Well yes gnif do be the model moderator and run expressly by the rule book reacting to every report from all anyone else can see as invisible members. OTOH you’ll never know how many active members you have pissed to leave EEVblog and take their content elsewhere.
Being Solomon is HARD !
Off-topic posts aside, over the last few months the posts that the moderators here (not just myself) have had to remove from the TEA thread included:
* COVID discussions
* Gun discussions
* Political discussions
* Explosive discussions
* Direct insults towards other members (usually as a resolve of one of the political topics)
All attempts to prevent things going this far off topic failed, all warnings and requests by myself and other moderators here were ignored, these topics continued,
clearly self-regulation was not working... this is simple and clear cut.
As for offending/upsetting people, after the last few days, I am over caring about those. I was trying as an imperfect human to find a good balance to get things to settle down in that thread for several months.
Did I do it perfect? No... Did I try? Yes... Was it needed... Clearly Yes.
The fact that I cared so much about not upsetting the community there and how much backlash I received for trying to do the right thing was and still is ridiculous. You want to be angry with me... sure go ahead, keep trying to make out that I was malicious or that there was alteriour motives as some have claimed. Those that I thought would have been grown adults and mature enough to see that things had gone too far and step up to help the moderators to bring things back to a acceptable norm did not, instead they got on their soapboxes and started crying, getting abusive and getting angry.
Since all this went down I have been informed that there is a TEA domain that was registered when we had the outage from the fire at the datacenter, and that there is one, perhaps two "backup" copies of atleast the TEA thread someone has been keeping a copy of for this. That incident was 8 Apr 2021, more than a year ago! Well before I felt the need to step in here and try to bring things back on track. I also have seen talk in your own new TEA community forum of trailing out other platforms/software in order to move.
To me it really feels like the few that had the biggest issue with things wanted any excuse to rile things up to the point where this move was forced. If this is the truth, who knows... but I am over caring and as such I am no longer going to perform such duties here... and I am no longer going to try to justify my actions to those that are not humble enough to accept that they might have been wrong or unfair/unjust.
Feel free to keep arguing the point, but why? It's done, you have your own forums now... now it seems you're just trying to stir trouble. This topic was re-opened to discuss the future of the thread HERE, not on what transpired.