I'm making this another post, not to irritate mods, but because I feel it important enough to seperate, but not completely from the original topic.
My post in regards to feyd possibly being dropped from the mod list, appears to be gone? It's possible I just over looked it, if so, please send me a link, I'll publically apologize. If not, I have to ask...
What kind of open community is this?
Like I already said, to my knowledge, there has been no public vote...so democracy goes out the window. When I first started visiting this site, I found some mods to be way to enthusiastic/zealous to the cause.
A while back I sarcastically attempted to start a quasi-programming challenge. The challenege was legitamate but I was publically denounced by feyd with a brief sentance along the lines (not verbatim):
Don't even think about using OUR name
Our to suggest "us" the community not him feyd. So where did I go wrong? I polled the community and if I remember correctly, it was a pretty even split I think even teetering in my favour. And still feyd and his hammer came down.
feyd, has a framework he's working on (solely as far as I can tell) called the DNA (Developers Network Architecture) or something to that effect...
I don't recall voting him capable of completing such a task or that I wanted the community (run by the people; that includes me) to be associated with it...
So I ask, did feyd clear this framework with every single moderator? Did you have an actual vote?
I would argue, I spend pretty close to the same amount of time as feyd on this web site, if not answering technical questions in the code forum, atleast more time replying to Theory & Design and General. I share links, offers notices and more. So I consider my importance to the community to be on the same level as his, minus any ability to moderate these forums.
So where is the difference? It is because feyd is a moderator and I am not. His friends and buddies are moderators whereas I have the respect of only a few - if any moderators.
I should note, that a moderator vote should *not* really count, as it's clear your a tight knit group of friends who all have respect for each other (BTW: It's not typically a good thing for people in power to share common opinions - there goes debate and any chance for change).
This is made obvious by some double standards I have personally observed. A community vote would be more appropriate. This is just one example that personally struck me as WTF material, but I'm sure given time I could gather up some more.
I have chosen to make this public because it is a concern of the community as a whole. People do *not* come to an "open" public forum to receive censored answers, so this should be publically known.
Clearly I'm not the only member who feels this way, so I suggest looking into these issues before myself and others start blogging about it.
On second thought, seeing as how my opinions vary so drastically from most others on here, perhaps I should be given moderator status, if the spirit of open source and everything "free" that it advocates.
Or do moderators get voted in by other moderators??? Cause that wouldn't make democratic sense would it?
Cheers
