C_W & a Question

[Wombaticus Rex]

I can ping Jeff via FB if that helps.

Or just be that 2nd vote and I'll get this taken care of today!

Are you cool with me doing the announcement?

[Project Willow]

Okay Wombat.

[Wombaticus Rex]

Zang: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=36803

[Project Willow]

This whole forum has now been turned into a discussion about posters instead of content. I want that poll moved to the ask admin sub-forum. Asking for input here.

[Wombaticus Rex]

Yes, both my announcement thread and the poll itself should be moved to Ask Admin. I agree.

[DrVolin]

I've never been in favour of public discussion of moderation. As they say in the army, we're here to protect democracy, not to practice it.

[Project Willow]

^ As rare as this sort of situation is, maybe ban announcements like this should be limited to the ask admin forum as well, and questioners can be directed there.

Am I drunk on teh power already?

[DrVolin]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... hamber.jpg

[Wombaticus Rex]

Eerie synch: I watched that again last night.

Definitely - I was about to propose a poll thread. I was serious about the "not a Junta" part. Would you be willing to start that? Seems appropriate, you're usually a great source of actual moderation and communication.

That was not smart. That was a pivotal mistake of a post. I apologize for that.

Edit: A point is made. It's fair enough.

Essentially this is a vote of non-confidence in the mods. You are all Morsi now!

Followed by thread #2 - should hmw be unbanned?

Personally, I'm fine with Democracy. It's just exhausting. I guess something like this was inevitable in the Dog Days of 2013, according my almanacs and elders, but I do wish I wasn't contributing in such a foolish role in it.

[Project Willow]

I've banned rollingstone for outing C2W's real identity. I also deleted the post.

I just wonder now how many times we're going to be revisited by C_W in proxy disguise?

[Wombaticus Rex]

Perelandra was bringing this up earlier today and it worries me, too. It's against the rules for RI members to engage in socket puppetry, but we really don't have the tools to enforce that.

We simply got lucky when rollingstone registered the first two posts from a naked IP.

I think it's safe to say we will no be so lucky when rollingstone comes back.

[Project Willow]

Yeah, who approves new members and how is it done? It seems apparent C_W is determined to carry out some destructive retribution. Can we put a hold on all new memberships for a couple weeks?

[Project Willow]

I also think any C_W threads should be locked now, and all of it shut down wherever possible.

[Bruce Dazzling]

Yeah, who approves new members and how is it done? It seems apparent C_W is determined to carry out some destructive retribution. Can we put a hold on all new memberships for a couple weeks?

Jeff and possibly drew approve new members.

I think that a temporary hold on new memberships is a terrific idea. In the meantime, maybe drew can figure out a way to put some ip-based preventative measures into place.