She didn't apologize that I'm aware of. Quote what she said to me that you logically took as an apology.
I find it deceptive when you told me "You have your post and it's open" in response to me saying "For the sake of community input, will you please make a post where the community can vote between you, me, and Buttoucha9k for mod and keep it up for a week to ensure ample vote time, and pledge to honor the results with whoever wins and make them mod (or kept it if you win)?".
It feels like you said what you did to try to get me to think the votes would count, and there could potentially be a change in who the mod is. When I asked for a formal commitment to the vote from you, you backtracked and said "Well the votes don't count". So my post is pointless then...why did you lead me on like that?
That feels deceptive and suspicious on your part. Why are you afraid of a community consensus vote for who the mod is if you believe you have the will of the community behind you? I'm asking that this community has community consensus about who the mod is, and that the will of the community be respected and followed. Even if that means you remain mod if you win.
Can you please put aside your personal feelings of disdain towards me and objectively deal with what I am proposing? The way you immediately escalated to accusing me of being a terrorist without any objective reasons for your claims seriously calls your judgment calls into question about those you have deemed intent on disrupting and banned. I doubt you had any objective standard for deeming someone here in bad faith or intent on disrupting, and your only standard is your personal feelings you call your sixth sense.
You don't seem to have community support, and the way you've interacted with me here. People seeing that are likely to start disengaging and going elsewhere where there's order and some kind of objectivity, and not your emotional whims of the day running the place.
Are you agreeing to accept this post as a vote for mod that you'll adhere to the results of?
If so, please say so clearly and sticky the post so everyone can easily see it over the course of a week so it doesn't get buried and not seen by members of the community.
I want a forum driven by organic community input.
Your friend SwampRangers said that anyone could make a post making a bid for mod and having the community vote. That's why I posted that. Not to disrupt the community, but to help ensure the mod position is representative of what the community wants. It appears to have already been disrupted by admin interjection and you banning your critics.
For the sake of community input, will you please make a post where the community can vote between you, me, and Buttoucha9k for mod and keep it up for a week to ensure ample vote time, and pledge to honor the results with whoever wins and make them mod (or kept it if you win)? And unban all the members of the community that you banned for being critical of you so it can be an actual community input, and not just those who support you or stay silent?
Even those who you don't like are a part of the community. Banning your critics and keeping those who remain silent or support you isn't true community support. That's manufactured support. I want to ensure the members of this community have true input in it.
She called me a terrorist. Then, she said she suspected me of terrorism. That's not a rhetorical comparison. With her as mod, now there can be a stickying of a vote post and more formal vote. Are you going to support my bid for her to sticky a vote post for a week for people to vote for me, her, or Buttoucha9k for mod or not?
You didn't say you suspected me of being a terrorist, you asserted it as a fact. That's an extreme personal attack to base solely on your sixth sense (personal feelings) that I'm a troll without any kind of evidence to support the accusation.
You didn't deal with what I presented, that I am calling for a vote on whether or not to keep you as a mod. You just dismissed and personally attacked me, immediately going to one of the most extreme accusations you could make about someone.
That's not a healthy way to mod. It's not good for the community here if you're just going on your personal feelings without any kind of supporting evidence or reasons people can interact with. A Conspiracy forum should be where people present their suspicions and beliefs with some kind of reasoning why they think that way or anything at all that would enable others to investigate those suspicions and discuss it.
Your friend SwampRangers told someone "Anyone can post relevant vote questions at any time, but since she was modded not a soul has proposed a new one. Would you like to try yet another community vote on a simple binary question to see if another option has more traction? You can do that right now."
Can anyone really put forth a community vote about getting another mod or not? Will you allow what your friend is telling people they can do? Looks like SwampRangers said you becoming a mod was an admin decision, and not organic community support. "Because six or seven names were proposed by community members and admin selected from among them. Several community votes were held but there was more nonparticipation than participation." You don't seem to actually have community support, and have banned all those who don't support you. Look at how long your posts about a roundtable discussion and a documentary went without participation. You don't have the support of the community. They're not interacting with you at this point, except for your Christian friend and one guy that replied like 6 days later.
What kind of criteria are you using to establish whether or not you've succeeded or failed at being a good mod for this community? Is it your personal feelings that you're a good mod? Or do you base it off of measurable or observable criteria? As mod, I'd like for everyone to be able to post here and discuss things without fear of being banned for not liking me or believing something not in line with my religious beliefs. With your personal attack at me, I don't feel someone with my religious convictions is welcomed here. This isn't a Christianity forum, it's a Conspiracy forum. This isn't a treat unsupported personal feelings as facts forum. It's a place for questioning, exploring, discussing, arguing, and having vastly different views all jumbled together in a beautiful chaotic mess.
It may be your intention to have this forum for people of all belief systems, but when you appeal to your religion to baselessly accuse me of being a terrorist because I'm outside your religion.... It definitely doesn't feel like you're welcoming to people who don't believe like you.
Regardless of your religious convictions, a Conspiracy forum should strive to provide some kind evidence for claims that people can evaluate and explore. If you've been modding this way, maybe that's why you haven't got engagement on your roundtable and documentary requests. There's not much to engage when a belief is final, unexplorable, and unchangeable just because you sincerely believe it.
Accusations and claims on a Conspiracy forum should be backed up by some kind of facts or evidence. Your personal religious beliefs are dandy for you, but aren't a basis to be tossing around baseless and unsupported accusations of me being a terrorist. This isn't a your religion only forum. By your logic, anyone could appeal to whatever they think their God says to make all kinds of claims that aren't backed up with anything in reality that people can see. That's not a good moderation strategy, and if I get the mod position, this will be a forum for people of all religions.
Reason to find me highly suspicious doesn't translate to terrorist. That's a hefty accusation. If you don't need physical proof, and make up whatever you want, then your God's a terrorist and I don't need proof to back it up lol.
This is a Conspiracy forum..... Where's your facts to back up what you say?
Your accusations of me being a terrorist have no factual basis, and you present no factual basis for your God allegedly stopping terror. Your accusation and argument are purely emotional and devoid of logic and reason.
This is why a new mod is needed. With you thinking like this, this place is going to flop
I'm the terrorist? Your God allegedly killed the vast majority of the world in a flood and promised to come back and destroy it with fire next..... Your God's the one that wants people to fear it in order to meet it's standard of being wise and threatens those who don't obey. You worship a terrorist...
Sticky it, and let the vote go for a week and whoever wins gets to be the mod. You confident enough in your public support to do that?
I vote for u/IAMTHEBEAST666 to be the new mod.
Ironically, you described you Christians very well and why I cannot have a discussion with you or your friends about the stuff I post. That tactic you described hits on the young earth creationists the hardest. They twist everything in science to fit what they already believe, and anything in science that doesn't fit into their interpretation of the Bible, they reject as done in bad faith. By even being Christian, you've already declared you don't adhere to logic, and have given up being logical to embrace faith in an illogical event that can't be verified by any of us. The double whammy comes from you being a young earth creationist too apparently, which requires further rejection of logic.
When you reject logic to embrace things outside the bounds of logic, you don't get to enjoy the claim of dwelling in it. If you're not bound by logic, it's pointless arguing with you through the limits of logic. If I employ that same tactic I can just make whatever up I want and assert it on faith without verifying it and treat it as fact simply cuz I believe or say it. It's impossible to have a logical discussion with Christians when they want to enjoy stepping outside the boundaries of logic whenever they want while I'd be limited to the boundaries. When you and your friends demonstrate that you've learned how to use logic the way others do instead of using it imbalancedly to direct results to what you already believe, then we can all talk more about the memes I post. Til then, adios amigos.