How did he misuse his mod powers against Baron? He brought up a discussion in the moderator's forum and said what he wanted to do. He neither warned or banned Baron. He simply vented his frustration over the issue in a private forum. Sometimes, we do vent to our compatriots and they offer suggestions on how to handle the situation. We are after all human. And yes, sometimes we get angry and/or frustrated. He did not act on his frustration or his anger. What he did do was to bring forth his frustration to the moderator's forum for discussion. How is that an abuse of his moderation powers? Is he not allowed to have an opinion? Is he not allowed to state his frustration on a private forum and allow other moderators to help find a solution to his problem?
He was soundly vetoed by the other moderators and the administrators. And another solution was sought. Unfortunately, Avatar jumped before discussion could even get properly on the way on the matter to find another solution. Baron's position was always safe. I reiterate.. Baron was never in danger of moderator abuse of power. So how exactly did he abuse his power? What? Because he got angry and said that he should have just done it anyway? You do realise he wouldn't have, don't you? He could have turned around and banned Baron immediately then and there. But he did not. Do you know why? Tiassa is a stickler for the rules and always.. and I mean always.. discusses such issues before he acts (when it comes to bannings especially).. so that he can use others as sounding boards and try to find a solution that might be better than his own. That is what Avatar did not inform you all of.
So to say that Tiassa abused his moderator powers is in this case, absurd. And frankly it angers me when you are only presented with one side of the argument and you base your opinion on just that one side and completely disregard what the rest of us know and were privy to and tried to inform you of. We are unable to copy and paste what was said because we respect the privacy of that forum and we respect the fact that the owners expect us to not disclose private discussions to the general membership of this forum. So you can believe what you want to believe. But before you accuse Tiassa of abusing his mod powers, I would suggest you actually get both sides of the story first.
I am not angry at you Inzomnia. I am just tired of the finger pointing and the accusations that are completely unfair. Not only is Tiassa not able to defend himself (again, to do so would mean he would have to disclose what was said in a private forum), but none of us moderators or administrators of this site are able to speak out against the accusations that we are all somehow untrustworthy and liars.. because again, to prove our side, we'd have to disclose too much private information that is posted in the private forum.
Then I would suggest you make this wish known to the owner of this site when he returns. I have no problem with being replaced if the owners of this site think that someone else can do better. On the contrary, they should get the best person they can for the position and if that isn't me, then so be it.
