're authority figures"-- news flash, we're moderators to a message board about a text based game. Their is no standard of quality here.
In lieu of the multitudes of crap out on the web right now, your damn lucky we're this "professional".
So, to conclude: If you want to be upset, fine. I just hope i enlightened at least a few people. Maybe , just maybe, I convinced some nieve person that the next time they drive through wendies at midnight in just a bathrobe, people WILL talk about him when he drives off, and it might not be to pleasant. And they probably won't tell you , and if you get an email about it, well-- maybe you should put some clothes on...
'lood
reg
